Photo Spotlights

  • May 10, 2021

    three students with props pose for a "photo booth" style photo. 5
    two students throwing axes.
    students line up along a table, gathering items to decorate their graduation caps.
    three students holding graduation caps.
    two students throwing axes.

    Grad Palooza, presented by the College Activities Board, was held May 7-8 and featured cap decorating, axe throwing, a photo booth, and other activities.

  • May 2, 2021

    students wearing tradiational African clothing playing drums. 5
    four students wearing traditional African clothing dancing.
    students sitting and standing apart from each other playing instruments.
    students in a row playing steel drums.
    five students playing in a band.

    A spring music festival presented by the College of Liberal Arts Department of Performing Arts on May 2 featured a dozen student groups, including African Drumming, Monday Jazz, and Steelband.

  • April 27, 2021

    four students wearing giant bubbles playing soccer. 6
    students in a band performing on stage.
    student sliding down zip line.
    students performing on stage.
    stage and tables set up in a parking lot.
    student sliding down a zip line.

    Springfest 2021, hosted by the College Activities Board April 23-25, featured giveaways, performances, bubble soccer, food trucks, a zip line, and more.

  • April 23, 2021

    student watering plant 10
    rooftop garden
    Cosplay table
    Cosplay and t-shirt design
    picking plants
    plants in trays
    picking plants
    students at table
    hands with stress ball
    students getting smoothies

    The third Recharge Day featured numerous activities for students to take a break from classwork. Maggie Epure, a second-year accounting student, waters seeds she planted at an activity arranged by RIT Sustainability. Earth Day coincided with Recharge Day this year.

  • April 19, 2021

    hands holding package 4
    two females writing notes
    assembling kits
    student with box on head

    A class of MBA students in Saunders College of Business packaged and delivered hygiene kits to Willow Domestic Violence Shelter last week.

  • April 16, 2021

    students nailing boards 12
    two female students
    hammering boards
    three male students hammer boards
    one female student hammers board
    two male students with hammers
    several people carry a frame
    one female nailing a board
    frames arranged on ground
    a board with writing
    two females write messages
    group of volunteers

    Student volunteers hammered together frames for houses for Flower City Habitat for Humanity as part of Into the ROC's Spring Framing Frenzy. 

  • April 14, 2021

    3 people with awards 4
    two men talking
    people applauding
    two people with award

    The Alfred L. Davis Distinguished Public Service Awards for 2020 and 2021 took place April 13 during a socially distanced ceremony at the RIT Inn & Conference Center. RIT President David Munson, center, presented the 2021 Bruce R. James '64 Distinguished Public Service Award to Bhuvish Mehta, left, a fifth-year computer engineering major from India, and the 2021 Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award to Luane Davis Haggerty, right, principal lecturer in NTID's Performing Arts Department.

  • April 8, 2021

    students making no-sew fleece blankets. 7
    students making no-sew fleece blankets.
    students making no-sew fleece blankets.
    hands with blanket edge.
    students making no-sew fleece blankets.
    male student with blanket
    pile of blankets

    RIT students from Circle K International make no-sew fleece blankets during Service Week on campus.

  • April 5, 2021

    students working on film set with plants and flowers. 5
    students working on film set with plants and flowers.
    students working on film set with plants and flowers.
    three students using video equipment.
    group shot of student who worked on film shoot.

    Students in Assistant Professor Ambarien Alqadar’s Contemporary Film Practice class worked together to produce a sci-fi film in the MAGIC Spell Studios soundstage late last month. The film is based on a short story, Sultana’s Dream, a feminist utopian tale written in 1905 by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a Muslim feminist, writer, and social reformer from British India (present-day Bangladesh).

  • April 1, 2021

    students get cookies 7
    students get cookies
    student with cookie
    student gets cookie
    students get cookies
    student gets cookie
    hand with cookie

    Cookies are given to students as they leave their weekly COVID-19 Tiger Testing. The cookies are a thank you to students for all they have done to help keep the campus safe. 

  • March 29, 2021

    people at rally 7
    Munson at podium
    student speaker
    students at rally
    student speaking
    student at rally
    performance on stage

    A Black Lives Matter rally, complete with speakers, music, poetry, and other performances, was held March 27 in U-Lot.

  • March 25, 2021

    student walking a labyrinth. 6
    woman at table.
    student playing steel drums
    student playing steel drums.
    students near tree.
    student tasting syrup from small cup.

    During the Recharge Day on March 24, students could learn how to make maple syrup, play some tunes on steel drums, and walk a labyrinth. There were dozens of activities to attend online, in-person, and as drop-ins. The day gave students a break from classes and studying. Here, Henry Yaeger, a science, technology and public policy graduate student, walks the labyrinth in the Fireside Lounge. The exercise is used as a stress reliever and meditation tool.