Photo Spotlights

Director of International Student Services Jeff Cox served cake at the International Education Week kick-off Nov. 11. RIT Bhangra performed and Ritchie posed for photos as part of the festivities. For a schedule of events for the rest of the week, go to rit.edu/academicaffairs/global/iew-2016.

An empty table is set to honor veterans who were prisoners of war or missing in action during RIT’s Veterans Day Breakfast Nov. 11. More than 400 people attended the annual event, which included live music, interviews with veterans, organizations offering veteran services and the playing of taps.

Rochester community volunteers working with the Marketview Heights Collective Action Project put a community garden to bed for the season, removing all plants and putting mulch on for the winter. This is part of RIT’s University/Community Partnerships.

RIT students participated in the 6th annual Election Night Hackathon in Student Innovation Hall Nov. 8. Student were able to watch election results live on nine screens while “hacking” the night away on current projects and new civic hacking projects.

Joseph Ressler, a third-year photojournalism student from Strasburg, PA., photographed the activity at Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite on Election Day, Nov. 8. Hundreds lined up to place stickers on her tombstone, to honor the activist who fought for women’s right to vote. Photojournalism students are collaborating with WXXI and will have photographs, video and audio posted on the WXXI website.

Jocelyn Lazo, a fifth-year computer engineering student from Kearny, N.J., voted for the first time on Nov. 8. RIT’s ROAR the Vote campaign provided education, registration information, debate viewing parties and transportation to voting sites.

Love’s Fire, a series of seven short plays based on Shakespeare sonnets, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10-12 and 2 p.m. Nov. 13 in the 1510 Lab Theatre as part of RIT’s yearlong commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. All shows are free and open to the public, but seating is limited to about 50.

Sadie Wolters, center, from Hilton, and Lindsay Martinescu, from Webster, fourth-year students in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, presented their research on detecting white mold in snap beans using spectral remote sensing and drones at the “Systems and Technologies for Remote Sensing Applications Through Unmanned Aerial Systems,” or STRATUS 2016, Workshop at RIT on Oct. 28. The workshop— sponsored by RIT’s Center for Imaging Science, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Pictometry and Headwall Photonics— brought together academics, industry representatives and domain specialists to share perspectives on UAS imaging. The UAS Center is an RIT signature research area.

Rapper T-Pain, right, performed for a crowd of 2,000 at the Gordon Field House on Nov. 5 for the Fall Concert, sponsored by the RIT College Activities Board. “We put out music surveys each semester to see what genre the students would like for a concert,” said Angelena Russo, CAB president. “Recently, the top two have been alternative and rap. And since we had an alternative group (Walk the Moon) in the spring, we decided to have rap for our Fall Concert.”

Aidan Milburn, a fourth-year biomedical sciences student and men’s lacrosse team member from Vancouver, reads to children at School No. 5 in the City School District on Nov. 4. RIT student-athletes and members of The Wallace Center visited kids in the first grade as part of the Giant READ program. After reading the book Amazing Tigers, each student received a copy of the book to take home and encourage further reading. The annual Giant READ event is part of a larger community service program at RIT called READ: Hope in Action, a two-pronged effort that seeks to both enhance literacy and develop the awareness and possibility of a college education for Rochester’s underserved populations.

Gallery r, RIT’s metro art space in downtown Rochester, N.Y., is hosting an exhibition featuring works from the private collection of Gerald Mead—a Buffalo, N.Y., artist and collector who has amassed over 1,000 works by more than 900 western New York artists. “Hunter/Gatherer—Rochester Connections: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection”, on view through Nov. 20, includes many RIT artists and alumni. On left, Gerald Mead talks with people at the opening.

Fitness guru Camela Douglass, center, held workshops with students before her Dancing with DIVAS event Nov. 3. Determined Individuals Victoriously Achieving Success (DIVAS) began as an RIT group in 2011. They provide a variety of social, educational and service activities to foster a support network for incoming multicultural women at RIT to help increase the retention of students through mentorship, personal development and successful academic programs.