Photo Spotlights

Tom Caruso ’72 (finance and management) learned that construction was his future career while on co-op at RIT in the 1970s. Today he is vice president of Campus Construction.

Hanna Stoehr, a fourth-year museum studies major, talks with Wildenhain pottery collector Robert Johnson about her exhibition design for “Frans Wildenhain 1950-75: Creative and Commercial American Ceramics at Mid-Century” in Bevier Gallery. Johnson donated his collection of 330 pieces of Wildenhain pottery to RIT in 2010. In the background, Steve Bodnar, at left, a communication graduate student, talks with Winn McCray, Johnson’s partner. The exhibit is on view simultaneously in the Bevier Gallery and Dyer Arts Center through Oct. 2. For more information on the exhibit, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49257.

Brian Duddy, senior research administrator for RIT’s Sponsored Research Services, recently published “Invasion Stripes: The Wartime Diary of Captain Robert Uhrig, USAAF and the Dawn of American Military Airlift.” The book is a biography of Uhrig’s service during World War II, told in his own words from extensive diary entries and letters to his wife. According to Duddy, the story is “an original source of history, written completely in the moment.” The book can be purchased by contacting Duddy directly or through the Lulu website, www.lulu.com.

More than 450 people attended the Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 10. Undergraduate students presented their research in either oral presentations or poster presentations. Sessions were broken up by the following themes: chemistry and materials, energy and sustainability, imaging and optics, modeling and simulations, social sciences and humanities, and biomedical and life sciences. RIT alumna Brandy Pappas, now a biophysics graduate student at Harvard, and Edward Reinfurt (shown here), director of the division of science, technology and innovation within the Empire State Development Corp., delivered keynote addresses.

More than 450 people attended the Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 10. Undergraduate students presented their research in either oral presentations or poster presentations. Here, Noella Kolash explains her poster on the accessible viewing device. Sessions were broken up by the following themes: chemistry and materials, energy and sustainability, imaging and optics, modeling and simulations, social sciences and humanities, and biomedical and life sciences. RIT alumna Brandy Pappas, now a biophysics graduate student at Harvard, and Edward Reinfurt, director of the division of science, technology and innovation within the Empire State Development Corp., delivered keynote addresses.

More than 450 people attended the Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 10. Undergraduate students presented their research in either oral presentations or poster presentations. Sessions were broken up by the following themes: chemistry and materials, energy and sustainability, imaging and optics, modeling and simulations, social sciences and humanities, and biomedical and life sciences. RIT alumna Brandy Pappas (shown here), now a biophysics graduate student at Harvard, and Edward Reinfurt, director of the division of science, technology and innovation within the Empire State Development Corp., delivered keynote addresses.

Caroline DeLong, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts (right), works with Kenneth Tyler Wilcox, a fourth-year psychology major from Skaneateles, N.Y., at Rochester’s Seneca Park Zoo to study object perception in river otters. The research in this area began with marine mammals—namely dolphins and whales—and now involves other aquatic animals, including goldfish and otters. Wilcox and zookeeper Catina Wright will give a poster presentation on their otter research Aug. 10 at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Forty community volunteers assisted 39 bikers during Lose the Training Wheels, hosted by the Gordon Field House and Activities Center Aug. 6-10. The camp helps kids with autism learn how to ride a conventional bike without training wheels, which organizers say builds self-confidence and provides inclusion with peers. Above, Ethan McNally, an 8-year-old from Rochester, gets pointers from Victoria Vazzana, a senior at Mercy High School in Rochester. UNYFEAT, an organization that supports individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families, sponsored the event.

“Under the Influence: DRAW Artists and Their Mentors” is on exhibit in the NTID Dyer Arts Center through Aug. 10. The women of DRAW include Connie Ehindero, Mary Buchan, Anne Marcello, Christine Knoblauch, Jean DeHaven, Elyse Capell, Carolyn Marshall, Andrea Sands, Deb VanWert and Kate Lipsky.

Building a robotic vehicle was only one of the activities that drew female deaf and hard-of-hearing middle schoolers to attend RIT/NTID’s TechGirlz camp. The program offers girls the chance to get a head start thinking about their dream careers by participating in science, technology, engineering and math activities. Along the way the students made new friends from all over the United States and had fun visiting an amusement park. TechBoyz, underway at the same time, offered similar opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing middle school boys.

In the foreground, Matt Switzer, left, updates professors John Waud and Sarah Brownell on the modifications his senior design team made to a UV water-treatment system used in Mexico. In the background, Phil Floroff, left, Evan Hall, center, and Tyler Josselyn unpack the circuit board that will operate the system.

A new partnership between RIT and the Democrat and Chronicle introduced six area high school students to the world of multimedia journalism through the Taub Scholars Multimedia Journalism Academy. On July 25 and 26, the students met with current RIT journalism students and “tracked down” and reported campus stories occurring throughout the week. By the end of the program, the students produced online journalism pieces that included shooting video, taking photos, writing stories and utilizing social media such as Twitter and Facebook for story promotion. Here, Michael Frazier Jr. and Tymoni Correa-Buntley, both seniors at School Without Walls, interview Jodi Carville about an engineering camp on campus.