Photo Spotlights

  • December 4, 2020

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    The RIT men’s hockey team practices in the Gene Polisseni Center with Coach Wayne Wilson, right. RIT hosts Long Island University Dec. 11-12 for a pair of non-league games.

  • November 24, 2020

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    Staff member hands a test to student
    Student about to take test
    student doing swab test
    sign for testing

    Students lined up for voluntary, free COVID-19 testing before they left for Thanksgiving break.

  • November 20, 2020

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    students in Global Village at night

    Students enjoy the fire pit and eating outdoors during a warm evening in Global Village.

  • November 16, 2020

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    Man in car
    close-up of art
    woman speaking to media
    The back of the art work

    An art installation depicting Anna Murray Douglass, the first wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, was unveiled Nov. 13 at the site where the couple lived in Rochester from 1848 to 1851. Hinda Mandell, associate professor in RIT’s School of Communication, introduced the piece, funded by RIT, to attendees.

  • November 10, 2020

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    students building frames
    students building frames
    students building frames
    hands with hammer
    a completed frame
    stack of lumber
    frames arranged to show structure
    a board with a message

    About 150 RIT student volunteers built sheds and walls for new homes for Flower City Habitat for Humanity at the Framing Frenzy event Nov. 6.

  • November 6, 2020

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    Anthony Scrittorale, left, and Amanda Richardson share a table near Rosica Hall surrounded by fall colors. Both are first-year mechanical engineering technology students from different towns in New Jersey.

  • November 4, 2020

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    Two male students voting
    Students stand in line
    Female student voting
    Male student voting
    Male student wearing t-shirt with messages
    Close up of RIT logo and sticker

    Adam Weitz, a first-year mechanical engineering student from Niskayuna, N.Y.,  turned 18 just in time to vote on Election Day. RIT students cast their votes in the Nov. 3 presidential election at a polling site in the Gene Polisseni Center. The students had registered to vote using their on-campus address. 

  • October 28, 2020

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    Student photographs bird with cell phone.
    Hands with drawing.
    Barn owl on table.

    Students draw live birds brought by the organization Wild Wings. Professor Alan Singer’s zoological and botanical illustration class allows students to accurately depict animals and plants for use in various media.

  • October 14, 2020

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    Senior Lecturer Thomas Warfield, center, takes advantage of a warm fall day and hosts his Dance II: Modern Dance and Ballet class outdoors by Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall.

     

  • October 10, 2020

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    Students dancing outdoors, dramatic sky, wearing mask
    Group of students pose with carved pumpkins
    Drummers in costume drum outside in front of brick wall
    Pumpkins lined up on the track outdoors to be viewed

    Pumpkins and performances highlighted Brick City Homecoming activities Oct. 9-11 geared toward students.

  • October 6, 2020

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    Two students stand in front of wall with RIT cookies
    Cookies being handed out near Global Village. Students walking, table full of cookies.

    Thousands of pawprint cookies were handed out on Tuesday to congratulate students, faculty, and staff on keeping the COVID-19 rates down and reaching the halfway point in the semester.

  • October 3, 2020

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    Girl in field with hand raised wearing mask
    Students sitting in lawn watching presentation wearing masks
    BLM stickers spread out on table
    Student on outdoor stage with microphone giving a speech
    Students dancing with blue skies
    Students dancing on outdoor stage, BLM flag in foreground.

    A Black Lives Matter rally, complete with speakers, music, poetry, and dancing groups, was held Oct. 3 on the Greek Lawn near the Gordon Field House.