Photo Spotlights

Lea Vacca Michel, right, associate professor in chemistry, explains some ways to negotiate starting pay to Kelsea Jones, a third-year chemistry student from Avon, N.Y., during an Equal Pay Day awareness event hosted by Women in Science (WISe) on April 4. Tables and posters were set up to demonstrate differences in starting salaries and how they become bigger differences over time.

Jolie Vrabel, left, with GE’s Edison Engineering Development Program, talks with Pahlavi Mayekar, a first -year graduate student in electrical engineering from Mumbai, India. The GE Mobile Campus Tour stopped by RIT April 3 to speak with students about what it’s like to be a woman working in science and technology. The RV also serves as a mobile recruiting center, offering female engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators information on GE careers and the steps needed to apply to jobs post-graduation.

Sundy He, a third-year new media marketing student from Brooklyn, N.Y., explored the GE RV on campus. The GE Mobile Campus Tour stopped by RIT April 3 to speak with students about what it’s like to be a woman working in science and technology. The RV also serves as a mobile recruiting center, offering female engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators information on GE careers and the steps needed to apply to jobs post-graduation.

Farid Barquet, left, a third-year biotechnology and biomedical sciences student from Mexico City, leans on Layla Phouthavong, a third-year biomedical sciences student from Pittsburgh, while he adjusts his heels. Alpha Sigma Alpha hosted the annual Heel Violence walk on April 2. All proceeds will go to IGNITE, which provides free services to people who are deaf and hard of hearing and who have experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse.

The Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation celebrated 10 years at RIT and the renovation of new space to accommodate the center’s growth on March 31. Researchers contributed to the first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and are active members of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) scientific collaboration. New Frontiers in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics is an RIT Signature Interdisciplinary Research Area. Beverly Berger, from the National Science Foundation, attended the event and is shown here, seated, between Manuela Campanelli, center director standing at left, and Sophia Maggelakis, dean of the College of Science.

Members of WE@RIT hosted nearly 125 accepted female students to the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the annual WE Retreat on March 31. The accepted students toured campus, participated in lab activities and stayed overnight with current female engineering students. It was a chance to learn more about the college and the programs they would be involved in as undergraduates. It was also part of the lead-in to Admissions’ Accepted Student Open House on April 1.

Companies from Rochester to California attended the 12th annual Creative Industry Day at the Gordon Field House March 30. The event offered portfolio reviews and networking for students and alumni interested in creative fields.

Tyrone Stewart, an adviser from the University of Michigan, spoke as part of an e-portfolios panel at the 2017 National Conference for Individualized Major Programs, held March 30-31. The IMP Conference is an annual gathering of individualized major programs that fosters a collaborative environment for new and seasoned individualized majors to share ideas, challenges, stories and pedagogies on all things IMP-related. RIT co-hosted the event, partnering with Drexel University, Ithaca College and St. Bonaventure University.

Jenna Doran, a fourth-year microelectronic engineering student from Olympia, Wash., holds a print of the First Amendment—one of the 18th century’s most iconic documents—made on an 18th-century-style wooden printing press created by an interdisciplinary group of students in 2016. Seth Gottlieb, a recent graduate and a member of the press-building team, spoke about the project March 30 at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection on the second floor of The Wallace Center.

Fairy Tale Courtroom, directed by Joseph Fox, is a fast-paced comedy that shows the other side of some familiar fairy tales when the Big Bad Wolf and the Wicked Witch are brought to trial. With testimony by such characters as Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs and Snow White, and with the audience as the jury, each trial can have one of two endings depending on the jury’s verdict. The production runs March 30-April 2 in the 1510 Lab Theatre, Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall. Admission is free but there is limited seating. For more information, go to ntid.rit.edu/theatre/events/fairy-tale-courtroom.

Amelia Lombardo, a second-year psychology major from Albany, N.Y., spoke with J. Simmons, manager of the marketing department at Renewal by Andersen in Rochester, N.Y., at the Liberal Arts Career Fair. More than a dozen local companies had representatives to meet with at the event on March 29.

Cassidy Goodwin, left, a fourth-year environmental sustainability, health and safety student from Berlin, Conn., gets a snap button replaced on her jacket at the Worn Wear repair event at RIT on March 27. Brandon Richards, tour manager for Worn Wear, had the tools to do the repair to extend the life of the garment. Patagonia’s Worn Wear repair team travels to colleges around the country to fix clothing and to show people how to do their own clothing repairs.