Photo Spotlights

The RIT women’s hockey team claimed its first College Hockey America championship Saturday night with a 2-1 victory in double overtime versus Mercyhurst University. The Tigers won the title in just their second season as a Division I program. RIT is ineligible for the NCAA Tournament due to being in a two-year NCAA transitional period after moving up from Division III. “The girls played extremely hard and left it all on the ice to earn this championship,” said RIT head coach Scott McDonald, who has now led his team to three conference championships over the last four seasons. For more on the championship game, go to ritathletics.com.

The 10th annual Tora-Con convention gathered fans of anime, manga, Japanese culture, sci-fi and fantasy for a weekend of panels, performances, concerts, dances, contests and meet-ups on March 8-9. Tora-Con started as a fundraiser for the RIT Anime Club and was mainly focused around the Cosplay Contest, in which participants get creative and dress up as their favorite characters.

Monroe Community College President Anne Kress spoke with members of RIT’s ADVANCE team to talk about how to effectively support and lead organizational change. She met with female STEM faculty from across campus. The March 6 event was hosted by RIT’s Women in Science group.

RIT’s 2014 United Way campaign kicked off March 6 with Tiger Olympics, featuring games, celebrity ice cream scoopers and a prize auction. Pledges can be made online at rit.edu/unitedway.

RIT lecturer Joe Pietruch hopes to bring gamers together with his new video game, Chain Gang Chase. The game challenges two players to share a single controller, letting up to eight people play simultaneously.

Jeff Wagner, center, professor of economics in the College of Liberal Arts, works with students Jonathan Stone and Amelia Rickard to develop strong research skills. Read more about Wagner's plan to cultivate economics research opportunities in Athenaeum.

Keith Delk, a Student Government senator, represents cross-registered deaf and hard-of-hearing students supported through RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. There are 568 such students, and it’s a diverse group, with a number of communication preferences respected on campus.

RIT hockey fans cheered after the men’s hockey team scored the winning goal on March 1. It was the final game at Ritter Arena, the home of the Tigers for 46 years. The team moves into the Gene Polisseni Center for the 2014-15 season.

RIT’s College of Liberal Arts hosted its annual Major, Minor and Immersion Fair Feb. 27 in the SAU Fireside Lounge. Students were able to explore their options and declare academic majors and minors while meeting with faculty program advisers. Here, first-year COLA student Rebekah Geller talks with Erin Winchester about study abroad opportunities.

Thousands of RIT students seeking information which may lead to a co-op or permanent employment went to the RIT Career Fair on Feb. 26, which 248 companies and more than 700 company representatives attended. Here, a line formed for first-time exhibitor Cloudera Government Solutions from Palo Alto, Calif.

Residence Life and RIT Athletics organized a 5K race on Feb. 23. The race was part of FreezeFest, a student festival celebrating winter in Rochester.

The men’s lacrosse team is ranked No. 1 for the first time in the program’s 47-year history with 380 points and all 19 first-place votes, after a thrilling 15-14 come-from-behind overtime win versus top ranked and defending National Champion Stevenson University on Feb. 22.