Photo Spotlights

FIRST President Donald Bossi is photographed with some Penfield High School Rolling Thunder members. The FIRST Robotics Finger Lakes Regional celebrates 15 years of competitions and highlighted alumni from area teams attending RIT and mentoring local competitors. 

Jeff Davis, associate director of RIT’s Executive MBA program, at the podium, welcomed back alumni to the 16^th annual Sharpen the Saw day, hosted by Saunders College of Business on March 15. The daylong program offered professional development and personal advice to graduates of RIT’s Executive MBA program. This year’s speakers included Kip Palmer, president and CEO, Palmer Food Services; Sandy Dominach and Garth Hankinson from Constellation Brands; Jamie Saunders, president and CEO, United Way of Greater Rochester; Andrea Holland, executive coach; and David Naylor, executive vice president, 2Logical. In addition to networking sessions and presentations, participants also attended the dedication of the Lobozzo Center for Executive Education, located in Lowenthal Hall, named for Joseph Lobozzo ’95 (EMBA), founder of JML Optical Industries Inc., and namesake of RIT’s alumni house. Lobozzo, who is a member of the President’s Roundtable and has served on the RIT Board of Trustees, has also earned the Saunders College of Business Distinguished Alumni Award in 2001, the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award in 2003, RIT Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2006, and the 2017 Nathaniel Rochester Society Award.

Chloe Arnold's Syncopated Ladies performed as part of the Expressions of King's Legacy program. Tara Setmayer, a CNN Political Commentator, ABC News Political Contributor and former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill, gave the keynote address.

CNN political commentator Tara Setmayer delivered the keynote address at the annual Expressions of King’s Legacy celebration. In addition to her work as a CNN political commentator, Setmayer is an ABC News political contributor and former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill. For 36 years at RIT, Expressions of King’s Legacy programming has been dedicated to celebrating the life and impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Students gather in the Saunders College of Business lounge to study, work together and take a break.

RIT Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Yunn-Shan Ma, will be joined by guest faculty soloists from across campus for “Once Upon A Time In Italian Film Music” at 7 p.m. March 6 in Ingle Auditorium. The program is hosted by The College of Liberal Arts’ departments of Performing Arts and Visual Culture and Modern Languages and Cultures.

An all-women hackathon held over the weekend at RIT helped inspire high school and college women interested in the field of computing. The annual WiC Hacks event, hosted by RIT's Women in Computing group, was held March 2-3. More than 200 students from across the Northeast came to build any computing projects they wanted.

RIT kicked off its 2019 United Way campaign March 4. The university's goal is to raise $400,000. RIT has raised more than $2.1 million in the past six years for the Rochester community. "RIT prides itself on bringing goodness to the world. Please join me in supporting the United Way," President Munson told campus leaders. The Gallina family will lead the 2019 campaign; it's the first time a family will serve as a United Way campaign chair.

From left, Diana Solt and Dwight Delap of Harris Corp. talk with Rebecca Schwan, a fourth-year marketing and hospitality major from LeRoy, N.Y., during the Spring Career Fair at the Gordon Field House Wednesday.

Members of RIT’s Army ROTC Tiger Battalion celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the campus program with RIT President David Munson and interim Dean of the College of Engineering Technology Manian Ramkumar. The installation of a commemorative plaque outside the detachment offices honors the more than 500 student-cadets who served both on campus as battalion leaders and around the world as commissioned officers in the US Army since 1969 when the detachment first began at RIT.

Members of RIT’s Army ROTC Tiger Battalion celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the campus program with RIT President David Munson and interim Dean of the College of Engineering Technology Manian Ramkumar. The installation of a commemorative plaque outside the detachment offices honors the more than 500 student-cadets who served both on campus as battalion leaders and around the world as commissioned officers in the US Army since 1969 when the detachment first began at RIT.

Photojournalism students Jediah Plumley and Zoë Smith worked behind the scenes to prepare images for the Special Olympics website. Over 70 RIT photography students, alumni and faculty covered the New York State Special Olympics this past weekend. Athletes competed in alpine and cross country skiing, floor hockey, snow boarding, snowshoeing and figure skating. To view photographs from the competitions, check the website here: http://www.specialolympics-ny.photos/