Photo Spotlights

Members of RIT’s Women in Computing group worked with local Girl Scouts on Jan. 28 to learn about web development and creating smart devices. WiC is dedicated to promoting the success and advancement of women in their academic and professional careers and works with young women in K-8, prospective students in high school and current students at RIT.

Carl Grossman, marketing director for Teach Spin, demonstrates equipment in the Food Truck for the Physics Mind. The truck is a 44-foot trailer containing 15 upper-level instruments for a hands-on experience in physics. The mobile unit was on campus last week for physicists to explore and test the apparatus.

Students, families and friends crowded Bevier Gallery on Jan. 27 for an opening reception. The 2017 Rochester Regional High School and Middle School Exhibition is on view in Bevier Gallery through Feb. 11. Students in art programs from Rochester and the Finger Lakes area are showing examples of painting, photography, ceramics, metal, drawing and more.

David C. Munson Jr. was introduced to the community today as Rochester Institute of Technology’s 10th president. Munson, who will assume RIT’s top post July 1, was introduced at a community-wide event this morning in the Gordon Field House. To read more about RIT’s next president, go to rit.edu/news/story.php?id=59181.

David C. Munson Jr. was introduced to the community today as Rochester Institute of Technology’s 10th president. Munson, who will assume RIT’s top post July 1, was introduced at a community-wide event this morning in the Gordon Field House. To read more about RIT’s next president, go to rit.edu/news/story.php?id=59181.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a renowned ensemble based at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., will be the featured performer at the 2017 Expressions of King’s Legacy at noon Jan. 26 in the Gordon Field House. An American a cappella ensemble that performs Negro spirituals originally sung by slaves prior to the Civil War, the Fisk Jubilee Singers introduced the public to a new genre that remains a vibrant musical tradition today. Dating back to 1871 when the ensemble was established, the talented student-singers broke racial barriers in the U.S. and abroad, entertaining presidents and European royalty throughout the years. In 2008, the group received the prestigious National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush during a ceremony at the White House.

From left, Mitchell Poon, fourth-year computer engineering technology student from Harrington Park, N.J.; Peter Busch, fourth-year physician assistant student from Essex, Vt.; and Adam Griffith, area director for Riverknoll and Colony Manor at RIT, cleaned out a house for Flower City Habitat for Humanity during a volunteer activity for Residence Life staff. More than 140 residence life advisors and professional staff volunteered at 11 locations around Rochester as part of their staff training on Jan. 18. Rochester Rehabilitation, Veterans Outreach, The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley and Genesee Center for the Arts and Education were among the other sites where the volunteers worked.

Student Government representatives from RIT’s global campuses gathered in Dubrovnik for RIT’s fifth annual Student Government Global Consortium. Students from Croatia, Kosovo, Dubrovnik and Dubai shared information and experiences on their campuses.

Saunders Department Chair and Professor of Management Information Systems Victor Perotti, right, teaches in the new Saunders Business Analytics Lab. Management information systems is now the largest and fastest growing major at Saunders College of Business.

NTID hosted its annual Scholarship Symposium Jan. 12 with a series of presentations and poster sessions. Here, Linda Bryant, chair of the NTID Learning Consortium and Director of NTID Online Initiatives, and Wesley Blue, Online Program Operations coordinator, presented their research findings.

Jamie Kunzmann, left, a second-year math and computer student at Stony Brook University, and Rachel Baumgarten, a fourth-year biomedical engineering student at RIT, dissected a sheep heart for the first time during the undergraduate Workshop on Dynamics of Excitable Systems, held Jan. 8-14 in RIT’s College of Science. The workshop introduced students to using biology, math and engineering disciplines—especially electrophysiology—for understanding the heart’s functions. Through lectures and collaborations, 18 students from RIT and other universities learned how mathematical models and computer simulations can advance research in medical cyber-physical systems and lead to future cardiac therapies. Elizabeth Cherry, associate professor in the RIT School of Mathematical Sciences and director of the mathematical modeling Ph.D. program, led the outreach effort associated with her National Science Foundation grant, Cyber Physical Systems: Frontier, Collaborative Research: Compositional, Approximate and Quantitative Reasoning for Medical Cyber-Physical Systems.

In 1993, Robert Loce became the first person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in imaging science. He also became RIT’s first doctoral degree recipient. Since then, more than 250 others have followed in his footsteps. Loce is a research fellow at Parc, a subsidiary of Xerox.