Photo Spotlights

RIT's annual Veterans Day Breakfast returned this year featuring a keynote address by Thomas L. Peeples ’94 (mechanical engineering), ’03 MS (professional studies), an RIT alumnus, adjunct faculty member, and active member of the military. The missing man table, also known as a fallen comrade table, is set up in honor of fallen, missing, or imprisoned military service members.

The 2021-2022 Frederick H. Minett Professor Perry Ground, a storyteller from the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, shared stories during Native American Heritage Month.

AdvanceRIT held the event Diwali Celebration: Celebrating RIT’s Faculty Diversity, which featured traditional food and activities in the Student Alumni Union on Nov. 5.

The exhibit “Hostile Terrain 94” consists of 3,200 handwritten toe tags, each representing a person who died in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona attempting to migrate into the U.S.

Haley Indorato, a fourth-year studio art painting student, works on a plein air painting of the  Student Hall for Exploration and Development (the SHED) construction on campus. The landscape painting is a project for Associate Professor Clifford Wun’s class in the School of Art.

Zeta Tau Alpha’s Pinktober fundraiser for breast cancer education and awareness is all October long. Here, they are set up at Global Village.

The Jan Strine Memorial Labyrinth in the RIT/NTID Frisina Quad is surrounded by gardens and benches for reflection. Walking a labyrinth serves as a way to meditate and relax.

Two former Congressmen, Don Bonker, left, a Democrat from Washington state, and John Faso, a Republican from New York, visit students in several classes, including political science and public policy students, as part of the Congress to Classroom program, which provides a bipartisan team to engage students in conversations about the benefits of healthy partisanship and civility with discussion. Their visit was organized by RIT's Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement. 

Victoria Adams, a fourth-year packaging science student, and Sean Su, a fifth-year chemical engineering student, create nitrogen ice cream at a Science Fair during Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend. Other events from the weekend included a comedian, men's and women's hockey games, musical performances, student film screenings, guest speakers, and open houses and tours.

The Glass Pumpkin Patch fundraiser, hosted by Shop One, wraps up this weekend. The sale features glass pumpkins and gourds hand-blown by RIT Glass students. The shop is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Proceeds benefit RIT’s Women’s Council and the glass program.

Students celebrated Rainbow Pride Day with a walk down the Quarter Mile on Oct. 8. The Q Center also had a table in the Student Alumni Union with information about the resources it provides to students.

Trinity Jenkins, a second-year student from Maryland, and Thomas Fuller, a third-year software engineering student from North Creek, N.Y., took advantage of some unusually warm weather outside at Global Village.