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Dorrene Brown ’13 (software engineering) will make the move to Seattle in August to start with Microsoft as a program manager working on apps for Office. She worked on a co-op with the company last summer and was offered the full-time position in September. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50046.

Microelectronic engineering faculty presented a weeklong, intensive training course on Integrated Circuit Fabrication, June 17-21. The course is a regional workforce development initiative, specifically for the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster. RIT is part of a larger, collaborative team with the University of Rochester, High Tech Rochester and the New York State Department of Economic Development providing workforce training, and retraining, of workers in optics, imaging and photonics. At RIT, faculty from microelectronic engineering, the College of Applied Science and Technology and the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science provided the training in support of New York state and the Finger lakes Economic Development initiatives.

Siddharth Khullar, originally from New Delhi, India, received his Ph.D. in May from the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. In January, Microsoft Research hired him as a post-doctoral research fellow. Khullar was the graduate speaker at the RIT academic convocation and the College of Science graduate delegate.

Employees of Darkwind Media spend their days enabling video games to be played on new platforms, testing and debugging games and creating new games. In its sixth year, revenue has doubled each year for the business, which is based in RIT’s Venture Creations. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50040

Students in the kindergarten class at Margaret’s House Child Care Center at RIT use iPads and Mac computers as tools to learn about everything from foreign languages to astronomy. The educational technology was purchased with a $5,000 grant from the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50104.

Two RIT hall of famers were honored at the 15th annual RITirees Picnic held in the Gordon Field House on June 12. J. Roger Dykes, shown here, joined the RIT staff in 1972 as sports information director, where he served for 25 years. Dykes is a member of the RIT Athletics Hall of Fame. Robert Frisina joined RIT in 1967 as the first director of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. He is a member of the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame.

Two RIT hall of famers were honored at the 15th annual RITirees Picnic held in the Gordon Field House on June 12. Robert Frisina, shown here, joined RIT in 1967 as the first director of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. He is a member of the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame. J. Roger Dykes joined the RIT staff in 1972 as sports information director, where he served for 25 years. Dykes is a member of the RIT Athletics Hall of Fame.

Evan Coyne combined a rich mix of hospitality and tourism courses with work and study abroad experiences to land a position with the Ritz-Carlton resort on Amelia Island, Florida. While an undergraduate in RIT’s School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation, she was the recipient of the prestigious Statler Scholarship, led the department’s Hospitality Student Association and helped to coordinate the school’s annual Puttin’ on the RITz Black Tie Dinner and Fundraiser—only a few of the many experiences she will be able to use in her new career.

RIT hosted the 2013 SAE Baja Rochester World Challenge, a major international collegiate design challenge and race, this past weekend. This was the fifth time RIT hosted the event, and 90 collegiate racing teams participated in the three-days of off-road racing held at RIT on June 7, and at Hogback Hill in Palmyra, N.Y., on June 8 and 9. Colleges from seven countries were represented—the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, India and the United Arab Emirates—and more than 790 engineering and engineering technology students participated. In individual events, RIT Racing placed second in acceleration and maneuverability and in the top 10 of the four-hour endurance race. Those placements were enough to put the team in third place overall in performance at the competition. The team was also awarded the Toyota Teamwork Award, given to the group that goes above and beyond helping other teams throughout the competition.

Sean Sercu, from Rochester, N.Y., graduated this year with a degree in criminal justice and feels fortunate to have already secured full-time employment as a youth care professional with Hillside Children’s Center.

Dalton Allen graduated from NTID and has a job lined up as a CNC operator with Tiffany & Co. jewelers in Rhode Island.

John Schott won RIT’s first major research grant from NASA in 1981 to calibrate the thermal band of Landsat 4, the Earth-observing satellite. His research laid the cornerstone for the university’s imaging science program and first doctoral program. The Frederick and Anna B. Wiedman Professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science will retire from teaching this year.