Campus Spotlight
12/10/2013
Metal sculptor Albert Paley created 13 pieces that were installed on Park Avenue in New York City in June. Paley, who holds an endowed chair at RIT’s College of Imaging arts and Sciences, attended the premiere of the film chronicling the project produced by WXXI on Dec. 9. The film includes segments at RIT and an interview with James Watters, RIT senior vice president of finance and administration. Tune in to WXXI-TV on Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. for Paley on Park Avenue: New York City.
12/9/2013
Students from the High Speed Photography class brave below freezing temperatures to pull off their semester’s final shoot. A collaboration between students from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and the Center for Imaging Science, the students photographed RIT Formula SAE Team’s F-18 race car. Using stroboscopic lighting, the car slid in an arc around an array of cameras (and students) with synchronized flashes of light.
12/8/2013
The RIT Cosplay Troupe sponsored its annual Cosplay Snow Festival on Dec. 7. The Snow Ball Dance, contests, panels and performances were all part of the day.
12/7/2013
RIT alumna Gale Gand ’81 visited with students in the hospitality program on Dec. 6. The nationally acclaimed pastry chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality, teacher and entrepreneur talked about her time at RIT, a graduate of its art program, and her career shift to hospitality and restaurants. She has been recognized as Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year by The James Beard Foundation as well as by Bon Appetite magazine.
12/5/2013
Margaret Bailey is the principal investigator of a $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program for a project intended to increase representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics at RIT. The professor of mechanical engineering in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering also is the founding member of the women in engineering program, WE@RIT.
12/4/2013
At a meeting Dec. 3 at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., are RIT President Bill Destler, and to the right, NGA Deputy Director Michael A. Rodrigue, RIT Professor David Messinger, Trustee Jeffrey Harris ’75 and far right, RIT Vice President of Government and Community Relations Deborah Stendardi. The meeting was just prior to an RIT-hosted Capitol Hill briefing, “STEM Workforce in Remote Sensing, a National Imperative: Views and Next Steps from the Intelligence, Corporate and Academic Communities.”
12/3/2013
Marissa Masek, a fifth-year photographic sciences and biology student, celebrated her 23rd birthday on Dec. 2 by inviting friends to a studio filled with 360 balloons to toss around and photograph.
12/2/2013
Bethany Choate ’06 and Matthew Heimbueger ’06 are building their own 2,048-square-foot sustainable home in suburban Rochester. The imaging science graduates plan to move in by the end of this year.
11/26/2013
The Tiger’s Next Top Model competition concluded with a runway show on Nov. 22. Students Hailey Koth and Kyle Brossoit were chosen as the winners at the end of the show.
11/25/2013
RIT men’s hockey fans cheered for their team during the game with St. Lawrence University Nov. 23.
11/21/2013
After making its debut during a prestigious event in New York City this summer, one of the 13 original pieces that metal sculptor Albert Paley created for a Park Avenue exhibition has a permanent home on the RIT campus. Cloaked Intention was installed Nov. 20 in the quad between Golisano Institute for Sustainability and Louise M. Slaughter Hall. The acquisition of the piece was made possible by a gift from longtime RIT trustee Ann Mulligan.
11/21/2013
Effective this semester, Grace Watson Dining Hall has eliminated disposable to-go containers and replaced them with reusable ones. The new containers are washable and will be collected in drop-off kiosks around campus, brought back to the dining hall and washed. RIT wants to turn Gracie’s into a zero-waste facility.
11/20/2013
The Imagining Rochester class, taught by Jessica Lieberman, assistant professor of visual culture at RIT, visited the Rochester subway recently. From left, Olivia Samone, Emily Fava, and Eric Bichan explored the tunnels.
11/19/2013
The RIT men’s and women’s hockey teams, Corner Crew, Pep Band and university members gathered on Nov. 19 to sign the last ceiling beams to be installed into the Gene Polisseni Center.
11/19/2013
Key state officials, including Secretary of State Cesar Perales, joined the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council at a meeting at RIT’s MAGIC Center on Nov. 18. The meeting concluded a day-long tour and visit by state officials to review the council’s progress on current and future priority projects.
