Campus Spotlight
7/26/2012
Students in the Democrat and Chronicle’s multimedia journalism academy visit campus.
7/24/2012
Everyday Engineering campers assemble skateboards in the Toyota Production Systems Lab.
7/23/2012
The work of Kodak retiree Neil Montanus ’53 is on view at the High Falls Gallery.
7/23/2012
High school students attend NTID’s Explore Your Future summer camp.
7/20/2012
“Under the Influence: DRAW Artists and Their Mentors” is on exhibit in the Dyer Arts Center through Aug. 10.
7/19/2012
Work continues on the state-of-the-art facility for the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.
7/18/2012
Summer Start Up Program works with student entrepreneurs to help them accelerate the development of their business concepts. The program is sponsored by the E. Philip Saunders College of Business and the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
7/17/2012
Students present their research at the Graduate Research and Creativity Symposium.
7/16/2012
Caroline DeLong, RIT assistant professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts, works with Catina Wright, a zookeeper at Rochester’s Seneca Park Zoo, to study object perception in river otters. DeLong’s research in this area began with marine mammals—namely dolphins and whales—and now involves other aquatic animals including goldfish and otters.
7/13/2012
Twelve solar cars hit the road from RIT in the American Solar Challenge race.
7/12/2012
RIT students have partnered with residents in Rochester’s Marketview Heights neighborhood to create several gardens throughout the community. Through the University/Community Partnerships program in the College of Liberal Arts, RIT students educate neighborhood children about proper nutrition, where their food comes from, the benefits of growing their own food, and musical and artistic expression in the garden. In addition, all of the food cultivated in the garden is free to community residents.
7/5/2012
Many international students enroll in classes organized by the English Language Center.
7/3/2012
Imaging science doctoral candidate Abdul Syed was honored at a conference.
6/29/2012
David Brown of OptiCool discusses RIT’s data-center cooling technology.
6/29/2012
Graduate student Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse recently won a prestigious fellowship.
6/20/2012
Leadership coach Annie McKee speaks at the Women’s Leadership Conference June 19.
6/19/2012
More than 80 graduate students at RIT Dubai received master’s degrees last week.
6/14/2012
The university held its 14th annual RITirees Picnic in the Gordon Field House on June 13. The picnic honored all RIT retirees and welcomed a new class of retirees from 2012. The 2012 “RITirees Award” honored retired faculty member William Keyser from the School for American Crafts and retired staff member Linda Sallade, shown here, from Student Affairs.
6/14/2012
RIT held its 14th annual RITirees Picnic June 13.
6/13/2012
Orange and brown are popular colors in the wardrobes of the Lamb family. From left, Connor, Chuck, Susan and Devin are all active members of the RIT community and “tigers” at heart.
6/11/2012
Ryan Norris, left, and Benson Yu, fifth-year engineering majors, are part of the senior-design team that helped put a little extra swirl in Wegmans Food Markets marble cakes. The team designed equipment consisting of swirler modules to be used in the Bakeshop.
6/7/2012
David Royka’s class recently worked on a project with the Toy Resource Center.
6/5/2012
Race-walker Rachel Zoyhofsky is headed to the U.S. Olympic time trials in July.
6/4/2012
Nicole Mallory, a third-year physician assistant student, competed in the U.S. Olympic trials for flat-water kayaking in April, hoping to earn a coveted spot on the Olympic team. She placed fourth overall in the 500-meter race and took second place in the 500-meter kayak double with her racing partner, falling just short of making the team. Mallory has her sights set on the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro.
6/1/2012
Researchers from RIT and UB held the Joint Workshop on Disaster Response last week.
5/31/2012
The Financial Management Association recently met with executives in New York City.
5/30/2012
RIT Staff Council hosted the Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display on May 30.
5/29/2012
MBA candidate Adena Thomson’s journey to RIT started with tenacity and a violin.
5/29/2012
RIT celebrates its new crop of graduates with the university’s 127th commencement. The two-day observance kicked off during Academic Convocation on May 25 in RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Here, students from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf line up for their ceremony in the Ritter Ice Arena.
5/28/2012
More than 4,000 undergraduates and graduates received degrees last weekend.
5/25/2012
Bill Nye gave the keynote address at RIT’s 127th commencement on May 25.
