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Mark Johnson, director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, announced Wednesday at RIT that the Golisano Institute for Sustainability was selected to lead a new Manufacturing USA Institute on clean energy.

Renovations are ongoing in Clark Gym and Ritter Arena and include the women’s basketball locker room, shown here. Facilities have been updated for women’s soccer, men’s soccer, wrestling and volleyball. Work is planned for baseball, men’s basketball and men’s and women’s lacrosse.

Rosalie Rosini ’66 (food administration) collected and distributed more than 400 socks to the Lewis Street YMCA Child Care Center in Rochester. Rosini runs an annual sock drive that she hopes will inspire other RIT alumni around the world to do the same.

Sixteen Rochester Regional Health participants completed the Nurse Leadership Development Program at RIT’s Saunders College of Business. The curriculum was customized by the college’s Executive MBA program. It allows participants to earn 16 credit hours toward an Executive MBA (more than one-third of the requirement) and a certificate of program completion from RIT and Rochester Regional Health.

Biochemistry major Taylor Wolf is doing research to create a test that will identify substandard and counterfeit pharmaceuticals, helping reduce what has been a significant problem around the world. She is working with Scott Williams, professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science. Wolf says her lab experience helped her discover a passion for research, which she now intends to make her career.

Shabab Siddiq, left, a fourth-year computer engineering student from San Jose, Calif., works in the music lab with Tom Davis, who teaches a music composition course at RIT.

As founder and director of RIT’s Image Permanence Institute, James Reilly is recognized as a worldwide expert on preserving photographic collections. The center is known globally as one of the finest and best-equipped independent centers for testing imaging materials and for conducting preservation research.

Dani Stemper, a fourth-year double major in political science, and advertising and public relations from Milwaukee, Wisc., addresses members of Roc City Roller Derby on ways to advertise their club and races during a recent Campaign Management and Planning class in RIT’s School of Communication. The team asked the class to help them with ideas to gain more members and fans.

Six-year-old James Carpenter watches a model train roll down the track at the 11th annual RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show and Sale, hosted by the RIT Model Railroad Club. The event, held Dec. 10-11 in the Gordon Field House, included vendors selling new and vintage trains, accessories and layouts, door prizes and more.

Second-year game design student Noah Ratcliff is served breakfast food at the Late Night Breakfast event at Gracie’s on Dec. 9. In addition to the special menu, students were treated to music and movies.

Larry Hayes, a vendor at the RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show, sets up his model train. Hayes has 50 years experience working with trains and claims “we’re all kids at heart”. The Dec. 10-11 event included vendors selling new and vintage trains, accessories and layouts, door prizes and more.

RIT/NTID presents “An Evening with Sunshine 2.0,” RIT/NTID’s professional traveling theater troupe, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10 in Panara Theatre, Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall on the RIT campus. Admission is free for students with ID and $5 (cash only) for the general public. The performance is presented in voice and American Sign Language, is accessible to all audience members and covers subjects for people of all ages.