Photo Spotlights

Jamie Post and Ryan Harriman are students from the first graduating class of RIT’s University Studies Program. They graduated on time with respective degrees in business and bio-medical communications. To read more about the University Studies program, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50041.

Genesee Valley Quilt Club presents more than 600 quilts on display, as well as lectures, demos and exhibits at its biennial show May 31 through June 2 at RIT’s Gordon Field House. To learn more, go to www.geneseequiltfest.com.

The men’s lacrosse team heads to Philadelphia for the NCAA Division III National Championship at 4 p.m. Sunday. The Tigers face Stevenson University in the finals after a thrilling 10-9 overtime win over top-seeded and previously undefeated SUNY Cortland in the semifinals on May 19. This is the first time in the 46-year history of RIT men’s lacrosse that the Tigers will play for a national title.

RIT Staff Council hosted the Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display on May 22, in conjunction with RIT’s 17th annual Staff Appreciation Day & Community Picnic. The show is named for Bob Howie, who first organized the classic car display as an RIT retiree of Campus Connections bookstore. Howie died in 2008.

RIT celebrated its new crop of graduates with the university’s 128th commencement. The two-day observance kicked off during Academic Convocation on May 17 in Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Here, dt ogilvie, dean of Saunders College of Business, congratulates Nikesh Hajari, the Saunders College delegate, at convocation. To read more about commencement activities, including a copy of keynote speaker Alex Kipman’s speech, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50059.

Alex Kipman ’01, now a Microsoft executive credited with inventing the Kinect system for Xbox 360 video game and Windows PCs, delivered the keynote address at convocation May 17.

Byron Conn, a fourth-year furniture design student in the School for American Crafts, enjoys some downtime on one of his creations inside the woodworking shop. To read more about Conn, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=50029.

“Lines” is a film about an experimental work of art created by almost 3,000 people. Ryan Meadows, who just completed his second year as a film production major at RIT, traveled to various locations around Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y. to collect lines on canvases. Each line was painted by a different person, and Meadows says that the project connects everyone involved. The film was screened at the RIT School of Film and Animation’s end-of-quarter screenings and Meadows plans to enter it into several film festivals.

Tae (Tom) Oh, an associate professor of information sciences and technologies, is creating a “Smart Cane” that uses directional force vibrations to allow deaf-blind persons to easily guide themselves through their environment.

Siddharth Khullar will be the graduate speaker at the RIT academic convocation and the College of Science graduate delegate. Stefi Baum, director of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, has been a mentor through Khullar’s doctoral studies in imaging science.

Students in the School for American Crafts showcased their projects during the annual “Walkthrough” on May 13. “Walkthrough” is a SAC tradition that began more than 25 years ago based on touring the school’s ceramics, glass, furniture design, metals and jewelry design studios to view work created by RIT students. Faculty, students and friends can experience the entirety of the school in a way not possible during the normal day-to-day activities.

Linda Gottermeier, an associate professor/rehabilitative audiologist in NTID’s Communications Studies & Services Department, is a 2013 recipient of the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.