Photo Spotlights

Students were treated to a Prom Night special meal at Gracie’s. The meal included appetizers, chicken cordon bleu, baked gemelli alfredo, grilled steak, shrimp scampi and decadent desserts.

More than 100 eighth-graders from Greece Athena visited RIT to explore future careers. Friday is Spring Preview Day for high school juniors and below. This program is designed for students who are just starting their college search, and approximately 600 students are registered.

Mei Nagappan, assistant professor of software engineering, uses his expertise in big data mining to find software engineering problems that aren’t being explored. Currently, he is researching the hidden cost of mobile advertisements for software developers. To read more, go to rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=51694.

A restored 1967 Airstream trailer houses contemporary ceramics and travels from coast to coast. The current tour “Art for the Table”, features 25 nationally recognized studio potters. In addition, artists Lorna Meaden and Tara Wilson demonstrated in the ceramics studio here.

Anirudh Penmetcha’s research revolves around solar cells. The graduate student in the materials science and engineering program focused his thesis research on advancing next-generation photovoltaic technology in RIT professor Christopher Collison’s laboratory. Penmetcha began, in mid-February, a six-month co-op at a Massachusetts-based branch of Saint-Gobain, an international corporation and leader in high-performance materials.

Randy Henderson, president of Henderson Ford in Webster, assumed the role of Minett Professor for 2015 and is serving as a student mentor and community advocate with RIT’s Division for Diversity. There have been 23 Minett Professors since this program began in 1991. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=51679.

Amberlee Jones and daughter Arya hunted for eggs at RIT’s 11th annual Easter Egg Hunt on April 4. Hundreds of candy-filled eggs were scattered across the Gleason Quad for children to find and put in their baskets. The event is co-sponsored by The Students of Art House and The RIT Leadership Institute and Community Service Center.

Fourth-year industrial design student Ned Masury examines work in the Graduate Thesis 1 exhibit in Bevier Gallery. The exhibit represents work from the School of Art, School of Design and School for American Crafts. Graduate Thesis 2 will be on view April 10-May 2 with an opening reception at 5 p.m. April 10.

Students in Tom Hanney’s special topics course “The Harmonica and the Blues” delved deep into the history of the iconic instrument associated with the blues. The multi-disciplinary course consisted of music theory and the science of sound presented by faculty from the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, along with an overview of audio recording technology, through faculty from the College of Applied Science and Technology.

Reformed convicted felon Sam E. Antar, former Crazy Eddie’s chief financial officer, discussed the dangers of fraud and answered some tough questions from the audience on white-collar crime on April 1. The event was sponsored by Saunders College of Business and The Next Generation of Accountants club.

Ceramic artist Dan Anderson visited the School for American Crafts for two days this week. Anderson, retired head of ceramics at Southern Illinois University, lectured and demonstrated in the ceramics studio here.

RIT Tiger spirit was felt across the country this weekend as students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered in a variety of places to cheer on the men’s hockey team in the NCAA Tournament. On the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind., site of the games, the team was cheered on by its loyal RIT Pep Band and Corner Crew as well as more than 50 alumni from Indiana, Michigan and the Chicago area.