Photo Spotlights

Yi Yang, MBA student, assists Jen Dixon, third-year biomedical photography major, in filling out this year's tax forms. Nearly two dozen members of the Next Generation of Accountants from the College of Business are volunteering their tax preparation expertise. The group has scheduled sessions throughout the next few weeks to help RIT students, faculty and staff settle up with Uncle Sam.

Forty female high school juniors from across the northeast visited RIT March 20 and 21 for the third annual "Shadow Day," participating in hands-on engineering activities with RIT student mentors, attending classes and spending a night in an RIT residence hall. The event was sponsored by RIT's Society of Women Engineers, Women in Engineering and Admissions.

RIT students walk to class, gather to chat and generally enjoy the first spell of lovely weather in a long time on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.

Three eagles, one penguin, one polar bear, one kangaroo, one ape, one fish and a bigger-than-life elephant, are painted, decorated and dressed to the nines—thanks to the artistry of Kevin Serwacki and Chris Pallace. The two RIT illustration alumni (1996) have teamed up to design and decorate the menagerie for Rochester’s large-scale community arts project, Animal Scramble—the new version of Horses on Parade.

PUB member Adam Peck, a first-year graphic media student, coaches Ashley Harris on using computer imaging software. Members of PUB, a career and community service-oriented student group, are training 6th, 7th and 8th graders from James Madison School of Excellence in Rochester in print and imaging techniques.

RIT’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics hosted the Monroe County Math League All-Star Competition March 6. Approximately 600 students from across the Monroe County area attended the daylong event competing with each other in small-scale competitions across campus, struggling to advance to the next level of competition and, for a very few, the final round.

Students, spectators and student-built, remote-controlled egg-toting robots, with a mission of breaking opponents' eggs, jammed the atrium of Building 70 for RIT's third annual Battle Egg'Bots competition on Feb. 25.

RIT students study for finals in Wallace Library, seen through the library's salt water coral reef aquarium.

Thomas Barker, associate professor in the College of Engineering's Center for Quality and Applied Statistics is the guest author in the library's Meet the Author series, Feb. 19. Barker has authored many books, including, “Quality by Experimental Design” and “Engineering Quality by Design.”

Audrey Eyring tries on a self-designed paper garment. Her creation came as the result of a class assignment in 3-D design. More than 200 first-year art students assembled costumes inspired by a specific historical era—ranging from ancient Egypt to the Art Nouveau period of the early 20th century. Classmates will show off their creativity during an end-of-quarter celebration in the SAU cafeteria on Feb. 19, from 7-10 p.m.

Francis Bok, abolitionist and former slave from Sudan, speaks in celebration of Black History Month. Feb. 10. His presentation, The Path to Freedom: Life as a Slave was sponsored by RIT’s Black Awareness Coordinating Committee.

Heather Crandall, third-year packaging science major, left, and Leslie Burger of Syngenta AG at RIT's 13th annual Packaging Science Career Fair on Feb. 5. RIT's largest annual on-campus career fair, the event attracted 18 companies and more than 100 RIT packaging science majors and high school counselors and students.