Photo Spotlights

  • February 13, 2023

    two tiger mascots posing with four college students. 3
    group of college students ice skating.
    college students holding hands while ice skating.

    RIT mascots Roarie and RITchie enjoyed spending time with students during Chocolate on Ice in the Gene Polisseni Center on Friday as part of this year’s 13-day FreezeFest. The event also collected non-perishable food for RIT’s FoodShare program.

  • February 2, 2023

    two college students smiling while coloring in flowers with markers. 1

    Flynn Djan, left, a second-year software engineering student from Rochester, and Mak Tuntemeke, a second-year new media design major from Rochester, make flowers during the Black Heritage Month kickoff event on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Fireside Lounge. Additional Black Heritage Month events are listed on the Division of Diversity and Inclusion website.

  • February 1, 2023

    person sitting in an armchair on a stage speaking into a microphone. 6
    two people sitting in arm chairs on a stage.
    college student speaking on a stage at a podium.
    four members of a gospel choir on stage.
    two people sitting in chair in front of a room of student, faculty, and staff also seated.
    woman sitting in a chair gesturing as she speaks.

    Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project and a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, headlined RIT’s 41st Expressions of King’s Legacy.

  • January 16, 2023

    woman speaking at a podium. 1

    Assistant Professor Katrina Overby from the School of Communication in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts delivered the keynote address at this year’s Let Freedom Ring event in Ingle Auditorium commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Overby reflected on ways King’s work informs and inspires her own scholarship at the intersections of communications, race, and identity.

  • January 11, 2023

    two students hanging artwork on a white wall. 5
    student unrolling a poster with a line figure of a woman.
    two students hanging a poster on a wall.
    student working at a table with a level, tape measure, pushpins and box of markers.
    two students standing back looking at artwork hanging on a large white wall.

    A new exhibit curated by Circle Cole, foreground, a fifth-year School of Individualized Study major, opened in RIT’s University Gallery on Jan. 9. The exhibit, titled “The Art of Medicine - Pharmaceutical Graphic Design from the RIT Archives,” is the first exhibit hosted in the University Gallery that was solely curated by an RIT student.

  • December 5, 2022

    two men signing an orange steel beam. 6
    students signing an orange steel beam.
    students signing an orange steel beam.
    man speaking at a podium.
    glass plaque reads RIT Saunders College of Business.
    two people standing to the side as a person speaks at a podium.

    During a Dec. 5 ceremony at Saunders College of Business, RIT President David Munson, left, joined college namesake E. Philip Saunders and RIT community members in signing the steel beam that will support the 36,000-square-foot expansion and renovation of Lowenthal Hall. The expansion and renovation would not have been possible without Phil Saunders and other generous donors whose collective gifts are part of the Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness, RIT’s $1 billion fundraising effort that has currently raised more than $960 million to date.

  • December 5, 2022

    two students petting a medium-size dog. 7
    group of students pets a golden retriever.
    student pets a golden doodle dog.
    group of students sitting in a circle on the floor petting a golden doodle dog.
    two students petting a bullmastiff dog.
    two students petting a bullmastiff dog.
    students petting a yellow lab dog.

    Zoe Zeller, right, a second-year diagnostic medical sonography major from Webster, N.Y., and her roommate, Sara Munoz, left, a second-year psychology major also from Webster, pet Kacey during Bow Wow Wellness on Wednesday in the Fireside Lounge. The event is aimed to help students de-stress near finals.

  • December 1, 2022

    students playing steel drums. 4
    student wearing traditional African clothing playing a drum.
    student playing a steel drum.
    students playing steel drums and other percussion instruments.

    Members of percussion groups, including the Steelband Ensemble, pictured, gave their Fall Concerts on Tuesday afternoon in the Fireside Lounge. RIT’s Percussion Ensemble and the West African Percussion Ensemble, which featured members of the community as well as RIT students who drummed and danced, also performed.

  • November 29, 2022

    four people wearing hard hats walking in a building under construction. 6
    people walking along the hall of a building under construction.
    person wearing a hard hat taking a photo with a phone.
    group of board of trustees gathered for a photo.
    view from inside a building under construction looking outside.
    construction crane inside a building under construction.

    Members of the RIT Board of Trustees and President Munson recently took a walking tour of the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED). The multi-use complex will showcase RIT’s technology, the arts, and design. The $120 million complex, on schedule to open in fall 2023, is the largest construction undertaking on campus since it originally opened in 1968. Here, John Moore, associate vice president of Facilities Management, left, leads a tour of the SHED, which included RIT President David Munson, and Hope Drummond and Kim VanGelder, university trustees.

  • November 15, 2022

    volunteers in an assembly line to fill bags with dry ingredients. 4
    two volunteers in an assembly line filling bags with dry ingredients.
    boxes labeled US Hunger stacked in a pyramid.
    large group of people assembled for a photo throwing their orange hairnets into the air.

    Kareem Hayes, center, assistant director for RIT’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, explains to students how they should prepare 20,000 packaged pasta meals for the annual Hunger Project. About 2,000 of the packaged meals will be donated to RIT’s FoodShare, with the remaining to benefit the Greater Rochester community through FoodLink.

  • November 14, 2022

    museum visitors looking at a display of bumper stickers. 5
    two people standing next to each other in an art gallery.
    two people looking at a display of political buttons and bumper stickers from the 1960s.
    person looking at artwork on a wall in a gallery.
    person looking at artwork on a wall in a gallery.

    A new exhibit is up in RIT’s University Gallery: “A Trip to 1967: Selections from the William C. Miles Archive.” The exhibit, curated by Hannah Riley ’22 (museum studies) and Maya Miles, William Miles’ daughter, features a mix of posters and buttons that tell the story of the counterculture of the 1960s.

  • November 11, 2022

    A crowd of people saluting including a person with a sweatshirt that says ARMY. 1

    Hundreds of active military personnel, veterans, and their families and friends attended RIT's annual Veteran's Day Breakfast Friday in the Gordon Field House.