Photo Spotlights

Midnight Oil, RIT’s newest coffee shop, debuted Nov. 26 in the Crossroads building near Global Village. Coffee, specialty beverages, sandwiches and desserts are offered 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday and Sunday.

Wil Sideman, from Greene, Maine, is a graduate student in the RIT’s School for American Crafts glass program. Assisting Sideman is Brendan Miller ’12 (MFA), artist in residence. Sideman will graduate from RIT in the spring of 2013.

Jeremy Edman ’02 (information technology) recruits at RIT for JPMorgan Chase. More than 30 graduates work at the company. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49302.

RIT Professor Alan Singer shares an exhibit with his father, Arthur, at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, NY. “A Guide to Nature: The Art of Arthur Singer, with Alan Singer” has been extended through Dec. 30.

In an effort to spur research that assists people with disabilities, the Effective Access Technology Program awarded a total of $100,000 to 15 faculty-led student teams at the RIT Celebration of Research event Nov. 16. Areas of interest include: technology for improving the mobility of persons with visual or hearing impairment, the use of interactive media to help persons with cognitive or physical disabilities, and technology that improves the safety of and accessibility for individuals living in assisted living or group residences. RIT is partnering with the Al Sigl Community of Agencies, its affiliates and sister organizations as part of the program. Here, from left, Talal Alharbi, B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, explains a notification system for deaf and hard-of-hearing people to Dan Meyers, president of Al Sigl Center.

Denis Cormier, the Earl W. Brinkman Professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, explains the new Pulseforge advanced curing system for printed electronics during demonstrations on Nov. 16. Visitors had samples of printed electronics on their nametags. RIT researchers, like Cormier, and corporate partners expect to play a role in the growth of the printed electronics and advanced manufacturing industry. Estimated to be a multi-billion dollar growth industry in the coming years, some of the work developing new equipment, nano-inks and novel applications for medical devices, sensors and fuels cells, for example, may begin with local initiatives and a new university-industry partnership established at RIT. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49539.

Todd Pagano, center, an associate professor and director of the Laboratory Science Technology program at NTID, has been named 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His award was presented at a ceremony Nov. 15 in Washington, D.C. Pagano was selected from more than 300 nominations. To read more, go to www.ntid.rit.edu/news/ntids-todd-pagano-named-us-professor-year.

Richard Hirsch teaches ceramics in the School for American Crafts. The book With Fire, published by the RIT Press and available in January 2013, examines his work and life as a ceramic artist.

Rachel Mosetick ’12 (environmental sustainability, health and safety) is interviewing for full-time jobs that require three years of experience. Mosetick completed four co-ops as an undergraduate with Defense Logistics Agency in Colorado and ThermoFisher Scientific, Wegmans and Stantec Consulting Services in Rochester. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49297.

Randy Vercauteren, director of parking and transportation, explains parking availability. Starting break week, the north sector of U Lot will be taken out of service while the Gene Polisseni Center is under construction. Approximately 235 reserved parking spaces will be retained in the southern section of U Lot during construction. The S Lot expansion adding 232 spaces will be available after break. To read more on parking at RIT, go to www.rit.edu/news/athenaeum_story.php?id=49474.

RIT hosted its second annual Veterans Day Breakfast Nov. 9 to pay tribute to members of the campus community who serve or have served honorably in uniform. RIT boasts a long history of accommodating the educational needs of returning veterans, dating back to the end of World War II.

The Spanish version of RIT professor Mark Fairchild’s “The Color Curiosity Shop, La tienda de las curiosidades sobre el color,” was published in hardcopy in Spain through a collaboration of professor Manuel Melgosa of the University of Granada. The Spanish edition was published by the University of Granada Press in collaboration with Parque de las Ciencias. The Spanish versions is available through Amazon.com. Mark Fairchild is an associate dean for research and graduate education at RIT and a professor in the Munsell Color Science Laboratory in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.