Photo Spotlights

Heel Violence, a one-mile walk on the RIT campus on April 21, was held to support victims and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. Proceeds from the event went to Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims.

Christar Wan, a fourth-year film student in the School of Film and Animation, won the audience choice for the best short film at the High Falls Film Festival April 20. Her film, Seek, about a man’s return home after 10 years in prison, was one of 11 short films shown by RIT students at the festival. During the four-day festival, 27 short films and 22 feature films were viewed.

The College of Liberal Arts honored its students April 19 with the presentation of the 2013 Henry and Mary Kearse Student Honors Awards for excellence in writing in liberal arts coursework. Faculty members recommended students based on writing assignments done in individual classes. The awards were created in 1980 thanks to a donation from Henry J. Kearse and his wife, Mary, a longtime member of RIT’s Nathaniel Rochester Society. Pictured are (front row, from left) Douglas Strouth, Daniel Corrigan (Akyuz-Ozmen Award for Women’s and Gender Studies), Audrey DiPaola, Breanne Kisselstein (McKenzie Endowed Writing Prize), Mikaela Cornacchio Cochran. In the back row, from left, are Margaret Stockman, College of Liberal Arts Dean James Winebrake, Hanna Stoehr, Ryleigh Bullock, Stephanie Whittemore and William Hamre. Missing from the photo are John Bowers, Kate Macken, Nikolas Cairns, Eric Kasperek and Kristen Cummings.

RIT students organized a SlutWalk on April 19 to take a stand against sexual violence and a culture that sometimes blames victims instead of rapists.

The newly renovated College of Liberal Arts lounge officially opened April 18 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and presentations by RIT President Bill Destler, second-year College of Liberal Arts student Alex Van Hook and Dean James Winebrake. The College of Liberal Arts’ Student Advisory Board was instrumental in coordinating the new space, which is located on the first floor of Eastman Hall, near the Registrar’s office.

Bertin Mboko, an international studies student, has been selected as this year’s student delegate for the College of Liberal Arts.

The newly renovated College of Liberal Arts lounge officially opened April 18 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and presentations by RIT President Bill Destler and Dean James Winebrake. The College of Liberal Arts’ Student Advisory Board was instrumental in coordinating the new space, which is located on the first floor of Eastman Hall, near the Registrar’s office.

“Nothing is impossible,” said Robert Morgan, CEO and founder of Morgan Management LLC, who was honored with the 2013 Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award during a luncheon hosted by RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business on April 16 at Genesee Valley Club. Morgan became paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot during a robbery at his parents' seafood business in 1991. He subsequently followed his passion for real estate and “making deals.” Morgan’s company now employs 950 people and is a driving force in the development of multimillion-dollar projects—including recent collaborations to revitalize the Strathallan Hotel and the Tower at Midtown.

Dane Gordon, professor emeritus of philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts, helped celebrate Poetry Month at RIT by reading selections at Shop One² in Global Village on April 11. Another poetry reading is scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at Shop One² and features John Roche, RIT associate professor of English, and Albuquerque poet Jules Nyquist.

Brooke Piraino, a third-year nutrition student, makes a cake during her product development class. The students are using olive oils and vinegars provided by Flower City Olive Oil, a company co-owned by Elizabeth Olsson ’95 (nutrition management). The students will provide Olsson with recipes that the company can then give to customers. Piraino used mandarin orange balsamic vinegar in her dessert.

About 300 people filled Sustainability Institute Hall April 12 to mark the dedication of the innovative “green” home of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability. In addition to remarks from federal and state government officials and industry executives, the event featured tours of the “living laboratory.”

Nabil Nasr’s dream was to open RIT’s first living lab, a building filled with cutting-edge technology that serves as a classroom and inspires students. Nasr, assistant provost and director of Golisano Institute for Sustainability, other RIT officials and special guests dedicated the building Friday. Cutting-edge “green” technology has been incorporated into every inch of the 84,000-square-foot building, from the solar panels on the soaring canopy to the 38-foot-tall green wall near the building’s entrance.