Photo Spotlights

115 students, faculty and staff took a few minutes to do a cheek swab and register for possible bone marrow and stem cell transplants through the Gift of Life organization. The RIT Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), along with RIT Men’s Lacrosse goalie Walker Hare, sponsored the event Oct. 1. Hare was a match and donated bone marrow in Oct. 2018.

Sarah Kleinberger, a first-year industrial engineering student from Liberty, N.Y., does a cheek swab at the bone marrow screening drive on campus Oct. 1. More than 100 students, faculty and staff took a few minutes to do a cheek swab and register for possible bone marrow and stem cell transplants through the Gift of Life organization. The RIT Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), along with RIT men’s lacrosse goalie Walker Hare, sponsored the event. Hare was a match and donated bone marrow in October 2018.

Photographer Denis Defibaugh will discuss his experience in Greenland and his exhibit in University Gallery on Oct. 3, 5:00 p.m. His book, North by Nuuk: Greenland after Rockwell Kent, will be available from RIT Press November 2019. https://www.rit.edu/press/north-by-nuuk

RIT GEAR UP and several Rochester City schools celebrated National GEAR UP Week with pep rallies, building enthusiasm for the final year in the college-and-career readiness program administered by RIT's K-12 University Center. Seniors at Monroe High School collected RIT swag to wear to the pep rally.

Students lined up outside Gordon Field House at the start of the Fall Career Fair this morning. More than 260 employing organizations with more than 900 recruiter representatives seeking RIT students and graduates are attending the fair, held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. Representatives from more than 100 of the companies will remain in town to interview students Thursday.

Construction is underway for a new playground at Margaret’s House childcare facility on campus. The play areas will include a cycle track, water runnel, hill slide, birds nest swing, monkey village climber, sandbox and gathering area. The play environment is designed to encourage growth and discovery. Completion is expected by late fall.

ASL performance group Dangerous Signs presented at the final weekend of the Fringe Festival Sept. 20. Here, they're signing the word "tigers". RIT students, faculty and staff were part of the 12-day KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, which ran through Sept. 21. The free events were held at the Little Theatre and Café as well as RIT City Art Space downtown.

Dave Brault, RIT’s hydroponic farm manager, harvests greens from inside a 40-foot container with plants that produce bibb lettuce, salanova lettuce, basil, cilantro, parsley, kale, swiss chard, tatosi, mizuna and arugula. The farm, located behind the Student Alumni Union, is housed in an upcylced shipping container that uses innovative climate control technology to create the perfect growing environment 365 days a year.

Hundreds of students got dirty on Saturday to raise money for Hillside Family of Agencies at the 24th annual Mud Tug. The event is put on by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.

Dejan Pejovic, adjunct professor for Foundations Drawing 1, took his class outdoors to draw perspectives of RIT buildings. Here, he advises third-year new media student Mesha Johnson.

Lizzy Carr, a fourth-year museum studies student from Northport, NY, describes some of the items from the RIT Archives to students. The event, part of New Student Orientation, showcased interesting artifacts and treasures from RIT's past.

Douglas Melton, program director of the Kern Family Foundation, participated in a KEEN Engineering Faculty Teaching Circle as part of his visit to RIT on Sept. 16 & 17. RIT recently became a partner in the KEEN Network, a national partnership of universities that come together to advance engineering education—developing graduates who are technically prepared, understand societal changes and strategically seek opportunities to improve upon these changes. Melton was the keynote speaker for the annual Eugene H. Fram Signature Lecture on Critical Thinking. His talk,“POWERFUL STUFF: An entrepreneurial mindset built upon critical thinking” was a discussion of the advantages of having an entrepreneurial mindset where problem-solving skills and an eye for impact on real world problems can create value. More than 400 faculty, staff and students and the general public attended the lecture.