Photo Spotlights

Classes began on the RIT campus on Sept. 1 with nearly 3,000 first-year students adding to the population.

RIT hosted its first farmers’ market Aug. 28 outside Gordon Field House and Activities Center. A half-dozen vendors had steady business from roughly an equal mix of students and faculty/staff. “I’m thrilled it was welcomed so enthusiastically by the RIT community,” said Midge Berfield, manager of employee health and wellness and chair of the RIT Better Me/Employee Wellness Committee. The market, featuring fruits, vegetables, breads, pastry and live entertainment, will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 9.

An aerial photograph looking south across the RIT campus from 300 feet. RIT alumnus Craig Shaw ’99 (electrical engineering) specializes in low-altitude aerial photography using a blimp and remote controls. To learn more, visit www.stratus-imaging.com.

An RIT student took some time out to have an ice cream treat with her brother at the Ben & Jerry’s in the Student Alumni Union.

RIT President Bill Destler delivers his opening day remarks in Gordon Field House and Activities Center.

RIT’s renovated SAU cafeteria re-opened Aug. 18 featuring electronic menus, reconfigured space with enhanced foot traffic, and a new name: Brick City Café.

First-year students arrived at RIT and participated in the annual “Tiger Walk,” where they were welcomed by a crowd of faculty, staff and Ritchie the Tiger.

A selection of ephemera related to Clifford M. Ulp, a Mechanics Institute professor and director of the School of Art and Design, 1913-1952. There are more than 100 paintings by Ulp and Milton E. Bond, another Mechanics Institute professor on view in a special exhibit. Also included are works by Walter Sacks (without an RIT connection) at the Antiques Mall of Rochester, 400 West Commercial St., East Rochester, through Aug. 30.

Economist Amit Batabyal explores weighty issues of sustainability in his new book Dynamic and Stochastic Approaches to the Environment and Economic Development (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Batabyal is the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts.

Local teenagers are building computers and professional skills at RIT as part of the Summer Youth Employment Program sponsored by a federal grant offered through Rochester Works. Twenty-three students, ages 14,15 and 16, are building their own personal computers during the six-week summer camp. In addition, they are learning about team-building, how to write a resume and public speaking. The program is hosted by RIT’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences and RIT’s Office of K-12. Here, Sasha Lebron listens to an explanation about computer security.

Robert Ulin, the new dean for the College of Liberal Arts, arrived at RIT on Aug.1. A welcome reception was held for Ulin, faculty and staff of the college.

High school interns participating in a summer program at the University of Rochester visited the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science July 30. Above, Casey Sukhavong tried on a mobile eye-tracker while Matthew Hart, an intern in the RIT summer program, explained its operation.