Photo Spotlights

Judges inspect a manufacturing work cell built by students from Birmingham Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Mich., at the 16th annual National Robotic Technology and Engineering Challenge May 5 at RIT. The two-day event, hosted by RIT for the first time, drew 600 students and more than 1,000 spectators from across the nation.

The studio is the canvas for fourth-year painting student David Wien. He’s turned the walls of his campus workspace into a mural full of lively images and commentary. Check out his creation during a reception, 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, in the fine art painting studio, room A172 of the Frank E. Gannett Building.

Daffodils sway in the brisk breeze on the last day of April.

A troupe of dancers peform a number for local elementary school children, April 29, in Clark Gym as part of a two-day Education for Peace Conference.

In celebration of Arbor Day on April 26, about 60 people, including members of RIT’s Student Environmental Action League, RIT landscape architect Bonnie Majestic-Trobe and other helpers, planted eight maple trees near Building 86. The trees had been uprooted and "orphaned" by construction of the building that will house the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.

Industrial design students from the School of Design profit from a bright idea, April 25. They sold 90 lamps on campus, each one created for their senior project in furniture design. Students were graded on their design and production skills.

Jeff Cox, associate director of international student affairs, scrubs an SUV at a fundraising carwash, April 24. A host of RIT staff members joined in, raising money for RIT's United Way campaign.

Students in Roberley Bell’s Public Art, Public Space class in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, shown above, help facilitate a public brainstorming session, April 20, focusing on installing a pedestrian crossing at the intersection of North Goodman and East Main Street in the city. The NorthEast Neighborhood Alliance invited Bell’s class to participate in the event, "From Here to There: Bridging Neighborhoods."

John Nichols, fourth-year food management major, prepares for the 17th annual Puttin' on the RITz dinner-dance on April 20. Organized entirely by RIT hospitality and service management majors in the College of Applied Science and Technology, the gala featured a theme of "New York, New York, 1950s" and attracted more than 300 to the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

RIT student Kim Kearney stands poised to keep her egg intact during the opening event of the College of Business Olympics. The egg-toss competition featured student teams representing seven different areas of study. However, the faculty-staff team of Mark Boylan and Brian Hensel won the day by tossing their egg back and forth for the longest time without dropping it.

RIT student Hula Yavas (left), Yasmin Kabir, Muhammed Shafiq both from the Islamic Center of Rochester, and RIT student Ali Al-Raisi present a panel discussion on Understanding Islam, March 18. The discussion was one of several during a day-long conference on cultural conflict, terroristm, and global security.

Jeff Broomhead, third-year mechanical engineering major, test drives one of RIT's mini-Baja cars on April 17 in preparation for the Mini Baja West, April 25-27 in Logan, Utah. The team will also compete in the Mini Baja East, May 9-11, and the Midwest Mini Baja, May 31-June 2. RIT took 10th place at the Mini Baja Brazil, April 11-13.