Photo Spotlights

First place in RIT’s Tiger Tank competition went to ShoRaq, one of the five teams competing. ShoRaq is an intuitive interface that allows users to purchase specialty clothing from merchandise seen in their favorite shows and movies. The winning team received a $2,000 cash award and a scholarship to attend one of the graduate degree programs at Saunders College of Business. Team Body Cool earned second place for a cooling device worn by people with multiple sclerosis to discreetly control their symptoms during warm weather.

Robert Latorre was the keynote speaker at the daylong 12th annual RIT Entrepreneurs Conference. Taking a bite out of the conference was Tiger Tank, a competition in which five student teams competed for nearly $5,000 in cash prizes and a full scholarship to attend one of the graduate programs at Saunders College of Business. The event is hosted by RIT’s Albert J. Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

More than 100 printing professionals and enthusiasts came to RIT Oct. 22-24 for the 40th annual American Printing History Association conference. Hosted by RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection, the conference allowed participants to investigate the connection between hand-operated printing presses in use from the 15th to 19th centuries, and today’s work in the history of the book and fine press printing. Attendees used some of the Cary Collection’s 18 historical printing presses, including the Kelmscott/Goudy Albion iron hand press. Here, Marnie Powers-Torres, from the University of Utah Red Butte Press, demonstrates printing on the Kelmscott-Goudy press.

More than 100 printing professionals and enthusiasts came to RIT Oct. 22-24 for the 40th annual American Printing History Association conference. Hosted by RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection, the conference allowed participants to investigate the connection between hand-operated printing presses in use from the 15th to 19th centuries, and today’s work in the history of the book and fine press printing. Attendees used some of the Cary Collection’s 18 historical printing presses, including the Kelmscott/Goudy Albion iron hand press. Here, Chad Johnson, from the San Francisco Center for the Book, prints on an Albion press once owned by John DePol.

Amy Vernon, social-media content strategist, was the inaugural speaker for the 2015-2016 MAGIC Speaker Series. Vernon, who spoke to faculty, staff and students about social-media etiquette on Oct. 22, has been inducted into the New Jersey Social Media Hall of Fame and was named the 15th most influential women in tech on Twitter by Business Insider and Peer Index.

Representatives from more than 45 local and national corporations, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations met with nearly 400 deaf and hard-of-hearing students—who are also prospective employees—at the 15th annual job fair on Oct. 21 at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Samuel Sandoval, right, a 2013 information technology graduate from Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, returned for the second time as a recruiter for Harris Corp. Here, he meets with Daniel Mooney, an information technology master’s student from McLean, Va.

Commuter Spirit Week kicked-off Oct. 19. The Center for Campus Life sponsors a week full of activities, giveaways, food, and demonstrations from Oct. 19-23. Here, Kim Ross, from Peace Partners, gave 10-minute massages to students during one of the events.

RIT offers students a ride to the Rochester public market on Saturdays, with pick up and drop off at Grace Watson Circle. The market has over 300 vendors on Saturdays, in addition to live music, cafes, ethnic shops and local produce. The service is sponsored by RIT Student Wellness. For details and upcoming dates: http://bit.ly/1KOrDjF

Assistant Professor Owen Gottlieb, center, leads the MAGIC Center’s Religion, Culture, and Policy Initiative, which cultivates research that focuses on games, religious literacy, the acquisition of cultural practices and the implications for policy and politics. Here, Gottlieb works with graduate students Lakshminarayanan Vijayaraghavan, left, and Alex Lobl on the initiative project, Codename: Purple, a tabletop card-to-mobile strategy game currently in development that teaches literacy in medieval religious legal systems. Beginning with a medieval Jewish law code and built modularly to incorporate Muslim and potentially other neighboring sacred law systems, the game will provide live cases modeling religious systems for communal cooperation and collaboration. For more information, go to magic.rit.edu/rcp. 

RIT/NTID’s Dyer Art Center was presented with a new work of art on Oct. 16. The “Stronger Than Ever” serigraph by artist Rick Rush, shown here, was commissioned by DEAF, Inc. of St. Louis.

The Rochester Regional Health Family Medicine practice opened its doors in RIT’s Clinical Health Sciences Center on Oct. 19. The practice provides primary care with same-day scheduling for RIT faculty, staff and dependents, and community members. It also houses a laboratory blood-draw station. The RIT Student Health Center will remain the primary care facility for undergraduate and graduate students. Shown here are Dr. Eric Wilcox, right, and Ashley Goergen, practice manager.

The Brick City 5K Fun Run and Walk on Oct. 18 was one of the final events of Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend. It was sponsored by the Center for Residence Life and the Center for Intercollegiate Athletics.