Photo Spotlights

More than 200 female students in the Rochester City School District visited RIT for Women in Sports Day Feb. 1. The young students, ranging in age from 10-16, were paired up with female RIT students—many of them student-athletes—for an evening of mentoring and celebration. The students were also invited to cheer on the RIT women’s basketball team during their game that evening. The evening was hosted by RIT’s Center for Women and Gender.

The Stephen Neil Cooper Comic Book Collection was donated to RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press. Cooper, an alumnus of RIT, amassed a synchronized collection of 202 comic books that were on candy store racks and newsstands in April 1956.

RIT alumnus Jerry Elman ’77, ’84, owner of Schoen Place Auto in East Rochester, offers female and senior customers an honest place to come for their auto repairs. Elman earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and an MBA.

Rochester performer and storyteller Rafe Martin spoke in Peter Lovenheim’s Narrative Nonfiction class on Jan. 25. He talked about the structure of a story and what is important to include for it to be a successful read. Lovenheim, adjunct professor of English at RIT, is the author of seven books.

Kathy Carcaci, currently RIT’s longest serving staff employee, has been a part of the campus community for 45 years. She has seen RIT transform from a close-knit neighborhood campus in downtown Rochester into the sprawling, state-of-the-art university that it is today.

Fourth-year industrial design students are busy fabricating chairs they designed and created using Wilsonart laminate. The project is part of a partnership with Wilsonart International, spearheaded by RIT professor Josh Owen. Next month, the students’ final chair designs will be juried by international design professionals. The winning student design will be among those featured at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in May in New York City. The top student will win a $1,000 scholarship.

Gerard DeLone, a chocolate lover from Facilities and Management Services, sampled a variety of homemade truffles at the Brick City Catering open house on Jan. 21. Customers ordering Valentine’s Day truffles will be entered into a drawing to win a free truffle-making class with chef Autumn Geer, on right.

One of America’s best known and widely read poets, Nikki Giovanni, gave the keynote address at the Expressions of King’s Legacy event on Jan. 24. She talked about the strength found in communities, social justice, activism and diversity. Earlier in the day, she met with students from the College of Liberal Arts as part of a poetry seminar class.

The Liberal Arts Minor and Concentration Fair on Jan. 21 featured faculty representatives from the more than 40 minors and concentrations offered through the College of Liberal Arts. John Roche, right, associate professor of English, answers questions from Jan Dvorak, a first-year student in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.

Twenty RIT decision makers spent three days and two nights at the RIT Inn & Conference Center, Global Village and Perkins Green apartments for The REAL RIT Challenge, sponsored by Student Government. The challenge was to master campus transportation—learning how to read shuttle bus schedules to arrive on campus on time, and to get to off-campus locations such as Wegmans, Park Point and Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. Here, a group waits to board a bus to take them to their assigned destination on Jan. 20.

Twenty RIT decision makers spent three days and two nights at the RIT Inn & Conference Center, Global Village and Perkins Green apartments for The REAL RIT Challenge, sponsored by Student Government. The challenge was to master campus transportation—learning how to read shuttle bus schedules to arrive on campus on time, and to get to off-campus locations such as Wegmans, Park Point and Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. The group gathered on Jan. 19 to receive information packets and have dinner.

Elizabeth Thabet, a first-year student in CIAS, learns about volunteer opportunities at an event hosted by RIT’s Intervarsity Christian Fellowship on Jan. 18.