11/18/2013
Students from the CIAS Honors Program offered holiday portraits to raise money for their trip to Italy over the intercession. Allison Parssi, center, a second-year photography student, puts her studio experience to work while Jasmine Lockwood, right, a third-year new media design student, gets smiles from even the youngest of subjects.
11/17/2013
Dance groups from all genres competed Nov. 15 in CAB Friday Night Live and Velocity Dance’s annual contest to crown RIT’s Best Dance Crew. To see more CAB events, go to rit.edu/studentaffairs/cab.
11/14/2013
RIT men’s hockey junior captain Matt Garbowsky, along with Brad McGowan, and women’s hockey junior captains Celeste Brown and Lindsay Grigg, invite the Rochester and RIT communities to sign the last ceiling beams Tuesday before they are installed into the Gene Polisseni Center. The event will take place 1-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the lower level of the Ritter Arena and RIT locker room entrance. The rink is scheduled to open in time for the 2014-15 season.
11/12/2013
Students walked toward the residence halls during a snowy afternoon at RIT.
11/12/2013
Joe Oh, left, plays against Jacob Foley in a Dance Dance Revolution competition during Nerdocalypse in the Brick City Cafe on Nov. 10.
11/11/2013
RIT hosted its third annual Veterans Day Breakfast Nov. 11 to pay tribute to members of the campus community who serve or have served honorably in uniform.
11/10/2013
RIT students competed in dance, talent, formal wear and a Q&A session for the title of “Mr. RIT” on Nov. 8. The event raised more than $3,200 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and Tom Weekes was crowned the winner.
11/8/2013
Third-year Saunders College of Business student Naixin Kang toasts a marshmallow at “The Roast of SG” Nov. 7 in the Fireside Lounge. The event allowed students to give feedback to a college or division and meet Student Government leaders.
11/7/2013
RIT Archives celebrated our tiger mascot’s 50th birthday with exhibits, games and cake. SpiRIT, RIT’s former live tiger mascot, was on display for the Nov. 7 event.
11/7/2013
Dan Bruton, left, and David Frank are converting waste cooking oil into biodiesel and other uses inside the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.
11/6/2013
Come see Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew as you’ve never seen it before! This RIT/NTID production, directed by Aaron Kelstone and Jerry Argetsinger, is playing in the Robert F. Panara Theatre 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7–9 and 2 p.m. Nov. 10.
11/5/2013
Jessica Lieberman’s documentation of her two-year medical journey in “Becoming Visible” will be on display in a photographic exhibition at Gallery r through Nov. 27. An accompanying book is available from RIT Press. Gallery r is handicapped accessible and is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. All exhibits are free and open to the public.
11/4/2013
Barnes & Noble @ RIT hosted a meet-and-greet with the RIT men’s hockey team on Nov. 2. Money raised from autographed team photos, hockey memorabilia, raffles and special edition ornaments will support Hockey Coaches Care, the official charitable foundation of the American Hockey Coaches Association.
11/3/2013
When Brian Koberlein couldn’t find an astrophysics textbook for undergraduates, he decided to write his own. Koberlein, senior lecturer in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, collaborated with David Meisel, distinguished professor at State University of New York at Geneseo, to publish Astrophysics through Computation, by Cambridge University Press.
11/1/2013
RIT students were treated to a Halloween-themed dinner at Grace Watson Dining Hall on Oct. 31. The meal included roasted chicken, grilled salmon, pumpkin ravioli, kielbasa and ghoulish desserts like chocolate pudding graves and Oreo mummies. Here, Erin Nguyen, a second-year student in 3-D design, created her costume to resemble Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
10/30/2013
On Oct. 29, the Schmitt Interfaith Center Rededication ceremony celebrated the renovation of the upper lobby, the Allen Chapel and the Jones Chapel. The Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Foundation made a lead gift to kick off the renovation. It was designed to transition the center from its original focus on mainline Protestant and Jewish faith groups to include modern Christian faith groups, the growing Muslim population and other faiths, such as Zen Buddhist groups. It has also improved the center’s facilities for cultural events, such as concerts, recitals and social gatherings. The rededication featured readings, prayers and reflections from the chaplains and leaders of RIT’s Center for Religious Life’s many faith groups.
10/29/2013
Kim Kolb initially joined the Center for Detectors as a senior undergraduate in the microelectronics program. After gaining industry experience, she returned to RIT on a fellowship from the military contractor BAE Systems to pursue a master’s degree from the Center for Imaging Science.
