GREATNESS THROUGH DIFFERENCE 2015–2025 STRATEGIC PLAN B | WINTER 2011-12 the University Magazine Spring 2015

The University Magazine Spring 2015

GREATNESS THROUGH DIFFERENCE 2015–2025 STRATEGIC PLAN b | WINTER 2011-12 The University Magazine Spring 2015

Mission Through a unique blend of curricular, experiential, and research programs delivered within a student-centric culture, Rochester Institute of Technology prepares its students for successful careers in a global society.

Vision RIT will be a great world university whose academic portfolio, research agenda, and educational model align with the shifting needs of a complex planet.

Strategic Plan 3 Greatness Through Diff erence: Preface 4 A University of Firsts: The Past 7 A University of Innovation: The Present 8 A Responsive University: The Context 9 The Power of Diversity: The Future 10 Career Education and Student Success 14 The Student-Centered Research University 18 Leveraging Diff erence 22 Aff ordability, Value, and Return on Investment 26 Organizational Agility 28 Already Great and Making a Diff erence

University Magazine 30 On Campus 32 Alumni Updates 38 Class Notes 47 In Memoriam 48 From the Archives 2 | SPRING 2015 GREATNESS THROUGH DIFFERENCE: PREFACE

orn from the unlikely union of When the economic, technological, an infl uential cultural associa- and demographic transformations of the tion (the Rochester Athenae- late 20th century threatened to disrupt um) and a technical training the largely conservative higher education schoolB (the Mechanics Institute), Rochester industry, RIT found itself perfectly Institute of Technology has always been a positioned to meet these cha llenges and diff erent kind of educational institution. to address the attendant demands of a When most colleges were teaching public increasingly disenchanted with ancient languages, theology, and the law the traditional model of higher education. to the sons of prosperous families, the As our competitors struggle to recruit Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics and support a very diff erent student Institute was preparing young men and demographic, to contain unsupportable women for local employment through a tuition hikes, and to provide an education combination of technical training and leading to gainful employment, RIT can courses in the sciences and fi ne arts. turn its attention to anticipating and Embedded within the unusual circum- addressing the next set of opportunities. stances of RIT’s origins was a set of Th e strategic plan before you, Greatness principles that would become the shap- Th rough Diff erence, provides the design ing credo of the young institution: the by which we will hone the proven tools innovative potential of unlikely partner- of diff erence, innovation, and student- ships—between and among institutions, centeredness and apply them to the next individuals, and disciplines; the impor- generation of possibilities. tance of educating students to do as Th e next 10 years will be treacherous well as to know; and the propulsive ones for higher education, and not all power of diff erence. institutions will survive. But by building Th is practicality, attention to student upon its talent for distinctiveness and in- needs, and taste for doing things diff er- novation, its record of successful change ently would fuel the many early instances management, and its visionary approach of multi-disciplinary integration, coop- to education, RIT will emerge from the eration, and risk-taking of the institution’s coming decade as an incontestably great fi rst 100 years. And they would account university, fully prepared to supply the for RIT’s 20th-century reputation as an new world of 2025 with the graduates, innovative university whose programs, new discoveries, and innovative partnerships, and practices were educational model that it will require. increasingly the fi rst of their kind in higher education.

SPRINGSPRSPSPRINGININGNG 202201501515 |3| 3 A UNIVERSITY OF FIRSTS: THE PAST

At its founding in 1829, RIT launched a trajectory that today remains unique among the more than 4,000 U.S. colleges and universities occupying the higher education landscape. Consider the following early instances of “diff erence”:

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1829 1885 1912 1950 hard of hearing. At least The provision of lifelong The Rochester Athenaeum With the initiation of its The Graphic Arts Research two dozen universities vied learning has been a strand and Mechanics Institute cooperative education Center is established for the privilege of hosting of the RIT DNA from the (the institution that would program, in which students to apply scientifi c and NTID, but RIT’s strong inception of the Rochester become RIT) commits secured paid employment engineering principles to post-secondary technical Athenaeum, which off ered itself to educating young in their major fi eld, RIT the printing and publishing curricula and cooperative evening lectures to the men and women in the becomes a pioneer in industry. RIT becomes a education programs gave it people of Rochester and technologies necessary experiential education, center of research on all the edge. was for a time the young for successful careers— or what today would be aspects of the graphic arts. city’s dominant cultural a mission that endures to called competency-based Edwina Hogadone 1971 force. this day. Early in its history, education. 1950 1960 RIT delivers its fi rst RIT becomes one of the fi rst School for American Crafts- RIT appoints Edwina distance-learning course schools to integrate applied men, founded by Aileen Hogadone as the fi rst via closed-circuit television. technical study with curri- Vanderbilt Webb and now female dean of a U.S. cula in the humanities, the called School for American business college. 1982 arts, and design. RIT may Crafts, moves to RIT. The RIT enrolls students in have been the fi rst school school off ers undergradu- 1968 the fi rst undergraduate to introduce “design think- ate and graduate programs National Technical Institute program in microelectronic ing” into its curriculum. in ceramics, glass, metals for the Deaf opens at RIT, engineering in the U.S. and jewelry design, and revolutionizing technical furniture design. education for the deaf and 4 | SPSSPRINGPRINR NGG2 22015015011

