Photo Spotlights

  • December 5, 2022

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  • October 28, 2022

    RIT community members participated in the 17th annual ROAR (Raise Our Annual Responses) Day on Thursday. The event included a photo booth, Halloween treats, gratitude cards to sign, photos with Ritchie, and other prizes and giveaways. ROAR Day is an opportunity for people to show their support for the areas of the university they love most.

  • October 24, 2022

    Mary-Frances Winters, a diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice consultant and one of RIT’s earliest Minett Professors, delivered the closing keynote address at the inaugural Together RIT: Day of Understanding, Solidarity, and Racial Reconciliation on Oct. 21. The event brought hundreds of RIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni together to engage in intentional and honest dialogue about race, ethnicity, and racism.

  • October 19, 2022

    Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) personnel were on campus Tuesday to learn about cybersecurity, imaging science, and virtual and augmented reality. Here, Katelynn Fleming, a microsystems engineering Ph.D. student, explains her research to Karen Roth, chief engineer at the AFRL Rome Research Site.

  • October 14, 2022

    On Thursday, Oct. 13, students from RIT’s College of Art and Design showcased their designs at Fashion Week Rochester.

  • October 11, 2022

    Members of the RIT community gathered to discuss the various areas of artificial intelligence research and applications being conducted at the university. Clark Hochgraf, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, demonstrates technology being developed to incorporate AI robotics into smart warehouses.