Photo Spotlights

Rod Sosa, president of the Gravure Educational Foundation and the project manager of Armstrong World Industries, was the keynote speaker of Gravure Day on March 25. Gravure Day promotes awareness among students of gravure printing and packaging industries and explores research and career opportunities.

Documentary photographer Lana Slezic will present Forsaken in the next installment of the Charles Arnold Lecture Series, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Auditorium. Forsaken is a collection of photographs documenting the lives of Afghan women. Slezic’s book by the same name won Book of the Year by American Photographer for 2007. Her documentary work has been published in Time magazine, The New York Times and National Geographic. Slezic will host a book signing immediately following the lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.

RIT’s 2008 United Way Campaign kicked off with the 6th annual Mini Golf Tournament on March 19. Fred Hull, from the Facilities Management Services team, took a shot at one of the imaginative miniature golf course holes designed by student groups and RIT departments.

Dr. Caroline Baillie, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, spoke on March 20 at a K-12 networking event sponsored by Women in Engineering at RIT. After her presentation, RIT student volunteers worked with elementary school teachers as part of a training session sponsored by the Women in Engineering at RIT program. The effort seeks to enhance educational curriculum in engineering for K-12 students.

Today, March 20, is the opening of Pathways: A Century of Women at RIT. The exhibit is a collaborative effort between the RIT Women’s Center, the RIT Archives and the women and gender studies program that highlights and celebrates the roles that women have played on the RIT campus since 1885. The event, which kicks off at 2:30 p.m. in the Wallace Library’s Idea Factory, will include an exposition of student projects and will be followed at 4:30 p.m. with the opening of a new exhibit in the RIT Museum on the third floor of Wallace Library.

RIT President Bill Destler, right, and PAETEC co-founder Jack Baron sign an agreement, kicking off a $1 million research partnership between the two organizations. The collaboration is the first project of RIT’s new Corporate R&D Program.

The 2008 Alternative Spring Break (March 1-7, 2008) enabled RIT students to help build and renovate homes for economically impoverished seniors and families in the Appalachian region of Fayette County, West Virginia. Here, some students viewed a blueprint with the construction manager at the worksite.

RIT hosted the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course, the premier conference in photojournalism, March 13-15. Ken Spencer, a photographer for Newsday and a RIT alumnus, led a studio lighting workshop using lights and a model bust. RIT and the Democrat and Chronicle were two of the sponsors of the 2008 Northern Short Course.

RIT hosts the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course, the premier conference in photojournalism, March 13-15. The first day of the Northern Short Course produced an overflow crowd in Will Yurman’s workshops on audio and multimedia. Yurman is a staff photographer at the Democrat and Chronicle and an adjunct professor at RIT. RIT and the Democrat and Chronicle are two of the sponsors of the 2008 Northern Short Course.

RIT hosts the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course, the premier conference in photojournalism, March 13-15. The first day of the Northern Short Course produced an overflow crowd in Will Yurman’s workshops on audio and multimedia. Yurman is a staff photographer at the Democrat and Chronicle and an adjunct professor at RIT. RIT and the Democrat and Chronicle are two of the sponsors of the 2008 Northern Short Course.

RIT Food Service began offering bioplastic cups and other compostable plates and food containers in the Ritz Sport Zone on March 10. This is a pilot program in the Ritz only.

The fourth annual Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics Competition took place March 7 and 8, in RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Rochester’s Wilson Magnet High School’s team, the X-Cats, won the gold medal and will compete in the 2008 FIRST Championship in Atlanta.