5/24/2012
Neil Hair is a 2012 recipient of an Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. Hair is an associate professor of marketing in the E. Philip Saunders College of Business. In 2006, he received the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Both awards are named in honor of M. Herbert and Elsa Bausch Eisenhart. Mr. Eisenhart was the longtime president and board chairman of Bausch & Lomb Inc. and a member of RIT’s Board of Trustees for more than 50 years.
5/24/2012
Bernard Brooks, above, Neil Hair and Dan Bogaard earned this year’s Eisenhart Awards.
5/22/2012
Dan Bogaard is a 2012 recipient of an Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. Bogaard, an associate professor of information technology in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, is a faculty advisor for the college’s Web development minor and teaches courses in information technology, including Web client-side and client-server programming. The award is named in honor of M. Herbert and Elsa Bausch Eisenhart. Mr. Eisenhart was the longtime president and board chairman of Bausch & Lomb Inc. and a member of RIT’s Board of Trustees for more than 50 years.
5/22/2012
School for American Crafts students display their work for the “Walk-Through” May 21.
5/21/2012
Deputy Labor Secretary Seth Harris visits facilities in Louise M. Slaughter Hall.
5/21/2012
Design student Paula Garcia re-designed a hand splint for spinal cord patients.
5/20/2012
Jason Kolodziej is the 2012 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
5/18/2012
Dylan Heuer has worked with the Rochester Red Wings and now works for MLB.com.
5/17/2012
Professor Grover Swartzlander is helping astronomers learn about unresolved sources of light in space.
5/16/2012
RIT welcomes dt ogilvie as dean of the E. Philip Saunders College of Business.
5/15/2012
Interpreter and fitness instructor Daniel Maffia is featured in a new workout DVD.
5/14/2012
Science students Kimbria Blake and Colin Axel were named Goldwater Scholars.
5/12/2012
“Silent Laughter” is a silent movie performed live on stage and celebrates the glory days of the great comic actors of the 1920s such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the Mack Sennett Comedy Factory. The play features deaf and hearing actors on stage without voice interpretation for the deaf actors or ASL interpretation for the hearing actors. Performance dates are May 10-13 in the Robert F. Panara Theatre and the production is directed by Jerry Argetsinger.
5/11/2012
Mary-Beth Cooper ‘throws’ her support into the Quarter Mile Challenge on May 10.
5/11/2012
“Silent Laughter,” on stage though Sunday, honors the great comic actors of the 1920s.
5/10/2012
Shawn Gray, left, fourth-year film and animation major, and Thomas Macias, third-year multidisciplinary studies major, rehearse for the upcoming production of “Dog Sees God” May 17-20 in Booth Hall room A428.
5/10/2012
Runners get pelted with colored powder during the RIT Color Run 5K race.
5/9/2012
“Fine Arts Studio Senior Exhibition” runs through May 19 at Gallery r.
5/8/2012
Refugee children from Mary’s Place joined RIT volunteers on a tour of Imagine RIT.
5/8/2012
Four people were inducted in RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame on May 4. From left to right, Kevin Surace ’85; Robin Cass, representing the School for American Crafts in honor of the late Aileen Osborn Webb; Patricia Moore ’74; Dean Kamen and President Bill Destler.
5/6/2012
A record 35,000 spectators discovered the latest in the arts, science, technology and entrepreneurship on May 5 at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. The festival, with Time Warner Cable as the premier sponsor, involved 2,700 participants and more than 600 volunteers. The festival has now drawn more than 140,000 visitors in five years. In 2013, the festival will be held May 4.
5/5/2012
Women in Engineering zaps the competition in the E-Dragster Race on Saturday.
5/4/2012
The 27th Big Shot puts Seabreeze Amusement Park in the spotlight.
5/3/2012
John Del Monte accepts the Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award honoring his late father.
5/3/2012
Sculptor Elizabeth Turk wrapped up this year’s Gannett Project on May 2.
5/2/2012
Georgia Gosnell announces a $5 million commitment to RIT yesterday.
5/2/2012
RIT Hillel sponsored a free falafel pita tasting on April 30 in front of the Student Alumni Union. The event was a celebration of Israel’s 64th Independence Day on April 26.
5/1/2012
Students snuggled with dogs from Scottsville Veterinary Adoptions for Spring Fest.
4/30/2012
Photographers from Magnum Photos visit for a lecture and book signing.
4/27/2012
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand sponsored a summit at RIT on manufacturing in New York.