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2000 1983 1990 1991 1993 1996 1998 2008 RIT becomes the fi rst RIT’s Ph.D. program RIT delivers its fi rst RIT off ers the fi rst RIT becomes the RIT’s College of RIT off ers a university in the nation in imaging science fully online pro- nationally recognized fi rst university in the Engineering becomes doctoral program in to off er a Bachelor opens—the fi rst gram—years before Bachelor of Science United States to off er Kate Gleason College sustainability, the fi rst of Science degree in doctoral program at the rest of higher degree in information a bachelor’s degree in of Engineering— program in the world biotechnology. RIT and the fi rst such education enters the technology. software engineering. the fi rst engineering to focus on sustainable program in the United online arena. school in the country production systems. States. named for a woman.

SPRINGSPSPRSPRRINGININGNG 202201501515 ||5 5 6 | SPRING 2015 A UNIVERSITY OF INNOVATION: THE PRESENT

iven the distinctiveness of • With full residential campuses in its origins, it should come Dubrovnik and Zagreb, Croatia, in as no surprise that in this Kosovo, and in Dubai, our global presence is far-reaching and unique. second decade of the 21st Gcentury, RIT has kept pace with the • RIT’s growing research portfolio relentless acceleration of scientifi c includes unique interdisciplinary and technological discovery and the centers such as the Center for Applied resulting economic, social, and cultural Psychophysiology and Self-Regulation (a program integrating education, transformations. One hundred and research, and clinical care around the eighty-six years aft er its founding, autism spectrum); the National Center RIT has matured into one of the world’s of Academic Excellence in Information most innovative, agile, and foresighted Assurance/Cyber Defense Education; universities. Consider the following: and the Image Permanence Institute (a world leader in artifact preservation). • As a member of the Association of • Th e new Wegmans School of Health Independent Technological Universi- and Nutrition is based upon the ties (AITU), RIT is among the world’s premise that anticipating public health leading technological institutions. RIT concerns is more eff ective than reacting was recently ranked in the top 40 “most to them. technologically advanced” universities in the world. • RIT’s sustainable architecture program is among the fi rst to consider sustain- • Today’s program portfolio boasts ability as a curricular element equal in award-winning programs in a host of importance to design. nontraditional disciplines—in fi lm and animation, industrial design, sustain- • RIT sustains the sound fi scal policies ability, photography, medical illustra- that have enabled its remarkable growth tion, microelectronic engineering, and stability. packaging science, museum studies, and diagnostic medical sonography. • RIT commits to carbon neutrality, Th e RIT portfolio is among the richest LEED-certifi ed buildings, and sustain- and most diverse in the world. ability-focused degree programs. • RIT is a world leader in experiential • In 2014, RIT was named “the nation’s education. Our cooperative education geekiest campus,” a distinction we program is the fourth oldest and one embrace with pride. of the largest in the world. • RIT is one of the largest private universities in the U.S. based upon full-time undergraduate enrollment.

SPRINGSPRSPSPRINGININGNG 202201501515 |7| 7 A RESPONSIVE UNIVERSITY: THE CONTEXT

t a time when the public disenchantment with higher education is growing, and disruptive (oft en commercial) alternatives are looking more and more appealing to prospective students and their families, the real measure of a university’s success is the degree to which its off erings satisfy the demands of its many stakeholders. Th e current list of these demands is lengthy and all too familiar—including calls for lower tuition, higherA return on investment, and graduates who are competitive in the job market. Not surprisingly, RIT is aggressively addressing these demands. Leveraging its appetite for diff erence, its talent for adaptation, and its commitment to student success, RIT has listened and acted.

