Photo Spotlights

RIT’s 11th ROAR Day kicked off this morning. ROAR Day, which stands for Raise Our Annual Response Day, is a 24-hour window during which students, faculty and staff are encouraged to make small donations to their university. Last year’s event brought in $123,000 in direct support to RIT with more than 2,400 students, faculty and alumni donors. Donations can be made at tables around campus until 3 p.m. today and online until midnight at rit.edu/development/giving/ROAR.

Melisza Campos, vice president of instruction for Dale Carnegie Rochester, is RIT’s 2016-2017 Minett Professor. The professorship, established in 1991, brings distinguished Rochester-area multicultural professionals to RIT to work with students, faculty and staff members for one academic year.

Students danced for a cause at a 12-hour Dance-A-Thon Oct. 1. The fundraiser benefited Willow Center, a shelter for victims of domestic violence, with proceeds donated through the RIT United Way Campaign.

Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli and Deputy Chief Wayne Harris were among several law enforcement personnel who attended Stand Strong & Unite, a barbecue and discussion for the community and uniformed personnel organized by RIT’s Black Awareness Coordinating Committee. Members from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and RIT’s Public Safety also participated.

Israeli performance group Ebisu Sign Language Theatre Laboratory performed in NTID’s Panara Theatre Sept. 28. Most of the eight actors are deaf or hard of hearing, and all use Israeli Sign Language (ISL) daily. The performance, which coincided with the celebration of Rochester’s Deaf Awareness Week, was sponsored by RIT/NTID, the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester and the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Rochester.

Students line up to speak with Austin McChord ’09, founder and CEO of Datto Inc., one of the 245 companies represented at the 2016 Fall Career Fair on Sept. 28. Around 4,000 students looking for employment are expected to attend the fair.

Julia Manson, a second-year RIT MFA graduate student in metals and jewelry design, stands near “Into the Spotlight,” a sculpture she created for Geva Theatre Center’s newly renovated lobby, which was unveiled to the public on Sept. 23 in downtown Rochester. Geva commissioned the sculpture from Manson, a native of Bradenton, Fla., thanks to a gift from Michael and Joanna Grosodonia. Manson began working on the sculpture in the spring, after winning a design competition held among students at RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.

Sophomore defender Brianna Dochniak marks her player in front of the net, as freshman goaltender Terra Lanteigne makes a glove save as the RIT women’s hockey team defeated Guelph, 2-1 in an exhibition contest at the Gene Polisseni Center Sept. 23.

RIT/NTID’s performance poetry group Dangerous Signs presented at the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival on Sept. 24. The American Sign Language group uses mime, dance, sign and music.

Michela Musolino from Terra Sangue Mare (Earth Blood Sea) teaches RIT students traditional Sicilian folk dances in a workshop Sept. 22. Terra Sangue Mare later performed a music and dance concert sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts’ Italian Program SEE-cily Series.

Jose Batista, industrial and systems engineering student from the Dominican Republic and dance instructor for the Latin Dance Club, demonstrates some Latin dance moves. RIT kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 21 with food, music and dance in Global Village Plaza. The event is sponsored by the Office for Diversity and Inclusion and Center for Campus Life.

RIT Bhangra, an Indian folk dance group, was a new addition to the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival lineup. The festival continues through Sept. 24. For a schedule of additional RIT Fringe events, go to www.rit.edu/fringefest.