Photo Spotlights

Jeff Wagner, center, professor of economics in the College of Liberal Arts, works with students Jonathan Stone and Amelia Rickard to develop strong research skills. Read more about Wagner's plan to cultivate economics research opportunities in Athenaeum.

Keith Delk, a Student Government senator, represents cross-registered deaf and hard-of-hearing students supported through RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. There are 568 such students, and it’s a diverse group, with a number of communication preferences respected on campus.

RIT hockey fans cheered after the men’s hockey team scored the winning goal on March 1. It was the final game at Ritter Arena, the home of the Tigers for 46 years. The team moves into the Gene Polisseni Center for the 2014-15 season.

RIT’s College of Liberal Arts hosted its annual Major, Minor and Immersion Fair Feb. 27 in the SAU Fireside Lounge. Students were able to explore their options and declare academic majors and minors while meeting with faculty program advisers. Here, first-year COLA student Rebekah Geller talks with Erin Winchester about study abroad opportunities.

Thousands of RIT students seeking information which may lead to a co-op or permanent employment went to the RIT Career Fair on Feb. 26, which 248 companies and more than 700 company representatives attended. Here, a line formed for first-time exhibitor Cloudera Government Solutions from Palo Alto, Calif.

The men’s lacrosse team is ranked No. 1 for the first time in the program’s 47-year history with 380 points and all 19 first-place votes, after a thrilling 15-14 come-from-behind overtime win versus top ranked and defending National Champion Stevenson University on Feb. 22.

Residence Life and RIT Athletics organized a 5K race on Feb. 23. The race was part of FreezeFest, a student festival celebrating winter in Rochester.

The cultural organizations of RIT educate and entertain audience members through dance, fashion shows and singing at Global Union’s Unification on Feb 22. Global Union is a student organization that represents international students and cultural organizations at RIT.

Comedian John Oliver highlighted the FreezeFest weekend on Feb. 22. Oliver is best known for his role as writer and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Opening for Oliver was Brooks Wheelan of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The annual event celebrated the winter season with more than 30 activities on campus.

Gregory Heyworth, director of The Lazarus Project and the featured speaker for the College of Liberal Arts’ Digital Humanities Speaker Series, spent some time on campus with students and visiting the Cary Graphic Arts Collection prior to his Feb. 20 talk. His talk addressed the latest spectral imaging techniques used by scientists at The Lazarus Project to restore illegible documents that were formerly thought to be lost to history.

The Gene Polisseni Center construction is progressing inside. The arena will be the home of the men's and women's hockey teams and is expected to be open for play in fall 2014. The women's team hopes to sell out its final regular-season home game at Ritter on Friday. Tickets are available at the Gordon Field House Box Office, by phone at 585-475-4121 or online at www.rittickets.com.

RIT MAGIC Center Director Andrew Phelps unveils details of the AT&T Rochester Civic App Challenge at a news conference Feb. 20, joined by, from left, State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle; Neil Giacobbi, AT&T public affairs director for New York State and Metro New York City; and RIT President Bill Destler.