Photo Spotlights

Certified therapy dogs visited at the Bow Wow Wellness event in Fireside Lounge March 8. The event was sponsored by the Center for Student Wellness as a stress reduction activity. Research indicates that pet therapy improves psychological well-being and self-esteem.

Celeste Kidd, left, one of the co-claimants in the University of Rochester sexual harassment case and named as one of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for her role as a silence breaker, and Lindsay Wrobel, a UR student who went on a hunger strike, spoke at RIT as part of International Women’s Day March 8. The event was sponsored by RIT’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the School of Communication, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of History.

The College of Liberal Arts Career Fair was hosted March 7 in the Gene Polisseni Center by RIT’s Career Services. Representatives from nearly 30 companies hoped to recruit full-time and co-op students with majors from the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Individualized Studies.

Jason Blythe, ’05 (MFA Computer Graphics Design) visits with MFA Visual Communication Design (VCD) students implementing their thesis along with Adam Smith, chair of the new media design program and graduate director of VCD on March 6. Blythe, the Google Shopping UX lead in Mountain View, Calif. is visiting RIT for a speech titled “Ignite Your Creative Spark” as part of the Eugene H. Fram Speaker Series. The speech is scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. March 7 in the University Gallery inside Booth Hall.

Third-year computing and information technologies student Kian Hein, center, created a glass paperweight with some assistance from Jarryd Pezzillo, a fourth-year glass major. The event was a fundraiser for the 2018 Glass Art Society Conference in Murano, Italy. The two-day fundraiser offered instruction in making a paperweight in the hot shop or a glass pendant in the flame shop.

Left, Paula Register, a second-year computer science major from Nashville, Tenn. assists Jade Harris,16, to program a NXT robot in Golisano Hall. RIT’s Women in Technology, Women in Science, Women in Computing and Women in Engineering groups joined together March 3 to teach hundreds of young women about STEM, through hands-on demonstrations and activities.

From left, Mato Frankovic ’03 (hotel and resort management), mayor of Dubrovnik, Croatia, visited RIT’s Henrietta campus to learn about the region’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. He was joined by Don Hudspeth (president and dean, RIT Croatia) and Marko Potrebica (president, Dubrovnik City Council). Elizabeth DeBartolo, director of multidisciplinary design for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Senior Design, showed the group from Croatia several senior design projects. They also toured the Construct, the Simone Center for Research and Entrepreneurship and the AMPrint Center and met with senior leadership from RIT and the New York Wine & Culinary Center.

On February 28 and March 1, AdvanceRIT brought University of Michigan’s CRLT Players to the RIT campus for Cuts: Responding to Student Concerns, a two-session series that invited RIT faculty, staff and students to think together about the many forces that can shape campus climate, both positively and negatively. Built around a series of vignettes that explore students’ experiences of marginalization, each session offers a space where participants can practice engaging in difficult conversations about and across differences in identity while also reflecting on their personal responsibilities to cultivate inclusive and equitable spaces within and outside of the classroom.

Left, Kimberly Hedger, a fourth-year computer engineering technology student from Middletown, Conn., and Casey Lipscomb, a first-year mechanical engineering student from North Sutton, N.H., brave the cold to collect donations for a homeless shelter. Members of RIT’s Alpha Phi Omega are living in cardboard boxes this week near the Tiger statue to raise awareness about the homeless, and to raise money for Dimitri House in Rochester, which is a homeless shelter. They hope to raise $1,500 and are accepting clothing and non-perishables to donate.

Using humor to explore issues such as diversity, audism and working together, RIT/NTID Performing Arts presents AGENCY by Raymond Luczak and directed by Luane Davis-Haggerty March 1-4 in Panara Theatre. Tickets are on sale now at https://rittickets.com or call 585-475-4121.

The Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design R. Roger Remington gave a presentation about Lester Beall’s life and work. An exhibit of Beall’s master drawings is on view in the University Gallery through March 9. The RIT Press publication authored by R.Roger Remington: Lester Beall - Space, Time, and Content is available here: http://bit.ly/2sEF3lN

Students and faculty participated in a Move78 Deep Learning workshop on Feb. 23, learning more about trends in deep learning, image segmentation and applications of artificial intelligence. The event was part of a training collaboration between RIT, the IEEE Signal Processing Society and NVIDIA. Presenting at the workshop were Ray Ptucha (standing), assistant professor of computer engineering and NVIDIA Deep Learing Institute trainer, and Felipe Petroski Such (’17), Uber AI Labs research scientist and computer engineering alumnus.