Photo Spotlights

Students in Eastman Kodak Quad enjoy a sunny day. Fall color is in full swing on campus.

Journalist Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° and a correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes, was the Student Government Distinguished Speaker in the Gordon Field House on Saturday.  The event was part of Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.

Former Student Government President (1989-90) John Simmons, left, and Vice President Eric Senna spoke at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Tiger Statue on Oct. 18. RIT’s Student Government commissioned the bronze statue in 1989 to represent Spirit, the Bengal tiger cub RIT adopted as its first mascot in 1963. The event was part of Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.

Sinee Tangkijngamwong, a student in the metals and jewelry design program from Hong Kong, modeled her creation at Fashion Week in Rochester.

Clayton Turner, the newly appointed director of the NASA Langley Research Center and this year’s distinguished alumnus in KGCOE, speaks to a group of sophomores and juniors at Rochester Prep High School, RIT's partner charter school.

The RIT Philharmonic Orchestra rehearses for its upcoming concert at 2 p.m. Sunday in Ingle Auditorium, part of a slew of events celebrating Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.

The School for American Crafts held its 15th annual Pumpkin Patch Sale Oct. 12. Sales from the one-of-a-kind glass art help support RIT Women's Council Scholarships and student activities in the RIT Student Glass Program.

OUTspoken and the Q Center sponsored a Pride Parade to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11.

Associate Curator Amelia Hugill-Fontanel ’02 MS (printing technology), assisted Adrianna Petrus, a graduate student in visual communication design from Lyons, N.Y., with a print on the historic Kelmscott/Goudy printing press. The Cary Graphic Arts Collection celebrated 50 years with an exhibit, reception and a commemorative printing on the Kelmscott/Goudy printing press.

RIT graduate student Marissa Dreibelis paints a cat design on 10-year-old Antasia McFee during a community outreach event at the Avenue D Recreation Center in Rochester. Students from RIT's Master of Science for Teachers - Visual Arts All Grades (Art Education) program work with Rochester city children and their families during a fall "Community Art Bash." The annual outreach project is a collaboration between the School of Art in RIT's College of Art and Design, MST Program, Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance, and the City of Rochester's Recreation Bureau. The outreach is geared toward children and families from Rochester's underserved Northeast Quadrant. 

From left, College of Liberal Arts students Lizzy Carr and Brie Johnson-Morris attend the Fall Festival & Agricultural Fair at the Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford. RIT was recently given a gift of $1.3 million to solidify the partnership between the university and museum to allow students and faculty to conduct research and collaborate on projects. 

RIT students, faculty and staff gathered for a Gray Matter discussion "Does God Hate Queers?" in the MOSAIC Center. Gray Matter is a discussion series designed to promote critical exploration of provocative topics related to higher education and the RIT campus community. The next meeting, "Vote? Impeach? Neither?", is Nov. 1 at 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. in the MOSAIC Center.