Photo Spotlights

RIT students walk to class on the first day of Winter quarter, Dec. 2.

A snowy scene in the Infinity quad at RIT, Nov. 27.

Burcak Guclu, an RIT fourth-year industrial and systems engineering major, is credited with helping a semiconductor firm realize savings of $5 million to $10 million a year. She was part of a team at Infineon Technologies Richmond that developed an algorithm to improve the process of computer-wafer fabrication increasing the yield by 1 percent, saving the company up to $10 million annually.

Wallace library staff members Jodi Sidlauskas (right) and Joan Naturale read stories to Margaret's House kindergarten class, Nov. 19, in The Idea Factory on the library's first floor.

Brian Washington (right), WOKR-13 reporter and weekend news anchor, chats with Jeff Hering (center), director of the Center for Religious Life, and several of the center's ministers before the 19th Annual Thanksgiving Service, Nov. 19.

Architectural engineers from the Sear Brown Group attend a three-day workshop at the Center for Biotechnology and Training, Buildings and Biology: Compatibility for Bioprocessing. Nov. 15. Lab manager and presenter Kim Corbett (right) illustrates bioprocessing techniques to workshop attendees. The CBET workshop introduced the Sear Brown staff to requirements for facilities used in the biotechnology industry.

RIT professor John Morelli (on right) stands with his alternative energy sources class after erecting a 400 watt wind turbine on the roof of the Chester Carlson Center for Imaging Science building, Nov. 13. The wind turbine will stay for a year, to evaluate RIT's potential as a site for wind power.

Two World War II pilots who graduated from RIT were honored at a Veteran's Day luncheon at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. Col. Thomas Burgie, (second from left) head of RIT's Air Force ROTC program, and ROTC student David Baker (left) chatted with Robert Kaplan (far right), class of '49, and Roy Brockman '41. Kaplan, who lives in Buffalo, flew B24s and was shot down over China in 1944; Brockman, of Rochester, flew a B17 on 35 missions in the European theater.

Internationally recognized painter and print maker David Row critiques student artwork while visiting Alan Singer's painting class, Nov. 7

Joshua Hoiland, right, and Chris Bunk demonstrate their senior design invention, a remote aquarium monitor and control system, that enables light and temperature control and feeding via an Internet connection. They were among 16 RIT computer engineering majors who unveiled inventions on Nov. 5.

Marty Burris (right) and Bryan Hensel cajole College of Business students to help bail them out of COB County Jail, Oct. 31, to raise money for this year's class gift.

Bob Ertischek (standing) helps Christine Monikowski, associate professor at NTID, use Instant Messaging with video as she chats to Rico Peterson, chair of the ASL department at NTID (left) in Online Learning's Teaching and Learning Technology Lab during their Tech or Treat Halloween event, Oct. 31.