News by Topic: Alumni

  • March 29, 2017

    People working on experiment in classroom

    Women in Computing helping to close gender gap
    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.

  • March 29, 2017

    RIT President Bill Destler posing on couch with his wife

    End of presidential era

    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.

  • March 29, 2017

    Professor posing for camera

    CIAS Dean Lorraine Justice to step down
    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.

  • March 28, 2017

    People gathered for picture in room

    Alumnus to discuss 18th-century printing press
    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.

  • March 28, 2017

    couple poses on boulders.

    Ice-breaker was really love at first sight
    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.

  • March 28, 2017

    Person holding rings made of circuits

    Chemist turns hobby into full-time business
    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.

  • March 28, 2017

    Mike Jeffries speaking to an audience, not pictured, from behind a computer. On a screen behind him is a photo of robots fighting each other.

    Robot pastime helped alumnus build career
    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.

  • March 28, 2017

    Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern pose for a photo on a set of modern-looking stairs.

    Graduates construct Rochester Top 100 company
    Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern were standing on the basketball court sidelines in 1998 when they started talking about majors. That was the beginning of Hamilton Stern Construction, a company that was No. 1 on the Rochester Chamber Top 100 list of fastest growing private companies in 2016.

  • March 28, 2017

    Teacher posing with students

    Education fueled by hard work—and fruit cakes
    Rosalie Rosini is proof that age is just a number and that life is what you make it to be. The 70-year-old, who celebrated the 50th anniversary of her graduation from RIT last May, said that she’s more active in her life now than she’s ever been.

  • March 27, 2017

    Picture of Satellite

    Researchers win grant to improve Landsat 8 data
    Two RIT researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public data from the Earth-sensing satellite to measure surface changes over time.

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