News by Topic: Alumni

Marko Sekulic '04, director of Business Development at the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice, is the Honorary Chair of the 2017 RITz Dinner Event taking place on Friday at the Hotel Imperial Dubrovnik. The annual dinner is one of the events highlighting RIT Croatia's 20th anniversary.

Merrill Lynch financial advisor Fern (Grossman) Schwartz ’77 (business administration) has been named to the Forbes list of “America’s Top Women Wealth Advisors” for 2017.

RIT is one of the leading universities in the nation in preparing students on the autism spectrum for professional success. Its strength stems from a combination of the Spectrum Support Program and the cooperative education program.

For all the progress women have made in STEM careers, the gender gap in computing is only growing larger. RIT’s Women in Computing (WiC) group was created in 2008 to help empower women in computer fields to succeed and thrive at RIT and beyond.

Under Bill Destler’s leadership, RIT’s enrollment has reached record levels, selectivity and diversity have improved, the value of research awards has skyrocketed and geographic draw continues to widen. But his strong relationship with students is the key piece of his legacy.

Lorraine Justice, dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences since 2011, is stepping down March 31 due to health reasons. Senior Associate Dean Robin Cass has been appointed acting dean of CIAS to serve through the end of this academic year.

Recent engineering grad Seth Gottlieb will speak about the 18th-century wooden printing press that he and his classmates recreated for their senior design class. Following the talk, the press will be used to print new copies of one of the 18th century’s most iconic documents: the First Amendment.

Guerin Gagliastri ’14 (physician assistant) and Stephen Jones ’13 (film and animation) met as Resident Advisors in 2011 and instantly became friends. They were married in September.

Radha Chhita will get her master’s degree in May, becoming the eighth member of her family to attend RIT.

Filip Keuppens '99 (hotel and resort management) took his hospitality degree, combined it with his love of sports and found the perfect job.

Despite having earned a Ph.D. in chemistry, Amanda Preske ’09 has put her career as a researcher on hold to commit herself full time to her jewelry business, Circuit Breaker Labs, through which she crafts and sells pieces made from recycled circuit boards and resin.

Mike Jeffries is proud when Bombshell is on the attack, knowing there’s no “tapping out” or yielding in competitions. During this past season of ABC’s BattleBots show, taped over the summer, Bombshell and Jeffries’ Chaos Corps team battled to an impressive second place finish.