Photo Spotlights

Actress and New York Times best-selling author Victoria Rowell discussed the portrayal of women in the media, both positively and negatively, during a talk on March 29. As a woman in the media spotlight, Rowell has firsthand experience with how women are portrayed across various mediums.

Middle- and high-school students from 20 schools across the country competed March 24 for prizes and bragging rights for their schools in the seventh annual RIT National Science Fair for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students.

The Spring Career Fair, which took place March 28, is one of two major employment events held at RIT every year that’s open to RIT students and alumni. Employers are recruiting for co-op and full-time openings. More than 230 companies participated and a record number of more than 2,900 job seekers attended. Companies that participate range from small technology firms to Fortune 500 companies.

Committee members from the women’s and gender studies program in the College of Liberal Arts commemorated Women’s History Month on March 28 by handing out tulips and fair-trade chocolate to the RIT community. The gesture aimed to reclaim commercialized products—flowers as symbols of life, hope and strength, and fair-trade chocolate as a sign of non-exploitative practices. Material related to women’s issues and campus activities and programs was also available. Here, Jasmine Lockwood, a new-media design student, stops to pick up a tulip.

Jason Shanley is a business management student in the E. Philip Saunders College of Business who won a scholarship to RIT after winning first prize in the Young Entrepreneurs Academy Regional “Bright Ideas” competition last May. Shanley is the CEO of UrLocker, which makes a variety-pack of removable, reusable designs for school lockers. His business was featured on BizKid$, a weekly series on PBS/WXXI-TV that teaches kids about money.

The annual RIT egg hunt on March 24 challenged children to find more than 2,000 toy- and candy-filled eggs hidden in the Eastman Kodak Quad. Face painting, paper-bag puppets and popcorn were available.

The Exact Theatre Ensemble, a collection of RIT alumni, performed a staged reading of “Playing with Fire,” written by Swedish author, playwright, poet and novelist August Strindberg. The performance was part of the Strindberg Symposium Centennial Celebration on March 23, which featured lectures and panel discussions sponsored by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, Department of English, Department of Fine Arts, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Foundations Department and the Swedish Institute.

The RIT Pep Band performed in Global Village on March 23. The band plays at all the hockey games as well as other special RIT events. The warm weather prompted an outdoor performance.

RIT students were treated to a southern-themed dinner at Grace Watson Dining Hall on March 20. The meal included gumbo, fried chicken, pork chops, cornbread, blackened tofu and a variety of desserts.

RIT students Abbey Kinney, left, Katie White and Kaylee Martin look at a large millipede during a campus visit from the Seneca Park Zoo on March 21.

RIT honored Steven Morse, assistant vice president of institute audit, compliance and advisement, as this year’s recipient of the Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award. David Kelbe, an imaging science doctoral candidate, received this year’s Bruce R. James ’64 Distinguished Service Award. RIT Vice President Emeritus Alfred Davis started a $50,000 endowment to fund the awards program. Each recipient will have the privilege of designating the endowment income to a beneficiary of his choice. From left, Associate Director for Student and Recent Alumni Programs James Macchiano, RIT President Bill Destler, Kelbe, Morse and Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Mary-Beth Cooper gathered before the March 20 ceremony.

RIT’s women’s hockey team is applying to move to Division I. The team plans to join the College Hockey America conference next season. Women’s hockey would join the men’s hockey team as the only DI college teams in the Rochester area. Here, College Hockey America Commissioner Robert DeGregorio shares the news with RIT Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Mary-Beth Cooper.