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Karen Braun

Associate Director CIS

Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science

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Karen Braun

Associate Director CIS

Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science

Bio

Karen is the Associate Director for the Center for Imaging Science, where she received her PhD in 1996. In the meantime, she was a color scientist and area manager at Xerox for 20 years, volunteering with the Xerox Science Consultant Program, FIRST Lego League, and United Way Day of Caring. She received the Rochester Business Journal's Forty Under 40 award.

In the News

  • May 1, 2020

    student wearing sunglasses highlights paper under colorful light.

    First-year students develop imaging system to study historical artifacts

    A multidisciplinary team of first-year students has been working to develop an imaging system that can reveal information hidden in historical documents for their Innovative Freshmen Experience project-based course. But with the shift to remote classes, the students left campus with the device nearly complete. Although disappointed, they shifted focus to the opportunities the new situation would create.

  • March 31, 2020

    Karen Braun.

    Alumni Update: Returning to guide the next generation of imaging scientists

    Karen Braun had a clear picture of what she wanted to do with her life at a young age. As Braun grew up, she developed a wide variety of interests including photography, psychology, and physics. She ultimately found a new cross-disciplinary Ph.D. program in imaging science at RIT that let her pursue those interests all at once.