Photo Spotlights

The Middle East metropolis of Dubai is a multicultural experience for RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business Honors Program students who were spending their spring break learning about the Dubai Financial Markets and visiting Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. The students toured the campus and met Mustafa Abushagur, center, president of RIT Dubai, who is currently on leave while serving as the deputy prime minister of Libya.

Kate Winnebeck, left, and Tracy Freas have developed an outreach and education program that provides ergonomics assessment and training for companies in New York and outside the state.

Lyndsey Saunders, a third-year advertising and public relations student, tweets during her e-Journalism class. Twitter and blogs are social-media methods of communication. Saunders has a blog on fashion.

Students from packaging science, graphic design and industrial design teamed up on design projects in a competition sponsored by American Packaging Corp. This was the third year students from the College of Applied Science and Technology worked with those from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences to redesign packaging. In this year’s competition, the teams were asked to re-work several Wegmans product packages, such as juice containers, sauces and laundry detergent, to make them more eye-appealing, sustainable and easier to pack for shipping to stores.

Sydney Seaver, senior professional advisor, works with third-year student Kevin Mulholland to evaluate course options in pursuit of his computer engineering technology degree. Advising is a key aspect of RIT’s pledge to help all students effectively navigate the upcoming switch to semesters.

Gallery r’s current exhibition, “Redefining PCP*—Students & Alumni Interpret *Poetry, Craft & Performance” opened Feb. 24 and runs through April 7.

Engineering students demonstrated early results of senior design projects at the annual poster session and presentations Feb. 24 in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Chris “Chappy” Sullivan, a fifth-year mechanical engineering student, demonstrates The Motion Assistive Seating Device for Sailing. The device is a portable and detachable seating system that can be used by individuals with mobile disabilities to participate in leisure sailing excursions and competitions. It is one of several being developed as part of the college’s biomedical systems and technologies projects.

The Gallery at the Arts & Cultural Council, 277 N. Goodman St., presents an exhibit of paintings and sculptures by RIT Professor Leonard Urso. The exhibit is on view through Feb. 28.

RIT’s Student Affairs hosted a women’s leadership event on Feb. 21. Elaine Spaull, executive director of the Center for Youth and a Rochester City Council member, was the keynote speaker. Spaull spoke about compassionate leadership and incorporating respect for others in a leadership style.

Ashley Aberg, a fourth-year philosophy major from New York City, has conducted groundbreaking research on intersex infants and was the only undergraduate presenter and attendee at an international conference in Madrid.

Tom Keene ’75 (biology) is interviewed by WITR-FM (89.7) Feb. 17 during a men’s hockey game. Keene, an editor at Bloomberg News and co-host of “Bloomberg Surveillance” on Bloomberg Radio, is a former RIT hockey player and was joined at a reunion by more than a dozen alumni hockey players from the 1970s. Keene also shared his business prowess with students from the E. Philip Saunders College of Business during a discussion about the global economy.

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo presented highlights of his state budget to the Rochester community Friday at NTID’s Panara Theatre. The governor’s budget proposal aims to close the current $2 billion budget deficit with no new taxes or new fees. The Executive Budget also lays the groundwork for an innovative $25 billion economic development agenda.