The 21st Annual College & Careers program at RIT is an amazing opportunity for you to explore career options through interactive academic sessions. These sessions include personal hands-on experience, demonstrations and discussions. Working with our renowned faculty and students you will discover and utilize the state-of-the-art facilities and technology available at RIT. July 20-21 & August 3-4 2012

RIT College and Careers website  www.rit.edu/emcs/admissions/careers/

College & Careers Sessions 2012

Thomas H Gosnell School of Life Sciences:

Title: Pre-Vet/Animal Sciences                                   AUGUST ONLY

Dr. Larry Buckley

Location: 8-2178

Capacity: 38

We will discuss the use of a Biology degree as preparation for careers
that involve various Biological Sciences such as Zoology, Animal Behavior,
Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science, and other related disciplines.
Discussion with many hands-on examples of specimens will be provided to
participants.

School of Physics and Astronomy:

Title:  Particle Physics in the News: Higgs, Neutrinos, and You

Aaron McGowan

Location: 8-3365                                                         JULY ONLY

Capacity: 20

What is it about particle physics that makes it newsworthy?  Is it your tax dollars going towards giant machines that probe the mysteries of the universe?  Does the Higgs boson endow you with your mass every time you step on the bathroom scale?  Do neutrinos really travel faster than light?  Come see a working detector that shows you some of the particles that are streaming through your body every second, and find out what all the fuss is about!

Title: Solar Energy and Nanomaterials

Instructor: Seth Hubbard for August

Room: 78-1480

Capacity: 12

We will explore some basic concepts involving solar energy and solar cells. This includes demonstration of the operation of solar to electric energy conversion, storage concepts using hydrogen electrolysis and batteries, and ultra-high efficiency solar cell concepts. A variety of solar cell materials and designs will be demonstrated from standard roof mounted systems to high intensity concentration concepts. We will also explore examples of how nanomaterials are currently being used to enhance the efficiency of energy conversion, storage and transmission.

School of Mathematical Sciences:

Title: Lets Make A Deal

Instructor: Jim Marengo

Room: 08-3305

Capacity: 20

In this popular 1970's televised game show there is a brand new car behind one of three closed doors. There is a goat behind each of the other two doors. Monty Hall, the host of the show, knows which door conceals the car and he asks you, the contestant, to choose one of the three doors. (Your prize will be whatever is behind the door you end up choosing.) He then opens one of the two doors that you did not choose and shows you that there is a goat behind this door.

He then asks you to make a choice: Either you keep the door that you originally chose OR you switch and choose the other door which hasn't been opened yet. (Of course, one of these two doors has the new car behind it while the other door conceals another goat.) Once you make this choice, Monty Hall opens the door you chose and reveals whether you win a new car or a goat.

In order to obtain the best chance of winning the car, what should be your choice? Should you keep the door you originally chose, or should you switch and choose the other door instead? In this talk we use simple probabilities to answer this question. You may be surprised by the result

School of Chemistry and Materials Sciences:

Title: The Wonders of Chemistry

Instructors: Jeremy Cody & Paul Rosenberg

Room: 08-A335

Capacity: 12

Chemistry, imagination, and the world around us. Visit our Careers in Chemistry to gain a new appreciation for everything we encounter each day. Color, mystery, excitement, chemistry! Learn about everyday chemical mysteries. Where does color come from? What is a chemical reaction? How do materials behave under extreme conditions? Chemistry as a career is fun!

Before you leave this session, we will teach you how to make your own slime

Chester F Carlson Center for Imaging Science:

Title: Big Bang and Black Holes Join us for this hands-on session and explore the mysteries of the cosmos!

Instructor: Jake Noel-Storr

Room: 76-1155

Capacity: Limit 16

Find out how the latest tools and techniques allow astronomers (and you) to make discoveries about the universe from the enigmatic super massive black holes found in the centers of galaxies out to the very edges of space itself. You will have the chance to learn about some of the most energetic phenomena in the universe and how we detect and explain them, while working with real data collected from observatories both on the ground and in space (such as the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray observatory). Leave with your own images and unanswered questions to investigate!

RIT College and Careers website  www.rit.edu/emcs/admissions/careers/