Photo Spotlights

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.

Paloma Capanna, an RIT adjunct professor in political science, helped lead the RIT community in its search for George Delany and spoke at a campus gathering April 19 in the Schmitt Interfaith Center. The third-year political science major went missing last month. His remains were found April 17 in a wooded area in Steuben County.

David Bainbridge, popular-science writer, veterinarian, reproductive biologist and Clinical Veterinary Anatomist from University of Cambridge, visited campus April 18 as part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s “Visionaries in Motion IV” speaker series. Jamie Winebrake, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and his wife, Susan, met Bainbridge during the book signing after the talk.