| Touching experience with nature |
 | An interactive installation of flowers, trees and insects created by RIT professor Roberley Bell provides a sensory experience for visitors to a new museum in Western New York.
Bell, professor of foundations in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, created Flower Blobs Bloom, a landscape installation, one of the inaugural exhibits at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College. The exhibit is open to the public through March 15. Bell is the first artist commissioned to develop her work for this new interactive space in the art center called The Useum. She invites her audiences to rest on a flower petal made of astroturf or even create their own garden. Lorrie Frear, RIT professor of graphic design, designed and painted a wall mural of flowers that accompanies Flower Blobs Bloom. A. Sue Weisler |
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| A friend visits Margaret’s House |
 | RIT President Bill Destler took time out to read a story to kindergarten children from Margaret's House Dec. 17. No ordinary story, it was a special book produced in collaboration with the kindergarten students and RIT students in the arts and imaging studies program at NTID/RIT. A
Curious Friend Visits RIT is the story of Curious George's walk at RIT and his adventures along the way. Many children asked President Destler to sign their copies, making them even more special. A. Sue Weisler |
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| Reporter magazine makes news |
 | An innovative collaboration among the student staff at Reporter magazine and the staffs at the Printing Applications Laboratory and the HUB led to international accolades. Reporter's "Me" issue, which hit newsstands around campus in May, won the Printing Innovation with Xerox Imaging Award. The issue, showcasing portraits of RIT students, faculty and staff on the front and back covers, as well as the feature article, earned third place in the Books and Manuals category. Ten-thousand magazines were printed and no two copies were alike. This was accomplished by using a printing process called variable data printing. A panel of international leaders from the graphic arts industry served as award judges. Criteria were based on business effectiveness, use of digital technology, degree of innovation and overall aesthetics. Submitted photograph |
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Congressman makes a visit to RIT
 | The Honorable Eric Massa, recently elected representative for the 29th Congressional District, right, visited RIT last month. He met with RIT President Bill Destler and NTID President Alan Hurwitz and toured the laboratories in the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies with assistant provost for academic affairs Nabil Nasr. Here, Michael Thurston, technical director of the Systems Modernization and Sustainment Center, explains the work that RIT is doing with the U.S. Department of Defense to improve the performance and predictive maintenance processes for military vehicles.
"Our local colleges and universities are producing the next generation of leaders," says Massa. "We need to work together to give our talented young people a reason to stay in Western New York. During our campaign, I focused on how we can partner our local centers of education with industries focusing on green technologies of the future. I recently saw GM's Fuel Cell Development Center in Honeoye Falls, and RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability—clearly there is potential for partnerships to grow between institutions such as these for the benefit of not only our local region, but also for the benefit of the entire country." Elizabeth Torgerson-Lamark |
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