Photo Spotlights

  • August 30, 2024

    people are shown from the waist down walking away from the camera with small white illuminated bags lighting a pathway next to them. 1

    More than 200 students, faculty, and staff attended the annual Lighting the Way event on Aug. 29, welcoming incoming women and non-binary students to RIT. New student participants received a commemorative lantern to light their route through campus. The annual event was sponsored by RIT’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Resource Center.

  • August 28, 2024

    a group of students appear on the front steps of Liberty Hill, the R I T presidents residence, along with Dave and Nancy Munson. 1

    The 15th class of Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars was welcomed to RIT at the annual ceremony held Aug. 27 at Liberty Hill. The event included the announcement of the Destler/Johnson residence endowment, a $2 million gift to provide on-campus room and board to RCS scholars.

  • August 27, 2024

    3 people stand behind a comically large check made out to the ROC the Pitch winner in the amount of $25,000. 1

    Path of Discovery Counseling Services founder Fatima Banister, center, captured the $25,000 grand prize in the ROC the Pitch competition hosted by RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship. The sold-out event on Aug. 22 featured six local start-ups that pitched their business plans to a panel of judges, who examined the businesses’ unique competitive advantage, marketability, industry expertise of the owner or team, financial strength of the business, and company growth. Pictured with Banister is Ryne Raffaelle, RIT vice president for Research, and Ebony Miller-Wesley, director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship.

  • August 25, 2024

    boxes of meals for the nonprofit Foodlink are stacked in a pyramid inside a gymnasium at R I T. 1

    Hundreds of RIT students prepared 115,000 meals of red lentil jambalaya in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center for RIT's FoodShare and Rochester's Foodlink programs as part of RIT's Connect & Serve: Hunger Project program during orientation on Aug. 23.

  • August 20, 2024

    24 students are seen in clean room uniforms standing in a crowded room. 4
    several students gather around a long table watching a screen placed at one end.
    students in clean room uniforms stand in a research room.
    a professor demonstrates techniques required to make 3D printed materials to students gathered around her.

    Twenty-four students from Kyushu and Nagoya Universities arrived at RIT Aug. 12 for a visit as part of UPWARDS, the international semiconductor education, research, and workforce development initiative. The group learned about finding junction depths through groove and stain process steps from microsystems engineering doctoral student Eli Powell (seated) in RIT’s clean room, the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Laboratory.

  • August 5, 2024

    an overhead shot of the crowds at the undergraduate research symposium. 6
    a woman stands on a staircase overlooking the undergraduate research symposium.
    a woman stands in front of a presentation appearing to be speaking to people.
    people are shown sitting at tables watching a presentation called rebound.
    a student is shown standing in front of a presentation screen and he appears to be directing conversation to an audience.
    a student appears next to his presentation looking at the material.

    More than 150 projects were on display at the 33rd annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 1. The 400-plus students made public presentations about work done this summer with faculty researchers. Research projects represented work from all of RIT’s colleges.

  • June 13, 2024

    students walk by holding colorful flags from their country. 3
    students from another country stand and look at U S students standing with the United Stated flag.
    a high level view of the booths at the Genius Olympiad.

    RIT hosted the GENIUS Olympiad, an international high school project competition focused on environmental issues, in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center on June 12. More than 1,000 high school students from 33 states and 64 countries presented projects to judges in several categories including science, writing, business, robotics, music, short film, coding, and art. More than 2,400 proposals were submitted for the 2024 competition, yielding 727 selected projects. In addition, international students who achieve certain levels at the competition may be eligible for annual scholarships if they attend RIT. The competition, which was founded in 2011, is organized by Terra Science and Education and RIT.

  • June 6, 2024

    a speaker stands at a podium addressing a crowd. 4
    two women speak to a man at a luncheon.
    three men greet each other.
    a group of women look at a phone together.
    RIT’s annual Retiree Luncheon was held in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center on June 5. The complimentary event featured a buffet, program, and awards ceremony, as well as the opportunity for university retirees to reconnect.

  • May 28, 2024

    people clean up an area of a cemetary. 3
    people clean up an area of a cemetary.
    Three people stand for a photo holding rakes.

    RIT employees helped clean up Mount Hope Cemetery on May 23 as part of United Way Day of Caring. Day of Caring is the largest community-wide volunteer event across the Rochester region.

  • May 10, 2024

    two students jump joyfully in front of a sign for the Eastman Quad. 10
    A group of 2024 graduates throw their mortarboards in the air.
    two students sit on a tiger statue in front of the R I T building called The Shed.
    a graduating student accepts a congratulatory handshake outside of the Gordon Field House.
    a student is shown in the background of the photo hugging a friend.
    Smiling graduates look toward the stage as they wait for the 2024 Convocation ceremony to begin.
    students sit inside the Gordon Fieldhouse for commencement.
    sour students pose in regalia for a photo outside Gordon Field house.
    a college age woman is shown recieving a Ph.D. hood at the 2024 commencement.
    Three students pose for a photo outside the Gordon Field House following commencement.

    Sustainable systems master’s graduate Mandlaenkosi Mthetwa, left, and data sciences master’s graduate Elham Babur, right, jump for joy upon completing their degrees.

  • May 10, 2024

    Sanjay Mehrotra stands on a stage holding an honorary degree. 4
    Garth Fagan stands on a stage holding her honorary degree.
    Rita Colwell stands on a stage holding an honorary degree.
    Pattie Moore is shown on stage holding her honorary degree

    Four honorary degrees were conferred during the Academic Convocation ceremony on May 10. Among those recognized was Sanjay Mehrotra, president and chief executive officer at Micron Technology. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Pictured, from left to right, are RIT Provost Prabu David, Mehrotra, and RIT Board of Trustees Chairman Jeff Harris.

  • May 6, 2024

    a college age girl has a blanket placed over her shoulders by an older woman. 3
    a younger woman and an older man hold up a yellow and white native american blanket.
    an older female accepts a purple and green native american blanket from an older male.

    Maddie Tlachac, an environmental, health and safety management graduate, receives her blanket from Kendall Scott, director of the Native American Future Stewards Program. The annual blanket ceremony is a way to share blessings of warmth, connection, and community and is a long-standing tradition. The event was held on May 3 as part of graduation activities at RIT.