Photo Spotlights

The School for American Crafts BFA Exhibition will be showcased at Gallery r, 100 College Ave., from May 2 to 11. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9:30 p.m. May 3, during First Friday—Rochester’s monthly citywide gallery night that encourages collaboration between nonprofit, university and commercial art venues.

Rob Aldi showcased his composite material products, including turbine blades used to generate wind power, at last year’s Imagine RIT festival.

The 3-foot-tall technology wonder walking the halls of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering is TigerBot III, RIT’s humanoid, autonomous robot. TigerBot III was developed by the engineering senior design project team of Chris Atwood, Graeme Buckley, Rachel Lucas, Nick Towle and Sasha Yevsitifeev, with mentoring by faculty advisers Ferat Sahin and George Slack. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=49918.

Whether they are mentoring their peers, flipping tables to de-stress during exam week or building projects, the Society of Software Engineers offers activities for everyone. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=49931. The group’s next table-flipping event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 9 by the Tiger Statue.

The RIT College Activities Board hosted SpringFest April 25-28. The sold-out Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center was the closing event.

Join the RIT/NTID Performing Arts players for their production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Jim Orr. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. April 25, 26 and 27 and May 3 and 4, with a matinee at 2 p.m. April 28. For more information, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49912.

Kenneth Williams, left, presented his Persian Lime Chicken Burgers to Elizabeth Olsson ’95 during his product development class. Students are using olive oils and vinegars provided by Flower City Olive Oil, a company co-owned by Olsson. The students will provide Olsson with recipes that the company will post on their website.

Rochester Mayor and RIT trustee Tom Richards spoke with RIT students April 23 in an informal setting to discuss concerns and ideas about major city community-development projects. Information from the meeting, arranged as part of former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson’s community economic development course, will be used in project reports the class is preparing on University of Rochester’s College Town and Brooks Landing, High Falls, the Midtown area of downtown and the JOSANA neighborhood in northwest Rochester.

Richard Doolittle, vice dean of the College of Health Sciences and Technology, has a plan to help the college define itself and move its programs forward.

Heel Violence, a one-mile walk on the RIT campus on April 21, was held to support victims and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. Proceeds from the event went to Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims.

The College of Liberal Arts honored its students April 19 with the presentation of the 2013 Henry and Mary Kearse Student Honors Awards for excellence in writing in liberal arts coursework. Faculty members recommended students based on writing assignments done in individual classes. The awards were created in 1980 thanks to a donation from Henry J. Kearse and his wife, Mary, a longtime member of RIT’s Nathaniel Rochester Society. Pictured are (front row, from left) Douglas Strouth, Daniel Corrigan (Akyuz-Ozmen Award for Women’s and Gender Studies), Audrey DiPaola, Breanne Kisselstein (McKenzie Endowed Writing Prize), Mikaela Cornacchio Cochran. In the back row, from left, are Margaret Stockman, College of Liberal Arts Dean James Winebrake, Hanna Stoehr, Ryleigh Bullock, Stephanie Whittemore and William Hamre. Missing from the photo are John Bowers, Kate Macken, Nikolas Cairns, Eric Kasperek and Kristen Cummings.

Christar Wan, a fourth-year film student in the School of Film and Animation, won the audience choice for the best short film at the High Falls Film Festival April 20. Her film, Seek, about a man’s return home after 10 years in prison, was one of 11 short films shown by RIT students at the festival. During the four-day festival, 27 short films and 22 feature films were viewed.