Photo Spotlights

RIT President David Munson addressed the crowd gathered for convocation for new students, which include 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study.

Kenny Shin, a first-year computer engineering student from Seoul, South Korea, had some assistance with his luggage from RIT President David Munson during move-in day. Munson moved several students' belongings on a golf cart to their assigned dorm buildings.

Rohan Patel, a graduate student in human-computer interaction from India, and Louis Albano, a fourth-year student in marketing from Albany, N.Y., sort books for the Goodbye, Goodbye! sale that begins today at 10:00 a.m. in Clark Gym. The sale offers incoming students the opportunity to buy used furniture, clothing, fans, lamps, televisions, kitchenware and more at bargain prices. The sale, in its third year, is a student-led sustainability initiative to help reduce items normally thrown out while offering needed items to incoming students. The sale runs Aug. 22-26, 10-5, and accepts Tiger Bucks and cash.

Grover Swartzlander, professor of imaging science, captured this image of yesterday’s solar eclipse. See more photos from around campus during the eclipse on Facebook.

Game design students Noah Ratcliff and Samantha Cammarata watched the solar eclipse with special Tiger glasses on the Greek lawn today. Telescopes with filters were set up and available for others to use.

RIT student Jovon McCullough, left, shows 13-year-old Eisaiah Montanez and other children from St. Phillip Missionary Baptist Church’s Academic Summer Camp program the Children’s Garden on First Street in Rochester. McCullough, a third-year public policy major from Rochester, is a student leader in the Field to Table program, part of RIT’s University/Community Partnership with the Marketview Heights Collaborative Action Project.

RIT students worked hard this summer during the Saunders Summer Startup entrepreneurship program, hosted by the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 11 teams presented their business ideas to a group of potential investors from the community at Investor Night, Aug. 9.

RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences alumni are exhibiting at Gallery r through Aug. 20. Nick Marshall and Cory Fitzgerald created “In Neutral” and Cecily Culver displayed a window installation “Interloper”.

Angela Krieg, a third-year illustration student from Hebron, N.Y., views a portion of “Arthur Singer, The Wildlife Art of an American Master” in the University Gallery. A reception is planned for 5–7 p.m. Sept. 8. A biography written by Arthur Singer’s sons Paul and Alan Singer is available from RIT Press.

Cristina Guzman-Moumtzis, a second-year student in biomedical engineering and cellular molecular biology from New York City, N.Y., explains her research to Steven Day, associate professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. RIT students from a variety of colleges and disciplines presented their research at the 26th annual Undergraduate Student Research Symposium on campus Aug. 4. More than 250 student projects were presented by students and their faculty mentors.

From left, Eric Mercovich, a sous chef at RIT, instructs high schoolers Jayna Walker, Sam Frank and Savannah Domenech in some cooking techniques in the Restaurant Management Experience class during RIT’s Kids on Campus summer program. The students had the opportunity to work in a commercial kitchen, learning kitchen safety, menu planning, nutrition and budgeting.

Construction continues on the building that will house MAGIC Spell Studios. The program is a first-of-its-kind effort in higher education and will link RIT’s internationally ranked academic programs with high-tech facilities needed to commercialize computer gaming, film and animation, and digital media projects.