Photo Spotlights

More than 30 middle school girls who are deaf or hard of hearing attended the weeklong TechGirlz program at NTID. The program, in its fourth year, is aimed at encouraging girls to pursue interests in science, technology, engineering and math fields by giving them several hands-on classroom activities to enjoy, such as this in a bioengineering class.

High school students interested in careers in the health professions are learning basic diagnostic and medical laboratory techniques this week during the Medical Science Camp held at RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology. Students will have the chance to talk to practitioners about opportunities in a variety of medical fields. The camp is part of the center’s Summer Bioscience Exploration series.

High school students interested in careers in the health professions are learning basic diagnostic and medical laboratory techniques this week during the Medical Science Camp held at RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology. Students will have the chance to talk to practitioners about opportunities in a variety of medical fields. The camp is part of the center’s Summer Bioscience Exploration series.

During NTID’s Explore Your Future Program, faculty and college-bound high school sophomores and juniors with hearing loss work together during hands-on activities such as programming a vertical milling machine to cut shapes out of metal (above) or other projects related to careers in engineering, art, business, computers, science and more. Students from across the country take advantage of this six-day program to experience life on a college campus, explore their interests and learn about career options after high school. This year, Explore Your Future celebrates its 25th anniversary and the thousands of students who have participated on the RIT campus.

The BIOMAN 2009 conference is a four-day session, running until July 30, held by the Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative at RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology. High school teachers and faculty from community colleges and universities from around the region are learning how the biopharmaceutical industry manipulates proteins in the development of medications for diseases such as diabetes and breast cancer.

Kevin Lampe, from Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pa., center, demonstrates the “scaling-up” stage in the technique for producing green fluorescent proteins during a workshop at the BIOMAN 2009 conference. The four-day session, running until July 30, is being held by the Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative at RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology. High school teachers and faculty from community colleges and universities from around the region are learning how the biopharmaceutical industry manipulates proteins in the development of medications for diseases such as diabetes and breast cancer.

Phavanhna Douangboupha explains her mobile Web tracking system project to an attendee of RIT’s first Graduate Research Symposium.

Austars Schnore, a technology strategy leader in the Advanced Computing Laboratory at GE Global Research, delivered the keynote address at RIT’s first Graduate Research Symposium. Schnore is currently leading a Shared Vision project for Lockheed Martin within GE Global Research.

New and expanded studios for the School for American Crafts are under construction. The facility is set to open this fall.

The annual WE@RIT Engineering Summer Camp for Girls began July 6. This lab demonstrated an exercise in reverse engineering by taking a computer apart to see how it works.

Young Sam Yu recently won the Astronomical Society of New York Graduate Student award for his research on dying stars, published in the January issue of The Astrophysical Journal. He will accept his award and $500 at the fall Astronomical Society meeting at Union College in Schenectady, where he will deliver his paper in its entirety. Yu, a resident of Daejeon, South Korea, is a doctoral candidate in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. He anticipates completing his doctorate in September.

The computer science department in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to host a summer workshop, Research Experience for Undergraduates. Ten students, five from RIT and five from across the country, are immersed in the program, which is designed to promote research and encourage students to pursue graduate studies.