The public is demanding RIT has responded with

Career preparation for jobs at A 95 percent employment/graduate school acceptance rate six months after graduation. graduation (parents and students).

Return on tuition investment A combination of a strong career-oriented mission, curricular currency, and excellent relations (parents and students). with business and industry, yielding one of the best ROIs in the nation.

Affordability (parents and students). Need-blind admissions; tuition below the national average for private institutions; intervals of paid cooperative employment; historically high percentage of Pell-eligible (low income) students.

Breadth and depth in content Education in fields with high employer demand integrated with design, management, critical and mastery (employers). innovative thinking, and data management. Broad participation of undergraduates on funded research teams, which sharpens critical and innovative thinking, data analysis, and problem-solving skills.

More STEM graduates (employers). The second highest number of STEM graduates among U.S. private universities.

Experiential education and work An educational experience that includes considerable time learning outside of the classroom—either experience (employers). working in a paid cooperative education position, designing new products and businesses in the Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship, or participating on interdisciplinary research teams.

Groundbreaking research in multiple Interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs—ranging from imaging science to microsystems disciplines (business, industry, to sustainability—dedicated to providing solutions to complex problems that defy a government, society). single-discipline approach.

Anytime, anywhere learning (students, A program (the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies) that gives credit for prior learning; alumni, community members). an Innovative Learning Institute providing credit and non-credit experiences to traditional and non-traditional students in multiple electronic formats.

Diverse population. Over 50 percent international students at the graduate level; 1,200 deaf and hard-of-hearing students on the Rochester campus; and a history of serving low-income students.

Global reach. Unusually high number of international students; four international campuses with multiple opportunities for student exchange; courses in 10 languages.

8 | SPRING 2015 THE POWER OF DIVERSITY: THE FUTURE

he university that was born { Imagine the new questions that a funded research team, demonstrated of an unlikely institutional might be asked, the new solutions competencies in innovative thinking marriage; that welcomed posed, and the innovations achieved and intercultural relations, and a one- women into its 19th-century by a team of glass artists, imaging year co-op with Amgen. Ttechnical classes; and that combined scientists, and physicists. { Imagine RIT as a model civil curricula in technical skills, the arts, { Imagine the new courses and community in which all diff erence— and the humanities was a university research projects emerging from from ethnicity to nationality to sexual destined to understand the creative the collaboration of a biomedical orientation to political persuasion to power of diversity. Th e RIT of the engineer, a materials scientist, a socio-economic level—is leveraged future will be powered by an intellec- three-dimensional designer, and as an engine to solve seemingly tual and social diversity unmatched a physician assistant student. unsolvable world problems. within higher education—a diversity that distinguishes its academic and { Imagine a team of architecture RIT has all the ingredients to realize research portfolios, its population, students, history professors, and these and countless other scenarios. and the multiple modes of learning, photographers collaborating with Th rough the new Strategic Plan before thinking, and knowing practiced daily. our Kosovo students and faculty in you—Greatness Th rough Diff erence— In the coming decade, RIT will the repair of ancient war-damaged we will develop the necessary mecha- intentionally assemble and leverage monuments in Pristina, Kosovo. nisms to make them a reality while its many forms of diversity in order simultaneously enriching our highly { Imagine the job off ers received to invent and discover new solutions, student-centric environment, dem- by an RIT student graduating with a new programs, new kinds of gradu- onstrating a high return on tuition double major in biotechnology and ates, and the highest levels of stake- investment, and meeting the ever- philosophy, extended membership on holder satisfaction. shift ing needs of the world.

The making of the strategic plan

During the 15 months in which all constituencies of the university were deeply engaged in strategic conversations, the following five intersecting spheres of effort surfaced repeatedly and ultimately became the framework of the plan.

• Career Education and Student Success • The Student-Centered Research University • Leveraging Difference • Affordability, Value, and Return on Investment • Organizational Agility

Within each of these five Dimensions is a set of “Difference Makers”—strategic goals that are in turn supported by concrete objectives that map the route toward full achievement of the RIT vision.

