Photo Spotlights

A line formed for the opening of Nathan’s Soup and Salad in the Student Alumni Union lobby on Nov. 9. Nathan’s, a favorite restaurant on Park Avenue, now has an additional location in the former candy counter space. Nathan’s offerings include healthy homemade soups, sandwiches and breads.

Newly elected U.S. Congressman Thomas Reed, center, is sworn into office by Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, alongside RIT President Bill Destler, at a ceremony Nov. 10 at RIT. Reed was elected Nov. 2 in a special election to represent the 29th District in New York, replacing Eric Massa.

John Roche, associate professor of English, co-edited Doing Time to Cleanse My Mind: An Anthology From the Inmates’ Poetry Workshop of Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, New York, 2001-2009 with Patricia Roth Schwartz.

Led by RIT, more than 400 student athletes and library staff from seven local colleges visited seven Rochester city elementary schools Nov. 5 to participate in the Giant Read. The event was funded by a grant RIT received from the John F. Wegman Fund through the Rochester Area Community Foundation. MCC, Nazareth, Roberts Wesleyan, St. John Fisher, SUNY Brockport and University of Rochester joined RIT for the event. The student athletes read to first graders and then joined in activities in the schools’ gymnasiums.

University of Maryland-Baltimore County President Freeman Hrabowski was the keynote speaker for the 2010 Campus Week of Dialogue on Nov. 5. He spoke about strategies to increase diversity, retention and student achievement, especially in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. The Campus Week of Dialogue is sponsored by the President’s Commission on Pluralism and Inclusion and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Led by RIT, more than 400 student athletes and library staff from seven local colleges visited seven Rochester city elementary schools Nov. 5 to participate in the Giant Read. The event was funded by a grant RIT received from the John F. Wegman Fund through the Rochester Area Community Foundation. MCC, Nazareth, Roberts Wesleyan, St. John Fisher, SUNY Brockport and University of Rochester joined RIT for the event. The student athletes read to first graders and then joined in activities in the schools’ gymnasiums. Many of the colleges’ mascots joined in on the fun. Here, RIT student Jasmine Maisonet, a member of RIT's women's track and field team, reads to children from John Williams School No. 5.

Ken Hansen, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Freescale Semiconductor, opened the 2010 Freescale Symposium on Nov. 4, discussing the company’s newest technologies. Participants attended workshops and demonstrations of the company’s development tools and student projects.

James Carlson, chief executive officer of Amerigroup, was the keynote speaker at the Executive Leaders Network luncheon sponsored by RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business on Nov. 3. Since he took the helm in 2003, Carlson has secured Amerigroup’s position as one of the leading voices on behalf of health care for the financially vulnerable, seniors and people with disabilities.

Congressman Dan Maffei, right, visited the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory, part of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Oct. 22. Distinguished researcher Don McKeown, left, explains how the multi-wavelength camera system was used to capture images in earthquake-struck Haiti, while Robert Krzaczek, software architect, looks on. Maffei, along with Congressman Chris Lee, secured $500,000 in the fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to support RIT’s remote sensing program.

Faculty, staff and students, including Alene Pierro, center, a third-year professional photographic illustration major, helped to turn up the volume on RIT’s annual fundraising effort during ROAR Day, the fifth annual Raise Our Annual Responses initiative, on Oct. 28. Gifts made during ROAR Day help support RIT’s General Scholarship Fund.

In the “spirit” of Halloween, RIT hosted a pumpkin-carving contest Oct. 29 at The Market at Global Village. Prizes were presented to Best in Show, as well as scariest and funniest pumpkin faces.

Leigh Rubin, creator of the cartoon Rubes, met with students from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences on Oct. 28 during a visit to campus. Rubin critiqued student work and gave a presentation about his creative inspiration and cartooning process. Rubes appears in more than 400 newspapers around the world, including Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle.