Photo Spotlights

  • March 24, 2023

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    college students smiling as they put on corsages and boutonnieres.
    college students standing on a stage and laughing.
    faculty members dressed in commencement regalia giving an award to a student.

    The RIT community honored its top scholars March 23 at the annual Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars awards ceremony and reception. The award celebrates the top 1 percent of undergraduate students who achieve academic excellence while also giving back to the community through civic or volunteer work, by conducting research, or being engaged in a co-op or work in their field of study. Students awarded with this distinction have completed at least 83 credit hours of study and have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.85 for university work completed as of last year’s spring term. 

  • March 8, 2023

    crowd of students visiting rows of tables at a career fair. 1

    More than 240 company representatives came to campus for RIT’s spring career fair on March 8. The fair, which helps RIT students and alumni locate co-ops, internships, and full-time positions, runs until 4 p.m. today in RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Follow-up interviews with employers will be held on March 9. The fair includes employers from the Rochester area and from across the country. Some companies, like Paychex, General Electric, GEICO, and Texas Instruments, have returned while others, like eLogic, Sorenson Communications, New York State Department of Health, and Moderna, are visiting RIT for the first time. In addition, RIT welcomed back more than 150 alumni who now serve as corporate recruiters. This year’s spring career fair, coordinated by RIT’s Office of Career Services and Co-op, is expected to be the largest since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • March 7, 2023

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    volunteer scooping jelly out of a jar at a table lined with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
    several volunteers at a long table assembling peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
    four college students wearing orange hairnets posing for a photo.

    More than 100 RIT students, faculty, staff, and administrators donned gloves and orange hairnets to help kick off the university’s United Way Campaign on Monday by making more than 1,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The sandwiches were donated to four community agencies that work with United Way: The Boys & Girls Club, Center for Youth, Willow Domestic Violence Center, and YWCA. The ingredients were donated by RIT Dining and Palmer Food Services.

  • February 28, 2023

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    person drawing a henna tattoo on a college student's wrist and hand.
    group of diverse people posing for a photo.
    group of diverse people posing for a group shot.

    Students at Rochester Institute of Technology raised more than $8,000 for those impacted by the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Members of RIT’s Global Union, Muslim Student Association, Student Government, and Spirituality and Religious Life organized events such as selling henna tattoos and baked goods, even shaving their heads live on social media. Students campuswide participated, with most of the donations raised in just three days.

  • February 23, 2023

    group of people sitting on stools listening to a speaker in a hot shop. 5
    person wearing protective jacket and headgear.
    crowd watching a person rolling molten glass on a metal tube.
    person wearing safety glasses talking to a seated group.
    person wearing heat-protectant gear holding a glass piece of art.

    Did you know there is a 3D molten glass printer on campus? On Friday, Feb. 17, Todd Jokl, dean of the College of Art and Design, invited RIT President David Munson and other leaders from across the university to learn about the new technology and see its capabilities in real time.

  • February 17, 2023

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    Former RIT /NTID Tiger Daniel Durant, known for starring in the Academy Award-winning film CODA, attended a screening of the film on campus Thursday. He answered questions after the movie. He will be speaking to classes and meeting with performing arts students today.

  • February 13, 2023

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    group of college students ice skating.
    college students holding hands while ice skating.

    RIT mascots Roarie and RITchie enjoyed spending time with students during Chocolate on Ice in the Gene Polisseni Center on Friday as part of this year’s 13-day FreezeFest. The event also collected non-perishable food for RIT’s FoodShare program.

  • February 2, 2023

    two college students smiling while coloring in flowers with markers. 1

    Flynn Djan, left, a second-year software engineering student from Rochester, and Mak Tuntemeke, a second-year new media design major from Rochester, make flowers during the Black Heritage Month kickoff event on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Fireside Lounge. Additional Black Heritage Month events are listed on the Division of Diversity and Inclusion website.

  • February 1, 2023

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    two people sitting in arm chairs on a stage.
    college student speaking on a stage at a podium.
    four members of a gospel choir on stage.
    two people sitting in chair in front of a room of student, faculty, and staff also seated.
    woman sitting in a chair gesturing as she speaks.

    Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project and a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, headlined RIT’s 41st Expressions of King’s Legacy.

  • January 16, 2023

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    Assistant Professor Katrina Overby from the School of Communication in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts delivered the keynote address at this year’s Let Freedom Ring event in Ingle Auditorium commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Overby reflected on ways King’s work informs and inspires her own scholarship at the intersections of communications, race, and identity.

  • January 11, 2023

    two students hanging artwork on a white wall. 5
    student unrolling a poster with a line figure of a woman.
    two students hanging a poster on a wall.
    student working at a table with a level, tape measure, pushpins and box of markers.
    two students standing back looking at artwork hanging on a large white wall.

    A new exhibit curated by Circle Cole, foreground, a fifth-year School of Individualized Study major, opened in RIT’s University Gallery on Jan. 9. The exhibit, titled “The Art of Medicine - Pharmaceutical Graphic Design from the RIT Archives,” is the first exhibit hosted in the University Gallery that was solely curated by an RIT student.

  • December 5, 2022

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    students signing an orange steel beam.
    students signing an orange steel beam.
    man speaking at a podium.
    glass plaque reads RIT Saunders College of Business.
    two people standing to the side as a person speaks at a podium.

    During a Dec. 5 ceremony at Saunders College of Business, RIT President David Munson, left, joined college namesake E. Philip Saunders and RIT community members in signing the steel beam that will support the 36,000-square-foot expansion and renovation of Lowenthal Hall. The expansion and renovation would not have been possible without Phil Saunders and other generous donors whose collective gifts are part of the Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness, RIT’s $1 billion fundraising effort that has currently raised more than $960 million to date.