Photo Spotlights

RIT’s 5th Annual FreezeFest kickoff event on Dec. 11 featured a table of blue and white giveaways, a candy buffet, photo booth and blue cotton candy. John Oliver, from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, was announced as the featured comedian for the three-day winter festival and is set to perform Feb. 22, 2014.

Metal sculptor Albert Paley created 13 pieces that were installed on Park Avenue in New York City in June. On Dec. 9, Paley, who holds an endowed chair at RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, attended the premiere of the film chronicling the project, produced by WXXI. The film includes segments at RIT and an interview with James Watters, RIT senior vice president of finance and administration. Tune in to WXXI-TV at 8 p.m. Dec. 12 for Paley on Park Avenue: New York City.

Students from the High Speed Photography class brave below freezing temperatures to pull off their semester’s final shoot. A collaboration between students from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and the Center for Imaging Science, the students photographed RIT Formula SAE Team’s F-18 race car. Using stroboscopic lighting, the car slid in an arc around an array of cameras (and students) with synchronized flashes of light.

The RIT Cosplay Troupe sponsored its annual Cosplay Snow Festival on Dec. 7. The Snow Ball Dance, contests, panels and performances were all part of the day.

RIT alumna Gale Gand ’81 visited with students in the hospitality program on Dec. 6. The nationally acclaimed pastry chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality, teacher and entrepreneur talked about her time at RIT, a graduate of its art program, and her career shift to hospitality and restaurants. She has been recognized as Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year by The James Beard Foundation as well as by Bon Appetite magazine.

Margaret Bailey is the principal investigator of a $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program for a project intended to increase representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics at RIT. The professor of mechanical engineering in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering also is the founding member of the women in engineering program, WE@RIT.

At a meeting Dec. 3 at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., are RIT President Bill Destler, and to the right, NGA Deputy Director Michael A. Rodrigue, RIT Professor David Messinger, Trustee Jeffrey Harris ’75 and far right, RIT Vice President of Government and Community Relations Deborah Stendardi. The meeting was just prior to an RIT-hosted Capitol Hill briefing, “STEM Workforce in Remote Sensing, a National Imperative: Views and Next Steps from the Intelligence, Corporate and Academic Communities.”

Marissa Masek, a fifth-year photographic sciences and biology student, celebrated her 23rd birthday on Dec. 2 by inviting friends to a studio filled with 360 balloons to toss around and photograph.

Bethany Choate ’06 and Matthew Heimbueger ’06 are building their own 2,048-square-foot sustainable home in suburban Rochester. The imaging science graduates plan to move in by the end of this year.

The Tiger’s Next Top Model competition concluded with a runway show on Nov. 22. Students Hailey Koth and Kyle Brossoit were chosen as the winners at the end of the show.

RIT men’s hockey fans cheered for their team during the game with St. Lawrence University Nov. 23.

After making its debut during a prestigious event in New York City this summer, one of the 13 original pieces that metal sculptor Albert Paley created for a Park Avenue exhibition has a permanent home on the RIT campus. Cloaked Intention was installed Nov. 20 in the quad between Golisano Institute for Sustainability and Louise M. Slaughter Hall. The acquisition of the piece was made possible by a gift from longtime RIT trustee Ann Mulligan.