Photo Spotlights

RIT students participate in Mud Tug 2011, the annual all out tug-of-war tournament held behind Grace Watson Hall, Sept. 24.

Dan Loh ’95 and six other Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists received the Isaiah Thomas Award in Publishing on Sept. 22 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. All seven winners, who have won a combined 11 Pulitzer Prizes, are RIT alumni.

RIT alumni, including Bob Snyder ’56, professor emeritus, Kate Gleason College of Engineering (left), and Jon Rodibaugh help sort food at Foodlink, the Rochester-area food bank, as part of the alumni community service day on Sept 10.

Barnes & Noble @ RIT features a fair-wage clothing line that is one of the hot clothing items this year. Alta Gracia fair-wage clothing, produced in the Dominican Republic, offers a selection of sweatshirts and T-shirts. Fair-wage clothing is not produced in sweatshops and is priced to cover the cost of production as well as a living wage, rather than minimum wage or lower, to cover basics such as food, clothing, shelter, education and medical care for workers.

Pickleball, a combination of tennis and ping pong, uses oversized paddles and a Wiffle Ball. Pickleball is one of the new club activities that will be offered to students this fall.

RIT participated in the inaugural Greentopia Festival at High Falls on Sept. 17 and 18. The RIT eBike Fleet was one exhibit on display at the RIT tent.

RIT’s premier lecture series, the Caroline Werner Gannett Project, launched its 2011-2012 series, “Visionaries in Motion V,” with a Sept. 15 presentation by National Medal of Science recipient Esther Conwell. Conwell discussed her current research and delivered her talk, “Conductive Properties of DNA,” to a standing-room-only crowd. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, Conwell has been a pioneer woman in science for 70 years. Next up for the series is a talk by Canadian journalist and screenwriter Ryan Knighton on Oct. 10.

RIT’s College of Liberal Arts hosted a Welcome Back Bash for students Sept. 15. The event presented an opportunity for students to meet faculty and staff and helped ignite school spirit and camaraderie among RIT’s Liberal Arts community.

Despite living off campus this semester, Ben Lubin still spends plenty of time in Photo House. Lubin was the president of the house last year and currently serves as the house’s historian. Past and present Photo House residents are celebrating the house’s 40th anniversary.

Hundreds of RIT/NTID students gathered Sept. 9 in the Frisina Quad for the annual Applefest, where dozens of student groups and clubs provided information about what they do. The NTID Student Life Team also provided a variety of apple treats and music.

Hinda Kasher, fine arts studio major from Brooklyn, created this ring sculpture from her Introduction to Sculpture class with Elizabeth Kronfield, in RIT’s College of Imaging Arts & Sciences.

Anthony Vodacek, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, is leading a MacArthur Foundation-funded study to benchmark the Lake Kivu region in Rwanda. Natural hazards and a large refugee population around the lake bordering Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have compromised the region’s biodiversity. The study involves Vodacek’s colleagues from the University of Rochester and the University of Minnesota, Duluth.