Photo Spotlights

RIT’s Campus Center was formally dedicated Feb. 6 as part of the campus Freeze Fest extravaganza. The 30,000-plus-square-foot Campus Center located across from Clark Gymnasium, with alternate access from inside the Student Alumni Union, is characterized by curved windows and comfortable seating areas. Administrators hope the space will become a central location where students can meet and socialize.

Volunteers from the Center for Religious Life coordinated their annual PB Jam Feb. 8. Nearly 2,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were made during the 4-hour event. Following the preparation, the sandwiches were delivered to the Salvation Army, Open Door Mission, AIDS Rochester and the House of Mercy for distribution to Rochester’s needy.

Comedienne Kathy Griffin made her way from the “D-List” to RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center to headline the first FreezeFest on Feb. 5.

RIT’s Center for Campus Life and Division of Student Affairs are hosting the first FreezeFest celebration on campus, Feb. 5-7. Students handed out T-shirts in the SAU to kick off the weekend festivities.

Zachary Shivers and Ziyan Zhou of the RIT Robotics Club created a wireless door lock for fun in their spare time. The new device differs from current electrical door lock systems because it is attached to their wristwatches.

As part of a community service project, First-Year Enrichment students enrolled in the University Studies Program set up a table in the Student Alumni Union to decorate valentines. Students, faculty and staff could sign and decorate the cards for children at the Golisano Children’s Hospital. Here, Jonathan Peartree, a first-year student in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, puts finishing touches on his card.

Graduate students in the ceramics program receive feedback from professors in RIT’s School for American Crafts during a critique session.

RIT women’s hockey celebrated “Make the Rink Pink” Jan. 30 with a 5-3 win over Utica. The event was a collaboration with Zeta Tau Alpha sorority to raise money for cancer research by selling pink T-shirts and auctioning the players’ pink jerseys. Proceeds will go to the Lipson Cancer Center and Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation.

The Cyberettes, a computer club made up of girls from the Fairport middle schools, visited RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Jan. 29. The visit was sponsored by the Women in Computing organization, which worked with The Cyberettes to film and edit 30-second videos using the iMovie software.

A student in the School for American Crafts grinds a tool in the forge room, one of the new renovated spaces in the school.

Mohammad Bilal led off the presentations for the Expressions of King’s Legacy: A Weeklong Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 25. The rapper, poet, writer, musician and diversity consultant was part of the cast of MTV’s Real World III: San Francisco series. He shared his 12 Steps to Appreciating Diversity for the RIT community, then performed with friend and fellow rapper Josh Goldstein.

The Liberal Arts Minor and Concentration Fair on Jan. 22 featured faculty representatives from the more than 40 minors and concentrations offered through the College of Liberal Arts. Here, students gathered information and handouts for study abroad.