May 27, 2022: Eight bachelor's degrees and twenty master's degrees have been earned by students who began their RIT careers at the ELC. We are proud of your hard work and success!
Here are the names of our ELC alumni RIT graduates in alphabetical order:
| Abdulmohsen Awadh S Alharthi Meshari Abdulaziz S Alrsaies Askar Altalidi Ahmed Helal A Alzahrani Mrinal Satish Chaudhari Shiyan Cheng Hairuo Ding |
Feiyang Fang Hassan Mohammed A Hakami Ameya Mahendra Hedavkar Boheng Huang Yang Jin Yichen Jing Mingshuo Li |
Qingtian Li Zihan Luo Juan Luque Torello Nelson Mesquita Chenyang Mu Rupayan Pandit Anand Surya Rajasrinivasan |
Ruining Wang Xueer Wang Yiwen Wang Yixuan Xia Shunjie Yang Bingchang Zhang Haolan Zhou |
April 6, 2022: Congratulations to our former ELC students who made the Dean's List last semester! You have made us proud! Keep up the good work!
RIT Merit Pages, which keeps the full list, explains, "Undergraduate students are eligible for Dean's List if their GPA is greater than or equal to 3.40 for nine credit hours of traditionally graded coursework; they do not have any grades of 'Incomplete,' NE, D, or F; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours."
Here are the names of our Dean's List ELC alumni in alphabetical order:
| Omar Abdulaziz Aljaloud Shiyan Cheng Myunghun (Hun) Choi Qi Guan Ye Seul Jung |
Hengji Liang Yibao (Ares) Mei Zejun Meng Tong Mo |
Yihan (Olivia) Su Chuqi Su Yi Sun Xueer Wang |
Mandy Wang Yan Wang Yanan Wang Yixuan Xia |
Qi (Sally) Xue Ruichu Yu Xuhang Yuan Haolan Zhou |
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May 11, 2021: Congratulations to our former ELC students who have graduated with RIT degrees! One doctoral degree, 20 masters degrees, and 13 bachelors degrees have been awarded this year to former ELC students who represent eight countries. We are proud of your hard work and success!
Here is this year's list of graduates:
| Shunjie Yang Sonia Huang Hongyu Xin Abdullah Al Hamoud Ali Alamri Mohammed Alhasani Fengyi Chen |
Hong Guo Yinyue Ni Bowen Yao Param Jyoti Braja Anand Shu Wang Anh Cong Bui Azeam Alotaibi |
Rifeng Jin Pin-Han Su Bingchang Zhang Yuhao Sheng Zizhun Guo Peijin Li Shenyu Zhang |
Bashair Abdullah M Algarni Fares Mohammed Dahwal Saleh Mohammed Almani Priyadarshni Suresh Sagar Litong Peng Shiyan Sun Tianyou Wu |
Tatiana Ferrucio Ferreira Abdulmonim Mahmoud Albanhashim Abdulmohsen Awadh S Alharthi Priyanka Ishwar Mannikeri Vaibhavi Ganesh Raut Yan Wang |
April 21, 2021: Congratulations to Bashair Algarni, who has accepted an invitation to join RIT's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective academic honor society for all academic disciplines, founded in 1897. Ms. Algarni is a graduate student in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.
We at the ELC fondly remember her active participation in and out of class when she started her RIT studies with us three years ago in the Fall of 2018, and are proud that she applied the same attitude to her academic studies and has received such an honor!
March 23, 2021: "Thrilled to announce that my teammates and I are now champions," said Omar Aljaloud, part of a team that won first place in the regional win, helping the RIT team to advance to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) in April. Go Tigers!
Read the full story here: RIT wins Northeast regional collegiate cyber defense competition.
March 7, 2021: Congratulations to our former ELC students who made the Dean's List last semester! You have made us proud! Keep up the good work!
RIT Merit Pages, which keeps the full list, explains, "Undergraduate students are eligible for Dean's List if their GPA is greater than or equal to 3.40 for nine credit hours of traditionally graded coursework; they do not have any grades of 'Incomplete,' NE, D, or F; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours."
