Photo Spotlights

The RIT women’s hockey team advanced to the 2011 NCAA Division III Championship game after defeating Middlebury 5-2 on March 18.

For the first time in its program history, the RIT women’s hockey team will compete in the 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championships, held March 18 and 19. To gear up for the weekend, RIT hosted a rally for the team March 16 at Global Village.

The annual United Way kickoff began with a Carnival on Campus and prize auction on March 16 in the Student Alumni Union lobby. Lea Michel, assistant professor in chemistry, succeeded in balancing apples at one of the game tables.

Steve Carpenter and Adam Frank discussed their collaboration and the union between art and science on March 15. Frank, shown here, is an astrophysicist and Carpenter is an artist. “Carpenter’s paintings incorporate the imagery of the Hubble Telescope and scientific formulas contributed by Frank,” says Alan Singer, associate professor at RIT’s School of Art, which sponsored the event.

An RIT research team has proven the existence of stable optical lift—the use of a beam of light to move and manipulate particles. Pictured are team members Timothy Peterson, a master’s student in computer science and Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, a doctoral student in imaging science.

Students, faculty and staff—including Mark Leonardo, a third-year packaging science major—participated March 14 in the popular PB Jam charity event, sponsored by RIT Hillel. Over 2,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were assembled and delivered to five local shelters.

Ryan Buckley, chief of operations for RIT Ambulance, and Tim Keady, associate director of the Student Health Center, far right, led an RIT delegation on March 8 in presenting a voluntary $5,000 contribution on behalf of the university to Henrietta Ambulance. RIT Ambulance, which is a student-run Emergency Medical Services organization, works in close partnership with members of the town’s ambulance corps. Currently about a dozen RIT alumni volunteer with Henrietta Ambulance.

Students in RIT’s packaging science program found several viable solutions for decreasing the amount of lead found in popular reusable grocery bags. The students’ data showed that several of the bags had just over the allowable 100 parts per million of lead; one company had nine times the acceptable levels.

Shanty Town is a fundraiser and service event to benefit House of Mercy, a Rochester homeless shelter. Brothers of APO Xi Zeta lived in cardboard boxes by the Tiger statue March 7-11 to raise awareness about homelessness and hunger. From left, Chris Tarantino, Richard Latham and Alexa Seidner huddle under a blanket by the structure.

RIT’s Week of Women is a series of week-long events celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. It is also an opportunity to help students, faculty and staff find out what clubs and services are available on campus for women. Here, Silvia Benso, professor of philosophy, hands out tulips during an information fair on March 8.

Golan Levin, artist, performer, composer and engineer, is a leader in the use of human-computer interaction to infuse art and design with new forms of reactive expression. Levin highlighted humans’ creative relationship with machines, using work from his online, installation and performance media, during a March 8 presentation, “Interactive Art and Speculative Human-Computer Interaction.” It was part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s “Visionaries in Motion IV” speaker series. In conjunction with the talk, Levin hosted two workshops focused on art and performance on March 9.

RIT’s Week of Women, March 7–11, celebrated International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Students, faculty and staff also learned about clubs and services available on campus for women. Participants learned traditional henna body painting before a viewing of the film Eat, Pray, Love on March 7.