Photo Spotlights

As part of the Rochester City School District’s “Green Schools” program, 34 students and 10 staff members from various district schools attended a day-long workshop at RIT on Jan. 18 to learn more about the latest in eco-friendly employment opportunities. Here, they received an explanation about fuel cell vehicles.

Barbara Page, whose watercolors, oils and mixed media work have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, spoke about her work and met with RIT painting students on Jan. 18.

Off-Campus & Apartment Student Association hosted a pizza party in the new Campus Center on Jan. 14.

Sarah Bonzo ’06 (industrial engineering), left, discusses process plans with RIT engineering student Allison Smith in the Specimen Management Lab at Rochester General Hospital. Smith has been participating in a Lean Six Sigma Practitioner Program and will be part of the work team developing process improvements in the lab.

Four-year-old Katie Shomper attends all the women’s hockey games with her dad, Jason ’00 (information technology). The Tigers take on Oswego at 7 p.m. Jan. 15 in Ritter Arena.

Students in Warren Sackler’s franchising class are able to watch his new restaurant in Florida being developed for service. Sackler, associate professor, School of Hospitality and Service Management, is an expert on restaurant management and operations.

A special shrink wrap covering (shown in front) is being developed by Changfeng Ge, assistant professor of packaging science, to provide an alternative to using colored glass bottles. Ge and several students are researching alternative coatings for plastic, or PET, bottles that would protect the beverage from light, oxygenation and moisture, all qualities that diminish the flavor and quality.

John Capps, senior associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts, and his father, Donald Capps, show the connection between jokes and thinking critically. Jokes make us laugh, they claim, because jokes are about people saying or doing something irrational. Figuring out why we laugh is figuring out why something is irrational and that helps people avoid the same mistakes. Web Extra: Hear John Capps discuss his new book: www.rit.edu/news/podcasts.

Christy Smith has made Rochester her home and is now enrolled in NTID’s secondary education master’s degree program. In 2003, Smith became the first deaf contestant on the CBS reality show Survivor. She spent more than a month living in the Amazon jungle. Since then, she has worked as a motivational speaker, taught sign language and developed a television show called Christy’s Kids to encourage children to challenge themselves.

“A Fraternity of Artists” features the creativity of 23 brothers in RIT’s Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity in addition to artists from four other national chapters. The exhibition runs Jan. 8-Feb. 19, at 1570 Gallery, Valley Manor Apartments, 1570 East Ave. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 8. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Here, Jonathan White, curator and fraternity member, works with other RIT students to arrange and hang the show.

After attending Explore Your Future, RIT’s career exploration program for high school students with hearing loss, Susan DiMeglio decided to apply early decision to RIT. She joined nearly 50 other first-year students who enrolled in University Studies. Launched under the Division of Academic Affairs, the new program is geared toward undergraduate students who have yet to identify an area of study. She has since transferred into RIT’s advertising photography program.

Students return from their holiday break and resume classes on Jan. 4, 2010.