Photo Spotlights

A demonstration at RIT's Printing Applications Laboratory explored advances in digital production quality. RIT alumnus Henry Freedman (left) is documenting how Xerographic printing of color images now matches the quality of offset lithography. Readers of the trade publication Technology Watch can examine the results for themselves in an upcoming issue. Also taking part in the demonstration were (from left to right) Peter Dundas and Peter Crean from Xerox Corp., and Bill Garno and Franz Sigg from RIT.

RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology retrains members of the Rochester workforce in basic biotechnology skills. In the fall, Eastman Kodak Co. allocated up to $280,000 from its Rochester Economic Development Fund to provide free tuition for 35 people to study at CBET. The 10-week certificate program provides fundamental skills needed for people seeking entry-level positions at local biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies and medical research centers. Here, students from the fall section (shown from left), Seema Thomas, Siva Sugunan, Yauneek Jackson and Richard Schmanke, study enzyme kinetics.

Jeff Pelz, director of the Visual Perception Laboratory, and Marry Ellen Arndt, a graduate student in information technology with a concentration in human-computer interaction, demonstrate the wearable eye tracker in the visual perception laboratory in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. The lab has become a hub of research collaborations across campus. Read more about it.

Two local unions, Unions and Businesses United in Construction (UNICON) and the Rochester Building and Construction Trades Council, were recently honored at RIT. The labor unions donated $10,000 for the building of two permanent trophy cases in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Four RIT students in the woodworking program designed and built them. Two of the students, Dave Adams (left) and John Kim, were on hand for the ceremony, hosted by James Watters, RIT vice president of finance and administration. Hundreds of labor workers were part of the construction of the field house.

Quiet envelops the RIT campus during winter break as the only creatures out and about are the deer. The university reopens on Jan. 3. Season's greetings to all, and best wishes for a happy new year.

RIT has signed off on a collaborative agreement to enhance the military's in-service engineering efforts and fleet support. Stan McKenzie (left), RIT provost and vice president for academic affairs, joined Capt. Charles Behrle, commander of the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division, to formally announce the new relationship. Research conducted at RIT's Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies will focus on the design of hull, mechanical and electrical systems, as well as life cycle support.

Byron Cage, a leading praise and worship minister, brought his brand of gospel to RIT on Dec. 11. The RIT Gospel Ensemble opened the program. Cage, who sang his first church solo as a four-year-old in a small in town Michigan, is now the senior minister of church worship and music administration at Ebenezer A.M.E.

At a news conference on Dec. 15, RIT announced that it is moving its nationally recognized Division III men's hockey program to Division I. The Tigers are joining the Atlantic Hockey Association after unanimous approval from the conference's eight colleges. Joining RIT President Albert Simone (left) at the news conference were Timothy Dillon, president of the Atlantic Hockey Association; RITchie, RIT's mascot; and Bob DeGregorio, commissioner of Atlantic Hockey. The event is available as captioned streaming video.

A group of girls from the Bloomfield School District were among 24 sixth- and seventh-graders at RIT for a interactive workshop, “Park & Ride: Amusement Park Ride Design—An Engineering Program for Middle School Girls,” Dec. 10-12. The girls were introduced to engineering using LEGO kits to create fun robotic projects. Organized by RIT’s Women In Engineering Center in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and the university’s student section of the Society of Women Engineers, the two-and-a-half-day workshop aimed to spark the girls’ interest in engineering.

Representatives from Kodak Polychrome Graphics help train Erich Lehman (second from left), prepress facilities coordinator, and Michael Riordan (bottom right), assistant professor of color imaging and publishing both in the School of Print Media on the latest proofing technology. KPG donated the Kodak Approval NX Digital Color Imaging System to RIT. A formal dedication during a ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 14 in the Frank E. Gannett Building.

Peter Gray, left, second year ceramics student, Shara Burrows, graduate glass student, and Katie Maurer, fourth year glass student, were among the vendors at the School for American Crafts annual holiday sale on Thursday, Dec. 9. Hundreds of shoppers came out looking for unusual holiday gifts. The SAC student sale continues Friday, Dec. 10, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in RIT's Student Alumni Union. Many of the students rely on the sale to defray costs of various projects throughout the school year.

RIT alumni and students from the School of Art created this ice sculpture on display during the Park Avenue Holiday Open House on Dec. 2. For more information on gallery r, the RIT student-run art gallery, visit www.galleryr.org.