Photo Spotlights

A signing ceremony for RIT’s first international dual degree agreement between Japan’s Kanazawa Institute of Technology and RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering took place June 9. From left, Jeremy Haefner, RIT’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, and President Satoshi Osawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, signed the documents.

Kimberlee Keithley is the 2017 winner of the Norman Miles Scholarship given to a student maintaining a perfect 4.0. Going into her final year at RIT, she is pursuing two bachelor’s degrees, one in chemical engineering and another in applied mathematics. As part of the recognition, Keithley shared the award with faculty-researcher and her mentor, Steven Weinstein. He is the department head of chemical engineering in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering.

The annual East House Enrichment program is taking place at RIT June 5-8 and June 12-15. The program is designed to broaden other treatment and rehabilitation services and to encourage participants who are recovering from mental illness or substance abuse disorders to pursue educational goals to achieve independence and self-sufficiency. Classes include wellness, Chinese, public speaking, creative writing and more. Here, a Creative Journaling class made a journal to write in later.

Researchers from RIT developed a high-speed internet highway for emergency first responders and managers. The new network protocol, called Multi Node Label Routing (MNLR) protocol, allows digital information to travel faster and more reliably during emergency situations. The team includes (from left), Joe Tom Job, a computer science graduate student, Nirmala Shenoy, professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, Erik Golen, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, and Jennifer Schneider, the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking at RIT.

Scott Franklin, right, co-director of the Inclusive Excellence program at RIT and director of the Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning and Evaluation, and his team won a Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Initiative grant to increase diversity and inclusivity among RIT undergraduate science majors. Pictured with Franklin at the June 7 campus announcement are, left to right, Lea Michel, associate professor of chemistry and chair of Women in Science; Tina Chapman DaCosta, Diversity Theatre Program Developer; Jennifer Connelly, visiting assistant professor; and Dina Newman, associate professor of life sciences and co-director of the initiative. The grant will enable RIT to increase infrastructure, resources and expertise to involve and retain deaf/hard-of-hearing, female and African-American, Latino/a-American and Native American students and develop strategies for supporting their success.

Genesee Valley Quilt Club presented more than 600 quilts on display, as well as lectures, demos and exhibits at its biennial show June 2-4 at RIT’s Gordon Field House.

Volunteers sort items left behind by students moving out of the dorms for the upcoming Goodbye, Goodbuy! sale in August. The sale, led by students, urges students moving out of their dorms and on-campus apartments to donate their furniture, clothes, canned goods and other items. The items will be sorted and what can be reused will be sold at thrift store prices to students coming to RIT in August.

RIT researcher Matt Hoffman talked to fifth graders at the Harley School on May 30 about plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Using a hair dryer, Hoffman, seated above, simulated wind and currents in a small aquarium and added drops of blue food coloring to show water layers mixing beneath the surface. Hoffman, an associate professor in RIT's School of Mathematical Sciences, estimates nearly 22 million pounds of plastic wind up in the Great Lakes system every year.

The men's lacrosse team placed second in the nation after falling to Salisbury University in the NCAA Division III Championship game on Sunday. RIT advanced to the NCAA Championship for the second time in program history having also reached it in 2013.

RIT Staff Council hosted its yearly Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display May 27 as part of the annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic. From left, Alberto Jeres and Richard Gray talk with Josh Goldowitz about his 1981 Toyota Celica Sunchaser.

RIT Staff Council hosted its yearly Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display on May 24 as part of the annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic. Dave Sluberski, senior lecturer in the school of film and animation, and his wife Sandra, dressed in period clothing to complement their 1930 Ford Model A coupe. They also showed a 1967 Cutlass Supreme.

RIT’s Class of 2017 included a record number of 44 students from the diagnostic medical sonography program in the College of Health Sciences and Technology. The program held its traditional pinning ceremony on May 18. Each senior received a pin bearing the name of their program on the front, and their individual initials engraved on the back. “The pinning ceremony signifies the initiation into the brotherhood and sisterhood of sonographers,”said Hamad Ghazle, director of diagnostic medical sonography. “It signifies a vow that the graduating sonographers will tirelessly, respectfully and compassionately serve the sick. The pinning ceremony is all about celebrating and honoring the ultrasound students and their journey into the world of ultrasound. It is also about faculty and staff who celebrate and cherish the accomplishments of their students.”