Photo Spotlights

Nathan Dileas, left, second-year imaging science student from Buffalo, N.Y., and Andrew Leja, fourth-year economics student from Chicago, cleaned at a Goodwill store during a day of volunteering for Residence Life staff. More than 125 residence life advisers and 15 professional staff spent the afternoon Jan. 20 volunteering at various organizations throughout Rochester as part of their mid-year staff training/development. Students volunteered at several locations, including the Red Cross, St. Ann’s Community Center and Wilson Commencement Park.

Student Government representatives from RIT’s global campuses visited RIT recently. Students from Croatia, Dubrovnik, Kosovo and Dubai shared information about student life on their campuses. Standing from left, Mohammad Yousefi, student government vice president, and Mashal Waqar, student government president, presented information about the campus in Dubai. Yousefi is a second-year mechanical engineering student and Waqar is a third-year computing security student at RIT Dubai.

For the past four summers, a group of RIT/NTID faculty have been working in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, providing interpreter education for teachers of the deaf. The Vietnamese teachers have been on campus in January sharing language, culture and the deaf experience in Vietnam. From left, Phuong Bich Bui and Morgan Tucker interpreted for the group.

First-year RIT students in the IMPRESS—or Integrating Metacognitive Practices and Research to Ensure Student Success—program learn metacognitive concepts that promote higher levels of learning. Here, Scott Franklin, director of CASTLE, talks with Paul Melnik, an electrical engineering major, Erica Neese, center, an engineering exploration student, and Emilyn Ngnyen, a biomedical sciences major, about their concept map. Franklin and Elizabeth Hane, not shown, co-teach the metacognition course.

Roger Easton, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, uses multispectral imaging to uncover hidden text from historical objects. He is spending the intersession in Chartres, France, imaging fragments of manuscripts damaged in WWII bombings.

Many RIT athletic teams are on campus during winter intersession for training and competitions. In addition, this provides time for team building, team meals and social activities. Here, members of the men’s hockey team enjoyed some downtime at Lasertron on Jan. 5, playing laser tag, arcade games and watching games on large projection screen TVs.

In January, the Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC) will serve as a home base for developers and practitioners who are at the forefront of emerging virtual/augmented reality technology. Here, an RIT student demonstrates use of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

RIT professor Bob Rothman is an expert on the wildlife and the geology that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. This January will mark Rothman’s 25th visit to the Galapagos and his 20th tour for RIT students, faculty and staff, where they will have a chance to swim with green sea turtles.

Not wanting to disturb students preparing for finals during quiet hours, James Kane, a first-year fine arts and photography student, practices drums on the grassy knoll near his residence hall.

Positive/Negative is a student-run annual publication created by senior photography and graphic design students. This year, the magazine used RIT’s crowdfunding platform to raise money to produce it. The magazine was released during a reception in the University Gallery Dec. 16.

Students had their photos taken with Star Wars characters in the Fireside Lounge on Dec. 15. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Space Time Adventures at RIT (STAR) set up a photo booth with some favorite personalities from the films. The latest segment in the series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will be released Dec. 18.

Model train enthusiasts visited dozens of vendors and saw several train layout displays during Rochester’s largest toy train event, RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show and Sale, held Dec. 12 and 13 in the Gordon Field House. The show, in its 10th year, is the primary fundraiser for the RIT Model Railroad Club. Proceeds enable them to repair and add to their layouts. New and vintage trains and parts were available for sale and elaborate settings were on display with moving trains.