Photo Spotlights

The RIT community gathered April 27 to celebrate the dedication of the D. Robert Frisina Quadrangle at RIT. The quadrangle was created in honor of Dr. D. Robert Frisina, founding director of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and a pioneer in the field of hearing loss and deafness for more than 40 years. Seated, left to right, are Sarah Gordon, NTID Student Congress president; Dr. Frisina, who currently is director of the RIT/NTID-based International Center for Hearing and Speech Research and an NTID professor of communication services; and RIT President Albert Simone. Standing is Alan Hurwitz, RIT vice president for NTID and CEO/dean of NTID.

The Technology Licensing Office and the Intellectual Property Committee sponsor their annual tribute to RIT’s inventors on April 25. President Simone, left, congratulates William Morris, a recipient of a Patent Plaque.

President Simone, left, and David Neumann, professor in the Department of Communication and Chair of Institute Effective Teaching Committee, attend the IETC Reunion on April 20. The reception brings together all faculty, students, and staff who have participated in IETC sponsored events, showcasing just how many people are dedicated to teaching and learning at RIT.

Lizzie Sorkin, Student Government president, wears both Virgina Tech and RIT colors on April 20. This day was declared an \"Orange and Maroon Effect\" day across the country to honor those killed on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16.

Richard Kaplan, recipient of the 2007 Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award, speaks during the luncheon honoring him on April 19. Past recipients of the award include Arunas Chesonis, CEO of PAETEC Holding Corp., E. Philip Saunders, chairman of Genesee Regional Bank and CEO of Griffith Energy Inc., and Wayne LeChase, CEO of LeChase Construction Services LLC.

Daniel Gundersen, co-chair of Empire State Development, offers the opening address at the IT Collaboratory 2007 Research Symposium at Rochester Institute of Technology on April 17. The annual event, focusing this year on remote sensing, is intended to create and support interaction among RIT’s research partners in academia, industry and government.

Members of RIT’s baja team work on the all-terrain vehicle in their lab. The 2007 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge is hosted by RIT June 7-10. Over 140 teams from all over the world participate in the competition.

RIT Admissions hosts an Accepted Students Open House in the Student Alumni Union on April 13. Open House attendees were able to tour campus, residence halls and academic departments, meet faculty, staff and students in RIT’s academic departments and eat lunch in the student cafeteria.

Josh Olin and Ian Paterson developed mytimehero.com, a social networking Web site targeting people over the age of 30, out of their Computer Science House dorm room.

Hiroko Yamashita, associate professor of Japanese and chair of the foreign language department, recently won a National Science Foundation grant for $17,915 to organize a two-day event Sept. 21-22, the International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures. The linguistics conference is in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A member of RIT’s baja team, Phil Hannum, makes some adjustments to an upright bushing for the all-terrain vehicle. The 2007 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge is hosted by RIT June 7-10. Over 140 teams from all over the world participate in the competition.

Matthew D. Mosesohn, center, a student in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, poses for a photo with other RIT Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars before an award ceremony on April 5. Minimum requirements of the award are completion of at least 125 credit hours of college work and a GPA of 3.85 at RIT. Community service, employment and research activities also are considered.