10/27/2013
Owners with their certified therapy dogs provided a welcome break for RIT students in the Fireside Lounge Oct. 25. Here, Mike and Barbara Serve’s goldendoodle, Tucker, gets attention from students. The event was sponsored by Student Wellness as a stress reduction activity. Research indicates that pet therapy improves psychological well-being and self-esteem.
10/25/2013
Frank Sciremammano, professor of mechanical engineering in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, serves as a member of the St. Lawrence River Board of Control. The board provides specialized studies, oversight and regulation of Lake Ontario water levels for the International Joint Commission, the organization that manages the shared water resources on the U.S. and Canadian sides of the lake. He was appointed to the board in 1995 and is one of 10 members—five each from the U.S. and Canada—overseeing system operations. Through community outreach and education, he provides insights into how the regulatory process works and acts as an advocate for the protection of the economic, environmental and residential resources that surround the lake.
10/24/2013
Jenn Poggi joined RIT this fall as a visiting assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences following four years at the White House, where she served as a picture editor and deputy director of the Photo Office.
10/23/2013
Students Senam Akorli, left, and Sarah Fairbank have designed jewelry that was worn on the runway at Fashion Week of Rochester Oct. 16-20. Akorli is a Ghana native and second-year graduate student in the jewelry design program. Her work shows traditional aspects of her culture while also employing copper, brass, feathers and precious stones. Fairbank is a fourth-year jewelry design student who makes pieces that incorporate elements such as fur and feathers.
10/23/2013
A roundtable titled “Growing Computer and Video Game Development in New York,” was held Oct. 22 at RIT to gather comment from interactive entertainment leaders, entrepreneurs and legislators on how New York state can attract and support the video game design and development industry. The session was hosted by New York State Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Science, Technology, Incubation and Entrepreneurship. Pictured here are RIT President Bill Destler, MAGIC Center Director Andrew Phelps and Golden.
10/22/2013
Roger Harnish, professor of psychology in RIT’s College of Liberal Arts, has been researching dreams for nearly 30 years. He has developed an app called Dream Professor that uses a series of algorithms to provide detailed analyses of users’ dreams.
10/21/2013
Barnes & Noble @ RIT hosted a meet-and-greet with the RIT women’s hockey team on Oct. 19. Money raised from autographed team photos and a silent auction benefits AutismUp, an autism organization in Rochester.
10/18/2013
RIT industrial design alumnus Scott Wilson, founder of Chicago-based Minimal Inc. and former global director at Nike, delivered the keynote address at the 10th annual RIT Entrepreneurs Conference hosted by Saunders College of Business on Oct. 18. Since founding Minimal in 2007, National Design Award winner Wilson has designed a variety of commercially successful products that include the Xbox 360 + Kinect, the SW_1 Collection for Coalesse and TikTok+LunaTik Watch Kits, which turn Apple’s sixth generation iPod nano into a wristwatch.
10/17/2013
Shannon McCormick ’13 makes adjustments to an isothermal reactor in one of the state-of-the-art labs in Institute Hall, home of RIT’s new chemical engineering program.
10/16/2013
Watch for deer, foxes and other wildlife in the woods and trails surrounding the RIT campus. Drive carefully, slow down and scan the forested areas near roads to avoid any collisions.
10/15/2013
VisitRochester, the official tourism organization for Greater Rochester, hosted several executives from New York City last week and made a trip to RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability. The group included Mark Jaffe, left, president of the New York City Chamber of Commerce, and New York Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy ’93 (multidisciplinary studies). Nabil Nasr, associate provost and director of Golisano Institute for Sustainabilty, is seated in the middle.
10/14/2013
The Brick City 5K Fun Run & Walk took place on Oct. 13 around the RIT campus. It was one of the final events during RIT’s Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.
10/14/2013
RIT’s Department of Modern Languages and Cultures in the College of Liberal Arts hosted a lecture and demonstration of a Japanese tea ceremony Oct. 11. Here, Yasue Kumano, a professor from Yamaguchi University and Ikenobo Junior College in Japan, demonstrates the practice based on the spirit of Ichigo-ichie, or the opportunity of a lifetime treasuring moments spent with guests that can never be duplicated.
