Photo Spotlights

Twenty five Ultimate Frisbee teams throughout the northeast converged in Rochester on Oct. 27 and 28. The RIT Ultimate Frisbee Club, and their alumni, participated in the annual tournament. Awards were given for team spirit and best costumes.

Computer engineering students presented their design projects to fellow students and RIT faculty during the department’s quarterly showcase Nov. 1. Harvey Palmer, dean of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, tested the digital simulated pinball machine during his tour of the displays.

The annual Benefits Fair, held on Oct. 30 and 31, featured workshops, Try-It-Out sessions and representatives from various financial and health providers. Here, RIT employees Tracy Freas, right, and Kate Howard, left, offered information about the RIT Ergonomics Lab. This, and the upcoming flu clinic on Nov. 14, is sponsored by RIT Human Resources.

Three RIT professors discussed ways of redefining the traditional classroom at the “Defining Space” conference at the University College of Dublin Oct. 11-13. Mary Lynn Broe, Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of Humanities, organized the panel “Moving Out/There: Strategies for Redefining Academic Spaces.” The panelists were Stephanie Cole, from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Broe, from the College of Liberal Arts, Karen Kinslow, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, and Guy Johnson, from the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Science. The Caroline Werner Gannett Project sponsored the panel.

The first step in retaining area graduates is pointing out the career options that exist locally. That was the goal of the third annual Explore Rochester IT symposium held at RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center Oct. 26. College students from the Rochester region discussed opportunities with chief information officers of many local companies.

RIT President Bill Destler kicked off the university’s Raise Our Annual Responses initiative on Oct. 25. ROAR Day activities took place across campus to encourage faculty, staff and students to make an annual gift to RIT. To enhance its success, Destler and his wife, Rebecca Johnson, pledged a dollar-for-dollar match of all student donations made during ROAR Day.

The 10th annual Campus Week of Dialogue featured noon hour sessions each day. On Oct. 24, Christie Ong, an Advertising and Public Relations student, led a group discussion on Equitable Accessibility.

“Walk with Me,” a silent procession to raise awareness and mobilize our students to become more involved in combating domestic violence, took place on Oct. 24. After the walk, there was an educational program addressing domestic violence in our community.

David Neeleman, the speaker for the Fall 2007 William D. Gasser Distinguished Lectureship in Business Series, sponsored by RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business, addressed a crowd on Oct 24. Neeleman is the founder and chairman of JetBlue Airways Corp., noted for “bringing humanity back to air travel.”

The 19th Institute Public Speaking Contest took place on Oct. 22 with three finalists. Before the final round, Dr. Grant Cos, Department of Communication, gave some helpful pointers.

Lawyer and cultural critic Patricia J. Williams chats with students during her visit to campus Oct. 18. Williams was invited to RIT as part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project “Visionaries in Motion.”

Arun Gandhi, the keynote speaker for the 10th annual Campus Week of Dialogue, spoke to a crowd of faculty, staff and students on Oct. 22.