Photo Spotlights

Students, faculty and staff—including Mark Leonardo, a third-year packaging science major—participated March 14 in the popular PB Jam charity event, sponsored by RIT Hillel. Over 2,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were assembled and delivered to five local shelters.

Students in RIT’s packaging science program found several viable solutions for decreasing the amount of lead found in popular reusable grocery bags. The students’ data showed that several of the bags had just over the allowable 100 parts per million of lead; one company had nine times the acceptable levels.

Ryan Buckley, chief of operations for RIT Ambulance, and Tim Keady, associate director of the Student Health Center, far right, led an RIT delegation on March 8 in presenting a voluntary $5,000 contribution on behalf of the university to Henrietta Ambulance. RIT Ambulance, which is a student-run Emergency Medical Services organization, works in close partnership with members of the town’s ambulance corps. Currently about a dozen RIT alumni volunteer with Henrietta Ambulance.

Shanty Town is a fundraiser and service event to benefit House of Mercy, a Rochester homeless shelter. Brothers of APO Xi Zeta lived in cardboard boxes by the Tiger statue March 7-11 to raise awareness about homelessness and hunger. From left, Chris Tarantino, Richard Latham and Alexa Seidner huddle under a blanket by the structure.

RIT’s Week of Women is a series of week-long events celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. It is also an opportunity to help students, faculty and staff find out what clubs and services are available on campus for women. Here, Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy, hands out tulips during an information fair on March 8.

Golan Levin, artist, performer, composer and engineer, is a leader in the use of human-computer interaction to infuse art and design with new forms of reactive expression. Levin highlighted humans’ creative relationship with machines, using work from his online, installation and performance media, during a March 8 presentation, “Interactive Art and Speculative Human-Computer Interaction.” It was part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s “Visionaries in Motion IV” speaker series. In conjunction with the talk, Levin hosted two workshops focused on art and performance on March 9.

RIT’s Week of Women, March 7–11, celebrated International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Students, faculty and staff also learned about clubs and services available on campus for women. Participants learned traditional henna body painting before a viewing of the film Eat, Pray, Love on March 7.

Hundreds of competitors and their robots took the field in Gordon Field House March 4-5 for the 2011 Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics competition. More than 40 high school teams from across the Northeast U.S. and Canada participated in LOGO Motion. Here, students cheer for their team.

Hundreds of competitors and their robots took the field in Gordon Field House March 4 for the 2011 FIRST Robotics Finger Lakes Regional competition. More than 40 high school teams from across the Northeast U.S. and Canada participated in LOGO Motion. Winners in the regional meet for the championship April 27-30 in St. Louis.

More than 130 full-time sign-language interpreters are found throughout RIT. Here, Angela Hauser interprets for the Aeolian Choir during RIT’s Martin Luther King Day celebration.

Mentors & Makers, an exhibit at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, features Wendell Castle, RIT artist-in-residence, with Nancy Jurs, his wife and an RIT alumna. The couple invited alumni Tom Lacagnina and Bethany Krull to exhibit their work alongside theirs. The exhibit is on view through March 13.

Therapy Dogs International—handlers with 10 certified therapy dogs—provided a welcome break for RIT/NTID students as they entered exam week. Students “de-stressed” with the dogs, who were wearing bandanas that read “Paws a While for Love.”