Photo Spotlights

Snowmen decorate cubicles on the fourth floor of the George Eastman building in the Ushi Commemorative Holiday Decorating Contest, Dec. 18. Offices on the fourth through seventh floors of the Eastman building compete for Ben & Jerry’s treats in the annual contest.

RIT student teams who competed in the library's Wallypalooza contest await the announcement of the second and first place winners. Third place winners, NTID students Pamela Siebert and Adam Stone from Team Stickers, sit with their DVD-player prizes.

RIT student Jason Dederick sells his glass wares at the School for American Crafts annual craft sale, Dec. 12, in the Student Alumni Union.

Julie White, RIT Women's Center director, works on her craft at the On the Side faculty/staff craft sale, Dec. 4.

RIT students walk to class on the first day of Winter quarter, Dec. 2.

A snowy scene in the Infinity quad at RIT, Nov. 27.

Burcak Guclu, an RIT fourth-year industrial and systems engineering major, is credited with helping a semiconductor firm realize savings of $5 million to $10 million a year. She was part of a team at Infineon Technologies Richmond that developed an algorithm to improve the process of computer-wafer fabrication increasing the yield by 1 percent, saving the company up to $10 million annually.

Wallace library staff members Jodi Sidlauskas (right) and Joan Naturale read stories to Margaret's House kindergarten class, Nov. 19, in The Idea Factory on the library's first floor.

Brian Washington (right), WOKR-13 reporter and weekend news anchor, chats with Jeff Hering (center), director of the Center for Religious Life, and several of the center's ministers before the 19th Annual Thanksgiving Service, Nov. 19.

Architectural engineers from the Sear Brown Group attend a three-day workshop at the Center for Biotechnology and Training, Buildings and Biology: Compatibility for Bioprocessing. Nov. 15. Lab manager and presenter Kim Corbett (right) illustrates bioprocessing techniques to workshop attendees. The CBET workshop introduced the Sear Brown staff to requirements for facilities used in the biotechnology industry.

RIT professor John Morelli (on right) stands with his alternative energy sources class after erecting a 400 watt wind turbine on the roof of the Chester Carlson Center for Imaging Science building, Nov. 13. The wind turbine will stay for a year, to evaluate RIT's potential as a site for wind power.

Two World War II pilots who graduated from RIT were honored at a Veteran's Day luncheon at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. Col. Thomas Burgie, (second from left) head of RIT's Air Force ROTC program, and ROTC student David Baker (left) chatted with Robert Kaplan (far right), class of '49, and Roy Brockman '41. Kaplan, who lives in Buffalo, flew B24s and was shot down over China in 1944; Brockman, of Rochester, flew a B17 on 35 missions in the European theater.