Photo Spotlights

Angela Occhino, ’07, gives Jade Wilburn,13, some feedback on her project from the “Draw, Shoot, Animate!” class, one of the offerings from the Kids on Campus program at RIT this summer. The two week program is geared towards students entering grades 5-9.

Middle and high school students with visual impairments are part of a summer program at RIT called ImagineIT Program, hosted by RIT’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. In a team-based hands-on environment, students from across the country are tackling real world computer applications by building and programming robots. Tommy White, 14, from Indiana, explains the process to Ernest Segura, another participant’s father, from Michigan.

Middle and high school students with visual impairments are part of a summer program at RIT called ImagineIT Program, hosted by RIT’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. In a team-based hands-on learning environment, students from across the country are tackling real world computer applications and learning about career opportunities in the computing field. The four-day program is made possible by a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

RIT President Bill Destler and Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks join Nabil Nasr, director of RIT’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies, to announce a new alternative-energy research partnership between the county and RIT on July 16. The project is part of the center’s Alternative Fuel and Life Cycle Engineering program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Project Lead The Way is a national pre-engineering program that provides rigorous curriculum with project-based instruction for New York state middle and high school teachers. Here, PLTW participants work on creating an automated machine that sorts and separates marbles.

Construction is in progress for the College of Applied Science and Technology building, to the north of the B. Thomas Golisano College. The 33,600-square-foot building is scheduled for completion in December 2007.

Nabil Nasr, director of RIT’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies, explains research being undertaken in the Rapid Reverse Engineering Lab to new RIT President William Destler (left). The presentation was part of a series of events Destler undertook during his first day on the RIT campus July 2.

Incoming Rochester Institute of Technology President Bill Destler is greeted by a welcome banner, balloons, RIT mascot RITchie the Tiger and orange and brown clad students, faculty and staff. Destler became RIT’s ninth president effective July 1.

RIT students and alumni were recently honored by Rochester Area Administrators of Volunteer Services for working with students at the School of Business, Finance and Entrepreneurship at Edison. The yearlong mentoring initiative was spearheaded by the E. Philip Saunders College of Business. Representing the RIT team at an awards ceremony featuring remarks by longtime community volunteer Carol Ritter-Wright (center) were, from left, Brett Daly (’03 marketing, ’05 MBA) of BCC Software, fourth-year management information systems major Daniel Orth, fourth-year information technology major Sean Hayes, and Nicolas Germain (’05 statistics, ’07 MBA).

To commemorate the opening a decade ago of RIT’s American College of Management and Technology in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the office of the president of the Republic of Croatia awarded honorary medals to RIT President Albert Simone (second from left) and RIT Provost Stanley McKenzie (far right). Izet Aganovic (second from right), the special envoy for science and education to the president of Croatia, “pinned” Simone and McKenzie during ACMT’s June 3 commencement celebration, which was aired by Croatian National Television; Professor Ivo Srsen read the proclamation.

Breanna Dobbe, a fourth-year advertising photography student, is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Dobbe is spending her summer biking across the country—stopping to do community service work along the way—with the organization Bike and Build. Dobbe’s group leaves Jacksonville June 15 and will arrive in San Francisco Aug. 16. Dobbe has agreed to chronicle her journey across America as an honorary blogger on The Tiger Beat Blog.

Award-winning film director Irene Taylor Brodsky will show her film, Hear and Now, winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, at 7 p.m. June 14 in NTID’s Panara Theatre. Brodsky is an Emmy Award-winning news and documentary producer, writer, and photographer whose stories have aired on HBO, CBS, Fox, The History Channel and A & E. A question-and-answer session with Brodsky and stars Paul and Sally Taylor will follow the film. For more information, call (585) 475-6836 (voice/TTY).