Photo Spotlights

RIT men’s hockey junior captain Matt Garbowsky, along with Brad McGowan, and women’s hockey junior captains Celeste Brown and Lindsay Grigg, invite the Rochester and RIT communities to sign the last ceiling beams Tuesday before they are installed into the Gene Polisseni Center. The event will take place 1-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the lower level of the Ritter Arena and RIT locker room entrance. The rink is scheduled to open in time for the 2014-15 season.

Students walked toward the residence halls during a snowy afternoon at RIT.

Joe Oh, left, plays against Jacob Foley in a Dance Dance Revolution competition during Nerdocalypse in the Brick City Cafe on Nov. 10.

RIT hosted its third annual Veterans Day Breakfast Nov. 11 to pay tribute to members of the campus community who serve or have served honorably in uniform.

RIT students competed in dance, talent, formal wear and a Q&A session for the title of “Mr. RIT” on Nov. 8. The event raised more than $3,200 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and Tom Weekes was crowned the winner.

Third-year Saunders College of Business student Naixin Kang toasts a marshmallow at “The Roast of SG” Nov. 7 in the Fireside Lounge. The event allowed students to give feedback to a college or division and meet Student Government leaders.

RIT Archives celebrated our tiger mascot’s 50th birthday with exhibits, games and cake. SpiRIT, RIT’s former live tiger mascot, was on display for the Nov. 7 event.

Dan Bruton, left, and David Frank are converting waste cooking oil into biodiesel and other uses inside the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.

Come see Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew as you’ve never seen it before! This RIT/NTID production, directed by Aaron Kelstone and Jerry Argetsinger, is playing in the Robert F. Panara Theatre 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7–9 and 2 p.m. Nov. 10.

Jessica Lieberman’s documentation of her two-year medical journey in “Becoming Visible” will be on display in a photographic exhibition at Gallery r through Nov. 27. An accompanying book is available from RIT Press. Gallery r is handicapped accessible and is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. All exhibits are free and open to the public.

Barnes & Noble @ RIT hosted a meet-and-greet with the RIT men’s hockey team on Nov. 2. Money raised from autographed team photos, hockey memorabilia, raffles and special edition ornaments will support Hockey Coaches Care, the official charitable foundation of the American Hockey Coaches Association.

When Brian Koberlein couldn’t find an astrophysics textbook for undergraduates, he decided to write his own. Koberlein, senior lecturer in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, collaborated with David Meisel, distinguished professor at State University of New York at Geneseo, to publish Astrophysics through Computation, by Cambridge University Press.