Photo Spotlights

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., came to RIT Jan. 21 to talk about the recently signed Ombinus bill that included $66.29 million for NTID. Read the full story.

Assistant professor Susan Smith Pagano, left, and students Charmaine Merchant, Cassie Gould and April Meier examine wild fruit specimens to measure energy, fat, fiber and protein content to help determine if migratory birds are eating healthy.

Criminology, Social Justice and Community Action was offered during intersession Jan. 2–22. It combined classroom work with field trips in the Rochester community. The class visited the Center for Youth on Jan. 15.

The Kelmscott/Goudy Albion iron hand press No. 6551 was delivered to RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection on Jan. 13. The Cary Collection’s purchase was made possible by the generous support of the Brooks Bower family. Bower, a 1974 graduate of the School of Print Media, is an RIT trustee and chairman and chief executive officer of Papercone Corp., an envelope-manufacturing firm in Louisville, Ky. The press will be fully assembled in the next few weeks.

Scott Farrell, an RIT/NTID manufacturing engineering technology student from North Tonawanda, N.Y., warms up for this week’s Deaf International Short Course Swimming Championship. About 100 athletes from nine countries are expected to compete at the RIT pool Jan. 14-18.

A group of students in the RIT Honors program from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences are in Italy during intersession. The group is scheduled to return Jan. 22. Here, they visited the Alinari Photo Archive in Florence. Andrea DePolo ’94, second from right, the head of the digital archives, hosted the group.

Burak Baylav, microsystems engineering, has won awards at technical conferences for his research in optical lithography and will begin work at Intel Corp. in February.

Charles “Chip” Bachmann has joined the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science as the new Frederick and Anna B. Wiedman Professorship in Imaging Science, following the tenure of John Schott.

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.

Lourdes Gutierrez is a civil engineer who has experience in excavation, blasting, tunnel construction and mining for gold. She has also managed 105 construction projects on a variety of buildings in her homeland of Peru. Gutierrez is working toward earning her Master of Science degree in sustainable systems at Golisano Institute for Sustainability and is the first student to arrive on campus as part of RIT’s Clinton Global Initiative.

One of the newest affinity groups at RIT is MOCHA—Men of Color, Honor and Ambition—a personal leadership program established by Kevin McDonald, vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion, second from left. He met with some of the charter members recently, from left to right, Noorullah Maqsoodi, Joseph Garcia and Bertram Byam.

Philanthropist and serial entrepreneur E. Philip Saunders was honored for his life and achievements by RIT and Saunders College of Business on Dec. 17 during a Saunders Wall dedication. A commemorative plaque, located within the atrium of Lowenthal Hall, honors his generous gift to RIT in 2006—and the visionary plans of the business college that now bears his name. Here, RIT President Bill Destler congratulates Saunders.