10/12/2013
RIT welcomed astronaut Mark Kelly and former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as this year’s Horton Distinguished Speakers Oct. 12 in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center, part of Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.
10/12/2013
Leaders from RIT’s Student Government met with astronaut Mark Kelly as he shared stories during a roundtable discussion on Oct.12. Kelly and former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords spoke as this year's Student Government Horton Distinguished Speakers during RIT’s Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend.
10/12/2013
RIT/NTID alumnus Sean Forbes ’08 performed his unique brand of hip-hop/sign music on Oct. 11.
10/11/2013
A grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for Sebastian and Lenore Rosica Hall was held Oct. 11. Cutting the ribbon are RIT Professor and NTID Dean Emeritus Jim DeCaro, NTID President and RIT Vice President and Dean Gerry Buckley, Diana Spencer, executive director of the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, who provided a $1.75 million naming gift, and members of the Rosica family.
10/11/2013
Saunders College hosted the Gasser Lecture Series with Daymond John, founder of FUBU apparel and one of the savvy investors on ABC’s reality television series Shark Tank on Oct. 11. John discussed fundamental concepts from his new book, The Brand Within: Branding Yourself from Birth to the Boardroom.
10/11/2013
Robert Latorre, an RIT alumnus, created The Big Freeze Worldwide, which is the most advanced Camera Array System in the world. The system is now in its 5th generation and has been used in feature films, commercials, and on the Red Carpet. Here, RIT student Lia DiRico and friends test it out in a demonstration after Latorre gave a talk on campus.
10/11/2013
Comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood from the Emmy-nominated show Whose Line Is It Anyway? hosted an improvisational show Oct. 10 to help kick-off RIT’s Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend, which runs Oct. 10 -13. The comedians used their razor-sharp wit and improv skills, while interacting with the audience to create hilarious and original scenes.
10/11/2013
Hundreds of RIT/NTID students, some seeking co-ops, others looking for permanent jobs, lined up to meet prospective employers at the NTID Job Fair on Oct. 10.
10/9/2013
RIT’s College of Liberal Arts celebrated the official opening of the Stan McKenzie Commons on Oct. 9, named for the former RIT provost and longtime English department faculty member. McKenzie donated $300,000 to the college to renovate the commons area in Liberal Arts Hall and to fund a salon series that will highlight research being performed by Liberal Arts faculty and students.
10/9/2013
A Japanese-style stone bench was dedicated in a ceremony at the Tojo Garden in honor of the 20th anniversary of the RIT-KIT partnership on Oct. 9.
10/8/2013
RIT President Bill Destler and Kananzawa Institute of Technology President Ken-ichi Ishikawa hosted presidential symposium “Musical Notes and Magical Knives.” Here, President Ishikawa spoke about the history of sword making in Japan.
10/8/2013
RIT alumna Debra Rothenberg ’84 has written her first book, Bruce Springsteen In Focus 1980-2012. The book includes personal essays and over 250 photographs and was named one of the five best photography books coming out this fall by The Wall Street Journal. A book launch is scheduled for Oct. 12 in Asbury Park, NJ at The Stone Pony, where Springsteen performed.
10/6/2013
RIT’s School for American Crafts sold its unique hand-blown glass pumpkins and gourds during the ninth annual Glass Pumpkin Patch fundraiser Oct. 5. Proceeds from the sale benefit the Visiting Artists Series for the RIT glass program as well as RIT Women’s Council scholarships.
10/3/2013
“Memories, Observations, Experiences, Obsessions” highlights Toby Thompson’s most recent works before he died in 2012 at the age of 79. The exhibition will be held through Dec. 14 in the University Gallery, and the public is invited to an opening reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11. Thompson began his teaching career at RIT in 1968. He received his M.S. degree in fine arts from RIT in 1975, was later appointed chair of industrial, interior and packaging design, and held that position until his retirement in 1996.
10/2/2013
Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. (District 1, Sag Harbor) met with Anahita Williamson, director of the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, inside the Golisano Institute for Sustainability on Oct. 2. Thiele, a member of the state’s Environmental Conservation Committee, received an update from Williamson on NYSP2I’s statewide sustainability efforts, including the Long Island wine industry initiative.
