Photo Spotlights

Saunders College of Business hosted the 6th annual Power Your Potential Women’s Leadership Conference on March 13 with keynote speaker Kathleen Buse, an RIT alumna from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Buse is the founder and CEO of Advancing Women in STEM, and currently works at Case Western Reserve University.

The impact of drug-resistant “superbugs” on public health was the topic of a program held at RIT on March 12 and hosted by RIT’s College of Health Sciences and Technology, Rochester Regional Health System and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. Here, Slaughter and Jeff Lodge, associate professor in the Thomas Gosnell School of Life Sciences in RIT’s College of Science, chat at the reception.

The RIT women’s hockey team advanced to the NCAA Division I Tournament for the first time as a Division I opponent. The RIT community held a celebratory send-off with the Pep Band, RITchie, speakers and cake. Goalie Ali Binnington is seen here hoisting the College Hockey America championship trophy. The team will play at top-seed University of Minnesota on March 14 in the National Quarterfinals at 5 p.m.

Fourth-year journalism students Will Hirsh and Joan McDonough participated in a pie-throwing fundraiser for Encore. The all-female a cappella group is having their annual concert, Bellacappella, on March 14 at 8 p.m. in Webb Auditorium.

RIT’s 2015 United Way campaign kicked off March 11 with the Heroes in Action and Auction event. Activities included games, celebrity ice cream scoopers and a prize auction. Here, Willy Davis, right, plays Batcave Skeeball with Demelash Alemu, both from Facilities Management Services. Daniel Stafford, left, assistant dean for academic services in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, looks on. Pledges can be made online at rit.edu/unitedway.

As part of a campus visit the week of March 2, James Borders ’09 (fine arts studio) erected a sculpture with four of his students from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, where Borders serves as an assistant professor of art. The 14-foot sculpture of welded steel currently stands at its temporary location between Booth Hall and the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science until it moves to a more permanent location. A number of Borders’ students have gone on to attend the School of Art at RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. From left, Nathan Engel, James Borders, Justin DeLa Rosa, Patrick Cantu and Tonee Viera.

The RIT Singers rehearse twice a week in preparation for upcoming concerts. Their first concert this semester is March 14 at 7:30 p.m. at The Hochstein School of Music in downtown Rochester. They’ll perform in a combined concert with the Chamber Singers, RIT Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, RIT African Drum Ensemble and West Irondequoit High School Chorale and Jazz Choir.

RIT hosted the 12th annual Information Security Talent Search cybersecurity competition March 6-8. During the student-run competition, student teams must defend a computer network, while other teams of students and professionals attack. To read more about the competition, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=51374.

Tasha Gooding, a fifth-year psychology student, gets some help from her friend Demetrius McNeil at the College of Liberal Arts ice skating party on March 7 at Ritter Arena. The arena offers open skate from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. Go to rit.edu/fa/arenas/ritter-arena/public-skate for fees and additional hours.

The RIT women’s hockey team made history by winning the College Hockey America Championship for the second straight year and advanced to the NCAA Division I Tournament for the first time as a Division I opponent. RIT will play at top-seed University of Minnesota on March 14 in the National Quarterfinals at 5 p.m. Members of the Tigers pose with the RIT Pep Band and Corner Crew after their dramatic 2-1 double overtime win over Syracuse in the CHA Championship at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., March 7.

RIT’s National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) hosted Open Mic Night on Feb. 13. College of Imaging Arts and Sciences students Carly Kraft, left, and Steph Kotula performed during the annual fundraiser. The next open mic opportunity is at 8 p.m. March 6 at Beanz, hosted by the College Activities Board.

State officials including Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Assemblyman Harry Bronson, standing next to Hochul, helped RIT President Bill Destler and Ryne Raffaelle, RIT vice president for research and associate provost, cut the ribbon on RIT’s Battery Prototyping Center. RIT offered tours and hosted nearly 50 industry executives for a workshop on how they can use the new center, a $1.5 million state-of-the-art facility that will conduct research and work with companies in this rapidly growing local industry.