Campus Spotlight
November 29, 2022
Photo by
Gabrielle Plucknette-DeVito
Members of the RIT Board of Trustees and President Munson recently took a walking tour of the Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED). The multi-use complex will showcase RIT’s technology, the arts, and design. The $120 million complex, on schedule to open in fall 2023, is the largest construction undertaking on campus since it originally opened in 1968. Here, John Moore, associate vice president of Facilities Management, left, leads a tour of the SHED, which included RIT President David Munson, and Hope Drummond and Kim VanGelder, university trustees.
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RIT President David Munson, right, describes the 98-foot-tall SHED atrium to RIT trustees.
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RIT Trustee Frank Sklarksy takes a photo of the space that will be the new Sklarsky Glass Box Theater, which will seat up to 180 people for experimental performances and various exhibits. Sklarsky ’78 (business administration accounting) and his wife, Ruth, donated $2.5 million to establish the theater.
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Members of the RIT Board of Trustees stand with President David Munson in Wallace Library renovations, which will be incorporated into the SHED.
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The architectural style of the SHED departs from the brick-centric construction of RIT’s early buildings on the Henrietta campus. Glass will be the dominant feature of the SHED. This photo is looking northeast across the campus with Eastman Hall on the left.
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Work on the SHED has entered a new phase as crews begin to move inside and hope to open the facility in fall 2023.
