Photo Spotlights

RIT’s performance race teams—Baja, Formula, e-snowmobile and e-motorcycle—were unveiled on April 27 during Imagine RIT. Despite the snow, the teams displayed sleek new designs in preparation for this spring and summer’s competition season. RIT will host the Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge June 6- 9 at the university. 

Intramurals set up a canoe battleship tournament in the Field House competition pool April 28. Teams of four people in a canoe with buckets try to fill the other canoes and sink them. 

Kwaku Alston (’94 photo illustration) talks with students about their work and the evolution of his photography career during a group meeting in the MAGIC Center. Alston is at RIT for the Futurists Symposium at 11:00 a.m., MAGIC Center 2180 during Imagine RIT. The talk is moderated by the Democrat & Chronicle’s Virginia Butler and features Melanie Shapiro ’07, '09, CEO & Co-founder of Token; Tom Connor '11, VP Creative Marketing, The Walt Disney Company; Kwaku Alston '94, Photographer & Director; and Brandon Hudson, CEO of Seerwise.

Emely Pacheco, right, a first-year business management major from Delaware, takes a selfie showing a flowering spring tree at NTID with Andrea Miranda, a first-year 3D graphic technology student from California.

Stephen Ferm, a fifth-year electrical engineering technology major from New Jersey, plays drums at the debut performance of the RIT Steelband Ensemble in the Fireside Lounge.

Undergraduate students from universities in the Northeast competed at the 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers concrete canoe and steel bridge event. Teams displayed canoes and built bridge structures (RIT team shown here) as part of the competition.

Members of the RIT African Percussion Ensemble performed at their spring concert in the SAU Fireside Lounge. The group, directed by Kerfala Fana Bangoura, includes students, faculty and staff who enjoy exploring the dynamic percussive traditions of Guinea.

Peter Houk, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Glass Lab, demonstrates 3D glass printing in the glass shop. Houk was here for a two-day lecture/demo visit with MIT researchers Daniel Lizardo and Michael Stern to present the integration of art, design, engineering and technology.

Color Run participants are doused with colored powders at the end of the race. Color Run is a 5k annual event to raise awareness about resources for the LGBTQIA community at RIT and in Rochester. The race is sponsored by RIT Center for Residence Life and RIT Spectrum.

Cheat Codes, an electronic music DJ trio from Los Angeles, performed at SpringFest April 13.

From left, second-year students Destiny Cowans (advertising and public relations) and Gloria Berakah (marketing) take a selfie with the space plant terrariums they created at Space Camp, one of the many activities during SpringFest. SpringFest took place April 11-14.

Marketing guru Jeff Jarvis spoke as part of Saunders College of Business McClure lecture series on April 11. His talk was "Sharing in the Digital Age: Privacy, Fake News, Facebook, Net Neutrality and Digital Lives."