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Wellness coach Sue Grace checks Terri O’Connor’s blood pressure as part of RIT’s Better Me health and wellness consultation program.

The Sakoku Edicts and the Politics of Tokugawa Hegemony, by Michael Laver, RIT assistant professor of history, offers one of the first thorough translations and examinations of Japan’s Sakoku, or “closed country,” Edicts. The series of laws, first established in 1635, were designed to restrict the influence of European trade, culture and Christianity on Japanese society and continued to characterize Japan until the 1850s.

Paul Solt, a sixth-year computer science B.S./M.S. student, created Artwork Evolution, an iPhone/iPad application that allows users to create digital artwork and wallpapers on a mobile device in seconds. Solt is working with Venture Creations, the RIT Business Incubator, to develop a business plan that supports his ideas for the application. Prints of his work are on sale in Shop One² in Global Village.

RIT Staff Council hosted its yearly Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display May 25 as part of the 15th annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic. Ted Passarell checks under the hood of his 1968 Ford Fairlane. Passarell is an electrician for Facilities Management Services.

RIT Staff Council hosted its yearly Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display May 25 as part of the 15th annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic. Jessie Cowd, center, shared information about his 1977 Chevy truck. Cowd is a project coordinator for Facilities Management Services.

RIT Staff Council hosted its yearly Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Display May 25 as part of the 15th annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic.

The Women’s Council of RIT gathered for the annual meeting on May 18. The group participates in a variety of projects including, but not limited to, scholarships to RIT’s women students. One member is chosen to represent the Council at Board of Trustee meetings and committees.

More than 300 visitors came out for the School of Design’s annual Portfolio Walkthrough on May 12. Seniors from the school’s bachelor of fine arts programs exhibited their physical and digital portfolios throughout the University Gallery.

On May 20, David Johnson walked across the stage at commencement and accepted his degree. Like the hundreds of other graduates there, his proud family cheered and celebrated his accomplishment. That achievement, though, was completed more than 20 years ago. Johnson, 75, finished his master’s degree in imaging science in 1989. But he missed the commencement ceremony so he could watch his son graduate from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

RIT celebrates its new crop of graduates with the university’s 126th commencement. The two-day observance kicks off during Academic Convocation, on May 20 in RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center. During the ceremony, RIT President Bill Destler confers degrees on both undergraduate and graduate candidates.

RIT celebrated its new crop of graduates with the university’s 126th commencement. The two-day observance kicked off during Academic Convocation on May 20 in RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center. During the ceremony, RIT President Bill Destler conferred degrees on undergraduate and graduate candidates. Here, Craig Martek, a computer science graduate in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, celebrates after receiving his degree.

Alex Johnson, who graduated with a mechanical engineering degree May 21, accepted a position with General Electric Aviation in Lynn, Mass. Her capstone project was a portable alarm system for the deaf.