4/27/2012
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand convened leading experts from industry, government and academia for a summit at RIT’s Center for Student Innovation on April 27. The event focused on strategies to bring about a manufacturing renaissance to upstate New York. Here, U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson provided the keynote address.
4/26/2012
E-Dragster Race participants show off their vehicles to President Destler.
4/26/2012
RIT and Sen. Joe Robach attend the Greening Your Campus contest in Albany.
4/24/2012
Fifth-year packaging student Zack Loughery worked with the preservation team at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film to protect some of photography’s history using modern packages. He was part of a team that developed a new archival storage and protection covering for daguerreotypes.
4/23/2012
The College of Liberal Arts honored students on Friday for excellence in writing.
4/23/2012
The RIT Anime Club hosted its annual convention, Tora-Con, on April 21-22.
4/21/2012
A celebration for the national champion RIT women’s hockey team was held on April 20.
4/21/2012
Lorraine Justice, dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, spent seven years in China as dean of the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her new book, China Design Revolution, from The MIT Press, is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and the MIT Press website. The book discusses the history of design and innovation in China along with current designs and global brands. It explores design’s role in China’s economic boom.
4/20/2012
The RIT women’s hockey team captured its first NCAA Division III championship and the first national championship for a women’s sport at RIT on March 17. A celebration for the team took place April 20 in Fireside Lounge. Players signed autographs on posters and shirts.
4/20/2012
RIT and partnering groups visit the Harley School for a science outreach program.
4/19/2012
The Tiger East End Express connects the RIT campus to Rochester’s East End from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday nights. RIT students can hop the bus for the opportunity to explore Rochester clubs, theaters, restaurants, stores, galleries and museums.
4/18/2012
Annual Leadership Awards were presented to student leaders on April 18.
4/17/2012
J. Ford Huffman, formerly of USA Today, spoke April 16 on the future of news.
4/16/2012
About 400 men and women walked a mile in heels on April 15 to support victims of domestic violence. Alpha Sigma Alpha members coordinated the event. All proceeds went to the Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims, a Rochester organization that provides free services to people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing and have experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse.
4/16/2012
About 400 walkers hiked a mile April 15 to support victims of domestic violence.
4/16/2012
Civil War artist Wendy Allen presents some of her work during a recent colloquium.
4/15/2012
Photographer Kwaku Alston was recognized at this year’s Distinguished Alumni Awards.
4/14/2012
The Paleys are featured artists in University Gallery’s newest exhibition.
4/12/2012
RIT hosted its annual tribute to the Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars on April 12.
4/12/2012
RIT hosted is annual tribute to the Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars on April 12 in the Gordon Field House. In order to receive the scholars designation, students must have earned a GPA of 3.85 and completed at least 125 quarter credits of study. Selection is also based on factors complementing their academic achievement, including creative work, independent research and community service.
4/11/2012
Sen. Charles Schumer announced his support for student-loan legislation today at RIT.
4/10/2012
Rebecca Edwards, associate professor of history and chair of the department, recently published her book, “Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture.” The book is part of the New York University Press’ The History of Disability Series.
4/9/2012
Students in the Rochester Parkour group clean up Manhattan Square Park.
4/6/2012
Graduate Thesis 2 is on view through April 18 in Bevier Gallery.
4/5/2012
Art critic Barry Schwabsky speaks to students in a fine art painting class April 5.
4/5/2012
Student Erik Ellingson’s family and RIT share some history.
4/4/2012
Entrepreneur David Bornstein speaks to a sell-out crowd as part of the Gannett Project.
4/3/2012
Meet the artists behind “Three Artists, Three Views” today in the Dyer Arts Center.
3/30/2012
The women’s hockey team receives a key to the city March 30.
3/30/2012
Mixed-media artist Radcliffe Bailey spoke March 29 in Webb Auditorium.
3/29/2012
Actress and author Victoria Rowell discusses the portrayal of women in the media.
3/29/2012
Actress and New York Times best-selling author Victoria Rowell discussed the portrayal of women in the media, both positively and negatively, during a talk on March 29. As a woman in the media spotlight, Rowell has firsthand experience with how women are portrayed across various mediums. Rowell signed books before her talk in Ingle Auditorium.
3/29/2012
RIT’s National Science Fair for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students was held March 24.
3/28/2012
More than 2,900 job seekers attended the Spring Career Fair on Wednesday.
