Photo Spotlights

RIT Baseball head coach Rob Grow ‘88, shows off the new baseball locker room. The room was renovated thanks to the generous donations of Jan Proper-Shrier, in honor of her husband former RIT baseball coach Bruce Proper, and the Hern Family, in honor of former Tiger player Tim Hern ‘00. Both Proper and Hern are members of the RIT Sports Hall of Fame.

Marc Lamont Hill, host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN, presented the keynote address at RIT’s annual Expressions of King’s Legacy celebration.

RIT President David Munson and his wife, Nancy, have a weekly American Sign Language lesson from Jeanne Behm, the coordinator of the RIT ASL and Deaf Studies Community Center, at Liberty Hill.

RIT’s MAGIC Center is hosting its second annual New York state Game Dev Challenge, an opportunity for students enrolled in New York state colleges and universities and indie developers residing within the state to bring their game ideas to production. Winners in two categories will be awarded up to $25,000 in funding to aid in the development and production of their game; will be included in an on-site incubator at RIT, New York University or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for up to one year; and will have access to a mentor network. Entrants will be judged on their game idea pitch, game prototype, business plan, mentorship plan and development timeline. The challenge officially launched Jan. 1, with submissions being accepted until March 1. Winners will be announced at a ceremony at The Strong National Museum of Play on April 12.

From left, Michael Bukowski from New York-based game development studio Vicarious Visions talks with fourth-year game design and development students Matthew Schweigardt, from Queensbury, N.Y., and Jeannette Forbes, from Loudoun, Va., after the Game Dev Challenge kick-off on Jan. 19. RIT’s MAGIC Center is hosting its second annual New York state Game Dev Challenge, an opportunity for students enrolled in New York state colleges and universities and indie developers residing within the state to bring their game ideas to production. Winners in two categories will be awarded up to $25,000 in funding to aid in the development and production of their game; will be included in an on-site incubator at RIT, New York University or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for up to one year; and will have access to a mentor network. Entrants will be judged on their game idea pitch, game prototype, business plan, mentorship plan and development timeline. The challenge officially launched Jan. 1, with submissions being accepted until March 1. Winners will be announced at a ceremony at The Strong National Museum of Play on April 12.

Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women eighth-grader Maggie Bauman works on the marshmallow tower challenge with a partner at an event in the MAGIC Center. Two-hundred young women from Mercy in Rochester visited RIT Jan. 17 for a daylong enrichment experience. The girls were able to design video games in the MAGIC Center lab, learn about engineering models and conduct simple science experiments. They also toured campus and were able to ask questions to RIT female students studying in these areas. The day was sponsored by RIT’s MAGIC Center and University Center for Engaging K-12.

Some 200 students from Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women in Rochester visited RIT Jan. 17 for a daylong enrichment experience. The girls were able to design video games in the MAGIC Center lab, learn about engineering models and conduct simple science experiments. They also toured campus and were able to ask questions to RIT female students studying in these areas. The day was sponsored by RIT’s MAGIC Center and University Center for Engaging K-12.

Two-hundred young women from Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women in Rochester visited RIT Jan. 17 for a daylong enrichment experience. The girls were able to design video games in the MAGIC Center lab, learn about engineering models and conduct simple science experiments. They also toured campus and were able to ask questions to RIT female students studying in these areas. The day was sponsored by RIT’s MAGIC Center and University Center for Engaging K-12.

RIT professors from the College of Health Sciences and Technology gave third-graders a glimpse of the field of biomedical sciences during a visit to the Park Road School in the Pittsford Central School District on Jan. 10. Biomedical sciences professors Douglas Merrill, above, and Robert Osgood gave 75 students a crash course in DNA. Merrill, Osgood and Tamra Werner, CHST alumni director, worked with the students to extract and isolate strands of their genetic code in tiny glass pendants. Osgood’s DNA necklace exhibit is a perennial favorite at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival, held this year on April 28.

Approximately 130 Residence Life advisers made blankets as a volunteer activity Jan. 15. The completed blankets were delivered to the Willow Domestic Violence Center and CURE Childhood Cancer Association.

Eastman School of Music student Jonathan Rhodes performed at RIT's first Let Freedom Ring: Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration today. RIT students, faculty and staff assembled in Ingle Auditorium for a program honoring King's life and work on his birthday. Next Thursday, Jan. 25, RIT will host the 36th annual Expressions of King's Legacy celebration, featuring BET News host and CNN political contributor Marc Lamont Hill as keynote speaker, with additional performances by Rochester soul band Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People and poet Reenah Golden.

Performance group Dangerous Signs performed at the Let Freedom Ring: Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration today. RIT students, faculty and staff assembled in Ingle Auditorium for a program honoring King’s life and work on his birthday. Next Thursday, Jan. 25, RIT will host the 36th annual Expressions of King’s Legacy celebration, featuring BET News host and CNN political contributor Marc Lamont Hill as keynote speaker, with additional performances by Rochester soul band Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People and poet Reenah Golden.