10/2/2013
Dan Smith, a senior project manager in the Center for Sustainable Mobility in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, discusses the lab’s capabilities with New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. DiNapoli visited RIT Oct. 1, including the university’s business incubator, Venture Creations, to promote a program for seed funding for start-up companies.
10/1/2013
Sunflowers line the Quarter Mile near the Gordon Field House. Greg Moss, senior director of the Center for Recreation and Intramurals, started the tradition of planting seeds in the spring several years ago. This year’s crop was the best display ever.
9/30/2013
RIT students participate in Mud Tug 2013, the annual all out tug-of-war tournament held behind Grace Watson Hall on Sept. 28. All proceeds from the event, hosted by Phi Kappa Psi and Zeta Tau Alpha, are donated to Hillside Family of Agencies.
9/29/2013
RIT students participate in Mud Tug 2013, the annual all out tug-of-war tournament held behind Grace Watson Hall on Sept. 28. All proceeds from the event, hosted by Phi Kappa Psi and Zeta Tau Alpha, are donated to Hillside Family of Agencies. Left to right, Maria de Sande, Jessica Cook, Emily Heitz and Conor McKaig.
9/29/2013
Everybody Dancing: The Interactivity of Creativity and Innovation was an audience-participatory performance directed by Thomas Warfield, RIT assistant professor in NTID’s Cultural and Creative Studies Department, at The Little Theatre during the second annual Fringe Festival on Sept. 28.
9/29/2013
Eight Beat Measure, an RIT a cappella group, performed at the Little Cafe during the second annual Fringe Festival on Sept. 28.
9/28/2013
One of RIT’s musical groups, the Ukulele Club, performed at the Little Cafe during the second annual Fringe Festival on Sept. 28.
9/27/2013
Barbara Cowles, center, manager of the original and iconic Shop One (1953-1977), visited Shop One2 in Global Village on Sept. 27. She shared stories with artist Laura Wilder, left, and Wendy Marks, Shop One2 manager, about her husband, Hobart Cowles, professor of ceramics at the School for American Craftsmen (now the School for American Crafts) from 1951 to 1980.
9/27/2013
Brian Landi ’02, ’06, right, leads research in the Nanopower Research Labs in addition to teaching in the chemical engineering program. He mentored Reginald Rogers, left, who was a post-doctoral researcher in the lab, and recent chemical engineering graduate Garry Clarke. Rogers became a full-time, tenure-track faculty member in 2012 and Clarke began work in Philadelphia in June as a process engineer.
9/26/2013
Today is ROAR Day, the official launch of the 2013-2014 Fund for RIT annual giving campaign. Stations will be set up across campus to encourage annual gifts to RIT, or gifts can be made online. Donors can designate where their dollars go, and undesignated gifts will go to RIT’s General Scholarship Fund. For more information, go to www.rit.edu/development/giving/ROAR.
9/25/2013
250 companies registered for the annual Fall Career Fair in the Gordon Field House on Sept. 25. Over 3,400 students and around 200 alumni attended the fair.
9/24/2013
One of RIT’s a cappella groups, Proof of Purchase, performed at the Little Cafe during the second annual Fringe Festival on Sept. 22. The festival continues through Saturday. To see a schedule of RIT-related performances, go to www.rit.edu/gcr/fringefest.
9/23/2013
RIT joins artistic forces with local businesses and cultural organizations in downtown Rochester’s East End for the second annual First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. On tap are more than 20 performances showcasing an eclectic mix of poetry readings, dance, film, theater, music and visual arts. Here, Alexis Harris, one of the RIT Poetry Slam Team, performed on Sept. 23. For a schedule of RIT-related events, go to www.rit.edu/gcr/fringefest/.
9/22/2013
RIT joins artistic forces with local businesses and cultural organizations in downtown Rochester’s East End for the second annual Fringe Festival. On tap are more than 20 performances showcasing an eclectic mix of poetry readings, dance, film, theater, music and visual arts. Go to www.rit.edu/gcr/fringefest to see a list of RIT-related performances. Here, Wild Nights-Play That Funky Music performed on Sept. 21 in the Little Cafe.
