Photo Spotlights

Daniel Gundersen, co-chair of Empire State Development, offers the opening address at the IT Collaboratory 2007 Research Symposium at Rochester Institute of Technology on April 17. The annual event, focusing this year on remote sensing, is intended to create and support interaction among RIT’s research partners in academia, industry and government.

Members of RIT’s baja team work on the all-terrain vehicle in their lab. The 2007 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge is hosted by RIT June 7-10. Over 140 teams from all over the world participate in the competition.

RIT Admissions hosts an Accepted Students Open House in the Student Alumni Union on April 13. Open House attendees were able to tour campus, residence halls and academic departments, meet faculty, staff and students in RIT’s academic departments and eat lunch in the student cafeteria.

Josh Olin and Ian Paterson developed mytimehero.com, a social networking Web site targeting people over the age of 30, out of their Computer Science House dorm room.

Hiroko Yamashita, associate professor of Japanese and chair of the foreign language department, recently won a National Science Foundation grant for $17,915 to organize a two-day event Sept. 21-22, the International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures. The linguistics conference is in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A member of RIT’s baja team, Phil Hannum, makes some adjustments to an upright bushing for the all-terrain vehicle. The 2007 Baja SAE Rochester World Challenge is hosted by RIT June 7-10. Over 140 teams from all over the world participate in the competition.

Matthew D. Mosesohn, center, a student in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, poses for a photo with other RIT Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars before an award ceremony on April 5. Minimum requirements of the award are completion of at least 125 credit hours of college work and a GPA of 3.85 at RIT. Community service, employment and research activities also are considered.

Frances L. Cabrera, a student in RIT’s College of Applied Science and Technology, mingles with other RIT Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars before an award ceremony on April 5. Minimum requirements of the award are completion of at least 125 credit hours of college work and a GPA of 3.85 at RIT. Community service, employment and research activities also are considered.

President Simone gathers with some RIT Outstanding Undergraduate Scholars before the award ceremony on April 5. Minimum requirements of the award are completion of at least 125 credit hours of college work and a GPA of 3.85 at RIT. Community service, employment and research activities also are considered.

Robert Panera, professor emeritus, speaks to a full crowd at the opening of the Deaf Studies Archive in Wallace Library on April 3. The items include the Robert Panera Deaf Literature Collection, consisting of literature, plays, mysteries, and romances featuring deaf characters.

Robert Chung, a professor in the School of Print Media at RIT, received the EDSF Educator of the Year Award during Gravure Day activities on March 27.

More than 2,200 students and alumni filled the Gordon Field House and Activities Center, March 28, for the 2007 Spring Career Fair. With 207 employers in attendance, it was the largest career fair in RIT’s history. The event featured a wide variety of companies from across the country, including ESPN, Microsoft and Toyota.