SPRING 2015 | 9 10 | SPRING 2015 Dimension One CAREER EDUCATION AND STUDENT SUCCESS

The strategic plan calls ultivating student success is what we for providing student do—it is and will continue to be our leaders such as Ashley Carrington, a fourth-yearar core mission. Of course, as the world finance and managementnt changes, so too does the defi nition information systems ofC student success. Th e knowledge and skills that student and the Studentt Government president, will be required of graduating students in 2025 with a broad range of are virtually unimaginable to us today, and what leadership developmentt distinguished graduates in the job market of 1995 opportunities during their time in school. could well be obsolete in 2025. RIT’s tradition of Carrington is a legacy academic excellence, its appetite for diff erence and student. adaptation, and its commitment to students will ensure the continuation of student success as our paramount institutional mission. Recognizing that new models of “the successful college graduate” place increasing demands on the already limited time of college students, RIT will be innovative and fl exible in the supplemental learning experiences it develops. Th ere are some elements of student success over which no institution has control; we cannot re-write students’ high school preparation or re-program their social skills or even require them to learn. But we do have control over the single most important determinant of success: the quality of our academic enterprise. Without absolute confi dence in the quality of the teaching, learning, research, scholarship, and academic support services that are the student’s academic environment, we cannot expect to provide our graduates with the knowledge and skills that will guarantee their success.

SPRING 2015 | 11 CAREER EDUCATION AND STUDENT SUCCESS 1

Difference Makers

• RIT will build upon its strong • Th rough a blend of curricular, academic portfolio, extensive co-curricular, and experiential experiential learning and off erings, RIT will build a leader- co-curricular off erings, and ship program that will equip more the rich diversity of its people graduates to become leaders in and programs to develop their fi elds. “T-shaped” graduates possessing both disciplinary depth (the verti- • RIT will make the on-time gradu- 3 cal axis of the “T”) and breadth ation of its undergraduate and across multiple skills and graduate students a highly visible competencies (the horizontal university priority. axis, or “transversal” skills). • RIT will be a center of innovation, • RIT will off er opportunities for creativity, and entrepreneurship study at the intersections of tech- that serves as an important eco- nology and the arts, imagination nomic engine for Rochester, the and application, and rigor and region, and the nation. curiosity—all designed to meet the demands of future careers in the • RIT will establish a campus-wide complex global economy. culture that embraces alumni, con- tributes to their lifelong learning, • RIT will further enhance its posi- and relies upon them for counsel tion as the preeminent academic and support. institution and model for professional and technical education for people who are deaf or hard of Supporting Objectives hearing around the world. Within five years, lead private U.S. universities in the number of STEM • RIT will lead higher education (Science, Technology, Engineering, with a bold new model for ensur- Math) undergraduates enrolled at ing academic quality through a and graduating from RIT. unique outcomes-based assessment model designed to ensure Launch 20 startup companies per year. continuous progress in student Expand the university’s role as a learning, graduate success, stake- national and inter national Resource 4 holder satisfaction, and academic Center of Excellence in the education of excellence. people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

• RIT will expand and strengthen Design and implement “RIT for Life,” opportunities for experiential a program for alumni that serves as a learning to the point that there are catalyst for their lifelong learning and continuous career development. suffi cient placement opportunities for all undergraduate and graduate students to participate in at least one such experience.

12 | SPRING 2015 2

❶ Matthew Glazer, a fourth-year electrical engineering student, is tinkering with electrifying his long board in The Construct Maker- space, RIT’s communal student-run “garage.” Giving students like Glazer an opportunity to work on interdisciplinary projects of their own design is part of the strategic plan.

❷ RIT Baja team members put the fi nishing touches on the 2014- 2015 car. The off -road vehicle was built entirely by a team of students from multiple majors such as engineering technology, engineering, industrial design and business. Team members here are, from left, Dan Palmiter, fourth-year mechanical engineering; Kaity Wolford, second-year mechanical engineering technology; Ryan Wager, third-year mechanical engineering; and Skyler Levy, fi rst-year engineering technology.

❸ Hundreds of students gather Wednesday evenings to learn sign language. Many attend because they want to be able to better communicate with the more than 1,200 deaf and hard-of- hearing students on campus. The opportunities for deaf students at RIT/NTID are unmatched by any university.

❹ Melissa Sagen, a fourth- year museum studies student, is completing her 200-hour internship requirement at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester. While at RIT, Sagen has been able 5 to individualize her education based upon her interests in fi lm and photo preservation.

❺ Fourth-year ceramics student Adam Jennett came to RIT to study graphic design but after taking an elective ceramics class his fresh- man year, he switched his major. The strategic plan recognizes the importance of arts education.