9/20/2013
Bruce Barnes, the Ron and Donna Fielding Director of George Eastman House, discussed the future of the Rochester landmark in the first installment of the 2013-2014 William A. Kern Lecture Series at RIT on Sept. 19. The Kern lecture series, sponsored by an endowment from RIT’s William A. Kern Professorship in Communications in the College of Liberal Arts, provides an opportunity for scholarly discussion surrounding contemporary communication issues.
9/19/2013
Gallery r’s newest exhibition, A Season of Festivals, features a series of panoramic photographs of Rochester’s 2012 festivals by Frank Cost, professor and program chair in RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.The gallery, located at 100 College Ave., will host a meet and greet with the artist from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sept. 21, during the 2013 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.
9/19/2013
Kindergartners from Margaret’s House, RIT’s on-campus child care center, sold handmade cards Sept. 19 to benefit victims of recent flooding in Colorado. Inspired by the book The Can Do Duck: A Story about Believing in Yourself, some of the youngest students on campus donned their duck hats with cards in hand to show that anyone can make a difference. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Red Cross.
9/18/2013
Casey Kelly ’13 looks at corporate identity manuals in the Graphic Design Archive. The Graphic Design Archive now includes the work of 40 designers and continues to grow.
9/15/2013
Frank Argento ’64, ’70 (art and design, MFA) began working at RIT in 1965 in the Instructional Resources Center. He moved to NTID in 1973 after getting his MFA with a focus on visual communications and filmmaking. By 1980, he was teaching classes in film and television and helped students produce their own news shows for the Student Television Network. Today, he continues to teach a full load of art and design classes at NTID and he pursues his own art on the side.
9/13/2013
RIT Press author Jack Garner signs copies of his just-released book, From My Seat on the Aisle: Movies and Memories. The book launch was hosted by the George Eastman House and was preceded by Garner’s reading of selections from his book to a packed audience in the Dryden Theater on Sept. 12.
9/12/2013
Matt Hoffman, assistant professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, leads a class in matrices and boundary value problems.
9/11/2013
RIT President Bill Destler, center, and Managing Director of Uncommon Rochester Josh Phillips listen while RIT Trustee Ronald L. Zarrella shares his vision for the charter high school that RIT and Uncommon Schools are partnering to develop. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50235.
9/10/2013
Rick Tolleson, lab manager for computer engineering, plants a flag in the quad near the Sentinel for Patriot Day. Members of the Air Force ROTC sold flags for a $1 donation Sept. 9 and 10, with proceeds to benefit the FealGood Foundation, an organization that supports first responders injured following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The Air Force ROTC also held a vigil Wednesday morning, playing “Taps” and saluting the flags at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m. and 10:03 a.m.
9/9/2013
Hundreds of students from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf spent Friday afternoon dancing, making new friends and learning about the variety of clubs, services and activities available for RIT students at the annual Apple Festival, put on by NTID’s Student Life Team.
9/9/2013
Tony Harkin, associate professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, balances a tensegrity structure on his hand. Structures with “tensional integrity” appear in architecture, engineering and biology.
9/5/2013
In addition to a successful career as senior partner in the Marbury Law Group in Virginia, Jon Roberts, a 1970 graduate of RIT’s imaging science program, has maintained a steadfast passion for the arts and music singing with the National Symphony Orchestra and acting in theater productions. He serves on the President’s Roundtable and has established a scholarship with his wife, Jessie, in support of science students who participate in the performing arts.
9/4/2013
The Gene Polisseni Center is starting to take shape. The arena will be the home of the men’s and women’s hockey teams and is expected to be open for play in fall 2014.
9/3/2013
R. Roger Remington, RIT’s longest-serving faculty member, will be honored this fall for his lifework in graphic design. Remington, the Lella and Massimo Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, will also celebrate 50 years of teaching.
8/30/2013
Preethi Gopalan, second from right, a microsystems doctoral student, explains the inner workings of a large-scale fuel cell to lab co-workers, from left, Valentina Mejia, Camila Gomez and Carmen Azzaretti. The four worked closely together this summer on several projects led by mechanical engineering professor Satish Kandlikar. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50199.
8/29/2013
Installation of a time capsule marking the conversion from the quarter system to semesters took place on Aug. 29. The capsule contains a video of interviews with students, faculty, staff and alumni on what this milestone means for the university, plus a proclamation from the board of trustees and other memorabilia.
