Photo Spotlights

More than 250 employers met with RIT students and alumni at the 2014 Fall Career Fair. Julien Eid, a third-year student in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, works as an intern at Cloudera and represented the company at the fair.

RIT President Bill Destler on the banjo, accompanied by his spouse, vocalist Rebecca Johnson, are part of the “Fringe benefits” as RIT joined artistic forces with a variety of businesses and cultural organizations for the 2014 First Niagara Fringe Festival.

RIT’s School for American Crafts sold its unique hand-blown glass pumpkins and gourds during the 10th annual Glass Pumpkin Patch fundraiser Sept. 27. Proceeds from the sale benefited the Visiting Artists Series for the RIT glass program as well as RIT Women’s Council scholarships.

The RIT women’s soccer team tallied two second-half goals en route to a 2-1 come-from-behind win over Nazareth College Sept. 24 at Tiger Stadium. The team returns to action on Sept. 27 when the Tigers open up Liberty League play with a home match against Clarkson University at 3 p.m. at Tigers Stadium.

Anthropologist Genevieve Bell, Intel’s “secret weapon,” was the guest speaker at the third annual Eugene H. Fram Applied Critical Thinking lecture on Sept. 23. Bell is vice president and director of user experience for Intel Labs, the company’s research arm. An authority on the intersection of culture and technology, and one of the most influential women in the technology sector, Bell discussed “Making Life: A Prehistory of Robots and its Importance for Metacognition, Society and Biopolitical Future.”

The new Steelcase Learning Innovation Classroom (SLIC) opened Sept. 24 in George Eastman Hall. Students, faculty and staff tested out the multimodal learning experience in this interactive new facility. The classroom features moveable furniture that allows for quick reconfiguration and group work, high-tech interactive white boards and large monitors around the room.

First-year computer engineering technology student Dean Kouroupus of the RIT men’s soccer team goes up for a loose ball against SUNY Cortland at Tiger Stadium Sept. 13. The Tigers ended up losing 1-0 in double overtime.

Students in David Sluberski’s sound class test out audio using the Sentinel location. The exercise is capturing sounds that aren’t normally heard.

One of RIT’s a cappella groups, Vocal Accent, performed at the Little Theatre during the third annual First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival Sept. 21. For a schedule of additional RIT Fringe events, go to www.rit.edu/fringefest.

RIT students participate in Mud Tug 2014, the 19th annual tug-of-war tournament held behind Grace Watson Hall on Sept. 20. All proceeds from the event, hosted by Phi Kappa Psi and Zeta Tau Alpha, were donated to Hillside Children’s Foundation through the RIT United Way Campaign.

A young RIT hockey fan had his T-shirt signed by Alex Perron-Fontaine at the Gene Polisseni Center opening Sept. 18. RIT President Bill Destler, members of the Polisseni family, Tom Golisano and Steve and Vicki Schultz participated in the dedication ceremony, along with men’s head coach Wayne Wilson, women’s head coach Scott McDonald, team captains, the Corner Crew and Ritchie. Festivities included self-guided tours, open skate and RIT hockey trivia. For more on the arena, go to rit.edu/news/polisseni.php.

Rachel Triassi, a fourth-year student in the physician assistant program, conducts research to improve health care delivery in Jacmel, Haiti. She visited the country with a volunteer team of RIT students led by certified physician assistant and RIT assistant professor John Oliphant.