Photo Spotlights

Sixty cadets from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at RIT completed a four-hour capstone exercise on Nov. 23. The project required select cadets to combine their academic disciplines and leadership training to design, plan, and run the execution of a wargame scenario that would test their fellow cadets’ application of a semester’s worth of training. This simulation took place in the Cyber Range in the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering hosted junior and senior students from East High School on Nov. 20 to learn more about semiconductors, also referred to as computer chips. The students learned about etching techniques required for computer chip development.

More than 300 veterans, family members, students, and community members attended RIT’s 13th annual Veteran’s Day Breakfast Nov. 8 in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. The keynote speaker was Laura Heltz, executive director of the Veterans Outreach Center.

Striking autumn colors are bountiful on campus despite a week of unseasonably warm temperatures. University students, faculty, and staff are in week 10 of the fall semester, looking ahead to the Thanksgiving break starting Nov. 27.

RIT hosted its third annual Together RIT on Oct. 25. This year’s theme was Deaf culture, disability, and neurodiversity. The closing panel featured alumnae Kaitlin Sommer, left, and Amie Fornah Sankoh, center. It was moderated by Amberlee Jones, associate director of advancement for NTID, right.

The men’s hockey team faced Bowling Green in front of a sellout crowd of 10,566 at Blue Cross Arena in downtown Rochester. The event was a highlight of Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend.

From left to right, Sam Antoniak, Naomi Chuukwu, Cameron Bibbus, and Lam Mach pose in a photo booth during the Get Ready to ROAR rally on Sept. 19. ROAR Day (Raise Our Annual Responses) is RIT’s annual day of giving that this year runs for 1,829 minutes from noon on Oct. 31 through 6:29 p.m. on Nov. 1. RIT was founded in 1829.

Army and Air Force ROTC cadets at RIT held a remembrance vigil Wednesday morning for those who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The event, outside the Student Alumni Union, featured 2,977 flags planted in the grass, honoring each life lost in the attacks. The vigil was hosted by the Colonel Andrew J. Dougherty Squadron of the Arnold Air Society.  

More than 200 students, faculty, and staff attended the annual Lighting the Way event on Aug. 29, welcoming incoming women and non-binary students to RIT. New student participants received a commemorative lantern to light their route through campus. The annual event was sponsored by RIT’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Resource Center.

The 15th class of Destler/Johnson Rochester City Scholars was welcomed to RIT at the annual ceremony held Aug. 27 at Liberty Hill. The event included the announcement of the Destler/Johnson residence endowment, a $2 million gift to provide on-campus room and board to RCS scholars.

Path of Discovery Counseling Services founder Fatima Banister, center, captured the $25,000 grand prize in the ROC the Pitch competition hosted by RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship. The sold-out event on Aug. 22 featured six local start-ups that pitched their business plans to a panel of judges, who examined the businesses’ unique competitive advantage, marketability, industry expertise of the owner or team, financial strength of the business, and company growth. Pictured with Banister is Ryne Raffaelle, RIT vice president for Research, and Ebony Miller-Wesley, director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship.

Hundreds of RIT students prepared 115,000 meals of red lentil jambalaya in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center for RIT's FoodShare and Rochester's Foodlink programs as part of RIT's Connect & Serve: Hunger Project program during orientation on Aug. 23.