8/28/2013
Wade Kellard, an RIT/NTID mechanical engineering technology major, demonstrates technology that converts hand shapes to text. He’s a member of MotionSavvy, a team of students who participated in the Saunders Summer Start-up Program, which provides mentoring for newly-formed businesses. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50200.
8/27/2013
Cori Kolb’s ongoing medical challenges haven’t stopped her from earning RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship Award and an accounting degree from Saunders College of Business last May, or her gig as a soprano singer and business director of Encore, RIT’s all-female a cappella vocal ensemble. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50197.
8/26/2013
J. Fernando Naveda, calendar conversion director, has led RIT through the transition to a semester system. A campus-wide celebration marking the milestone academic calendar change will be at 3 p.m. today in Ingle Auditorium. The celebration also will be live streamed with real-time captioning at www.rit.edu.
8/26/2013
Red Wings General Manager Dan Mason introduced RIT’s hockey teams at the first-ever RIT Day with the Rochester Red Wings on Aug. 24. The 2013 RIT men’s lacrosse team was honored at home plate and members of the men’s and women’s hockey teams signed autographs during the game.
8/25/2013
RIT held its eighth annual Lighting the Way ceremony on Aug. 23 to welcome new female students to campus.
8/24/2013
Renovations to Barnes and Noble @ RIT are complete. Murals featuring campus scenes were hung on the walls and the children’s book department has a new look, featuring a stage and sitting area. To read more about this and other construction projects, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50202.
8/23/2013
RIT President Bill Destler welcomed the university community back to the 2013-2014 academic year on Aug. 23. He believes the coming year “will be one of the most important in the history of RIT.”
8/21/2013
Student Convocation welcomed new students and their families on Aug. 21. The program included remarks from President Bill Destler; Jeremy Haefner, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs; and Heath Boice-Pardee, interim senior vice president for student affairs. Todd Pagano, associate professor and director of Laboratory Science Technology at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, served as keynote speaker.
8/21/2013
RIT community members cheer on incoming freshman students Aug. 21 as they take the Tiger Walk to the Gordon Field House for Convocation for New Students and Families. Todd Pagano, associate professor and director of Laboratory Science Technology in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year, delivered the keynote address. Student Government President Paul Darragh, a third-year software engineering major, also spoke.
8/21/2013
Steve Ierardi, from Southern California, sported an orange mustache to get into the RIT spirit during Orientation on Aug. 20. His son, Weston, is a first-year student in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.
8/20/2013
Incoming students were immersed in the Orange and Brown Experience, one of RIT’s DiscoveRIT Pre-Orientation Programs. The collaborative program ran Aug. 16-19 and taught students about RIT’s history, how to navigate campus as well as an introduction to the American Sign Language alphabet and common signs. Here, from left, Claire Fleming, Andrea Shaver and Andrew Greene practice some signs.
8/20/2013
New freshmen arrived at RIT during Move-In Day Aug. 20. RIT President Bill Destler stopped by to lend a hand as new students carried in their belongings for the coming school year.
8/19/2013
RIT’s newest group of honors students arrived on campus Aug. 17 for a week of orientation activities including meeting college advocates, enjoying a daylong retreat at YMCA Camp Arrowhead and participating in a campus-wide scavenger hunt. Here, a group located the Schmitt Interfaith Center, a spot on the scavenger hunt list.
8/19/2013
Nearly 265 deaf and hard-of-hearing students arrived on campus on Aug. 16 to attend the Summer Vestibule Program, an orientation program for RIT/NTID students.
8/14/2013
Thomas A. Nantka and Wilma A. (Tessmann) Nantka met as students at RIT, married in May of 1953, and celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this year.
8/9/2013
Construction continues on the Gene Polisseni Center. The arena will be the home of the men’s and women’s hockey teams and is expected to be open for play in Fall 2014.
8/7/2013
Fourth-year hospitality major Elizabeth Prater was among the hundreds of employees and volunteers at this year’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y. Serving as a host in the Wannemaker VIP Tent on the grounds of the country club, she had a chance to meet-and-greet some of the 18,000-plus guests attending the final practice day of the tournament on Aug. 7. Prater, a Fairport resident, and several other students in RIT’s School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation worked at the event as interns or co-ops with the PGA, Oak Hill or Levy’s Restaurants, learning firsthand the coordination and details required to successfully manage a major professional golf tournament. The hospitality students were among several groups from RIT, including alumni, students from ITS and others, helping out with the event.
