Photo Spotlights

Student Convocation welcomed new students and their families on Aug. 30. The program included remarks from President Bill Destler; Mary-Beth Cooper, senior vice president for student affairs; and Taylor Deer, president of Student Government. Neil Hair, associate professor, E. Philip Saunders College of Business and 2011-2012 Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award recipient, served as keynote speaker.

Dr. Daniel Ornt, dean of the College of Health Sciences and Technology, meets with incoming students and their families Aug. 30. Ornt joined the university last December from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. The College of Health Sciences and Technology is RIT’s ninth college and will educate the next generation of health-care providers and related researchers.

RIT community members cheer on incoming freshman students Aug. 30 as they take the Tiger Walk to the Gordon Field House for New Student Convocation.

College of Health Sciences and Technology Dean Daniel Ornt, M.D., meets with incoming students and their families Aug. 30.

Thousands of incoming RIT students and their families attended the Resource Fair on Aug. 29 in the Gordon Field House. In support of the university’s sustainability initiatives, new students received reusable RIT water bottles for the first time as part of their orientation gifts.

RIT President Bill Destler lends a hand to first-year students during Move-In Day Aug. 29.

The Resource Fair, held Aug. 29, featured introductions to a variety of RIT departments. Here, RIT student Patience Ibezim directs new students and families to register.

Hundreds of incoming graduate students attended the annual Graduate Student Orientation on Aug. 28. RIT President Bill Destler and Hector Flores, dean of graduate studies, were among those who welcomed them. Representatives from various departments were on hand to answer students’ questions and talk about all the services and clubs RIT offers.

President Bill Destler welcomed back the faculty and staff with his annual “Address to the Community” Aug. 28 in Ingle Auditorium. He looked back on RIT’s recent accomplishments and outlined upcoming university priorities. “RIT’s time has come,” Destler said. “RIT’s financial health and our focus on innovation and creativity, coupled with an increasing national expectation that higher education institutions demonstrate real added value and prepare students for global employment, has positioned RIT to move strongly upward in the ranks of the world’s great universities.”

Members of Perinton Youth Hockey, ages 11-12, wait for their opportunity to take the ice during Tigers Hockey School at Ritter Arena. The RIT men’s hockey program sponsors the camp each summer to assist young athletes with skills development and other life lessons. Youth teams from across Monroe County participate in the hockey school annually.

Tom Caruso ’72 (finance and management) learned that construction was his future career while on co-op at RIT in the 1970s. Today he is vice president of Campus Construction.

Hanna Stoehr, a fourth-year museum studies major, talks with Wildenhain pottery collector Robert Johnson about her exhibition design for “Frans Wildenhain 1950-75: Creative and Commercial American Ceramics at Mid-Century” in Bevier Gallery. Johnson donated his collection of 330 pieces of Wildenhain pottery to RIT in 2010. In the background, Steve Bodnar, at left, a communication graduate student, talks with Winn McCray, Johnson’s partner. The exhibit is on view simultaneously in the Bevier Gallery and Dyer Arts Center through Oct. 2. For more information on the exhibit, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49257.