3/28/2012
Passers-by receive tulips and chocolate on March 28 for Women’s History Month.
3/27/2012
Jason Shanley is a business management student in the E. Philip Saunders College of Business who won a scholarship to RIT after winning first prize in the Young Entrepreneurs Academy Regional “Bright Ideas” competition last May. Shanley is the CEO of UrLocker, which makes a variety-pack of removable, reusable designs for school lockers. His business was featured on BizKid$, a weekly series on PBS/WXXI-TV that teaches kids about money.
3/26/2012
Children stand ready to scour Eastman Kodak Quad at the annual egg hunt March 24.
3/24/2012
The Exact Theatre Ensemble performs a staged reading of “Playing with Fire.”
3/23/2012
The RIT Pep Band performs in Global Village on March 23.
3/22/2012
RIT students were treated to a southern-themed dinner at Grace Watson Dining Hall on March 20. The meal included gumbo, fried chicken, pork chops, cornbread, blackened tofu and a variety of desserts.
3/22/2012
Students get a look at a millipede during a visit from the Seneca Park Zoo.
3/21/2012
Steven Morse and David Kelbe, center, were honored for their public service.
3/20/2012
RIT announces that the women’s hockey team is applying to move to Division I.
3/19/2012
Student Samuel Sandoval gets his head shaved during a fundraiser for cancer research.
3/19/2012
The women’s hockey team claims its first NCAA Division III National Championship.
3/18/2012
RIT women’s hockey claimed its first NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey National Championship on March 17. RIT defeated Norwich University 4-1 at the Frank Ritter Ice Arena. RIT goalie Laura Chamberlain, named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, made 27 saves during the final game.
3/15/2012
The 2012 United Way campaign kicked off Thursday with a carnival and prize auction.
3/15/2012
RIT’s 2012 United Way campaign kicked off on March 15 with a carnival and prize auction. Here, Adel Henen, facilities management, plays Shake, Rattle and Roll to win a ticket for the auction.
3/13/2012
The Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics competition roared into the Gordon Field House for “Rebound Rumble” March 9-10. More than 3,000 students, teachers, mentors and guests cheered on 41 teams, from across the Northeast and Canada, vying for positions at the national competition in April. Here, a student group, The Buzz, from World of Inquiry School 58, sang the national anthem before the competition.
3/13/2012
Brandon Edquist, left, and Matthew Pituk created the three winning poster designs that will soon be seen around campus during RIT’s 2012 United Way campaign. Katherine Olsen, associate professor in NTID’s arts and imaging studies program, says her graphic design course project on “United Way Posters” was initiated 10 years ago. “It’s competitive but collaborative and the students all help one another to create a persuasive design for the purpose of fundraising. Brandon and Matthew are immensely talented, work closely together in class and really do influence each other’s designs, so it’s no surprise they both won.”
3/12/2012
James Salzano, president of Clark Companies Inc., was a guest speaker at the 8th annual Executive MBA alumni event, “Sharpen the Saw,” on March 9. Salzano is an Irondequoit native and an accounting major alumnus who graduated from RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business in 1987. Salzano says Clarks, a privately owned shoe wear company with 14,000 employees worldwide, remains focused on customer loyalty and innovative styles combined with comfort technology.
3/10/2012
The Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics competition roared into the Gordon Field House for “Rebound Rumble” March 9-10. More than 3,000 students, teachers, mentors and guests cheered on 41 teams, from across the Northeast and Canada, vying for positions at the national competition in April. Here, students cheer for their team.
3/9/2012
Stephen Bosworth speaks at Sharpen the Saw, the annual Executive MBA alumni event.
3/9/2012
More than 40 teams participated in the regional FIRST Robotics contest March 9–10.
3/8/2012
Jason Faulring, left, and Don McKeown turn data from disasters into information maps.
3/6/2012
Business students spent their spring break in Dubai.
3/5/2012
Kate Winnebeck, left, and Tracy Freas have developed an outreach and education program that provides ergonomics assessment and training for companies in New York and outside the state.
3/1/2012
Lyndsey Saunders, a third-year advertising and public relations student, tweets during her e-Journalism class. Twitter and blogs are social-media methods of communication. Saunders has a blog on fashion.
2/29/2012
Packaging science, graphic design and industrial design students teamed up in a design competition.