8/6/2013
Shivan Shah, standing at center, read online about the weeklong camp, “From Finches to Fish: The Making of the Fittest,” at RIT and wanted to enroll. The 10th-grader at Clarence High School—and her mom—drove to RIT from Buffalo in time for the 9 a.m. class, offered by the Center for Bioscience Education and Technology Aug. 5-9. Here, instructor Gary Buckert, a science teacher at Pittsford-Sutherland High School, shows Shivan and Angela Rubin, left, a 10th-grader from Rush-Henrietta Senior High School, and Myah Sims, a ninth-grader from Ninth Grade Academy, how to separate and analyze proteins from the muscle tissue of different fish and a chicken. The Center for Bioscience Education and Technology is part of the Institute of Health Sciences and Technology.
8/5/2013
At RIT/NTID’s TechGirlz summer camp, deaf and hard-of-hearing middle school girls from all over the country enjoyed the opportunity to build their own computers and more. The camp took place July 28-August 2.
8/2/2013
RIT/NTID’s Steps to Success summer camp gave deaf and hard-of-hearing middle school students a chance to explore careers, including laboratory science. The camp was held July 26-28.
7/27/2013
Massimo Vignelli led a design workshop with RIT professors R. Roger Remington and Bruce Ian Meader the week of July 22. The 20 participants focused on a design and typographic identity for a jazz festival. A highlight of the week was a conversation, moderated by Remington, with Vignelli on July 25. Vignelli is president of Vignelli Associates in New York City. He and his wife, Lella, donated their archive to the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT.
7/23/2013
The 5th annual Graduate Research and Creativity Symposium offered a showcase for graduate work featuring more than 50 presentations on a variety of topics including binary black holes, how the Federal Reserve controls the stock market and an analysis of Rochester pawn shops. Here, Valerie Rapson explains a young binary star system. The daylong symposium was sponsored by RIT’s Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies on July 23.
7/22/2013
RoboCamp @ RIT is a weeklong day camp that lets students design, build and program robots. This camp is enriched with mini-projects and goals that promote teamwork and creativity. Along with the mini-projects, instructors teach the students some of the fundamental aspects of robotics and programming. Sessions are held through August.
7/17/2013
Nearly 200 deaf or hard-of-hearing high school students from across the country attended RIT/NTID’s Explore Your Future Program to sample careers, experience life on a college campus, make new friends and have fun.
7/13/2013
Community volunteers assisted 40 bikers during I Can Bike, held at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center July 8-12. The camp helps kids with autism learn how to ride a bike without training wheels, which organizers say builds self-confidence and provides inclusion with peers. Above, 7-year-old Mark Bress gets encouragement from Alison Durocher, a volunteer from Rochester. AutismUp, an organization that supports individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families, hosted the event with help from many sponsors and volunteers.
7/11/2013
Everyday Engineering, a summer camp for girls entering grades 5-9, is a weeklong day program sponsored by the Women in Engineering program, part of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. This year’s theme was “Energy and Environment” and the 40 campers designed, built, decorated and displayed their energy-efficient dog houses, one of the many hands-on activities during the camp designed to spark interest in engineering and technology fields.
7/11/2013
From left to right, Casey Jordan, with Venture Creations Director Bill Jones and Jordan’s business partner, Patrick Borsek, celebrate the graduation of Jordan and Borsek’s company, Jorsek, from the RIT business incubator on July 10. Jorsek provides software to aid technical communications. Venture Creations helps young high-tech businesses grow through mentoring and support.
7/5/2013
Garry Clarke holds the distinction as the first “unofficial” student enrolled in the new chemical engineering program. The New York City native graduated in May.
7/2/2013
RIT Press won two awards at the recent Book, Jacket, and Journal Show of the Association of American University Presses Conference held in Boston on June 22. Four jurors reviewed hundreds of entries and selected The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris by Kay Amert and edited by Robert Bringhurst in the Scholarly Typographic category and Vignelli Transit Maps by Peter B. Lloyd with Mark Ovenden and designed by Bruce Ian Meader (CIAS) in the Trade Illustrated category.
