Photo Spotlights

Students Carl Domingo, game design and development, and Mollie Pressman, mechanical engineering, celebrated at the seventh Annual Senior Class Toast on May 21.

Today and Saturday, RIT will confer degrees upon more than 3,800 undergraduate and graduate students, including 42 doctoral candidates. At the Academic Convocation, RIT recognized the accomplishments of graduates from all nine colleges, the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, and the Golisano Institute for Sustainability by officially conferring degrees.

RIT’s Center for Advancing Science/Mathematics Teaching Learning and Evaluation, or CASTLE, celebrated faculty and student research in improving STEM education at its second annual symposium on May 20. CASTLE, housed in the College of Science, encompasses several overlapping student-centered programs and discipline-based education research initiatives. RIT Provost Jeremy Haefner praised the Learning Assistant program, which, he said, is making a difference in challenging STEM courses. Undergraduates successful with courses are embedded in classes with high drop, withdraw and failure rates. The Learning Assistant program immerses undergraduates into experiential teaching and learning with a research spin and, he said, embodies the direction in which RIT is headed as a student-centered research university. Here, Charles Gaetano Loweecey discusses the workshop he and George Wyatt Seybold designed as Learning Assistants in professor Deana Olles’ Elements in Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations class.

Fourth-year advertising photography student Hannah Schwob, front, sorts food products left behind by students moving out of the dorms. The Goodbye, Goodbuy! plan, led by students, urges students moving out of their dorms and on-campus apartments to donate their furniture, clothes, canned goods and other items. The items will be sorted and what can be reused will be sold at thrift store prices to new students coming to RIT in August. Nick Giordano, a fourth-year political science and management information systems major, is the program manager.

Research teams of graduate and undergraduate students in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science explore new ideas in vision science that demonstrate connections between eye movement and predictive memory and the role of vision in walking. From right, Kamran Binaee, an imaging science Ph.D. student; lab director Gabriel Diaz; and Andrew Smith, fourth-year imaging science student.

School for American Crafts students showcased their work during the annual Walkthrough on May 18. The school’s ceramics, glass, furniture design, metals and jewelry design studios were open to view work created by RIT students. Here, visitors tour the ceramics area.

Gary Porter, left, a fourth-year game design and development major, and Dan Plate, a fourth-year illustration major, spent a large portion of their college careers creating a video game loosely based on their high school friends. The game, titled Super Daryl Deluxe, won first place in the Visual Quality category of the 2015 Intel University Games Showcase.

The size of RIT’s solar array places it among the largest of any college in New York state. The 2-megawatt solar array, consisting of 6,138 photovaltaic panels used to generate electricity from the sun, is on six-and-a-half acres of a field located south of campus.

Tom Gasek, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the School of Film and Animation, is one of the recipients of the 2015 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award encourages the professional growth and development of RIT faculty and specifically recognizes those members of the academic body who contribute most to enhance student learning. Full-time faculty with seven years or more of full-time teaching experince are eligible for this award.

Katie Terezakis, associate professor in the College of Liberal Arts’ Department of Philosophy, is one of the recipients of the 2015 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award encourages the professional growth and development of RIT faculty and specifically recognizes those members of the academic body who contribute most to enhance student learning. Full-time faculty with seven years or more of full-time teaching experince are eligible for this award.

Robert Garrick, associate professor in the College of Applied Science and Technology’s School of Engineering Technology, is one of the recipients of the 2015 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award encourages the professional growth and development of RIT faculty and specifically recognizes those members of the academic body who contribute most to enhance student learning. Full-time faculty with seven years or more of full-time teaching experince are eligible for this award.

Christopher Kurz, associate professor in NTID’s secondary education of students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing master’s program, is one of the recipients of the 2015 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award encourages the professional growth and development of RIT faculty and specifically recognizes those members of the academic body who contribute most to enhance student learning. Full-time faculty with seven years or more of full-time teaching experince are eligible for this award.