Photo Spotlights

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.

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 cultural organizations of RIT educate and entertain audience members through dance, fashion shows and singing at Global Union’s Unification on Feb 22. Global Union is a student organization that represents international students and cultural organizations at RIT.

Comedian John Oliver highlighted the FreezeFest weekend on Feb. 22. Oliver is best known for his role as writer and correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Opening for Oliver was Brooks Wheelan of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The annual event celebrated the winter season with more than 30 activities on campus.

Gregory Heyworth, director of The Lazarus Project and the featured speaker for the College of Liberal Arts’ Digital Humanities Speaker Series, spent some time on campus with students and visiting the Cary Graphic Arts Collection prior to his Feb. 20 talk. His talk addressed the latest spectral imaging techniques used by scientists at The Lazarus Project to restore illegible documents that were formerly thought to be lost to history.

RIT MAGIC Center Director Andrew Phelps unveils details of the AT&T Rochester Civic App Challenge at a news conference Feb. 20, joined by, from left, State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle; Neil Giacobbi, AT&T public affairs director for New York State and Metro New York City; and RIT President Bill Destler.

The Gene Polisseni Center construction is progressing inside. The arena will be the home of the men's and women's hockey teams and is expected to be open for play in fall 2014. The women's team hopes to sell out its final regular-season home game at Ritter on Friday. Tickets are available at the Gordon Field House Box Office, by phone at 585-475-4121 or online at www.rittickets.com.

The RIT Leadership Institute & Community Service Center hosted the Spring Community Service Fair on Feb. 19. Local nonprofit agencies provided information on their services and volunteer opportunities. Here, third-year computer science student Ryan Serazin signed up for an April cleanup event for the Monroe County Parks.

RIT students Tyler Ashlin and Elizabeth Murphy waited in a long line Feb. 18 to get their FreezeFest sweatshirts. There will be more giveaways during the winter weekend along with entertainment, a 5K run, sledding, ice sculpture and more. RIT’s 5th Annual FreezeFest is Feb. 21-23.

Joe Vicario—affectionately known as Part-time Joe—is a third-year applied computer technology student in RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. For the past three hockey seasons, Vicario has helped in all aspects of the men’s and women’s programs, from hanging uniforms to cleaning locker rooms to coordinating pre-game meals.

RIT computer science student Zach Lauzon plays pool with some friends in RITchie’s game room in Gibson Hall over the weekend.

Students were treated to a special Valentine’s Day lunch at Gracie’s on Feb. 14. The meal included various filled raviolis, chicken with cherry sauce, strawberry orange pasta, double stuffed pizza and soups. A variety of decadent desserts finished the lunch. An accordion player and a magician entertained.