Photo Spotlights

The RIT Men’s Hockey team is going to the NCAA Tournament for the third time as a Division I program and for the 16th time in program history. RIT will play Quinnipiac Unversity in Albany, N.Y. on March 26. For ticket information: http://www.ncaa.com/tickets/icehockey-men/d1

Sculptor and applied mathematician George Hart led a hands-on construction of geometric sculpture in the RIT College of Science on March 17 as part of the John Wiley Jones Distinguished lecture. Hart, far right, interdisciplinary research professor at Stony Brook University, co-founded the Museum of Mathematics in New York City.

Graduate Thesis One exhibit is on view through March 20 in Bevier Gallery. It includes graduate work by MFA students in the School of Art, the School of Design and the School for American Crafts.

Student leaders of WOCHA—Women of Color Honor and Ambition—welcomed City of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren to campus on March 14 for Motivational Mondays, a regular program highlighting successful, diverse individuals from the community. Warren discussed growing up in Rochester, attending Wilson Magnet High School, her early law and political careers and her drive to become part the political landscape of her hometown, eventually becoming the first female mayor in the city’s history. Motivational Mondays are organized by WOCHA and open to the campus community.

RIT students toured RIT’s Venture Creations business incubator for an open house event March 15. Students were encouraged to network with representatives of the businesses working with Venture Creations and get more information on how to start their own businesses, or how Venture Creations can help them. Here, students learned about Impact Earth, a business focused on zero-waste solutions.

The RIT College of Science math club, PiRIT, celebrated Pi Day, 3/14, with a pie baking contest. Pi represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The infinite number begins with 3.14159 and is a puzzle for those who try to pin it down. Here, Ellen Baillie served pie to a line of judging students. Baillie’s apple crumb pie won the contest.

Phi Delta Theta fraternity held a fundraiser to raise money and awareness for ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a nervous system disease that weakens muscles and impacts physical function. Teams of students played bubble ball soccer for the cause and collected $880.

Students participated in an event, Deaf Deaf World, simulating an environment where everyone was deaf and used sign language and other visual communication. Tables were set up with different themes and activities. Here, biomedical science student Emylsie Huertas tried the Tiger Sports table.

RIT SpringFest entertainment was announced Friday in the Student Alumni Union. Walk the Moon will perform on April 30. The annual spring festival runs April 28-May 1.

Ryszard Horowitz, world-renowned photocomposer and one of America’s outstanding image makers, attended the opening reception of his new exhibit at RIT’s University Gallery March 10. Ryszard is recognized and celebrated as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging. He is one of the youngest known survivors of Auschwitz. The exhibit, sponsored by the Vignelli Center for Design Studies, continues through May 26.

Director Luane Davis-Haggerty mixes deaf and hearing actors in a touring production of the Stephen Schwartz broadway musical, Godspell. NTID Performing Arts presents the show March 10 through 13 in the 1510 Theater Lab in LBJ Hall, with free admission and limited seating.

Caroline Baumann, director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, spoke at the Vignelli Design Conversations lecture March 8. In addition, Baumann met with students and faculty to discuss the importance of design to inspire and empower people.