Photo Spotlights

Bharat Joshi, a graduate student in material science and engineering, demonstrated a use for liquid crystals during Nano Days at RIT, March 31-April 4.

Area high school students took part in the 2008 Youth Workforce Innovations Conference March 27. Workshops led by RIT faculty introduced students to careers in future growth industries in the Rochester region such as agribusiness, alternative energy, biotechnology, hospitality, information technology and optics and imaging. The event was held in conjunction with the Workforce Innovation for Regional Economic Development.

The College of Liberal Arts’ first Faculty-Student Research Forum on March 25 featured research from nearly every department within the college. Here, David Vaughn, a fifth-year engineering technology major in the College for Applied Science and Technology, presents his findings of recycling habits at RIT. He conducted the study for the class Garbage Archeology taught by Martha Morgan, at left, an assistant professor in the Department of Material Culture and Science.

Organic food selections, local cheeses and wines and slow food will be featured at the 23rd annual ‘Puttin’ on the RITz’ dinner, March 29, held at the RIT Inn & Conference Center. The feast is organized, prepared and served by students in RIT’s School of Hospitality and Service Management. Proceeds from the dinner will benefit the RIT Hospitality Education Fund. Here, Yarley Parker, a third-year student, prepares chocolate for dipping fresh strawberries.

PAETEC representatives greeted RIT students and recent alumni at the annual Spring Career Fair on March 26. Two hundred thirty employers attended the spring event, filling the arena within the Gordon Field House and Activities Center to capacity.

Rod Sosa, president of the Gravure Educational Foundation and the project manager of Armstrong World Industries, was the keynote speaker of Gravure Day on March 25. Gravure Day promotes awareness among students of gravure printing and packaging industries and explores research and career opportunities.

Documentary photographer Lana Slezic will present Forsaken in the next installment of the Charles Arnold Lecture Series, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Auditorium. Forsaken is a collection of photographs documenting the lives of Afghan women. Slezic’s book by the same name won Book of the Year by American Photographer for 2007. Her documentary work has been published in Time magazine, The New York Times and National Geographic. Slezic will host a book signing immediately following the lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.

RIT’s 2008 United Way Campaign kicked off with the 6th annual Mini Golf Tournament on March 19. Fred Hull, from the Facilities Management Services team, took a shot at one of the imaginative miniature golf course holes designed by student groups and RIT departments.

Dr. Caroline Baillie, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, spoke on March 20 at a K-12 networking event sponsored by Women in Engineering at RIT. After her presentation, RIT student volunteers worked with elementary school teachers as part of a training session sponsored by the Women in Engineering at RIT program. The effort seeks to enhance educational curriculum in engineering for K-12 students.

Today, March 20, is the opening of Pathways: A Century of Women at RIT. The exhibit is a collaborative effort between the RIT Women’s Center, the RIT Archives and the women and gender studies program that highlights and celebrates the roles that women have played on the RIT campus since 1885. The event, which kicks off at 2:30 p.m. in the Wallace Library’s Idea Factory, will include an exposition of student projects and will be followed at 4:30 p.m. with the opening of a new exhibit in the RIT Museum on the third floor of Wallace Library.

RIT President Bill Destler, right, and PAETEC co-founder Jack Baron sign an agreement, kicking off a $1 million research partnership between the two organizations. The collaboration is the first project of RIT’s new Corporate R&D Program.

The 2008 Alternative Spring Break (March 1-7, 2008) enabled RIT students to help build and renovate homes for economically impoverished seniors and families in the Appalachian region of Fayette County, West Virginia. Here, some students viewed a blueprint with the construction manager at the worksite.