Photo Spotlights

MSNBC political analyst Joy-Ann Reid delivered the keynote address at RIT’s Expressions of King’s Legacy on Jan. 30.

Jackie Davis, the creator of the webcomic "Underpants & Overbites", is the visiting artist for SOIS 105: Making Comics. She gave a talk in the Campus Center Reading Room.

Construction is underway for RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute, a new wing of the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences that will help the university become a nexus of cybersecurity education and research.

Ethan Constant, a third-year graphic design student from Ames, Iowa, sets type with Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, associate curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at a Jan. 18 workshop. Students learned about European avant-garde typography and letterpress printing technology during the workshop, which highlighted the collaborative teaching opportunities supported by the Cary Collection.

Nicole Doyley, director of Prayer and Care Ministries in Rochester, gives the keynote address at the third annual Let Freedom Ring event on Monday in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Looking ahead, the 38th annual Expressions of King’s Legacy event, featuring keynote speaker and MSNBC political analyst Joy-Ann Reid, poet Javon Johnson and actress Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye, takes place from noon to 2 p.m. Jan. 30 in Ingle Auditorium.

A mixed media book from Fairport High School student Erin Cook is among the work on display at the annual exhibit "Start Here," featuring regional middle and high school student artwork. The exhibit opens today, with a reception from 5-7 p.m. in Bevier Gallery, and runs through Feb. 1.

3D digital design student Avery Fallon draws with invisible ink for the 100-Hour Project, an annual workshop that promotes collaboration and creativity. Students are creating one-minute animations around the theme of “secret agent.” Final projects will be screened at 2 p.m. Friday in MAGIC Spell Studios’ Wegmans Theater.

Eugene Chang, left, a fifth-year computer science student from Hawaii, and Ricky McNamara, a first-year computer science student from Wakefield, Mass., hit the keys on the Boston piano in the Fireside Lounge. Students returned from their winter break and started the spring semester on Jan. 13.

Students return from their holiday break and resume classes on Jan.13, 2020.

Nicole Stinson, a fourth-year advertising and public relations major from China Grove, N. Carolina, talks about her research "Sentiment Toward Women-of-Color in Fashion Advertising". Fourth-year School of Communication students displayed their senior theses at a poster session in the McKenzie Commons Dec. 17.

Students from Gates Chili High School were on campus for an informational tour this week. They stopped for a photo at the iconic Tiger Statue.

Academy Award-winning actress, author and advocate Marlee Matlin visited RIT/NTID to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of RIT’s Substance and Addiction Intervention Services for the Deaf (SAISD).