Faculty earn trustee scholarship awards

Michael Stinson

John Schott

The Education Committee of RIT’s Board of Trustees selected Michael Stinson from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and John Schott from the College of Science as the 2009 recipients of the Trustee Scholarship Award. This award, established in 2005, is the premier RIT recognition for faculty contributions to scholarship, research and creative work.

Michael Stinson received his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Michigan and is a research faculty and professor in the Department of Research and Teacher Education. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Leeds, England, and a guest professor at the Institut fur Rehabilitationspagogik, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

He is the inventor of the C-Print speech-to-text system and his research focuses on the use of technology that supports deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Stinson has been awarded more than $6 million in grants that support his research. He has received the RIT Million Dollar PI Award, the RIT Commercialization Award, the RIT Intellectual Property Productivity Award, the Outstanding Research on the Education of Deaf Persons Award by the American Educational Research Association, the NTID National Advisory Group Outstanding Service Award, and the National Student Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. Stinson has written 17 book chapters or books and more than 50 journal articles.

John Schott received his doctorate in environmental science, remote sensing, from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse University. He currently is director of the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory and a professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.

Schott has broad research and development experience in advanced technology for solving problems related to imaging science and remote sensing. He has served as the principal investigator on numerous research programs for both governmental and private sectors, including serving as a principal investigator for NASA’s Landsat 7 Science Team. Schott also serves as a member of the Intelligence Science Board, which advises the intelligence community and the director of National Intelligence.

Schott’s research has led to more than 100 technical publications, including a recent reference book on remote sensing, as well as co-inventor status on two patents. In addition, he has been awarded more than $10 million in sponsored grants and projects over the last decade.