Photo Spotlights

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.

The three finalists for RIT’s Public Speaking Contest, Bailey Smith, Nathaniel Huff and Charles Moreland, talk with Keri Barone, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and co-director of the contest, in the Campus Center. Moreland was named the winner for his speech “Endurance Training is an Ineffective Means for Weight Loss” during the contest finals Jan. 21.

In the Orange Hair Challenge, now in its third season, RIT President Bill Destler vows to dye his hair orange if RIT students and fans fill the stands at Clark Gymnasium for the men’s and women’s basketball games. The stands were not completely full Jan. 22, so a compromise was made—Destler dyed his hair with orange streaks.