Photo Spotlights

New York City basketball players charge to victory over Long Island 68-63 during the Empire State Games on Friday. RIT was the venue for basketball and seven other sports as Rochester plays host to more than 6,000 athletes from across New York. Sunday, July 30, marks the conclusion to four days of competitions.

Lacrosse teams from the Central and Adirondack regions go head to head in the Scholastic Division of the Empire State Games during the first day of competition. Central prevailed 19-4 in the opener. RIT is playing host to lacrosse and seven other athletic events during the four days of competition, which wrap up Sunday, July 30.

Archery is among eight events taking place at RIT as part of the 2006 Empire State Games. Competition got underway across the Rochester area on Thursday, July 27, and continues through Sunday. Basketball, diving, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer and tennis are among the other events taking place on campus. About 2,600 athletes are staying in RIT residence halls during the duration of the competition.

NTID staff member Wendy DiMatteo (far right) participates in a no-voices card game led by ASL Instructor Colleen Pouliot as part of a series of ASL-only actitivities held to develop sign skills. Read the News & Events story.

PR Mukund, second from left, RIT's Gleason Professor of Electrical Engineering, reviews the status of projects within RAMLAB (RF/Analog/Mixed Signal Labratory). The center's research projects focus on advancing the technology in many commonly used consumer electronic devices. Mukund is assisted in his work by students in RIT's microsystems engineering Ph. D. program including, from left to right, Sharmila Sridharan, Tejasvi Das, Mark Pude and Sri Priya Das.

Mary Lynn Broe, Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of Humanities, far right, organized and participated in the panel discussion Cultural Uses of the New Cartographies: Interdisciplinary Negotiations with three other RIT faculty members, from left to right—Karl Korfmacher, professor of environmental sciences; Nina Raqueno, assistant scientist in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; and Bob Cole, professor of foundation sciences—at the biannual meeting of the Society for Science, Literature and the Arts, June 13-16, in Amsterdam.

Digitally archiving and reproducing artwork as it would be seen in a museum is a mathematical conundrum of light and geometry. This painting by RIT color scientist Roy Berns is rendered into a virtual scene with both directional and diffuse lighting using the 3-dimensional software package, Maya.RIT and Berns have been awarded $855,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a practical approach museum photographers can use to eliminate subjective lighting decisions when imaging artwork.

Rendering by RIT color scientist Lawrence Taplin.

Colgate-Palmolive representatives got more than a taste of RIT when they were here in June as part of an executive leader cohort in packaging science --they got a taste of New York state.
The seven students, who hailed from six different countries, joined Deanna Jacobs, the packaging science department's graduate program coordinator, for the inaugural class at the brand new New York Wine & Culinary Center.
The cohort was a first for the packaging science department, developed solely for Colgate-Palmolive employees at the request of the company.

RIT announces the formation of the E. Philip Saunders College of Business at a ceremony July 11. The university is naming its business school in honor of E. Philip Saunders, left, entrepreneur and founder of TravelCenters of America Inc. Saunders announced his commitment of $13 million to RIT’s academic business programs—intended to finance scholarships, recruit and support quality faculty, improve existing facilities, and create an endowment for future initiatives.

RochesterWorks!, Monroe County's largest employment and training initiative, selected RIT President Albert Simone as the recipient of its 2006 "Friend of Business and Workforce Award." Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks (left)) was on hand for the award which recognizes leaders who have been an advocate on workforce and economic development issues that are critical to the economic growth of Monroe County.

RIT announces the formation of the E. Philip Saunders College of Business at a ceremony July 11. The university is naming its business school in honor of E. Philip Saunders, left, entrepreneur and founder of TravelCenters of America Inc. Saunders announced his commitment of $13 million to RIT’s academic business programs—intended to finance scholarships, recruit and support quality faculty, improve existing facilities, and create an endowment for future initiatives.

Thirty junior Girl Scouts spent a week at RIT, June 26-30, for the first Everyday Engineering Summer Camp. Each day, the fourth-through- sixth-graders learned about different engineering applications related to the environment, sports, sound, transportation and the home. In one of the hands-on activities, shown above, the Scouts designed and built miniature catapults used to pitch a ping-pong ball at a target. The camp was sponsored by WE@RIT, an RIT initiative supporting the recruitment and retention of female engineering students, and Girl Scouts of Genesee Valley Inc.