Dave Chisholm, adjunct instructor in the College of Art and Design, had his upcoming graphic novel Enter the Blue featured on Esquire’s list of the best music books of 2022. Enter the Blue was commissioned by Blue Note Records, is being published by Z2 Comics, and is slated for publication in the late summer of 2022.

Stephen Jacobs, director of Open@RIT and professor of interactive games and media, will deliver the welcoming and opening keynote address June 14 at Open Apereo 2022: The Value of Open Source. The talk, titled “The Values IN Open Source and Open Work in Academia,” will focus on the value that Open has in higher education, in terms of educational experiences and opportunities for faculty and students. It will also look at changes that the National Academies and other groups are lobbying for—and federal and private funders are requiring—and the impact that could have on annual evaluations, tenure, and promotion.

Jie Qiao, associate professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, served as the program chair for Applications & Technology (A&T) at the 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), held May 15-20 in San Jose, Calif. CLEO is the premier conference in lasers and photonics. The A&T program covers innovative technologies and applications in lasers, laser-based manufacturing and sensing, photonics, and quantum technology in transition. Qiao, imaging science Ph.D. student Gong Chen, and Postdoctoral Research Associate Wendwesen Gebremichael presented three papers at the conference.