Photo Spotlights

NTID students learn traditional Chinese writing at a presentation by three visiting students as part of a recent educational partnership between China and RIT. The students’ presentation centered around improving the lives of deaf people in China through science and technology.

Erin Cherry, left, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Franklin, Mass., met with Honda recruiter Lindsay Rippingale at the Fall 2017 Career Fair. Nearly 250 employing organizations and hundreds of recruiter representatives seeking RIT students and graduates are attending the event today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Gordon Field House. More than 4,000 students were expected.

ROAR Day kicked-off with a first-time coffee boost event at 9:30 a.m. today, Oct. 3, in the SAU Fireside Lounge. ROAR Day is a 24-hour window during which students, faculty and staff are encouraged to give back to their favorite area of RIT. Booths will open at 11 a.m. at campus locations. For more information or to donate online, go to rit.edu/~w-giving/ROAR/

RIT researchers celebrated the worldwide recognition of gravitational wave astrophysics and the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded on Oct. 3 to pioneer scientists Rainer Weiss from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish from Caltech. Scientists in RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation shared insights with RIT community about the research behind the prize and, their own role in gravitational wave astrophysics. Carlos Lousto, co-director of the center, speaks at the podium, alongside Ph.D. students in the astrophysical sciences and technology program, left to right, Jake Lange, Brennan Ireland and Daniel Wysocki.

RIT’s School for American Crafts and RIT Women’s Council held its annual Glass Pumpkin Patch fundraiser Sept. 30. Over 800 glass pumpkins were sold with many buyers returning each year. Proceeds from the sale benefited the Visiting Artists Series for the RIT glass program as well as RIT Women’s Council scholarships.

RIT President David Munson receives the presidential collar of authority during the inauguration of Munson as RIT’s 10th president on Sept. 28.

RIT alumni, who are making significant impacts on the world, shared their insights on the importance of creativity and innovation to their successes during an interactive symposium Sept. 27. The symposium, which was part of the inauguration events for RIT’s 10th president David Munson, featured, from left, Christopher Edwards ’97 (film and animation), Renato Libric ’03 (hotel and resort management), William Snyder ’81 (photography), and Patricia Moore ’74 (industrial design).

RIT students came together Sept. 27 for a picnic to celebrate the inauguration of RIT’s 10th president David Munson. The student picnic featured entertainment from several of RIT’s dance groups.

RIT students, faculty and staff gathered for a Gray Matter discussion on Sept. 22 in the MOSAIC Center. Gray Matter is a discussion series designed to promote critical exploration of provocative topics related to higher education and the RIT campus community. The topic was “What Is RIT’s Official Opinion on Politics? ...and what if you disagree?”.

To commemorate International Week of the Deaf, RIT raised the Sign Union flag. It marks the first time the flag has been raised on any college campus. The last week in September has been celebrated annually since 1958 as the International Week of the Deaf, intended to raise awareness about the Deaf community at the individual, community and governmental level.

Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority held their annual Teeter-Totter fundraiser this week for the Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund. Today is the final day for the event.

RIT Players took the stage at the Fringe Festival Sept. 16. Most RIT events are at the Little Theatre during the sixth annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival through Sept. 23. For a schedule of additional RIT Fringe events, go to www.rit.edu/fringefest.