Photo Spotlights

Students from RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences are putting on a theater performance in a virtual world in January. While they do a live performance, audience members will be watching from computers in another room. Students had a dress rehearsal of the short production called Critters on Nov. 16.

Zack Butler, RIT assistant professor of computer science, is a member of the U.S. Puzzle team that just won the World Finals in Brazil.

Matt Hamill, a 2007 RIT Sports Hall of Fame inductee, autographed cards for students, faculty and staff during a reception at NTID on Nov. 14. Matt “The Hammer” has won numerous awards during his wrestling career.

Jorge Uribe, an alumnus of the School of Print Media, and a plant manager at Avery Dennison presented “Print Productivity: A System Dynamics Approach” at the 2007 Symposium hosted by the Printing Industry Center at RIT on Nov. 14.

Today is the final day to view Pop-Up Books: An Interactive Exhibition in RIT’s Bevier Gallery. The show features works from top artists in the field including Chuck Fischer (The White House), David A. Carter (Bugs in Space) and Kyle Olman (Castle).

RIT President Bill Destler, right, dedicated the Brooks and Marilyn Bower Gallery in the Alexander S. Lawson Publishing Center at Wallace Library on Nov. 8. Brooks Bower, center, attended the ceremony.

Robby Takac, bassist of the Grammy-nominated rock band The Goo Goo Dolls and the founder and president of Music is Art (a community arts organization) visited RIT on Nov. 9. He was here to attend presentations by senior graphic design students who developed corporate design packages for Music is Art and select one to implement.

The RIT Women’s Center officially opened its new space during a Nov. 8 ceremony. Dawn Soufleris, assistant vice president for student affairs, attended with her daughter Lizzie, 10, and examined the wall of archival photographs of RIT women over several decades.

RIT’s Bevier Gallery presents Pop-Up Books: An Interactive Exhibition through Nov. 14. The show features works from top artists in the field including Chuck Fischer (The White House), David A. Carter (Bugs in Space) and Kyle Olman (Castle). Heather O’Brien-Lazickas, fourth-year Illustration, spends some time examining one example.

Julia Lisuzzo, from RIT Library, is one of 10 RIT volunteers who works with youngsters at School #5 weekly. At the end of the school year, the youngsters will visit RIT for a day.

Elementary and high school teachers from across New York state participated in an educational outreach forum in the areas of microelectronics and nanotechnology at RIT Nov. 1. The event was sponsored by the Department of Microelectronic Engineering and funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation.

There is a new way for RIT community members to get around town. Flexcar provides eight energy-efficient low emission vehicles that RIT faculty, staff and students can rent at hourly and daily rates.