Past Class Notes
Submission Date:
First Name: Alexandra
Last Name: Grant
Class Year: 2014
Photo:
The Altamuras
Note: Alexandra Grant '14 (GCCIS) married Christian Altamura in Savannah, GA on October 8, 2022
Submission Date:
First Name: Samantha
Last Name: Whalen
Class Year: 2012
Photo:
The Bouthillettes
Note: RIT Alumni and college sweethearts Samantha Whalen BS '12 (CHST) and Alex Bouthillette BS '14 (CAST) married in Simsbury, CT on September 16, 2022.
Submission Date:
First Name: Ian
Last Name: Berringer
Class Year: 2016
Photo:
Ian and Kerri during the Golden Hour.
Note: Ian Berringer '16 (CAST) married Kerri Doyle at Allen Hill Farm in Brooklyn, Conn.
Submission Date:
First Name: William
Last Name: Hallett (formerly Gerken)
Class Year: 2015
Photo:
Bill and Nate after their engagement, 2021.
Note: William J. Gerken '15 (CLA) and Nathaniel C. Hallett were married September 10, 2022 at the Reikart House in Amherst, New York.
Submission Date:
First Name: Dmitriy
Last Name: Bekker
Class Year: 2007
Photo:
Dmitriy is monitoring image processing telemetry from the DRACO camera with less than an hour to-go before impact. Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
Note: Dmitriy Bekker '07, MS '07 (KGCOE) is an engineering lead on NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. On September 26, 2022 - DART impacted the asteroid Dimorphos and changed its orbit around the larger binary asteroid Didymos - thus completing the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration. Dmitriy led the development of the onboard image processing and image data handling for the DRACO camera on DART, which was used to autonomously guide the spacecraft to Dimorphos and stream real-time imagery to Earth. Dmitriy participated in Mission Operations on the day of impact and monitored DRACO performance during the crucial terminal approach sequence. Dmitriy is a senior engineer in the Space Exploration Sector at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where the DART spacecraft was designed, built, and operated for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office.