Photo Spotlights

Construction of Collegetown began near the corner of Jefferson Road and John Street. The Collegetown concept envisions commercial, professional services, residential and entertainment space being housed in an architecturally distinctive setting with appeal to both RIT and to the greater Rochester community.

RIT’s microelectronic engineering department, in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, hosted its 25th annual conference May 14-16. T. K. Hatwar of Eastman Kodak Co. comments at one of the panel discussions, Workforce Needs of the Semiconductor Industry.

A celebration of art and technology took place on May 11 during the \"Creativity: Technology: Invention\" symposium hosted by the RIT Creativity and Invention Working Group. Steve Jacobs presented at the \"E-Poetries and Digital Poetics\" panel along with Linda Reinfeld, Bill Klingensmith and John Roche.

Timeline is a dedicated group of students that captures RIT‘s identity by presenting the year’s events and people in an annual publication. Timeline lives up to the RIT technologically advanced standard by being the first on-demand school publication. Timeline is now available for purchase at rittimeline.com. Books are $20 for the first 1,000 purchases or until the end of June.

Michael Peres, center, is the editor of the fourth edition of Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. A reception on May 7 included various faculty and former photo faculty including Dick Zakia and Les Strobel (co-editors of the book’s third edition).

The Alexander Lawson Publishing Center will be the new offices of the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press and RIT Press. Among the speakers at the opening reception May 10 was world renowned typographer and former RIT professor Hermann Zapf, right. The center itself will feature a multimedia conference area, expanded production offices, exhibition gallery space and a sales area for Press titles. Part of the center will have a glass wall etched with quotes about typography and publishing. The typography of the wall is designed by Zapf and award-winning calligrapher and graphic designer Jerry Kelly.

To show appreciation to the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed overseas, Xerox Corp. has developed a nationwide program called Let’s Say Thanks. Xerox, along with students in the School of Print Media, printed out 2,000 postcards at the HUB. RIT ROTC students set up two tables at the Infinity Quad and along the quarter mile on May 10 for people in the RIT community to write out personal messages on the postcards to U.S. servicemen and servicewomen.

First-year engineering honors students compete in the second annual Tip-a-Can event in which students designed a device—using everyday items and housed within a closed cylindrical container—that would automatically trigger the can to tip as near as possible to 60 seconds after the start of a timer. In addition to the performance of their contraptions, students were judged on creativity, ethics, teamwork and written essays describing their inventions.

Members of the RIT community gather around Ritchie and this year’s Formula SAE car at the unveiling ceremony, held on May 4, to celebrate 15 years of Formula at RIT. Twenty-seven members of the team will travel to Romeo, Mich., May 16-20, to compete in the national Formula SAE competition, held at the Ford Michigan Proving Grounds.

Wallace Library hosts quarterly “Library Reads to Margaret’s House” functions. About eight Margaret’s House kids enjoy a “monsters” based theme with two books being read and some fun crafts on May 8.

Jeff Hoover, left, Jessie Gmeinder and Chris Chaput, fifth-year mechanical engineering majors in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, are part of a 10-person team that designed a wind-turbine-powered walkway light as a multidisciplinary senior-design project. The light, turbine and control box were permanently installed near F Lot and Cross Campus Drive last month.

Dan Bolinski is a fourth-year industrial design student who recently won the Industrial Design Society of America National Student Merit Award, one of only five awarded in the United States each year.