Photo Spotlights

Visitors interacted with a large projection screen via a controlling system to create a unique collaborative art piece called Hydropic, from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, at the 2010 Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.

2010 is the 40th anniversary of the Higher Education Opportunity Program at RIT. This state-funded program is committed to the recruitment and academic success of students with strong academic potential who would otherwise be excluded from higher education due to circumstances of economic disadvantage. The celebration on April 30 honored all those past and present involved with HEOP at RIT. The program included a video and a keynote speaker, Wade Norwood, director of community engagement for the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency.

Sketchbox is an immersive installation that seeks to bring strangers together to play, both cooperatively and competitively. Without using a controller of any kind, players interact with the games by moving throughout the installation space. The game world is comprised entirely of doodle-quality illustrations, representative of the childlike simplicity of play. An exhibit from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.

The RIT Green Vehicle Challenge kicked off the 2010 Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 1. Nine teams built and raced alternate energy vehicles to compete on time and energy consumed.

The 18th annual Taste of RIT took place on April 29 with all proceeds going to the RIT United Way Campaign.

RIT Student Government encouraged students to voice their concerns and offer feedback during the first ever Student Speak Up Day April 29. Tables were set up around campus and leaders encouraged students to fill out surveys to help shape the future of RIT.

Many of Rochester’s middle school students participated in the annual Engineering, Experimentation and Exploration Fair at RIT on April 29. The program, celebrating 20 years in existence, is a way to increase interest in engineering through fun projects, team competitions and interesting design challenges. Here, Ryan Moorthi (left) and Griffin Perry compete in the stationary lift, using Legos and metal weights. Both boys attend the Twelve Corners Middle School in Brighton.

RIT’s Department of Foreign Languages will present a series of plays, written by students, as part of the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 1. Featured are Everett Brown and Carina Nyerges, two of the stars of the modern adaptation of the Italian opera L’elisir d’Amore.

Kappa Delta Rho annually provides a helping hand to commencement organizers by stuffing diploma cases. Fraternity members Stanley Adecla (left) and Rob Mancini were among those gathered on April 24 to insert a letter to the graduates from RIT President Bill Destler into each of the 4,000 cases.

Fifth-year software engineering major Alex Ford has made a temporary home for himself at RIT, specifically through his work with the Society of Software Engineers. In 2007, Ford created Voices in Software Engineering, bringing some of the most prominent and influential individuals in the field to campus.

Anthropologist Uli Linke and sociologist Danielle Taana Smith, both faculty in the Department of Sociology, suggest that the production of fear and the discourse of terror have been variously deployed as a political strategy to manipulate public opinion and to govern people, communities and nations. In the new book Cultures of Fear, Linke and Smith assemble essays from world-class scholars, each discussing different ways in which fear is produced, used and channeled toward specific sociopolitical ends.

Robert Luessen, one of RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholars from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, attended the scholarship event April 22 in Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Each student honored has achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.85 out of a possible 4.0.