Photo Spotlights

Robby Takac, bassist of the Grammy-nominated rock band The Goo Goo Dolls and the founder and president of Music is Art (a community arts organization) visited RIT on Nov. 9. He was here to attend presentations by senior graphic design students who developed corporate design packages for Music is Art and select one to implement.

The RIT Women’s Center officially opened its new space during a Nov. 8 ceremony. Dawn Soufleris, assistant vice president for student affairs, attended with her daughter Lizzie, 10, and examined the wall of archival photographs of RIT women over several decades.

RIT’s Bevier Gallery presents Pop-Up Books: An Interactive Exhibition through Nov. 14. The show features works from top artists in the field including Chuck Fischer (The White House), David A. Carter (Bugs in Space) and Kyle Olman (Castle). Heather O’Brien-Lazickas, fourth-year Illustration, spends some time examining one example.

Julia Lisuzzo, from RIT Library, is one of 10 RIT volunteers who works with youngsters at School #5 weekly. At the end of the school year, the youngsters will visit RIT for a day.

Elementary and high school teachers from across New York state participated in an educational outreach forum in the areas of microelectronics and nanotechnology at RIT Nov. 1. The event was sponsored by the Department of Microelectronic Engineering and funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation.

There is a new way for RIT community members to get around town. Flexcar provides eight energy-efficient low emission vehicles that RIT faculty, staff and students can rent at hourly and daily rates.

Twenty five Ultimate Frisbee teams throughout the northeast converged in Rochester on Oct. 27 and 28. The RIT Ultimate Frisbee Club, and their alumni, participated in the annual tournament. Awards were given for team spirit and best costumes.

Computer engineering students presented their design projects to fellow students and RIT faculty during the department’s quarterly showcase Nov. 1. Harvey Palmer, dean of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, tested the digital simulated pinball machine during his tour of the displays.

The annual Benefits Fair, held on Oct. 30 and 31, featured workshops, Try-It-Out sessions and representatives from various financial and health providers. Here, RIT employees Tracy Freas, right, and Kate Howard, left, offered information about the RIT Ergonomics Lab. This, and the upcoming flu clinic on Nov. 14, is sponsored by RIT Human Resources.

Three RIT professors discussed ways of redefining the traditional classroom at the “Defining Space” conference at the University College of Dublin Oct. 11-13. Mary Lynn Broe, Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of Humanities, organized the panel “Moving Out/There: Strategies for Redefining Academic Spaces.” The panelists were Stephanie Cole, from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Broe, from the College of Liberal Arts, Karen Kinslow, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, and Guy Johnson, from the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Science. The Caroline Werner Gannett Project sponsored the panel.

The first step in retaining area graduates is pointing out the career options that exist locally. That was the goal of the third annual Explore Rochester IT symposium held at RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center Oct. 26. College students from the Rochester region discussed opportunities with chief information officers of many local companies.

RIT President Bill Destler kicked off the university’s Raise Our Annual Responses initiative on Oct. 25. ROAR Day activities took place across campus to encourage faculty, staff and students to make an annual gift to RIT. To enhance its success, Destler and his wife, Rebecca Johnson, pledged a dollar-for-dollar match of all student donations made during ROAR Day.