Photo Spotlights

Allen Luccitti, an engineer in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, gets a hole-in-one during Staff Appreciation Day on May 28. Activities included a buffet lunch, ice cream treats, mini golf, Segway rides, a photo booth and the Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Show.

Massimo Vignelli, arguably the greatest designer in modern history and whose Vignelli Center for Design Studies has placed RIT onto the international forefront of design studies, died today in New York City. Mr. Vignelli, whose influence spanned from package design to houseware design and from furniture design to public signage, was 83. For the latest information, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50823. Here, Massimo Vignelli visited RIT on Sept. 16, 2010, for the official launch of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies.

Nobel laureate William Daniel Phillips gave the 2014 convocation address on May 23. Phillips employed balloons, liquid nitrogen, carnations, rubber bands and a racquetball to demonstrate not only some principles of physics, but also the importance of finding fun in your life’s work.

President Destler conferred degrees on some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students during convocation this morning. In an entertaining presentation, Nobel laureate William Phillips encouraged graduating students to find fun in their life’s work. The audience also heard from RIT President Bill Destler and Student Government President Paul Darragh.

President Destler conferred degrees on some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students during convocation this morning. In an entertaining presentation, Nobel laureate William Phillips encouraged graduating students to find fun in their life’s work. The audience also heard from RIT President Bill Destler and Student Government President Paul Darragh.

NTID celebrated the retirement of 10 faculty and staff members Wednesday, who together have provided almost 300 years of service. Pictured are Larry LoMaglio, John Albertini, Mike Servé, Vince Daniele, Gail Rothman-Marshall, Kate Rizzolo and Peter Lalley. Retirees not pictured are Joni Dowling-Kell, Judy MacDonald and Karen Snell.

Tyler Schrodt, right, and Evan McCool knew they wanted to start a longboarding business together just two weeks after meeting. In 2010, Schrodt and McCool joined forces and, using money from their savings accounts, started Enraged Panda Boarding Co. Schrodt ’13 (international business and finance), is pursuing his MBA and McCool will graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology.

Kelsey Buecheler is a third-year honors student in the nutrition management program in the College of Health Sciences and Technology. After she graduates in 2015, she will have to complete a yearlong dietetic internship to qualify to sit for the registered dietitian exam. Buecheler attributes the program’s high placement rate to its emphasis on real-work experience.

Emily Himmelwright has grown to love longboarding since first starting to ride during her freshman year at RIT. Himmelwright, a second-year media arts and technology student, can make the trek from her dorm room to the academic side of campus in five minutes while riding her longboard, saving her more than 10 minutes if she were to walk to class instead.

RIT students and staff had a strong showing in the 2014 AT&T Rochester Civic App Challenge. Pictured after a May 13 news conference announcing the winners at the Center for Media, Arts, Games, Creativity and Innovation are, from left to right, High Tech Rochester President Jim Senall, RIT MAGIC Center Director Andrew Phelps, graduate student and third-place winner Debjit Saha, senior research analyst and honorable mention winner Nilay Yildirim, graduate student and grand prize winner Marissa McDowell, MAGIC Open Source Resource Coordinator Remy DeCausemaker, Professor Stephen Jacobs, student Sam Lucidi, student Mihir Singh, Digital Rochester Executive Director Lisa Doerner and AT&T Public Affairs Director for New York State Neil Giacobbi. The challenge, hosted by RIT, was sponsored by AT&T in partnership with High Tech Rochester, Digital Rochester and Hack Upstate.

Ashleen Evans was shy and didn’t know much sign language when she first came to RIT/NTID. Now graduating as president of the NTID Student Congress, she’s returning to Indiana with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, a job waiting for her and knowledge about deaf culture and being a leader.

Robert Jones, right, a fifth-year mechanical engineering student, demonstrates the capabilities of a quadro-copter for Donald McKeown, distinguished researcher, left, and professor Agamemnon Crassidis. RIT, a national drone test site, will contribute its research into navigation and imaging systems technology as part of a university-industry partnership.