Photo Spotlights

Students in the history course “The Sin of Racism” explored the topic with civil rights leader Andrew Young before his keynote address as part of RIT’s Expressions of King’s Legacy. The class offered the students an opportunity to learn about the relationship of race to aspects of historical and modern society, and Young was able to speak to the different milestones in the struggle for racial equality in the United States.

Jazz pianist Justin Kauflin performed during the Expressions of King’s Legacy on Jan. 28.

Andrew Young gave a keynote address today as part of RIT’s Expressions of King’s Legacy.

RIT’s all-female race team Hot Wheelz received training on an engine lathe in the machine shop. The team is building a race car for the next SAE Formula Hybrid electric competition in Louden, N. H. in May. Over 35 first-to-fifth-year female students are involved in creating the car.

RIT held a student orientation for new students entering spring semester. The two-day program included social events, individual college academic meetings, a tailgate party, hockey game and a Resource Fair. The Resource Fair is a comprehensive event that allows new students and their families to get their questions answered, meet with staff members and get information regarding the resources and services available at RIT and in the community.

Nathan Dileas, left, second-year imaging science student from Buffalo, N.Y., and Andrew Leja, fourth-year economics student from Chicago, cleaned at a Goodwill store during a day of volunteering for Residence Life staff. More than 125 residence life advisers and 15 professional staff spent the afternoon Jan. 20 volunteering at various organizations throughout Rochester as part of their mid-year staff training/development. Students volunteered at several locations, including the Red Cross, St. Ann’s Community Center and Wilson Commencement Park.

Student Government representatives from RIT’s global campuses visited RIT recently. Students from Croatia, Dubrovnik, Kosovo and Dubai shared information about student life on their campuses. Standing from left, Mohammad Yousefi, student government vice president, and Mashal Waqar, student government president, presented information about the campus in Dubai. Yousefi is a second-year mechanical engineering student and Waqar is a third-year computing security student at RIT Dubai.

For the past four summers, a group of RIT/NTID faculty have been working in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, providing interpreter education for teachers of the deaf. The Vietnamese teachers have been on campus in January sharing language, culture and the deaf experience in Vietnam. From left, Phuong Bich Bui and Morgan Tucker interpreted for the group.

First-year RIT students in the IMPRESS—or Integrating Metacognitive Practices and Research to Ensure Student Success—program learn metacognitive concepts that promote higher levels of learning. Here, Scott Franklin, director of CASTLE, talks with Paul Melnik, an electrical engineering major, Erica Neese, center, an engineering exploration student, and Emilyn Ngnyen, a biomedical sciences major, about their concept map. Franklin and Elizabeth Hane, not shown, co-teach the metacognition course.

Roger Easton, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, uses multispectral imaging to uncover hidden text from historical objects. He is spending the intersession in Chartres, France, imaging fragments of manuscripts damaged in WWII bombings.

Many RIT athletic teams are on campus during winter intersession for training and competitions. In addition, this provides time for team building, team meals and social activities. Here, members of the men’s hockey team enjoyed some downtime at Lasertron on Jan. 5, playing laser tag, arcade games and watching games on large projection screen TVs.

In January, the Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC) will serve as a home base for developers and practitioners who are at the forefront of emerging virtual/augmented reality technology. Here, an RIT student demonstrates use of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.