Photo Spotlights

RIT/NTID’s annual Apple Festival, held Aug. 28 in the Frisina Quad, featured food, games and club information tables and was attended by students, alumni, faculty, staff and administrators.

Adam Weaver ’15 (international and global studies) was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army during a ceremony on Aug. 28. He was sworn in by Army ROTC Lt. Col. Christopher Otero. Weaver returned to campus for the event, which was witnessed by family members.

Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority held their annual Teeter-Totter fundraiser this week for the Heroes to Heroes Foundation.

The Share a Coke Tour stopped by the Gene Polisseni Center Aug. 27. Students and other RIT community members lined up to personalize mini-cans of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero.

Chaplain Kevin Eng handed out Popsicles for the Center for Religious Life’s annual Popsicle giveaway Aug. 25. In total, nine chaplains gave away 650 treats in 40 minutes. They also donated 60 to the children at Margaret’s House. To learn more about the Center for Religious Life, go to www.rit.edu/studentaffairs/religion.

The MOSAIC Center (Making Our Space An Inclusive Community) welcomed students at an ice cream social Aug. 26. They hosted the event along with the Office for Diversity & Inclusion, the Center for Campus Life and the McNair Scholars program. The MOSAIC Center is located on the second floor of the SAU, room 2510. For more information, go to rit.edu/diversity/mosaic-center.

Students throng the quarter mile on the first day of classes. With a record number of freshmen and transfer students, RIT’s total enrollment of over 18,500 students is the highest in history.

The newest class of Rochester City Scholars were welcomed to RIT in a ceremony Aug. 21 at Liberty Hill, President Bill Destler’s residence. This year, 18 students from the Rochester City School District are part of the sixth freshman class entering the program. The students are graduates of East High School, School of the Arts, World of Inquiry, Rochester STEM High School, Rochester Early College International High School, Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School and James Monroe High School.

From left, RIT/A.U.K. President Winfred Thompson, RIT President Bill Destler and RIT Provost Jeremy Haefner signed a renewal of the RIT/A.U.K. partnership. RIT’s partnership with the American University in Kosovo Foundation began in 2003 and currently enrolls more than 550 undergraduate students in degree programs offered by the RIT School of Individualized Studies.

President Bill Destler welcomed back faculty and staff with his annual “Address to the Community” on Aug. 21. Destler said RIT is “on the cusp of greatness” and cited record-high applications and enrollment, more research and private investment, and more opportunities for growth with the Clinical Health Sciences Center, MAGIC Spell Studios and the creation of an advanced manufacturing photonics center in Rochester.

The Convocation for New Students and Families welcomed them to the RIT community. Keynote speaker was Joe Williams, a criminal justice lecturer in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, who won the Outstanding Teaching Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty this year.

First-year students Georgina Buckingham and Ryan Ostler march in the Tiger Walk to the Convocation for New Students and Families in the Gordon Field House. A record 2,940 freshmen have enrolled this year. The new RIT Faculty & Staff Alumni Chapter co-hosted the event with the Center for Orientation & Transition and the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. There are more than 1,400 RIT alumni employed by the university that are a part of the new chapter. The alumni chapter will be coordinating special events and social activities in the future and picked Tiger Walk to kick off the academic year.