Photo Spotlights

Rochester Institute of Technology’s 123rd annual commencement takes place on May 23-24. It began with Academic Convocation, with Provost Stanley McKenzie delivering the keynote address.

Soo Young Kim displayed several pieces at the annual School for American Crafts “Walkthrough,” an open house to view students’ work from the academic year. Examples from the wood, ceramic, metals and glass studios were shown.

The annual School for American Crafts “Walkthrough” lured browsers from RIT and the Rochester community to look at students’ work from the academic year. Examples from the wood, ceramic, metals and glass studios were on display.

RIT hospitality and service management, computer engineering and software engineering students joined forces to create a program called Hotel Proxy, which allows hotels to connect to one another to check rate and availability information. The Courtyard by Marriott in Greece was one of the first adopters of the program.

Newly elected Student Government President Ed Wolf and Vice President Matt Danna have already started planning for the next academic year. This is the second year Wolf, left, will serve as president of Student Government.

Craig Ceremuga and Jarret Whetstone were the driving force behind the renovation of WITR, RIT’s student-run radio station. Ceremuga and Whetstone led the effort to convert the station from analog to digital.

Winners of the Institute Public Speaking Contest talk with contest coordinator Dave Neumann, professor in the Department of Communication, at center, before the final round May 8. They are, from left to right, Danielle Gatti, an advertising and public relations major and second-place winner, discussed the problems with bottled water; Sunwoo Lee, a microelectronic engineering major and third-place winner, spoke on the value of the liberal arts for technical education; and Travis Lee Clark, at the far right, an advertising and public relations major and first-place winner, spoke on organ donation. The contest is sponsored by the Department of Communication and the College of Liberal Arts.

Allison Ingalls, a fourth-year honors international business student in the E. Philip Saunders College of Business, received a CASE—The Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur—grant. Each year the Jimmy and Roselyn Carter Foundation awards CASE grants to students who propose innovative and promising ways to serve the community while applying what they’ve learned in the classroom to these projects. The $1,000 grant will go directly to materials associated with the technical assistance Ingalls provides the Greater Rochester Urban Bounty, a non-profit organization that works with residents of Sector 10, the poorest neighborhood in the City of Rochester.

William Snyder is here teaching photojournalism courses for the spring quarter. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist who worked at the Dallas Morning News for 23 years.

The first grade class of Richard Colosi, Canandaigua Primary School, won a video contest in which Colosi and his students created a short music video that demonstrated different kinds of technology being used in the classroom. To recognize the class’ win, the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences hosted the group for the day. They had hands-on activities, a screening of the award winning video, T-shirts and a plaque presented to the children.

Where’s RITchie? Colton, an attendee at the Imagine RIT Festival May 3, scanned the crowd for RITchie the Tiger from his high vantage point. The RIT mascot, balloons and a great position were all part of the fun.

Cult-hero of the graphic fiction world Lynda Barry held a workshop, “Writing the Unthinkable,” at RIT May 5. Barry also presented a lecture concluding the Caroline Werner Gannett Project for the academic year.