RIT honors its outstanding adult students
Annual award recognizes adult students’ ‘balancing act’
Mandie Klingelhoffer
RIT’s 2010 Outstanding Adult Student winners, from left to right: Kara Catanise Halstead, Douglas Smith and Susan Leo
RIT students Kara Catanise Halstead, Douglas Smith and Susan Leo have been selected to receive the Outstanding Adult Student award. The award recognizes adult students and their achievements in successfully combining full-time college study with other adult responsibilities of family, career and community service.
Kara Catanise Halstead is senior staff assistant to Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks. Despite her schedule as a wife, mother and full-time employee, Halstead finds time to volunteer with organizations such as Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, Camp Good Days and Special Times and Rochester Genesee Regional Transit Authority HONOR Foundation. She has also been honored with the Monroe County Youth Bureau Asset Advocate Award and has a 3.85 GPA.
Douglas Smith is an accountant, husband and father who volunteers as a collegiate lacrosse and football official. He has earned the honor of being rated second out of 750 football officials, while pursuing his master’s degree in accounting and earning a 3.81 GPA.
Susan Leo is founder and owner of S.D. Leo & Company, a marketing/design firm. She is working towards her M.F.A. degree in the computer graphics design program. Although she works full-time and is a wife and mother, Leo has maintained a 4.0 GPA. She also volunteers in the community and, in 2009, received the Spirit of Innovation Award for best new snack from the National Association of Convenience Stores.
Topics
Recommended News
-
November 21, 2024
![Various people put their hands together in a circle.]()
Americans agree more than they might think − not knowing this jeopardizes the nation’s shared values
An essay written by Lawrence Torcello, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, published by The Conversation.
-
November 21, 2024
![an illustrated image of a pixelated face appears next to the words real or fake.]()
Detecting digital deception
Today, artificial intelligence is being used to manipulate media. At RIT, a team of student and faculty researchers is leading the charge to help journalists and intelligence analysts figure out what is real and what is fake. Their work has more than $2 million in funding from the National Science Foundation and Knight Foundation.
-
November 21, 2024
![two men sit at a table looking at a laptop. A third man leans over the table to look at the laptops screen.]()
In and out of Africa
Africa is rich in natural resources and contains one of the most diverse ecosystems across the globe. The Sahara Desert itself is larger than the continental United States. With all the unique landscapes, wildlife, and growing urban areas, more than 30 RIT faculty have recognized the importance of traveling to the continent, all backed by RIT Global.
-
November 20, 2024
![Five black men stand in a semicircle in a small garden in Kenya.]()
RIT professor helps to tackle energy access in rural Africa
Williams’ collaborative work tackles the subject of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2015, the United Nations established Sustainable Development Goal 7 to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
