Photo Spotlights

Tim Crandall, third-year biomedical photographic communications student, studies the composition of a snowflake. The recent exercise was part of his Photography through the Microscope class, taught by RIT Professor Michael Peres. Students had plenty of flakes from which to choose. More than 35 inches of snow have fallen on the Rochester area since the middle of January.

RIT honors student Andy Gianfagna performs a card trick with the assistance of Blair Brown during the Midterm Magic Performance held by students in the Honors Science, Technology and Society class, Magic, Science and Technology.

What are the hot, new high-tech gadgets of the future? The answer became obvious as RIT's B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences hosted a computer trade show on Jan 19. The event was part of the university's 175th anniversary celebration. Among the vendors on hand were Alpine Software, Apple Computer, Dell, IBM, and MAC Group. At right is RIT alumnus Joe Bianchi '04 from The Technology Company, also one of the vendors at the show.

RIT President Albert Simone attempts to breakaway from the pack in the annual broomball game featuring the president’s team vs. Student Government. The exhibition, played in between periods of the RIT-Oswego men’s hockey game, ended in a scoreless tie.

Senior co-captain of the RIT men's hockey team, Michael Tucciarone (white jersey), and goalie George Eliopoulos look on as Ricky Walton (red jersey) breaks out of the zone in practice last week. RIT (8-5-1, 3-1-1 ECAC West) will return to competitive action on Friday, Jan. 21, as they travel to the Murray Athletic Center to play the Elmira College Soaring Eagles at 7 p.m.

Douglas Holleley, faculty at Visual Studies Workshop, speaks to a crowd of interested self-publishers at a seminar at Wallace Library's Idea Factory on Jan. 13.

President Simone and Ken-ichi Ishikawa of Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) in Japan renew a student exchange agreement during a signing ceremony at Liberty Hill in December. The KIT exchange program is an intensive science and technology program in Japanese. Designed specifically for students with backgrounds in science, engineering and technology, it offers courses in Japanese communication, Japanese for science and technology, academic Japanese, and Japanese language and society.

A demonstration at RIT's Printing Applications Laboratory explored advances in digital production quality. RIT alumnus Henry Freedman (left) is documenting how Xerographic printing of color images now matches the quality of offset lithography. Readers of the trade publication Technology Watch can examine the results for themselves in an upcoming issue. Also taking part in the demonstration were (from left to right) Peter Dundas and Peter Crean from Xerox Corp., and Bill Garno and Franz Sigg from RIT.

RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology retrains members of the Rochester workforce in basic biotechnology skills. In the fall, Eastman Kodak Co. allocated up to $280,000 from its Rochester Economic Development Fund to provide free tuition for 35 people to study at CBET. The 10-week certificate program provides fundamental skills needed for people seeking entry-level positions at local biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies and medical research centers. Here, students from the fall section (shown from left), Seema Thomas, Siva Sugunan, Yauneek Jackson and Richard Schmanke, study enzyme kinetics.

Jeff Pelz, director of the Visual Perception Laboratory, and Marry Ellen Arndt, a graduate student in information technology with a concentration in human-computer interaction, demonstrate the wearable eye tracker in the visual perception laboratory in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. The lab has become a hub of research collaborations across campus. Read more about it.

Two local unions, Unions and Businesses United in Construction (UNICON) and the Rochester Building and Construction Trades Council, were recently honored at RIT. The labor unions donated $10,000 for the building of two permanent trophy cases in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Four RIT students in the woodworking program designed and built them. Two of the students, Dave Adams (left) and John Kim, were on hand for the ceremony, hosted by James Watters, RIT vice president of finance and administration. Hundreds of labor workers were part of the construction of the field house.

Quiet envelops the RIT campus during winter break as the only creatures out and about are the deer. The university reopens on Jan. 3. Season's greetings to all, and best wishes for a happy new year.