Photo Spotlights

Students meet and study at Barnes & Noble @ RIT at Park Point. The 40,000-square-foot bookstore houses over 60,000 titles, a Starbucks Cafe and gift and clothing departments.

The RIT Gospel Ensemble performed at the 27th annual Rev. Martin Luther King celebration at RIT on Jan.27.

Natasha Kholgade, graduating with a degree in computer engineering, has been enjoying her research work in computer visioning and recognition.

Iris Banister, executive director for the local non-profit, Rochester Surround Care, discusses the role of community activism and inclusion at the 27th annual Rev. Martin Luther King celebration at RIT.

NTID Arts & Imaging Studies Faculty Exhibit is on view at the NTID Dyer Arts Center through Feb 20.

The Liberal Arts Minor and Concentration Fair on Jan. 23 featured faculty representatives from the more than 40 minors and concentrations offered through the College of Liberal Arts. Elisabetta D’Amanda of the foreign languages department provided information and handouts to interested students.

R Connection, a regional juried student exhibition, is on view at Gallery r through Feb. 21. The gallery is located at 775 Park Ave.

Exploration of the galaxy and the universal language of movement will be brought to the stage Jan. 24 as the RIT/NTID Dance Company brings its latest show to the Light in Winter Festival in Ithaca. Eleven dancers, a mix of deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing students who attend Rochester Institute of Technology or the National Technical Institute for the Deaf based at RIT, make up the unique company, directed and choreographed by Thomas Warfield, assistant professor and director of the RIT/NTID Dance Company. Their performance was created in collaboration with Manuela Campanelli, director of the Center for Computational Relativity & Gravitation at RIT.

Edward Burtynsky, a prominent Canadian landscape photographer, met with RIT students in the Visionaries in Motion class on Jan. 21. Burtynsky gave a presentation that evening, sponsored by the Caroline Werner Gannett Project. His industrial landscape photographs convey the degradation of our environment and communicate the urgent need for sustainability.

A gathering of RIT faculty, staff and students viewed the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama on a large screen in Clark Gym on Jan. 20.

Twenty-one RIT decision makers participated in a three-day, two-night immersion experience in the RIT residence halls. Here, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Heath Boice-Pardee shared dinner and conversation with students during day two of “The REAL RIT Dorm Challenge.”

RIT administrators are gaining a new perspective on the student residential experience. Twenty-one RIT decision makers are participating in Student Government’s “REAL RIT Dorm Challenge,” a three-day, two-night immersion experience in the RIT residence halls. Here, Vice President for Student Affairs Mary-Beth Cooper is escorted to her assigned room.