Photo Spotlights

RIT President David Munson and his wife Nancy welcomed new students at the annual Tiger Walk. Some 2,800 first-year students are cheered on by RIT faculty and staff as they parade into Gordon Field House for convocation.

Alumni parents and grandparents presented their incoming students with an 1829 pin on Aug. 21 during the Legacy Family Pinning Ceremony and then posed for a group photo. The pin symbolizes that the incoming student is carrying on the family’s tradition of academic excellence. More than 600 legacy students are currently enrolled at RIT.

Some of the 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study show their Tiger Pride.

The RIT community welcomed new students at the annual Tiger Walk. Some 2,800 first-year students are cheered on by RIT faculty and staff as they parade into Gordon Field House for convocation.

Associate Professor Clifford Wun, from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, delivered the keynote address at the convocation for new students, which include 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study.

The RIT community welcomed new students at the annual Tiger Walk. Some 2,800 first-year students are cheered on by RIT faculty and staff as they parade into Gordon Field House for convocation.

RIT President David Munson addressed the crowd gathered for convocation for new students, which include 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study.

Kenny Shin, a first-year computer engineering student from Seoul, South Korea, had some assistance with his luggage from RIT President David Munson during move-in day. Munson moved several students' belongings on a golf cart to their assigned dorm buildings.

Grover Swartzlander, professor of imaging science, captured this image of yesterday’s solar eclipse. See more photos from around campus during the eclipse on Facebook.

Rohan Patel, a graduate student in human-computer interaction from India, and Louis Albano, a fourth-year student in marketing from Albany, N.Y., sort books for the Goodbye, Goodbye! sale that begins today at 10:00 a.m. in Clark Gym. The sale offers incoming students the opportunity to buy used furniture, clothing, fans, lamps, televisions, kitchenware and more at bargain prices. The sale, in its third year, is a student-led sustainability initiative to help reduce items normally thrown out while offering needed items to incoming students. The sale runs Aug. 22-26, 10-5, and accepts Tiger Bucks and cash.

Game design students Noah Ratcliff and Samantha Cammarata watched the solar eclipse with special Tiger glasses on the Greek lawn today. Telescopes with filters were set up and available for others to use.

RIT student Jovon McCullough, left, shows 13-year-old Eisaiah Montanez and other children from St. Phillip Missionary Baptist Church’s Academic Summer Camp program the Children’s Garden on First Street in Rochester. McCullough, a third-year public policy major from Rochester, is a student leader in the Field to Table program, part of RIT’s University/Community Partnership with the Marketview Heights Collaborative Action Project.