Photo Spotlights

Biochemistry major Taylor Wolf is doing research to create a test that will identify substandard and counterfeit pharmaceuticals, helping reduce what has been a significant problem around the world. She is working with Scott Williams, professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science. Wolf says her lab experience helped her discover a passion for research, which she now intends to make her career.

Shabab Siddiq, left, a fourth-year computer engineering student from San Jose, Calif., works in the music lab with Tom Davis, who teaches a music composition course at RIT.

As founder and director of RIT’s Image Permanence Institute, James Reilly is recognized as a worldwide expert on preserving photographic collections. The center is known globally as one of the finest and best-equipped independent centers for testing imaging materials and for conducting preservation research.

Dani Stemper, a fourth-year double major in political science, and advertising and public relations from Milwaukee, Wisc., addresses members of Roc City Roller Derby on ways to advertise their club and races during a recent Campaign Management and Planning class in RIT’s School of Communication. The team asked the class to help them with ideas to gain more members and fans.

Six-year-old James Carpenter watches a model train roll down the track at the 11th annual RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show and Sale, hosted by the RIT Model Railroad Club. The event, held Dec. 10-11 in the Gordon Field House, included vendors selling new and vintage trains, accessories and layouts, door prizes and more.

Second-year game design student Noah Ratcliff is served breakfast food at the Late Night Breakfast event at Gracie’s on Dec. 9. In addition to the special menu, students were treated to music and movies.

Larry Hayes, a vendor at the RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show, sets up his model train. Hayes has 50 years experience working with trains and claims “we’re all kids at heart”. The Dec. 10-11 event included vendors selling new and vintage trains, accessories and layouts, door prizes and more.

RIT/NTID presents “An Evening with Sunshine 2.0,” RIT/NTID’s professional traveling theater troupe, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10 in Panara Theatre, Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall on the RIT campus. Admission is free for students with ID and $5 (cash only) for the general public. The performance is presented in voice and American Sign Language, is accessible to all audience members and covers subjects for people of all ages.

RIT Tiger Tracks is the signature ice cream flavor created by Perry’s Ice Cream. Samples were served at a pop-up event in the Student Alumni Union Dec. 8. The flavor is a sweet vanilla ice cream base with thick fudge swirls and orange pretzel balls. It will be served at Gracie’s, Sol’s Underground, a new ice cream cart at the Gene Polisseni Arena and at a local ice cream eatery, LuGia’s in Spencerport.

Gallery r, RIT’s metro art space in downtown Rochester, is featuring “Co-Lab,” a group exhibition of collaborative projects by RIT students from the schools of Art, American Crafts, Design, Film and Animation and Photographic Arts and Sciences. The show continues through Dec. 18.

Women in Computing (WiC) Allies is a group of RIT and GCCIS community members committed to furthering the mission and goals of WiC, for the purpose of affecting positive change and fostering a more inclusive GCCIS culture. The allies meet Mondays in the WiC office.

From left, Daniel Perez-Gil, a second-year honors student in management information systems and finance from Mexico City; Susan Lindsay, senior staff specialist in University Studies; and Jessica Visco, a first-year honors student in media arts and technology from Buffalo, N.Y., packed boxes of personal care items to deliver to The Center for Youth.