Photo Spotlights

More than 4,100 RIT students in the Class of 2021 graduated this weekend. The students wore regalia, walked across a stage, and were acknowledged by administrators for their milestone achievements. Due to state COVID-19 occupancy restrictions, commencement this year was held in small ceremonies, most by college, at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center and Gene Polisseni Center.

Graduates from the Class of 2020 returned to campus on Sunday to participate in ceremonies. They were unable to take part in an in-person commencement last year because of the global pandemic.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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).

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.