Photo Spotlights

The Gallery at the Arts & Cultural Council, 277 N. Goodman St., presents an exhibit of paintings and sculptures by RIT Professor Leonard Urso. The exhibit is on view through Feb. 28.

RIT’s Student Affairs hosted a women’s leadership event on Feb. 21. Elaine Spaull, executive director of the Center for Youth and a Rochester City Council member, was the keynote speaker. Spaull spoke about compassionate leadership and incorporating respect for others in a leadership style.

Ashley Aberg, a fourth-year philosophy major from New York City, has conducted groundbreaking research on intersex infants and was the only undergraduate presenter and attendee at an international conference in Madrid.

Tom Keene ’75 (biology) is interviewed by WITR-FM (89.7) Feb. 17 during a men’s hockey game. Keene, an editor at Bloomberg News and co-host of “Bloomberg Surveillance” on Bloomberg Radio, is a former RIT hockey player and was joined at a reunion by more than a dozen alumni hockey players from the 1970s. Keene also shared his business prowess with students from the E. Philip Saunders College of Business during a discussion about the global economy.

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo presented highlights of his state budget to the Rochester community Friday at NTID’s Panara Theatre. The governor’s budget proposal aims to close the current $2 billion budget deficit with no new taxes or new fees. The Executive Budget also lays the groundwork for an innovative $25 billion economic development agenda.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo presented highlights of his proposed state budget to the Rochester community Feb. 17 at NTID’s Panara Theatre. The governor aims to close the current $2 billion budget deficit with no new taxes or new fees. The proposal also lays the groundwork for an innovative $25 billion economic development agenda.

RIT recognized members of the university’s research community during the annual Principal Investigators Reception on Feb. 16. During the 2011 fiscal year, RIT faculty and staff submitted a record 653 grant proposals. The annual reception and awards ceremony is hosted by Sponsored Research Services. Jan van Aardt, associate professor in Imaging Science, was among the seven new PI Millionaires honored this year.

Students in the industrial design program along with students from the glass program showed off their work from Metaproject 2. Here, Tina Oldknow, curator of modern glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, reviews some of the entries. Tom Zogas was awarded first-place in the glass category for his ceiling fan design and Dan Ipp took first-place in the industrial design category for his side table design. Representatives from the Corning Museum of Glass judged the projects. The winning projects will also be presented in May during Design Week in New York City.

Professor Jim Perkins’ medical illustration was recognized internationally at the World Congress of the Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques in Strasbourg, France, last November. His work, exhibited in “Anatomy of an Image,” is part of the permanent collection at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. Perkins is co-director of medical illustration program, with joint appointments in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and the College of Health Sciences and Technology.

Students in the industrial design program along with students from the glass program show off their work from Metaproject 2. Tom Zogas was awarded first-place in the glass category for his ceiling fan design and Dan Ipp took first-place in the industrial design category for his side table design. For this year's Metaproject, students from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences teamed up with the Corning Museum of Glass where the winning projects were presented to members of the Corning team. The winning projects will also be presented during Design Week in New York City in May.

Graduating students marked 100 days before commencement by attending the annual Graduation Fair on Feb. 15. Representatives from RIT’s nine colleges and various other departments across campus took part in the event. The Graduation Fair is intended as a one-stop opportunity to gather important information related to commencement weekend, May 25-26.

Chris Spinelli ’08, ’09 (economics, MBA), left, and Jon Mervine ’07 (economics) are making a name for their Roc Brewing Co. in downtown Rochester. Their beer is sold in 15 Rochester bars and restaurants and their microbrewery attracts crowds of several hundred on weekend nights. The men also are beginning to get national recognition. Last fall, they were named one of two winners of the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Experienceship Award.