Photo Spotlights

Everybody Dancing: The Interactivity of Creativity and Innovation was an audience-participatory performance directed by Thomas Warfield, RIT assistant professor in NTID’s Cultural and Creative Studies Department, at The Little Theatre during the second annual Fringe Festival on Sept. 28.

One of RIT’s musical groups, the Ukulele Club, performed at the Little Cafe during the second annual Fringe Festival on Sept. 28.

Brian Landi ’02, ’06, right, leads research in the Nanopower Research Labs in addition to teaching in the chemical engineering program. He mentored Reginald Rogers, left, who was a post-doctoral researcher in the lab, and recent chemical engineering graduate Garry Clarke. Rogers became a full-time, tenure-track faculty member in 2012 and Clarke began work in Philadelphia in June as a process engineer.

Barbara Cowles, center, manager of the original and iconic Shop One (1953-1977), visited Shop One² in Global Village on Sept. 27. She shared stories with artist Laura Wilder, left, and Wendy Marks, Shop One² manager, about her husband, Hobart Cowles, professor of ceramics at the School for American Craftsmen (now the School for American Crafts) from 1951 to 1980.

Today is ROAR Day, the official launch of the 2013-2014 Fund for RIT annual giving campaign. Stations will be set up across campus to encourage annual gifts to RIT, or gifts can be made online. Donors can designate where their dollars go, and undesignated gifts will go to RIT’s General Scholarship Fund. For more information, go to www.rit.edu/development/giving/ROAR.

250 companies registered for the annual Fall Career Fair in the Gordon Field House on Sept. 25. Over 3,400 students and around 200 alumni attended the fair.

One of RIT’s a cappella groups, Proof of Purchase, performed at the Little Cafe during the second annual Fringe Festival on Sept. 22. The festival continues through Saturday. To see a schedule of RIT-related performances, go to www.rit.edu/gcr/fringefest.

RIT joins artistic forces with local businesses and cultural organizations in downtown Rochester’s East End for the second annual First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. On tap are more than 20 performances showcasing an eclectic mix of poetry readings, dance, film, theater, music and visual arts. Here, Alexis Harris, one of the RIT Poetry Slam Team, performed on Sept. 23. For a schedule of RIT-related events, go to www.rit.edu/gcr/fringefest/.

RIT joins artistic forces with local businesses and cultural organizations in downtown Rochester’s East End for the second annual Fringe Festival. On tap are more than 20 performances showcasing an eclectic mix of poetry readings, dance, film, theater, music and visual arts. Go to www.rit.edu/gcr/fringefest to see a list of RIT-related performances. Here, Wild Nights-Play That Funky Music performed on Sept. 21 in the Little Cafe.

Bruce Barnes, the Ron and Donna Fielding Director of George Eastman House, discussed the future of the Rochester landmark in the first installment of the 2013-2014 William A. Kern Lecture Series at RIT on Sept. 19. The Kern lecture series, sponsored by an endowment from RIT’s William A. Kern Professorship in Communications in the College of Liberal Arts, provides an opportunity for scholarly discussion surrounding contemporary communication issues.

Gallery r’s newest exhibition, A Season of Festivals, features a series of panoramic photographs of Rochester’s 2012 festivals by Frank Cost, professor and program chair in RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.The gallery, located at 100 College Ave., will host a meet and greet with the artist from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sept. 21, during the 2013 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.

Kindergartners from Margaret’s House, RIT’s on-campus child care center, sold handmade cards Sept. 19 to benefit victims of recent flooding in Colorado. Inspired by the book The Can Do Duck: A Story about Believing in Yourself, some of the youngest students on campus donned their duck hats with cards in hand to show that anyone can make a difference. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Red Cross.