Photo Spotlights

The Graduation Fair gave upcoming graduates a one-stop shopping opportunity for caps and gowns, diploma frames, class rings and other sundries. Commencement is the weekend of May 17.

The cultural organizations of RIT educate and entertain audience members through dance, fashion shows and singing at Global Union’s Unification on Feb 2. Global Union is a student organization that represents international students and cultural organizations at RIT.

Jordan Darling, a third-year mechanical engineering technology student from Oswego, N.Y., demonstrated his invention, the Retriever, in the RIT pool on Feb. 5. The Retriever is a deploying marker that mounts to power sport vehicles, such as jet skis, snowmobiles or ATVs, and is used to locate them if they sink in a body of water. Darling’s product is now in full production and is available for purchase.

Students celebrated winter at the annual FreezeFest celebration on campus Feb. 1-3. Festivities included outdoor musical performances at Global Village. RIT’s all-female a cappella group, Encore, sang on Feb. 2.

RIT’s Freezefest weekend featured sarcastic comedian Joel McHale, best known as host of The Soup and his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom Community.

RIT encouraged students to come out and celebrate winter’s arrival by participating in the annual FreezeFest celebration on campus Feb. 1-3. First-year students Samantha Miller and Kyle Laidlaw check out their snow globe paperweight with their photo inside.

RIT’s annual winter event, Freezefest, included a chance to play with puppies at the PuppyFest tent. Here, Brianna Bonanni, a third-year student in the College of Science, gets some love from one of the pups.

Jeff Culver ’82 (criminal justice), director of security for the World Bank Group and the 2013 distinguished alumnus of the year from RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, leads a breakout session with students during the Conable International Career Development Seminar Feb. 1. The seminar was created to engage students in researching careers with international opportunities. Other seminar presenters included representatives from the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, the Democracy Program from The Carter Center, and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. State Department.

RIT encouraged students to come out and celebrate winter’s arrival by participating in the annual FreezeFest celebration on campus Feb. 1-3. One of the festivities included carriage rides to various stops on campus.

Artist Alec Hazlett ’71, ’72 sells his pottery in Shop One2 on the RIT campus. Shop One2 is a fine art and craft gallery in RIT’s Global Village which features hand-made, one-of-a-kind artwork by RIT affiliated artists including students, faculty and alumni.

David Hunke, former president and publisher of USA Today and current chief strategy officer for digerati, Inc., spoke to RIT students and faculty as well as a contingent from Syracuse University about the future of journalism. Hunke was one of several journalism experts on campus Jan. 29 for the conference “What’s Next? Journalism’s Leading Questions: The Future of Collaboration and Innovation.”

President Bill Destler addressed the RIT community Jan. 29 in Ingle Auditorium on the university’s cost-containment strategies as part of the Open Administration Series. “Our overall fiscal health enables us to explore new educational paradigms and possible cost-cutting and revenue generation models from a position of strength,” he said. Slides from the presentation are available on the president’s website in the Open Administration Series section. A recorded copy of the address will be captioned and added to the president’s website later this week.