Photo Spotlights

For the first time in 14 years, a musical production is on the stage of NTID’s Robert F. Panara Theatre. Guys and Dolls features more than 50 actors and dancers and an 18-piece live orchestra—something the theater has not seen in more than 30 years. The show opened May 4, with daily performances through May 8. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. May 5-7, with matinees at 2 p.m. May 7-8. Tickets are $7, or $5 for students and seniors available at the NTID Box Office (open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and one hour before curtain).

RIT student filmmakers screened their films at the 360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival in Rochester on April 30 at the Little Theatre. Audience members weighed in on their favorite film. Third-year film and animation major Jeremy Sickles’ film You’ll Feel Better (seen above) tied with the film Bitter Tea by Cai Cai Lui, a graduate student, for the most votes. There were 10 films, done at the graduate and undergraduate level, that were part of the School of Film and Animation’s Emerging Filmmakers show.

Sandor Kerekes, vice rector of Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, opened the seventh annual International Environmental Management Symposium on May 2. Members of the international society of environmental professionals met to discuss corporate sustainability and responsibilities.

RIT’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the RIT Dodgeball Club broke the Guinness World Record for the largest single dodgeball game in history May 1 in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. More than 2,100 members of the RIT community participated in the event, which broke the old record, held by the University of Alberta, of 2,012 players.

RIT students, faculty and staff participated in Stand Against Racism Day on April 29, a national day of racism awareness. The RIT event included a unity march and encouraged individuals to speak their minds against prejudice.

RIT students, faculty and staff participated in “Stand Against Racism,” a national day of racism awareness April 29. The RIT event included a unity march and encouraged individuals to speak their minds against prejudice.

The American Red Cross is targeting 600 units of blood as part of a life-saving partnership between RIT and the University of Rochester. Both schools plan to collect at least 300 units each during the month of April. Show your “Tiger spirit” and help RIT rise to the challenge by participating at the a campus blood drive 10 a.m.–4 p.m. April 28–29 in the Fireside Lounge, Campus Center.

As part of RIT’s health and wellness offerings, the Counseling Center offers meditation to RIT students, faculty and staff. This session was lead by Patrick Walsh, left.

Alyssa Schreiner, center top, fourth-year public policy major, and Emily Schreiner, graduate student in secondary science education, take part in a blood drive sponsored by the American Red Cross. The Schreiner family acknowledges that blood donation saved the life of their baby sister, Rachel Schreiner, left, a second-year criminal justice major, who has had multiple heart surgeries due to a birth defect.

WHAM-TV anchor Ginny Ryan and other Rochester television anchors are among local luminaries taking a stand against racism. As part of a national campaign involving YWCAs around the country, the YWCA of Rochester produced a series of public service announcements in collaboration with RIT School of Film and Animation students. The PSAs are currently airing to time with Stand Against Racism Day on April 29.

Graduate Thesis III is on view through May 7 in Bevier Gallery. A detail from “Invisible Cage,” created by MFA student Pei-Chen Chien, is composed of copper pipe, plaster and Styrofoam.

Members of the RIT Orchestra rehearse for the spring concert, “Five Centuries of Italian Music,” to be held April 30 in Ingle Auditorium. The orchestra will perform great Italian music from the 16th through the 20th centuries, including works by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi. Students from all majors participate in the orchestra.