Photo Spotlights

Officials including Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai; RIT President David Munson; RIT Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration James Watters; and RIT Dubai President Yousef al Assaf toured RIT Dubai’s state-of-the-art new campus during a grand opening ceremony on Nov. 28. The campus includes a wide range of spaces designed to facilitate instruction, learning communities, research and innovation laboratories for experiential learning, collaborative meeting and events areas, and more.

RIT 365 is a first-year student experience to form connections at RIT and to provide a foundation for the years ahead. In a 365 class, facilitator Laurence Wainwright-Maks led a labyrinth exercise in the Allen Chapel. Walking a labyrinth is a tool for self-awareness and creates a sense of calm.

A palette of autumn colors showed up in gardens and foliage around campus.

RIT Global had a kickoff event for International Education Week with food, games, prizes, and activities. Christopher Ferrari, vice president of Student Government and a third-year marketing and political science double major from Spencerport, N.Y., tests his skills at a curling game.

Bestselling author and entrepreneur Suneel Gupta visited campus Nov. 11 to speak in Saunders College's 2021 Gasser Lecture Series and as the RIT Entrepreneurship Conference keynote. 

RIT's annual Veterans Day Breakfast returned this year featuring a keynote address by Thomas L. Peeples ’94 (mechanical engineering), ’03 MS (professional studies), an RIT alumnus, adjunct faculty member, and active member of the military. The missing man table, also known as a fallen comrade table, is set up in honor of fallen, missing, or imprisoned military service members.

The 2021-2022 Frederick H. Minett Professor Perry Ground, a storyteller from the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, shared stories during Native American Heritage Month.

AdvanceRIT held the event Diwali Celebration: Celebrating RIT’s Faculty Diversity, which featured traditional food and activities in the Student Alumni Union on Nov. 5.

The exhibit “Hostile Terrain 94” consists of 3,200 handwritten toe tags, each representing a person who died in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona attempting to migrate into the U.S.

Haley Indorato, a fourth-year studio art painting student, works on a plein air painting of the  Student Hall for Exploration and Development (the SHED) construction on campus. The landscape painting is a project for Associate Professor Clifford Wun’s class in the School of Art.

Zeta Tau Alpha’s Pinktober fundraiser for breast cancer education and awareness is all October long. Here, they are set up at Global Village.

The Jan Strine Memorial Labyrinth in the RIT/NTID Frisina Quad is surrounded by gardens and benches for reflection. Walking a labyrinth serves as a way to meditate and relax.