Photo Spotlights

High school students from across the country visited the RIT campus for NTID’s Explore Your Future, a career exploration summer camp. Students here are in an investigative science class, learning to separate the molecules of Kool-Aid.

“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.

RIT’s state-of-the-art “green” facility, Golisano Institute for Sustainability, will serve as a center for sustainability research, technology transfer, education and outreach and will provide a showcase for green construction and design.

Summer Start Up Program works with student entrepreneurs to help them accelerate the development of their business concepts. The program is sponsored by the E. Philip Saunders College of Business and the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

RIT’s fourth annual Graduate Research and Creativity Symposium evolved into a regional symposium this year. Graduate students from RIT’s nine colleges along with students from University of Rochester, Nazareth College, University at Buffalo and Syracuse University presented their research on July 17. In addition to the oral presentations, there were poster and interactive presentations. Here, RIT student Alexander Grier presents his poster, “A Database of Predicted Structural Motifs.”

Caroline DeLong, RIT assistant professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts, works with Catina Wright, a zookeeper at Rochester’s Seneca Park Zoo, to study object perception in river otters. DeLong’s research in this area began with marine mammals—namely dolphins and whales—and now involves other aquatic animals including goldfish and otters.

Members of the University of Michigan’s solar-car team inspect one of their vehicles in preparation for the 2012 American Solar Challenge, “Eight States in Eight Days.” The collegiate design competition and race, featuring a 1,600-mile route bordering the Great Lakes, launched from RIT. For the full story, go to American Solar Car Challenge Launches ‘Eight States in Eight Days’ Race.

RIT students have partnered with residents in Rochester’s Marketview Heights neighborhood to create several gardens throughout the community. Through the University/Community Partnerships program in the College of Liberal Arts, RIT students educate neighborhood children about proper nutrition, where their food comes from, the benefits of growing their own food, and musical and artistic expression in the garden. In addition, all of the food cultivated in the garden is free to community residents.

Many of RIT’s international students enroll in classes organized by the English Language Center, established in 1979. The center teaches classes at the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels in grammar, reading, writing, conversation and vocabulary. Students can also choose from a variety of electives including American culture, business communication, writing research papers, presentation skills, understanding academic lectures and pronunciation. Here, students participate in the Listening and Discussion class taught by instructor Nicole Martello. To read a story about RIT’s global community, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49182.

Abdul Syed, a doctoral candidate in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, won the Best Student Paper award at the International Conference on Geographical Object-based Image Analysis in Rio de Janeiro, held May 7-9. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49175.

Data-center cooling technology developed by OptiCool Technologies was recently installed in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation. The technology, which uses an oil-free, pumped refrigerant and a modular cooling-unit design that increases cooling capacity and decreases overall energy, has saved RIT more than $30,000. OptiCool is a start-up company that recently graduated from RIT’s Clean Energy Incubator. RG&E recognized RIT’s achievement at a news conference on June 29. Above, David Brown, director of technical solutions with OptiCool, discusses some of the equipment.

Graduate student Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse recently won a prestigious award from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The fellowship provides her with a three-year, $30,000 annual stipend in support of her project “Optical Lift: Innovating Devices that Fly by Light.” Artusio-Glimpse is a graduate student in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and works closely with Grover Swartzlander, joint associate professor of imaging science and physics.

Go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49219 to read more.