Photo Spotlights

The Resource Fair, held Aug. 29, featured introductions to a variety of RIT departments. Here, RIT student Patience Ibezim directs new students and families to register.

Hundreds of incoming graduate students attended the annual Graduate Student Orientation on Aug. 28. RIT President Bill Destler and Hector Flores, dean of graduate studies, were among those who welcomed them. Representatives from various departments were on hand to answer students’ questions and talk about all the services and clubs RIT offers.

President Bill Destler welcomed back the faculty and staff with his annual “Address to the Community” Aug. 28 in Ingle Auditorium. He looked back on RIT’s recent accomplishments and outlined upcoming university priorities. “RIT’s time has come,” Destler said. “RIT’s financial health and our focus on innovation and creativity, coupled with an increasing national expectation that higher education institutions demonstrate real added value and prepare students for global employment, has positioned RIT to move strongly upward in the ranks of the world’s great universities.”

Members of Perinton Youth Hockey, ages 11-12, wait for their opportunity to take the ice during Tigers Hockey School at Ritter Arena. The RIT men’s hockey program sponsors the camp each summer to assist young athletes with skills development and other life lessons. Youth teams from across Monroe County participate in the hockey school annually.

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.