Photo Spotlights

RIT President Bill Destler, center; Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy ’93, center right; and Golisano Institute for Sustainability director Nabil Nasr, left, broke ground April 15 on a new facility for the Golisano Institute. They were joined by representatives from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the state of New York. The facility was made possible through a $13.1 million grant from NIST and $10 million in funding from New York state.

RIT President Bill Destler officially announced the establishment of the Institute of Health Sciences and Technology on April 14. The institute will produce technological solutions to healthcare delivery and position the RIT-RGHS Alliance as a contributing player in the reform of the nation’s healthcare system.

“Frozen in Time!: The Synchronic Comic Book Collection of Stephen Neil Cooper” is now on display at RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection through June 6. The exhibition features all 202 comic books that were on candy store racks and newsstands in April 1956. Cooper gave a brief talk about comics and his hobby on April 14.

The book Sustainability Ethics: 5 Questions seeks to better define sustainability and address the key ethical concepts involved with sustainable development. It features leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, political science and ethics and is co-edited by philosophy professors Evan Selinger and Wade Robison along with Ryne Raffaelle, an affiliate professor at RIT and director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Center for Photovoltaics.

The Firehouse Gallery at Genesee Pottery presents the 2011 College Clay Collective through April 28. College students from across the country are represented in the juried show, including three from RIT.

Students at James P.B. Duffy School No. 12 in Rochester learned a lesson in good health and wellness from RIT pre-med students. The RIT students have traveled to Rochester city schools throughout the year to teach the youngsters about good habits and healthy eating.

A sculpture exhibit by Gary Mayers, featuring a selection of work from the past 30 years, is on view in the NTID Dyer Arts center through April 23.

Emmy Award-winning technology expert Katie Linendoll ’05 returned to her alma mater April 8 to deliver a talk, “Innovation in Technology,” as part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Dean’s Lecture Series. Linendoll graduated with a bachelor’s degree in information technology and received the Golisano College’s 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award.

RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholars were celebrated April 7 in Gordon Field House. Each student honored achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.85 out of a possible 4.0.

RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholars were celebrated April 7 in Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Each student honored achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.85 out of a possible 4.0.

Maggie Castle, far right, will lead a team of fellow first-year imaging science students on an imaging expedition to Boston Public Library the week after graduation. Castle won funding from the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science to image historic materials and artifacts at the library using the polynomial texture mapping system the students designed and built in the center’s yearlong Freshman Imaging Project. The imaging device illuminates a subject from different directions and angles. Computer software compiles the multiple shots into one interactive image to examine subtle surface textures and features. Castle’s team includes Kevin Dickey, far left, Scarlett Montanaro and Dan Goldberg.

Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie visited campus April 4 as part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s “Visionaries in Motion IV” speaker series. Adichie’s presentation “Shifting Spaces: Identity, Literature and the Emergence of Stories” explored the ideas of identity and literature and how both have influenced her life as a fiction writer.