Photo Spotlights

The 2015 RIT baseball team enjoyed one of its finest seasons in program history, finishing the season with a 23-15 record while advancing to the Liberty League Championship game for the first time. The Tigers set countless school records, including most runs scored (289), runs batted in (250) and walks (186). A school record eight players earned All-Liberty League honors while a trio of Tigers earned ABCA/Rawlings All-New York Region accolades.

RIT SAE Formula Racing was 14th overall among 110 international teams in its first competition this past May at Michigan International Speedway. It was the first event of the season for the team and one of its best starts in several years. Taking high placements in skidpad, acceleration and autocross events, and running 16th in the demanding endurance race, RIT Racing also received the Continental Brake Award, given to a team with the best-in-class brake system for its vehicle, built almost entirely in-house.

Lois Goodman and the Rev. Lawrence “Butch” Mothersell were honored at the 17th Annual RIT Retirees Dinner and Award Ceremony on June 10. Goodman held several positions in The Wallace Center from 1972 to 1996, including assistant director of administrative services and RIT archivist. She was a volunteer for many groups on campus. In retirement, she also served on the Rivers Run-RIT Advisory Committee. Mothersell served RIT from 1969 to 1995. He taught general education courses at NTID while also serving as a priest in the Center for Campus Ministries. He earned the Distinguished Young Teacher Award in 1970-71.

Taylor Barrett, left, Chelsea Weidman, Hans Schmitthenner, Stephanie Beach and Lauren Heese conducted groundbreaking research on targeted molecular-imaging agents over the past three years. The team recently received a $444,367 grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance their work. The imaging method could help detect early stages of prostate cancer and improve image-directed biopsies. To read more, go to rit.edu/news/story.php?id=52510.

Adam Podolec began as a cadet in RIT’s Tiger Battalion five years ago and moved through the ranks of trainee to leader. Shortly after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, he will become a member of a National Guard unit in Concord, N.H.

The Genesee Valley Quilt Club displayed more than 600 quilts at the Gordon Field House June 5-7. Lectures, demonstrations, workshops, raffles and vendors are all part of the annual QuiltFest.

Forty participants of East House Career Services are taking part in a two-week college enrichment experience June 1–4 and June 8–11. The program is designed to broaden other treatment and rehabilitation services and to encourage participants who are recovering from mental illness or substance abuse disorders to pursue educational goals to achieve independence and self-sufficiency. Classes include wellness, Spanish, math, creative writing and more. Here, instructor Pat Swartzfager gives Alexander Aymar some direction in her pen and ink drawing class.

Nick Giordano, the new Student Government president at RIT, revisits Margaret’s House child care center, where he spent part of his preschool years on campus.

Mason Chronister, who graduated from NTID with an associate’s degree in administrative support technology, will soon begin his career with the U.S. Department of Defense. Chronister has overcome the odds and is living with Usher Syndrome, which is characterized by hearing loss, night blindness and loss of peripheral vision.

Kunsang Dorjee is a Tibetan refugee who lives in Dharmsala, India, home to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After completing his MBA studies as a Fulbright student at Saunders College of Business, he will return home this June to work at the Central Tibetan Administration. His humanitarian mission is to connect Tibetans across the world to destitute Tibetan refugees in India.

RIT Staff Council hosted its yearly Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display May 27 as part of the annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic. On right, Brennan Coon, assistant director for intramurals and club sports, talks about his 1973 Volkswagen Campmobile with Charles Johnstone. Johnstone brought his 1962 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, a car that has been in his family since it was shipped over from Europe in 1962.

The August Family Atrium in the Clinical Health Sciences Center was dedicated on May 26 in a private ceremony. The facility is the new home for the clinical programs in the College of Health Sciences and Technology, the Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition and a primary care clinic run by Rochester Regional Health Systems clinic. Burt August, center, is an RIT Trustee Emeritus.