Photo Spotlights

National award-winning choreographers Bill Wade, right, of Cleveland’s Inlet Dance Theatre and Jamey Leverett, left, of Rochester City Ballet explore “What is Dance?” on July 13 at Nazareth College. The discussion, moderated by Thomas Warfield, director of the RIT/NTID dance program, was part of the week long Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival.

Roger Dube, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, is developing a monitoring system that will warn colonists on Mars about space weather storms and let them know when the danger has passed.

This project is a commemorative 120-page full-color book featuring the images of all 25 past Big Shot photographs from 1987 to the present day and illustrates how volunteers “painting with light” have helped make nighttime images of historical and contemporary architectural structures and landscapes. The contributing writers are Michael Peres, William DuBois and Dawn Tower DuBois.

Signatures Magazine, RIT’s student-run art and literary publication, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2010. Above, John Roche, professor of English and Signatures faculty advisor, meets with the magazine’s editorial staff to discuss publicity and distribution of the current issue.

RIT hosted the Current Practices in Fine Art Symposium June 16-18. Representatives from renowned libraries, museums, archives and universities participated. They discussed research examining current practices in fine art image reproduction and how to establish a suggested framework for art image interchange that best supports research, teaching and conservation. Stephen Chapman from Harvard University, pictured at the podium, was one of the event’s moderators. To learn more about the symposium, visit artimaging.rit.edu.

Renowned designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli were among those who went on a tour of the new Vignelli Center for Design Studies. The four-story facility includes galleries, storage space, classrooms, and offices. The center will house the entire archive of Massimo and Lella Vignelli whose graphic and product designs are icons of international design.

Drivers from 89 of the best Baja teams from the United States, Canada, South Korea, India, France and Venezuela got wet and muddy, climbed hills, raced through the water obstacle and endured some of the roughest terrain in the 2010 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge June 11-13. At the end of the three-day competition, Cornell University took home the championship trophy winning the overall title. The second place team was the University of Windsor (Canada). RIT, host of the event, entered two cars and both placed in the top 10 overall, with the #5 car taking third place and the #83 car taking tenth. In individual events throughout the weekend, the RIT #5 team placed second in the design report category and took third in the endurance event. Teammates in the #83 car took first place in the grueling endurance event on Sunday. Here, RIT’s car completes the hill climb.

The 12th Annual RITirees Picnic took place in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center on June 9. Two retirees received the RITirees Award, a member of the faculty, Marvin Sachs, and a staff member, Richard Sterling. Here, Sterling, former director of Campus Safety, chats with another attendee.

The 12th annual RITirees Picnic took place June 9 in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Two retirees received the RITirees Award: Marvin Sachs and Richard Sterling, a former staff member. Here, Sachs, a former faculty member in the NTID Department of Science and Mathematics, chats with another attendee.

RIT is hosting the Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge June 11-13 at RIT’s Gordon Field House and at Hogback MX in Palmyra, Wayne County. Here, the team from Keimyung University, South Korea, rolls their car to the inspection stations.

Renowned designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli were among those who recently toured the new Vignelli Center for Design Studies. The four-story facility, which opens this fall, includes galleries, archival space, classrooms, and offices. The center will house the entire archive of Massimo and Lella Vignelli whose graphic and product designs are icons of international design. Massimo Vignelli was one of the presenters at the Future of Reading conference on June 11.

Johanna Drucker, the inaugural Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, presented as part of the Future of Reading Conference on June 10.