Photo Spotlights

RIT’s Freezefest weekend featured sarcastic comedian Joel McHale, best known as host of The Soup and his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom Community.

Students celebrated winter at the annual FreezeFest celebration on campus Feb. 1-3. Festivities included outdoor musical performances at Global Village. RIT’s all-female a cappella group, Encore, sang on Feb. 2.

Jeff Culver ’82 (criminal justice), director of security for the World Bank Group and the 2013 distinguished alumnus of the year from RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, leads a breakout session with students during the Conable International Career Development Seminar Feb. 1. The seminar was created to engage students in researching careers with international opportunities. Other seminar presenters included representatives from the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, the Democracy Program from The Carter Center, and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. State Department.

RIT encouraged students to come out and celebrate winter’s arrival by participating in the annual FreezeFest celebration on campus Feb. 1-3. One of the festivities included carriage rides to various stops on campus.

RIT encouraged students to come out and celebrate winter’s arrival by participating in the annual FreezeFest celebration on campus Feb. 1-3. First-year students Samantha Miller and Kyle Laidlaw check out their snow globe paperweight with their photo inside.

RIT’s annual winter event, Freezefest, included a chance to play with puppies at the PuppyFest tent. Here, Brianna Bonanni, a third-year student in the College of Science, gets some love from one of the pups.

President Bill Destler addressed the RIT community Jan. 29 in Ingle Auditorium on the university’s cost-containment strategies as part of the Open Administration Series. “Our overall fiscal health enables us to explore new educational paradigms and possible cost-cutting and revenue generation models from a position of strength,” he said. Slides from the presentation are available on the president’s website in the Open Administration Series section. A recorded copy of the address will be captioned and added to the president’s website later this week.

Artist Alec Hazlett ’71, ’72 sells his pottery in Shop One2 on the RIT campus. Shop One2 is a fine art and craft gallery in RIT’s Global Village which features hand-made, one-of-a-kind artwork by RIT affiliated artists including students, faculty and alumni.

David Hunke, former president and publisher of USA Today and current chief strategy officer for digerati, Inc., spoke to RIT students and faculty as well as a contingent from Syracuse University about the future of journalism. Hunke was one of several journalism experts on campus Jan. 29 for the conference “What’s Next? Journalism’s Leading Questions: The Future of Collaboration and Innovation.”

Three Mo’ Tenors performed during the 2013 Expressions of King’s Legacy program at RIT on Jan. 28. The group has toured the world performing classical operatic selections as well as jazz, blues, gospel, spirituals and popular songs.

Julianne Malveaux, considered one of the leading experts in racial and cultural economics, discussed how race, gender and culture are shaping public opinion in the 21st century at the 2013 Expressions of King’s Legacy program at RIT on Jan. 28. An educator, author, activist and civic leader, Malveaux has held positions in numerous women’s, civil rights and policy organizations. Her commentary has been seen on multiple news channels including CNN and MSNBC, and her syndicated columns are published in USA Today, Essence magazine and The Progressive.

An exhibition of creative works by NTID arts and imaging studies faculty is on view in the NTID Dyer Arts Center through Feb. 22.