Photo Spotlights

Members of RIT’s men’s and women’s crew teams held the inaugural RIT 500 on Feb. 13 in the Student Alumni Union lobby. The athletes attempted to row 500,000 meters as a team in one day to raise money and awareness for the Tigers for Tigers coalition at RIT. The students surpassed their goal and rowed 875,000 meters and raised $1,200. The Tigers will compete at the prestigious Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia May 8-9.

Greece Athena High School students visited the Modern Languages and Cultures lab and its Italian program Feb. 12. Then they celebrated Carnevale (Italian Mardi Gras) in the University Gallery surrounded by paintings created by Sicilian American artist Thomas MacPherson. Here, MacPherson talks with Ryan Walton, a senior at Greece Athena High School.

Students lined up for FreezeFest scarves and hats on Thursday. The winter festival includes entertainment, ice sculptures, food and more. RIT’s sixth annual FreezeFest is Feb. 19-22. To see a full calendar of events, go to campuslife.rit.edu/freezefest.

The Graduation Fair, held 100 days prior to graduation weekend, is an opportunity for all 2015 graduates to do “one-stop” shopping regarding the upcoming commencement. Students were able to talk with representatives from their colleges about ceremonies, receptions and other details of RIT’s 130th Commencement Weekend, set for May 22 and 23. Nearly 330 students attended.

Naixin (Chris) Kang, a fourth-year accounting major in Saunders College of Business, will be part of the first graduating class from RIT’s 2+2 program with Beijing Jiaotong University. The honors student hails from Shenzhen, China. To read more, go to rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=51193.

Fifth-year student manager Joe Vicario, right, takes the ceremonial puck drop with Niagara captain Issac Kohls, left, and RIT assistant captain Andrew Miller, center, before the two teams skated to a 4-4 tie on Saturday night at the Gene Polisseni Center. The Tigers, who wore special jerseys in honor of Vicario, a testicular cancer survivor, raised more than $10,000 for the Testicular Cancer Foundation of Western New York, which Vicario founded, and the Lipson Cancer Center at Rochester General Hospital through the RIT United Way Foundation.

RIT’s swing dance club, Brick City Boppers, has weekly meetings at 8 p.m. Thursday nights in the Campus Center. The club has lessons for beginners and more advanced dancers, featuring dance styles from the 1920s-1940s.

Melissa Craig, a 1988 packaging science alumna from Kellogg’s, answers a question from Courtney Divine, a first-year packaging science student, at the annual Packaging Science Career Fair. Representatives from 28 companies were available to meet with students about co-op and career opportunities on Feb. 4.

The RIT men’s basketball team shared a dinner with local veterans recently. The team will honor veterans during their game at 4 p.m. Feb. 7 in Clark Gymnasium versus Skidmore College. The Tigers will wear camouflaged shirts in recognition of Wounded Warriors and donations will be accepted for the Veterans Outreach Center. The center is a nonprofit offering supportive services to veterans and their families in the Rochester area.

RIT’s Better Me Wellness Program is offering free blood pressure tests at various locations on campus for the month of February. Rebekah Way, right, a pharmacist from Wegmans, checks Jeff Hibbard’s blood pressure. For dates and locations, visit the Better Me website.

“Research, Scholarship and Creativity in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences” opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at the University Gallery. The exhibition runs through March 20. Each of the six schools in RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences as well as RIT’s Image Permanence Institute are featured in this second-annual event that focuses on the rigorous and creative research in the visual arts and sciences. Shown here is the work of Peter Pincus, visiting assistant professor in ceramics in the School for American Crafts.

RIT’s ARM Developer Day program, which took place Jan. 30, has grown from a handful of students and national companies involved to more than 250 students and a dozen companies at the annual conference. It is a chance for students to meet industry professionals and gain firsthand knowledge, skills and insight to jump-start development of their ARM-based projects. Ideas for these new technology products and equipment often begin at this annual event and then are showcased at the ARM Developer Day Student Contest that takes place during the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival and in the Freescale Cup Competition. Here, participants work during the Atmel demonstration.