Here are the names of our Dean's List ELC alumni in alphabetical order:
| Abdullah Al Hamoud Naif Alanazi Hamoud Alhajri Mohammed Alhasani Omar Aljaloud Azeam Alotaibi Mohammed Alshehri |
Ao De Shiyan Cheng Zisheng Huang Kexin Huang Hanyu Jiang Bitong Jin Peijin Li |
Hengji Liang Zeujun Meng Tong Mo Anand Param Hongmei Shi Xinyi Sun Yi Sun |
Ruining Wang Shu Wang Xueer Wang Mandy Wang Qihao Wang Yan Wang Yixuan Xia |
Rui Xu Tony Yang Bowen Yao Ruichu Yu Xuhang Yuan Bingchang Zhang Haolan Zhou |
Dec 18, 2020: "The event is the culmination of the world’s largest offensive-based collegiate cybersecurity competition and will be run virtually through Rochester Institute of Technology.... The free live stream will be available on the CPTC YouTube channel in the afternoon on Jan. 10. In another live stream event during the day on Jan. 9, representatives from each school will highlight the cybersecurity research and efforts taking place on their campuses." Go Tigers!
Read the full story here: World’s best cybersecurity colleges face-off in offensive-based competition Jan. 7-10.
May 21, 2020: Ali Alamri and Mohammed Alshehri, pictured above in the middle and bottom-right squares respectively, are part of a team representing RIT in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), the nation’s largest such competition, this upcoming weekend on May 22-23. "I am proud to carry my university's name with the top schools in the nation," said Alshehri. Go Tigers!
Read the full story here: RIT team prepares for virtual cyber defense national championship.
May 7, 2020: Forty-nine former ELC students, representing nine countries, will be celebrated tomorrow, May 8, in a virtual conferring of degrees, reported on here: Celebrating the Class of 2020. Nine will receive bachelor's degrees, 39 master's degrees, and one a doctoral degree. Here are the names of our ELC alumni in alphabetical order:
| Mojahed Mohammad A Abuabat Tasneem Mohammed A Ageeli Abdullah Nassar J Alamil Hanan Ibraheem A Alatar Abdul Aziz AlFarsi Hind Saleh Alharbi Reem Abdulaziz Aljaloud Ahmed Hamden A Alkanhal Abdulrahman Abdullah Almuajel Ahmed Meshal A Almulhim Abdulhamid Saleh A Alqadi Samiah Mahdi N Alqahtani Rana Kareem Talib Al-Rubaye |
Saeed Alshahrani Yeting Bao Hind Omar M Bazaid Heba Bin Seddeq Jianxing Chen Yahui Gao Hui-yu Ho Jing (Jessica) Hua Eyad Hussain Inamutila Mekondjo Kahupi YeaSeul Lee Jiajia Li |
Ru Li Letao Li Yuke Liu Yuchen Liu Niranjan Namdev Mane Neha Rajendra Parkar Maliheh Rahrovan Fatemeh Shah Mohammadi Teng Teng Ajinkya Sakharam Thite Xingyan Wang Cong Wang |
Dan Wu Yingshan Wu Jiacheng Wu Han Xiao Jinyan Xu Xianyou Yang Tong Yang Yao Yao Liran Yin SeungYun Yoo Wei Zeng Zhibin Zhou |
May 7, 2020: Fatemeh Shah-Mohammadi, who completed the ELC's Graduate Writing and Reading course in her first term at RIT, is on track to graduate with a Ph.D. in engineering, one of RIT’s newest doctoral programs. After researching sustainable LTE networks, she focused on machine learning and artificial intelligence and their broad application in realizing intelligent wireless communications in future. Specifically, her work consists of developing carbon nanotubes and cognitive radio networks.
"I always wanted to be an academician and share my knowledge and also learn from others," she said. "In fact, attending a Ph.D. program in the United States was a top goal to equip myself with the most up-to-date research in the industry."
Read the full story here: RIT doctoral students set to contribute to health care, imaging and space fields.
May 5, 2020: Yahui Gao and Yeaseul Lee are among the graduating Master of Fine Arts students who presented their work at the Bevier MFA Thesis Exhibitions 2020. Below are examples of their work.
First, Yahui Gao:
Sitting and Learning | maple, leather, 28.5x30x31″, 2020
Yahui Gao designs and creates work that contributes to the transformation of an environment, bringing us closer to a feeling of home. The circle becomes a primal connection to her work. The circle means being together, harmony and completeness, and all-encompassing in Chinese culture and Asian philosophy. Also, the circle is a form that exists everywhere in daily life, from the sun and moon, throughout human culture, architecture, and everyday household. Yahui creates individual pieces of furniture as well as other objects that share a sophisticated, cohesive atmosphere that reminds us of home and a comfortable and happy environment.
