Photo Spotlights

The RIT/NTID Student Life Team’s annual Apple Festival celebrates the beginning of the academic year and welcomes first-year and returning students back to campus. The festival is an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to eat all things apple, enjoy entertainment and games, make friends, and learn how to get involved in a variety of clubs and organizations on campus. This year’s 20th festival on Sept. 1 was held in the D. Robert Frisina Quad.

RIT School of Design faculty Nancy Bernardo and Mitch Goldstein are exhibiting at Gallery r through Sept. 24. “Material Interruption” can be viewed Thursday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m. at Gallery r, RIT’s downtown art space at 100 College Avenue.

RIT’s 12th Lighting the Way Ceremony, sponsored by the Center for Women & Gender, is a welcoming event for female freshmen and transfer students. All women students, faculty and staff of RIT are welcomed to join the walk to show that women are welcomed and a valued part of the RIT community.

Freshmen, transfer, graduate and returning students walk the quarter mile as the fall semester begins. 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study are new to RIT this fall.

RIT Athletics held its annual all-athlete meeting on Aug. 27 at the Gordon Field House to kick off the 2017-18 season. Executive Director of Athletics Lou Spiotti, along with special guest speaker Scott MacNair ’93, former men’s hockey standout and president of Stryker Canada, spoke to all 675 RIT student-athletes. On Sept. 1, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball play in their first contests of the season.

Daniel Greenebaum, a graduate assistant at the RIT Q Center, greeted students at the Rainbow Welcome Picnic on August 27.

RIT President David Munson talks with Stephanie Albert, the NTID Director of Diversity and Inclusion, before he addresses the RIT community Aug. 25 to kick off the 2017-2018 academic year.

A portion of the 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study pose for a class photo prior to convocation. The completed photo spelled out RIT.

RIT President David Munson and his wife Nancy welcomed new students at the annual Tiger Walk. Some 2,800 first-year students are cheered on by RIT faculty and staff as they parade into Gordon Field House for convocation.

Alumni parents and grandparents presented their incoming students with an 1829 pin on Aug. 21 during the Legacy Family Pinning Ceremony and then posed for a group photo. The pin symbolizes that the incoming student is carrying on the family’s tradition of academic excellence. More than 600 legacy students are currently enrolled at RIT.

Some of the 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study show their Tiger Pride.

The RIT community welcomed new students at the annual Tiger Walk. Some 2,800 first-year students are cheered on by RIT faculty and staff as they parade into Gordon Field House for convocation.