Photo Spotlights

RIT Tiger Tracks is the signature ice cream flavor created by Perry’s Ice Cream. Samples were served at a pop-up event in the Student Alumni Union Dec. 8. The flavor is a sweet vanilla ice cream base with thick fudge swirls and orange pretzel balls. It will be served at Gracie’s, Sol’s Underground, a new ice cream cart at the Gene Polisseni Arena and at a local ice cream eatery, LuGia’s in Spencerport.

Gallery r, RIT’s metro art space in downtown Rochester, is featuring “Co-Lab,” a group exhibition of collaborative projects by RIT students from the schools of Art, American Crafts, Design, Film and Animation and Photographic Arts and Sciences. The show continues through Dec. 18.

Women in Computing (WiC) Allies is a group of RIT and GCCIS community members committed to furthering the mission and goals of WiC, for the purpose of affecting positive change and fostering a more inclusive GCCIS culture. The allies meet Mondays in the WiC office.

A group of students tests out the capabilities of the Oculus Rift headset during the AR/VR Symposium on Dec. 2. The symposium was hosted by Frameless Labs at RIT, a newly formed organization that brings together research, innovation and artistic creations surrounding augmented reality and virtual reality. The symposium featured expert speakers, lectures, workshops and demonstrations. Here, the students are viewing virtual reality scenes in an art gallery and planetarium in a program designed by RIT computer science students.

From left, Daniel Perez-Gil, a second-year honors student in management information systems and finance from Mexico City; Susan Lindsay, senior staff specialist in University Studies; and Jessica Visco, a first-year honors student in media arts and technology from Buffalo, N.Y., packed boxes of personal care items to deliver to The Center for Youth.

Ben Suits Baer, a fifth-year individualized studies major from Moorhead, Minn., attended the opening of an exhibit in the RIT Museum. The exhibit, titled “Charting One’s Course: The History of Individualized Education at RIT,” is a joint effort among the School of Individualized Study, the museum studies program, RIT Alumni Relations and RIT Archives to curate a collection of artifacts that tell a wider narrative of RIT’s individualized education programs, which date back to the 1880s. The exhibit runs until April 14.

Student wellness ambassadors hosted an event in the Student Life Center that included a yoga class, free chair massages, therapy dogs and a cooking demo.

Misti Roe, a student in the Master of Science in Teaching program in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences’ School of Art, leads a group of children at Rochester City School District’s School No. 29 in a creative activity. Roe, from Madison, Wis., was among RIT students who taught an art lesson to students in a specialized program for children with multiple disabilities. The RIT program prepares students to meet the national, state and regional need for teachers of the visual arts in grades K-12.

Xinyi Fan, a fourth-year industrial design student from China, gave massages at a Student Wellness event Nov. 30 in the Student Life Center. The stress-relief event included free chair massages, therapy dogs, a cooking demo and a yoga class.

Fifth-year mechanical engineering student and president of the Lambda Sigma Upsilon fraternity Hector Terrero shared personal thoughts on inclusion and diversity at an open forum. The dialogue was in the Stan McKenzie Commons in the College of Liberal Arts and included several other speakers.

Mechanical engineering technology alumnus Mike Jeffries ’11 spoke to undergraduates in Fundamentals of Engineering classes on Nov. 22 about how he took his fascination with building robots and built a career in developing advanced aerospace technology systems. Jeffries’ competitive robot, Bombshell, and his Chaos Corp. team are the 2016 Battle Bots national runners-up. When he is not building competitive Battle Bots, Jeffries is a research technologist in the Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems program at Georgia Tech Research Institute.

The Asian Culture Society at RIT took part in “Unification”, a showcase of cultural performances held in Ingle Auditorium on Nov. 19. A portion of the proceeds from the event were donated to the Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services and the RIT International Student Emergency Fund.