Second, Yeaseul Lee:
Manhole II, 41×49″, oil on wood, 2020
Occasionally, certain things come alive to me as representing something that leaves behind a trace of time. That mark emerges from suffering and it communicates itself to the world outside. I have been interested in abandoned things and that which has been disregarded, especially what are to me unfamiliar objects. I am inspired by the moment when I feel a sense of familiarity with those things that I have not dealt with before and then I sublimate my feelings into art. It begins with the feeling of pity for sewage systems that are not usually seen. My work combines the feelings that I have experienced with sewages and seeks to make them appear more mystical and otherworldly on the canvas.
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April 27, 2020: Inamutila Mekondjo Kahupi, called "Son" by his friends, who completed the ELC's Graduate Writing and Reading course in his first term at RIT, is this year's winner of the RIT ELC Global Citizen award, given to a student who has demonstrated an ability to bring people together across cultural and national backgrounds through leadership, service or academic collaboration. "Son has been working toward a more sustainable world since he got to RIT," said Professor Clyde Eiríkur Hull in his nomination.
"He brings an African perspective to his work, which involves bringing together people and companies to make a more sustainable world," continued Prof. Hull. "He has taken a leadership role in his thesis research, seeking out and interviewing entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate managers, among others, to better understand how to bring such people together to create a more sustainable business ecosystem in which people across the world can participate."
On receiving the news of his award, Son said, "No words can describe how motivating it is for me to be awarded this award," adding, "[I'm] just a happy African child today."
Son is pictured above shortly after his arrival at RIT above from a July 2019 feature story from the Namibian Sun about him, here: From humble beginnings: Fearless sacrifices drive Kahupi’s success.
April 7, 2020: Celal Savur and Kamil Bukum, pictured above on right and left respectively with colleague Ruslan Dautov, began their study at RIT in the ELC and are now part of a team that created a "non-invasive heart monitor to devices available to assess CV-19 symptoms." Read the full story here: RIT Rallies: Research project moves from prototype to support for coronavirus care.
November 5, 2019: Aya Oki, pictured above giving a demonstration, who participated in a special ELC tutorial for arts students, was selected as one of the 100 artists included in "New Glass Now" at the Corning Museum of Glass, returned to RIT five years after graduating to present her work and give a demonstration. Read the full stories here: Artist Talk and Demo with Aya Oki '14 MFA (Glass) and Alumna from Japan finds passion for glass.
April 25, 2010: Yibo Marcia Liu, has been awarded the first RIT ELC Global Citizen award. The award, created to celebrate the ELC's 40th anniversary, is given to a student who has demonstrated an ability to bring people together across cultural and national backgrounds through leadership, service or academic collaboration. Progessor Elizabeth Kronfield, Director of the Graduate Fine Arts Studio program, nomintaed Marcia with the following statement:
"Since entering the Fine Arts Studio MFA program Marcia has been an incredibly eager learner. Through this energy to learn and create Marcia has not only excelled in her studies but also greatly contributed to the graduate student community in the program and throughout the College of Art & Design. She often leads critiques with faculty and her peers and has on numerous occasions translated thoughts and comments to other students who speak Mandarin and have had difficulty fully understanding a conversation.
"Marcia has also been a leader beyond her studies. She has been selected by the program to teach various workshops to high school students travelling to RIT to participate in art-making activities. And due to the success of her teaching she also is currently the Instructor of Record for a sophomore program course. Students have benefitted from her knowledge and ability to clearly and effectively communicate both concept and process. Marcia has also collaborated with other CAD graduate students to organize exhibitions, field trips, lead workshops, and demonstrations. Overall she has been a leader in the MFA program for Fine Arts Studio and the college."
October 5, 2018: Yiming Cui, pictured above, modelled pieces by another student and Kaeun Jang designed pieces based on the traditional Korean hanbok clothing for the ninth annual Rochester fashion Week. Both students began their RIT careers at the ELC. Read the full story here: RIT hits the runway for Fashion Week of Rochester.
November 21, 2017: Fatmah Bamashmous, who began her RIT career in the ELC, was featured in a story about RIT’s oldest master’s program, woodworking and furniture design, and the 72 graduate programs that have followed. Read the full story here: Graduate programs offer cutting-edge education.