2/28/2012
Sydney Seaver, senior professional advisor, works with third-year student Kevin Mulholland to evaluate course options in pursuit of his computer engineering technology degree. Advising is a key aspect of RIT’s pledge to help all students effectively navigate the upcoming switch to semesters.
2/27/2012
Gallery r’s Poetry, Craft & Performance exhibit runs through April 7.
2/24/2012
Engineering students demonstrate their senior design projects at a poster session.
2/22/2012
The Gallery at the Arts & Cultural Council presents work by professor Leonard Urso.
2/21/2012
City Council member Elaine Spaull addresses the crowd at a women’s leadership event.
2/20/2012
Former RIT hockey player Tom Keene ’75 is interviewed by WITR-FM during a game.
2/20/2012
Ashley Aberg, a fourth-year philosophy major from New York City, has conducted groundbreaking research on intersex infants and was the only undergraduate presenter and attendee at an international conference in Madrid.
2/17/2012
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo presented highlights of his state budget to the Rochester community Friday at NTID’s Panara Theatre. The governor’s budget proposal aims to close the current $2 billion budget deficit with no new taxes or new fees. The Executive Budget also lays the groundwork for an innovative $25 billion economic development agenda.
2/17/2012
RIT’s research community was honored Feb. 16 at the Principal Investigators Reception.
2/17/2012
Gov. Andrew Cuomo discusses his proposed budget this morning at Panara Theatre.
2/16/2012
Students in the industrial design program along with students from the glass program show off their work from Metaproject 2. Tom Zogas was awarded first-place in the glass category for his ceiling fan design and Dan Ipp took first-place in the industrial design category for his side table design. For this year's Metaproject, students from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences teamed up with the Corning Museum of Glass where the winning projects were presented to members of the Corning team. The winning projects will also be presented during Design Week in New York City in May.
2/16/2012
Glass and design students display their work at Metaproject 2.
2/16/2012
Professor Jim Perkins’ medical illustration was recognized internationally at the World Congress of the Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques in Strasbourg, France, last November. His work, exhibited in “Anatomy of an Image,” is part of the permanent collection at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. Perkins is co-director of medical illustration program, with joint appointments in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and the College of Health Sciences and Technology.
2/15/2012
Students marked 100 days before commencement at the Graduation Fair on Feb. 15.
2/14/2012
Students are serenaded during a Valentine’s Day dinner at Gracie’s.
2/14/2012
Alumni Chris Spinelli, left, and Jon Mervine own Roc Brewing Co. in Rochester.
2/13/2012
A company owned by alumni built a camera that’s on the International Space Station.
2/10/2012
Girls from the City School District visit as part of Girls and Women in Sports Day.
2/9/2012
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Middle and High School Exhibit runs through Feb. 29.
2/8/2012
The RIT/NTID Dance Company performs “Off the Wall” through Feb. 12.
2/7/2012
The Dyer Arts Center is hosting an exhibit and talk on artist Francis Marion Tuttle today.
2/7/2012
Freeze Fest weekend featured comedian Donald Glover.
2/6/2012
The cultural organizations of RIT educate and entertain audience members through dance, fashion shows and singing at Global Union’s Unification. As main event at Freeze Fest 2012, Unification allows students and the public to learn more about RIT’s cultural diversity through performances. Global Union is a major student organization that represents international students and cultural organizations at RIT.
2/6/2012
The Center for Campus Life helped bring the mountain to RIT this winter during the annual Freeze Fest. Students enjoyed Snowzilla, an 80-foot-high inflatable tubing slide, complete with a bounce house underneath.
2/4/2012
CIAS Dean Lorraine Justice spoke at “A Celebration of Innovation” on Feb. 3.
2/4/2012
With no snow for Freeze Fest, students delight in puppies from a local animal shelter.
2/3/2012
MIT’s Sebastian Seung discusses his work with the brain as part of the Gannett Project.
2/3/2012
The annual Freeze Fest celebration on campus is Feb. 3-5. Photo ice crystals and hot chocolate were offered in the Student Alumni Union. Here, Phoenix Walter, a fourth-year student in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, shows off her likeness in a cube.
2/3/2012
Scott Franklin, RIT professor of physics, co-wrote Explorations in Physics: An activity-based approach to understanding the world. The class won an award for Inquiry Based Instruction from Science Magazine.
2/1/2012
Film producer Søren Stærmose (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) visits a writing class.
2/1/2012
The annual Packaging Science Career Fair took place Feb. 1.
