Photo Spotlights

Maya Habecker, a first-year medical illustration student from Farmington, Conn., models her outfit composed of paper materials. CIAS Foundations students were challenged by faculty for the second year in a row to create original outfits made completely out of paper and paper-based planar materials. Students showed off these wearable paper outfits they based on art historical periods and styles of their choosing during the Beaux Arts Ball on Oct. 27. They spent the last 1-2 weeks building these pieces.

RIT student Adbulaziz Almerdasi, far left, a fifth-year software engineering student from Kuwait and founder and CEO of Fanous, discusses his game, Huruf, with his RIT student development team and staff at Rochester-based game development company Workinman Interactive. Almerdasi and his team created Huruf to help teach young people Arabic. The game was officially launched during a celebration at Workinman on Oct. 19. Pictured with Almerdasi, from left, are Noelle Roberts, lead artist, Workinman; Keith McCullough, chief creative officer, Workinman; Huseen Mahkareem, a fifth-year software engineering student and chief operating officer for Fanous; Robert Adams, development lead, Workinman; and Jessica Coombs, a third-year marketing student.

An exhibition featuring Industrial Design alumni is on view in Bevier Gallery through Nov. 4. The annual exhibit—Design Autopsy—highlights the depth and breadth of achievements by alumni from the College of Imaging Arts & Sciences Industrial Design program.

Elana Aronson, a third-year computational math major from Marblehead, Mass., got drenched during a fundraiser for the Polar Plunge by the Tiger Statue. The Polar Plunge, to be held in February 2018 at Ontario Beach Park, is an annual fundraiser for Special Olympics New York.

RIT students were treated to a holiday-themed dinner and entertainment to celebrate Diwali at Grace Watson Dining Hall. The Diwali Festival of Lights event featured dance by RIT Bhangara and a menu that included samosas, naan, ras malai, rajma masala, chicken peppercorn, bombay potatoes and several desserts.

RIT students were treated to a holiday-themed dinner and entertainment to celebrate Diwali at Grace Watson Dining Hall. The Diwali Festival of Lights event featured dance by RIT Bhangara and a menu that included samosas, naan, ras malai, rajma masala, chicken peppercorn, bombay potatoes and several desserts.

NTID’s 17th annual Job Fair was held Oct. 18. Representatives from 48 companies, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations met with associate and bachelor’s level deaf and hard-of-hearing students seeking co-op and full-time jobs. In addition, GE Aviation and Tufts University received the 2017 NTID Center on Employment Outstanding Employer Partner Award for their contributions to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

An exhibition celebrating the work of Jeannette Klute (1918-2009), a groundbreaking figure in color photography, will be on view from Oct. 5 until Nov. 3 in Willam Harris Gallery. Klute was a student at the Mechanics Institute, which was renamed Rochester Institute of Technology in 1944, before becoming a visual research photographer and lab supervisor at Eastman Kodak. Klute began taking photography classes at the Mechanics Institute in 1938, when the photography industry was dominated by men. A companion biography, Jeannette Klute: A Photographic Pioneer, details Klute’s life and work. Published by RIT Press, the biography was authored by School of Photographic Arts and Sciences administrative chair Therese Mulligan.

The breakthrough discovery of colliding neutron stars has changed the future of astrophysics, and RIT faculty and student researchers played a role in identifying and explaining the astronomical objects. Members of the RIT community gathered at RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation to hear the public announcement made by an international consortium and the National Science Foundation, streamed live on Oct. 16 from Washington, D.C. RIT’s integral contributions to the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) collaboration, from landmark research by professor Carlos Lousto, standing, and Manuela Campanelli, seated at right, have led to the university’s investment in the Frontiers in Gravitational Wave Astronomy signature research initiative.

The Brick City 5K Fun Run and Walk on Oct. 15 was one of the final events of Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.

Students and parents gathered in the Bamboo Room to learn some basic sign language during RIT Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend. A No Voice Zone was created to experience Deaf culture and learn some signs.

Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, talks to a full Gordon Field House during RIT Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.