Photo Spotlights

Nicole Howley, a fourth year public policy student in the College of Liberal Arts, spends a lot of her time helping other students successfully make a successful transition to college. As a College of Liberal Arts peer mentor and student orientation volunteer, Howley finds joy in helping new students navigate their futures.

Employers from all over the country were represented at the NTID Job Fair Oct. 29, seeking to fill co-ops and permanent jobs in engineering, business, finance and more. From left, Greg Pollock COLA ’12 and Bradley Frank GCCIS ’13, representatives from Dow Chemical Co., based in Midland, Mich., talk to Joshua Aziz at the event.

The Construct at RIT is the new student makerspace, located on the fourth floor (room 4190) of Institute Hall. Machine, software and electronic development tools are available for hobbyists to cut, sculpt, weld, print—turning their ideas into reality. Use of the supervised lab is free and open to all RIT students, alumni, faculty and staff. Here, a student works with an input device for video games.

Five companies - All Access LLC., BlackBox Biometrics, ClearCove Syetems, ThirtySix Software and Darkwind Media - graduated from RIT’s Venture Creations business incubator. Todd Bernhard, right, and Ron Von Perlstein, center, founders of All Access, explain their app that features restaurants and other retail businesses.

The 17th annual Benefits Fair featured representatives from various organizations, raffles and chair massages Oct. 28 in the SAU Fireside Lounge. Here, Karel Shapiro from Academic Affairs gathered information from Wegmans pharmacist Brooke Lowry and pharmacy intern Aaron Schmerbeck. The fair continues until 3 p.m. today.

There was lots of love at the Bow Wow Wellness event. The Center for Student Wellness arranged for the therapy dogs’ visit to campus as a stress reduction activity on Oct. 23. Research indicates that pet therapy improves psychological well-being and self-esteem. Here, RIT student Craig Mills gets a lick from Savvy, a 4 1/2 year-old Havanese. The next chance to see the dogs is Nov. 13, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Fireside Lounge.

One of the highlights of RIT’s 11th annual Entrepreneurs Conference was Tiger Tank, where teams of RIT students competed for cash prizes in front of a panel of judges. The inspirational hub and day of learning also featured keynote speaker Ted Dziuba ’06 (computational mathematics), co-founder of Milo.com.

Fourth-year film and animation student Emily DeVault’s Wiggin’ Out was one of eight films created by RIT women from the School of Film and Animation shown at the High Falls Film Festival Oct. 25. The festival celebrates independent female filmmakers, directors and writers.

The RIT MAGIC Center welcomed back alumna Anna Sweet, head of general business development at VALVE, on Oct. 24. She kicked off this year’s speaker series with her talk, “Preparing for A Career in Video Games: The Classes I Wish I Had Taken.” Sweet ’04 (computer science) joined Valve in 2008 after working at Microsoft Games Studios and MySpace/Fox Interactive. Her work with VALVE has been featured in Forbes, The Escapist, IGN, TechCrunch, ArsTechnica, Kotaku and numerous other tech news sites.

There was lots of love at the Bow Wow Wellness event. The Center for Student Wellness arranged for the therapy dogs’ visit to campus as a stress reduction activity on Oct. 23. Research indicates that pet therapy improves psychological well-being and self-esteem. The next chance to see the dogs is Nov. 13, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Fireside Lounge.

Dan Roth, professor in the computer science department at the Beckman Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is known internationally for his research in machine learning and natural language understanding, and the connection to the broader field of intelligent computing. He spoke with a group of RIT students on Oct. 23 about what some of the challenges are for making future advances in machine learning, in the context of automated natural language understanding. He was also the featured speaker for the Distinguished Computational Linguistics Lecture sponsored by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts and the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.

Students test out interactive science exhibits during Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend. In addition, the College of Science offered lectures and a reception.