Photo Spotlights

Jody Lehr shops for handcrafted, one-of-a kind holiday gifts at the annual School for American Crafts student holiday sale. Students’ work includes glass vases, blown glass ornaments, wood bowls, silver jewelry and ceramic wares. The sale continues through Dec. 13, 9-6.

Student performers practice during a dress rehearsal of “OurFaust,” the theater component of The Fate of Romanticism: From Faust to the Present, a three-day conference that explores the roots of romanticism. The conference events schedule can be found at fateofromanticism.rit.edu.

Jen Loomis, a fourth-year software engineering student in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, is the editor in chief of Reporter, RIT’s student-published weekly newsmagazine. Loomis is also active in the Honors Program and played for several years in the RIT Jazz Ensemble.

Retired U.S. Army Major General John Batiste spoke at RIT Dec. 5 about his reflections on Iraq. Batiste commanded the First U.S. Infantry Division in Iraq, and retired from the Army in order to speak out against the war. The event was sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts Honors Program and the Department of Political Science. Here, he signed a sketch, done by an attendee, of him speaking to the packed crowd.

President Bill Destler, left, met with Madam Secretary Dona Ligia, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Dominican Republic, on Dec. 4.

Peter Jemison has discovered a love of teaching. He’s RIT’s newest Minett Professor.

Industrial engineering students demonstrated their senior projects to Candi Cross, managing editor of Industrial Engineering Magazine, on Nov. 29. Cross was on campus to gather information for a feature article on sustainability in higher education.

Jared Lyon, a Web developer in University Publications, co-organizes the annual Twin Peaks Festival held in North Bend, Wash., for fans of the quirky murder mystery that ran on ABC in the early 1990s. Lyon also created the festival’s Web page, www.twinpeaksfest.com.

RIT hosted the second annual Freescale Rochester Technology Symposium on Nov. 28. The event brought together researchers and students from around the world to discuss the latest developments in embedded systems research and education.

These images and memorabilia, currently on display in a new exhibit at the RIT Museum in Wallace Library, reflect RIT’s leadership of its nine presidents. The exhibit, which runs until March 2008, is in honor of the inauguration of Bill Destler as RIT’s ninth president.

Nate Kane, a fifth-year microelectronic engineering major, spent the spring of 2007 serving as a teaching assistant for an Irondequoit High School physics class. The service learning assignment was a component of the Department of Microelectronic Engineering’s community outreach program and funded through a National Science Foundation education grant.

Ferat Sahin, associate professor of electrical engineering, recently published Practical and Experimental Robotics, a guide to robotic theory, experimentation and construction for beginners, hobbyists and andvanced learners.