Photo Spotlights

The 2010 Eat Well Live Well challenge is March 14-May 8. RIT hosted a kick-off event on March 11 with food displays, samples, raffles and personal trainers and wellness coaches available to answer questions about the program.

Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa met with graduate students from RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences during a visit to his alma mater on March 11. Mthethwa came to RIT on a Fulbright scholarship and earned a master’s degree in imaging arts in 1989. He has just released a new, comprehensive monograph of his work which focuses on the economic and political realities of present-day South Africa.

Members of RIT’s Alpha Phi Omega fraternity are spending a few days living in a cardboard ‘Shanty Town’ to raise money for Harbor House, a Rochester-based agency providing temporary lodging needs during health emergencies for individuals and families. Here, fraternity members Joseph Voellinger, a first-year civil engineering technology major, left, and Kari Hazzard, a sixth-year international business/economics major, help finish the structure located by the tiger statue near the Eastman Kodak Quad. The fundraiser ends March 12.

The RIT Formula SAE Racing Team participated in the 2010 Rochester International Auto Show, March 5-7, displaying several models of their racecar. The new Formula One car will be unveiled May 1 during the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author David Cay Johnston presented his thoughts on the current economic crisis and what can be done to fix it March 9. The presentation, “A Path Back to Prosperity for America,” was part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s Visionaries in Motion series.

Past Meets Present: Recovering the History of Women at Rochester Institute of Technology, 1885 - 1945, was edited by Tina Olsin Lent, Becky Simmons and Donna Rubin. This volume is the result of a yearlong joint effort of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the University Archivist and the director of the RIT Women’s Center to explore and highlight the roles women have played on the RIT campus since 1885. Hear Tina Olsin Lent and Becky Simmons discuss the book: www.rit.edu/news/podcasts.

Student competitors and distinctive robots came together at RIT for the 2010 Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics competition March 5-6. High school teams from across the northeast participated in Breakaway, this season’s exciting new game.

EMBA alumni from the E. Philip Saunders College of Business attended the sixth annual Sharpen the Saw Day on March 5, with guest speaker Edward Pettinella, president and CEO of Home Properties Inc.

Students in the metals department at the School for American Crafts held a critique, displayed their work, offered feedback and discussed techniques. Here, a student examines a handcrafted ring.

RIT women’s hockey won 5-0 over SUNY Potsdam Feb. 27. The team will play in the ECAC West Semifinal in Plattsburgh March 6.

Students from Livonia High School visited RIT Feb. 15 to learn more about global information systems and the role this technology plays in disaster management. Bethany Choate, from the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, gave an overview of the career opportunities in imaging science.

Earth’s Cry, an MFA thesis exhibition by Jeremy Quiroga, is on view on the second floor at the Joseph F. and Helen C. Dyer Arts Center at NTID through Feb. 26.