Photo Spotlights

Denton Crawford, a visiting assistant professor in RIT’s School of Art, has a solo exhibit at Gallery r through Sept. 25.

A new building was installed today near Brown Hall on the south end of campus. The modular building will house 20 faculty offices, two conference rooms and an open space for cubicles. Completion is expected by the end of September.

RIT women’s soccer players celebrated Anka Parzych’s (jersey No. 24) goal in a 1-0 win over Mount Saint Mary College in the season opener on Sept. 2 at the Rachel Memorial Classic at Tiger Stadium. The men’s and women’s soccer teams opened the 2016-2017 season for Tiger athletics.

Assistant Physics Professor Michael Zemcov, center, works with BS/MS electrical engineering majors Kevin Kruse, left, and Benjamin Bonder in the Center for Detectors.

MAGIC Center students and staff celebrate the release of Hack, Slash & Backstab, a video game developed and published by MAGIC Spell Studios, on the Xbox and Steam platforms on Aug. 31. RIT is the first university in the country to publish a game on the Xbox platform. The game is now available for purchase worldwide for $4.99 on Xbox, Steam and the digital storefront Humble.

The RIT Bhakti Yoga club hosted their Janmastami celebration on August 27 in the Skalny Room in the Center for Religious Life. The event included discussion, music, dance and a vegetarian dinner.

School of Individualized Study Director James Hall, left, and RIT Provost Jeremy Haefner officially opened the new SOIS Student Commons in Eastman Hall in a ribbon cutting ceremony on Aug. 29. Hall and Haefner commented on the importance of a collaborative space where students could gather and exchange ideas. This is the first dedicated space for SOIS students.

Matthew Olowin, left, a third-year industrial design student from Charlottesville, Va., and Benjamin Maitland, a fourth-year computer science student from Lenoxville, Pa., take part in the first fencing practice of the school year. The RIT fencing club teaches sword play and is open to all students.

Yasin Bayraktar, left, a laboratory science technology major from Sugarland, Texas, and LiXuan He, a business, hospitality and services management and communication major from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, sampled some apple treats during NTID’s 18th annual Apple Festival on Aug. 26. The event was an opportunity for new and returning students to meet and learn about resources for students and ways to become involved on campus.

Jason Karol, president of RIT Anglers, casts a line in a pond near RIT’s H Lot, where he caught a 3-pound largemouth bass. Club members also travel around the country to compete against other collegiate anglers. RIT Anglers is just one of more than 250 student clubs on the Henrietta campus, covering interests varying from African dance to ultimate Frisbee.

Third-year photojournalism student Brittainy Newman from New York City photographed Albanian soccer fans during her summer class in Kosovo. Assistant Professor Meredith Davenport taught the interdisciplinary five week summer class in Pristina, Kosovo on documentary projects, utilizing video, audio and still photography to tell stories. Visits to a Kosovo magazine, travel, tours and informal talks were part of the program.

Day two of the new semester is intense as Julia Nelson, a second-year mechanical engineering student from Pittsburgh, and her classmates participate in a morning Measurements Lab. Led by Lecturer Robert Carter, left, and Professor Mark Kempski, both in the mechanical engineering department, students learn about how to design and perform experiments and tests—such as data acquisition and statistical analysis—to solve engineering problems. The lab took place in the Knorr-Bremse Mechatronics Laboratory in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering.