Photo Spotlights

The School for American Crafts annual holiday craft sale is taking place in the Student Alumni Union through Dec. 15. Ceramics students Bri Kinard, left, and Erin McGraw are selling their work in the sale.

RIT’s microelectronic engineering department is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The department has more than 1,000 of its graduates working in prominent semiconductor companies all over the globe. Patrick Chan ’10 is one of those graduates. He is a process engineer with Tokyo Electron Ltd., based in Malta, N.Y., just north of Albany. He had industry and corporate experience before coming to RIT, working as an electrical engineer at Xerox and Kodak.

RIT student musicians showed off their skills Dec. 9 at ROC the Mic in the Student Alumni Union. Soloists and bands of multiple genres participated in the competition hosted by RIT’s College Activities Board and WITR-FM (89.7), RIT’s student-run campus radio station. Performers competed for a free recording session and interview at WITR’s “Rochester Sessions” and other prizes.

Tiana Adams-Hawkins is president of the RIT Metalworks Club. Adams-Hawkins and the club, along with the Hooks and Needles Club, will sell their creations in the Student Alumni Union lobby through Dec. 15.

Members of the College of Applied Science and Technology’s Women in Technology group, including, from left, Kelley Lockwood, Kristen Wildenstein and Danyelle Greene, collected children’s books and made 32 fleece hats for families in eastern New York who were overwhelmed by Hurricane Irene this past summer. Greene, who grew up in the area, says communities in Schoharie County (Schenectady region) continue to rebuild after extensive flooding.

The Center for Campus Life Vending Office sponsored a Winter Craft Sale on Dec. 9 in the Student Alumni Union. The sale featured 38 faculty, staff and alumni vendors, including Abby Kuperstock ’03 (illustration and graphic design). Kuperstock is currently an adjunct professor in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.

RIT’s Caroline Werner Gannett Project hosted MacArthur award-winning biomedical animator Drew Berry on Dec. 8. Berry spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of about 300 guests in Webb Auditorium, where he focused on the challenges of accurately representing miniscule molecules of flesh and blood and explored the balance between scientific accuracy and creating content that is appropriate for a non-scientific audience. The next speaker in the series, Sebastian Seung, professor of computational neuroscience at MIT, is scheduled for Feb. 2.

Go Global Holiday Celebration on Dec. 8 featured RIT’s all-female a cappella group, Encore. Shop One² had a trunk show featuring work by alumni and local artists; Global Learning had an open house; and there was a gingerbread house-making demonstration and plentiful treats and beverages to sample.

Paul Spacher ’82 (mechanical engineering) helped develop a system to cool the battery in the Chevy Volt. His work is a reason the electric car can travel 35 miles or more on battery power.

RIT Student Auxiliary Services is hosting Go Global Holiday Celebration in Global Village 4:30–6:30 p.m. Dec. 8. RIT’s all-female a cappella group, Encore, will perform; Shop One2 will have a trunk show featuring work by alumni and local artists; Global Learning will have an open house; and there will be a gingerbread house-making demonstration and plentiful treats and beverages to sample.

The RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press hosted a holiday card-making event on Dec. 7. Using some of the antique presses, attendees were able to print their own cards. Here, Steven Galbraith, left, curator of the Melbert B. Cary Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, prints a card with Joseph Campana, a second-year graphic design graduate student.

NTID President and RIT Vice President and Dean Gerry Buckley, along with students, faculty and staff, meet via Telepresence with officials from Cisco Systems in California. The Telepresence system—the first in the Rochester area and valued at $700,000—was donated by Cisco to research how this technology can be better accessed by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Cisco is one of the top 10 employers of RIT students for co-ops and permanent employment upon graduation.