Photo Spotlights

Representatives from more than 45 local and national corporations, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations met with nearly 400 deaf and hard-of-hearing students—who are also prospective employees—at the 15th annual job fair on Oct. 21 at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Samuel Sandoval, right, a 2013 information technology graduate from Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, returned for the second time as a recruiter for Harris Corp. Here, he meets with Daniel Mooney, an information technology master’s student from McLean, Va.

Commuter Spirit Week kicked-off Oct. 19. The Center for Campus Life sponsors a week full of activities, giveaways, food, and demonstrations from Oct. 19-23. Here, Kim Ross, from Peace Partners, gave 10-minute massages to students during one of the events.

RIT offers students a ride to the Rochester public market on Saturdays, with pick up and drop off at Grace Watson Circle. The market has over 300 vendors on Saturdays, in addition to live music, cafes, ethnic shops and local produce. The service is sponsored by RIT Student Wellness. For details and upcoming dates: http://bit.ly/1KOrDjF

Assistant Professor Owen Gottlieb, center, leads the MAGIC Center’s Religion, Culture, and Policy Initiative, which cultivates research that focuses on games, religious literacy, the acquisition of cultural practices and the implications for policy and politics. Here, Gottlieb works with graduate students Lakshminarayanan Vijayaraghavan, left, and Alex Lobl on the initiative project, Codename: Purple, a tabletop card-to-mobile strategy game currently in development that teaches literacy in medieval religious legal systems. Beginning with a medieval Jewish law code and built modularly to incorporate Muslim and potentially other neighboring sacred law systems, the game will provide live cases modeling religious systems for communal cooperation and collaboration. For more information, go to magic.rit.edu/rcp. 

RIT/NTID’s Dyer Art Center was presented with a new work of art on Oct. 16. The “Stronger Than Ever” serigraph by artist Rick Rush, shown here, was commissioned by DEAF, Inc. of St. Louis.

The Rochester Regional Health Family Medicine practice opened its doors in RIT’s Clinical Health Sciences Center on Oct. 19. The practice provides primary care with same-day scheduling for RIT faculty, staff and dependents, and community members. It also houses a laboratory blood-draw station. The RIT Student Health Center will remain the primary care facility for undergraduate and graduate students. Shown here are Dr. Eric Wilcox, right, and Ashley Goergen, practice manager.

The Brick City 5K Fun Run and Walk on Oct. 18 was one of the final events of Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend. It was sponsored by the Center for Residence Life and the Center for Intercollegiate Athletics.

“Mythbuster” Jamie Hyneman, this year’s Horton Distinguished Speaker for Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend, spoke to a sold-out crowd in the Gordon Field House. He received an orange beret, embroidered with RIT, as a keepsake.

Saunders College of Business welcomed Randi Zuckerberg to RIT as part of the Gasser Lecture Series. She is the Founder & CEO of Zuckerberg Media, an author and former social media marketer for Facebook.

Golden Circle alumni took a tour of campus starting with Global Village before their luncheon on Friday. The luncheon, a Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend tradition, is for alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago. The Golden Circle event is one of dozens this weekend for alumni and families of current students. For a full schedule, visit http://www.rit.edu/gcr/brickcity/.

Vint Cerf, vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, kicked off the 2015-2016 Golisano Dean’s Lecture Series Oct. 16 at RIT with a talk about “Digital Vellum: Preserving Digital Content for the Ages.” Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet.

Actress-singer Jackie Cruz, star of the popular Netflix hit series Orange is the New Black, is the featured speaker during Hispanic Heritage Month at RIT. The event is sponsored by the Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Campus Life.