Photo Spotlights

First-year students taking a 3-D design course are designing and building nest houses for the recovery, rehabilitation and reintroduction of squirrels into the wild. Students will be building the houses this week. All of the nest houses will be donated to animal rehabilitators in New York state.

A member of the Nazareth Academy FIRST Robotics team works on a part for their robot which will compete at the Finger Lakes FIRST Regional Competition, held March 6-8 at RIT. More than 30 teams from the Rochester area will compete at the event.

The Dyer Arts Center at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf hosts the Edith Lunt Small Retrospective through Feb. 29. Small graduated with a degree in applied art from RIT in 1952. The exhibit features paintings, wood carvings, furniture and even a painted horse.

Members of the Nazareth Academy FIRST Robotics team work on building their robot which will compete at the Finger Lakes FIRST Regional Competition, held March 6-8 at RIT. More than 30 teams from the Rochester area will compete at the event.

Engineers working with NanoArk Corp., located in RIT’s Venture Creations incubator, demonstrate technology they have developed to members of the RIT community.

President Bill Destler gets a dye job during halftime of the RIT men’s basketball game on Jan. 19. He had agreed to dye his hair orange if both women’s and men’s basketball games that day had full attendance. The men’s game was full but the women’s didn’t quite make it. Compromising, Destler had three-quarters of his hair colored by Vice President for Student Affairs Mary-Beth Cooper. The challenge was to encourage more support at RIT basketball games.

The Liberal Arts Minor and Concentration Fair featured faculty representatives from the 30+ minors and concentrations offered through the College of Liberal Arts on Jan. 18. Here, Linda Reinfeld answered questions about the Creative Writing minor.

G. Peter Jemison addressed the crowd in Ingle Auditorium on Jan. 15. Jemison was this year’s keynote speaker for RIT’s Martin Luther King celebration. Performances by the RIT Gospel Ensemble and Professor Thomas Warfield were part of the program.

Richard DeMartino, associate professor at the E. Philip Saunders College of Business, and Gina O’Connor, associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, received an award for “Best Journal Article of the Year” in PDMA’s Journal of Product and Innovation and Management. PDMA’s Vice Chairman Rich Notargiacomo presented the award on Jan. 10.

Michael Hakans, a fourth-year biomedical photographic communications major in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, uses specialized photographic equipment and microscopes to capture images needed in the science and medical fields. The honors student did a summer co-op at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Mass., for Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc., an international company that designs and produces light and laser microscope systems. Zeiss MicroImaging loans equipment to the lab to support scientific research. Hakans was responsible for setting up the microscopes and making sure the systems worked properly.

RIT dedicated its new Fuel Cell Laboratory on Dec. 14 in the James E. Gleason Building. The facility, headed by Satish Kandlikar, the Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will coordinate with RIT’s Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab and focus on improving the efficiency of fuel cell technologies. The lab is funded in part through a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors.

U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter and RIT President Bill Destler, left, announced a $2.75 million partnership between RIT and Delphi to enhance the research of fuel cell production on Jan.7.