Photo Spotlights

Today is Thank a Giver (TAG) Day, an effort to highlight the importance of donor contributions to the RIT experience. Red tags have been placed on things around campus that were made possible through gifts to RIT. Donor appreciation activities will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge and will include writing thank you notes and posting thank you selfies to social media using the hashtag #RITTAGDAY. T-shirts will be up for grabs for students who participate.

Today is Thank a Giver (TAG) Day, an effort to highlight the importance of donor contributions to the RIT experience. Red tags have been placed on things around campus that were made possible through gifts to RIT. Donor appreciation activities will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the SAU Fireside Lounge and will include writing thank you notes and posting thank you selfies to social media using the hashtag #RITTAGDAY. T-shirts will be up for grabs for students who participate.

Fifth-year mechanical engineering technology student Kyle Blakely from Silver Spring, Md., left, and Rebecca Coronel, first-year industrial engineering student from Ringwood, N.J., filled up Valentine gift bags at Beanz. RIT College Activities Board and Center for Residence Life hosted a Valentine’s Day goodie bag assembly table with candy, flowers and cards. The bags could then be delivered in dorms or taken home.

From left, Boy Scouts Owen Warner and Thomas Jordan learned basic business management tools in a class to earn a merit badge on Feb. 11. RIT’s Alpha Phi Omega chapter invited Boy Scouts from the region to participate in a day of workshops to earn multiple merit badges. More than 400 Boy Scouts earned more than 800 badges during the Merit Badge University event.

RIT professor emeritus Dane Gordon gave a poetry reading for his book Magic Light Feb. 9 at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection in The Wallace Center. Gordon taught philosophy at RIT for more than 35 years.

Matthew Schmanke from Housing Operations, right, has his blood pressure checked by Wegmans pharmacist Beth Sutton Burke. RIT’s Better Me Wellness Program is offering free blood pressure tests at various locations on campus for the month of February, which is American Heart Month. The remaining dates and locations are noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 15 and 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Campus Center Bamboo Room.

Fourth-year film and animation students Alexis Cruz of Gloucester, Mass., left, and Ariel Evans of Rochester, N.Y., picked up their 2017 T-shirts at the Graduation Fair on Feb. 8. Graduating students marked 100 days before commencement by attending the annual Graduation Fair. The fair is intended as a one-stop opportunity to gather important information related to commencement weekend, May 19-20.

President Bill Destler and Rebecca Johnson spoke about “Lessons from the Journey” as part of the Agape Latte speaker series Feb. 7 in the SAU Fireside Lounge. The speaker series, sponsored by the RIT Newman Catholic Community, focuses on faith on college campuses. People of all faiths are welcome to attend.

Ron Ricotta ’79 (accounting) celebrates the dedication of the Ronald S. Ricotta Wrestling Locker Room on Feb. 6. The expanded and renovated wrestling room includes custom made lockers, new flooring, lighting, furniture, and audio/visual equipment made possible due to a generous donation to the program by Ricotta.

RIT’s College Activities Board hosted its annual Super Bowl party in the Gordon Field House on Feb. 5. The game was projected and captioned on a giant screen. The free event included pizzas, wings, prizes and giveaways. Shown here, RIT/NTID alumnus, Kriston Lee Pumphrey, signed the National Anthem and “America, the Beautiful” during the pre-game ceremony.

More than 110 girls visited RIT on Feb. 4 to learn about technology, engineering, computing and science at the Girls Soaring in STEM Fair. The annual event is hosted by RIT’s Women in Science, Women in Computing, Women in Technology and Women in Engineering groups.

Gallery r, RIT’s metro art space in downtown Rochester, N.Y., is featuring an exhibition of photographs by RIT Professor and Chair of the Photojournalism Program William Snyder. Picturing The Who includes photographs of the legendary band, ephemera and video. The show is on view through Feb. 25. with an artist talk at 5 p.m. on the closing day. On left, Snyder talks with local photographer Steve Piper.