SPRING 2015 | 13 Student researchers in the Perception for Movement Laboratory in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science combine eye track- ing, virtual reality and motion capture to investigate how people use vision to navigate the natural environment. Kamran Binaee, right, an imaging science Ph.D. student, designs computational experi- ments with vision scientist and lab director Gabriel Diaz. They explore where people put their eyes when performing simple tasks, such as hitting a ball or walking. Parameters created within a virtual-reality environment free Binaee and Diaz to focus on how vision guides action when, for instance, Andrew Smith, fourth- year imaging science student, strolls through a projected scene on the lab floor.

14 | SPRING 2015 Dimension Two THE STUDENT- CENTERED RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

s a student-centered research university, RIT combines the mission-critical activities of research, scholarship, artistic Acreation, creative inquiry, teaching, and learning across all degree levels and disciplines. By conducting government-funded, interdisciplinary, high-impact research and by partnering with business and industry in private research and development, we will advance the boundaries of knowledge and the application of new technologies. Recognizing that participation on research teams enhances critical and creative thinking, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary competencies, we will facilitate the participation of undergraduate and master’s degree students on funded research teams. We will enrich the graduate student experience through a holistic approach to their success, and we will develop opportunities for all students to collaborate across international and intercultural borders.

SPRING 2015 | 15 • RIT willenlarge its graduate port- • RIT’s research enterprise• willbe impactRIT willmaximizethe and • • RIT will be internationallyRIT willbe distin- • Difference Makers 16 |SPRING 2015 global recognition.global levels of highest the excellence and ties. Allprograms will strive for ship, opportuni- and co-curricular ential learning, research, scholar- New programs willinclude experi- of total the student population. graduate population to 30percent andsciences, bringing arts, the STEM fi and research-focused programs in folio through adding professional solutions.best tions, processes, and best the the backgrounds ques- drive best the and talent, experience, expertise, stituted of members with diverse upon principle the that teams con- global, and experiential) based versity (disciplinary, generational, a national of model leveraged di- annually. million intotal research funding business to yield$100 and industry laborating more extensively with its research programs by col- fi inclusive process. selection tifi researchdisciplinary areas iden- ment inspecifi through its on focus and invest- guished asaresearch university THE STUDENT-CENTERED nancial support gained through ed through asystematic and elds, the humanities,elds, the social c inter- and trans- n n nd ri - RESEARCH UNIVERSITY ia n l i-i - t i d a - -

research teams. bachelor’s levelstudentsonfunded Increase thenumberofmaster’s and alumni-led businesses. collaboration inresearch activitieswith Create aspecialprogramtoencourage evaluation ofstrategicresearch areas. nized expertstoguidetheselectionand board comprisedofimpartial,recog- Create anexternalresearch advisory university’s research strategy. programs thatareinlinewiththe Ph.D. Continue addinginterdisciplinary Supporting Objectives 2

Photo by A. Sue Weisler 1 3 ❶ Wade Kellard, a mechanical engineering technology major, was one of four RIT/NTID students from the Saunders Summer Start-up Program who began MotionSavvy, technology that converts hand shapes into text. The sign-language translator was named by Time magazine as one of the 25 best inventions of 2014.

❷ Todd Pagano, director of the Laboratory Science Technology program at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, was named 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 4 ❸ Fourth-year biomedical engineering student Alexandra LaLonde introduces fl uid and electrical impulses onto a micro-device situated on a portable microscope. She works under the guidance of professor Bianca Lapizco-Encinas, who fi nds great value in incorporating undergraduate students in research.

❹ Jascha Wilcox, a fi fth-year biomedical engineering student, uses a computer-aided design program to create and scale a 3D-printed hand. The hand was given to a 10-year-old boy through e-NABLE, a group created by Jon Schull, a research scientist in RIT’s 5 Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC).

❺ Mike Bradley, a materials lab technician at the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies at RIT, demonstrates a laser scanning arm for representatives of Western New York companies as part of a technology forum on 3D printing inside the Golisano Institute for Sustainability’s new Digital Manufacturing and Product Realization Lab. The strategic plan calls for collaborating more with business and industry to increase research funding.

SPRING 2015 | 17 18 | SPRING 2015 Dimension Three LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE

The international student populationlation IT has long recognized the impor- at RIT has more than doubled ooverver tance of diversity to organizational the last 10 years driven by explosiveosive enrollment in graduate programs.ms. growth and synergy. Beginning in A record 2,497 inter national studentsdents the 19th century, when we welcomed from 103 countries are studyingng at womenR into our classes decades before other RIT this academic year. Pictureded from left are students Yuwei Qiaoiao colleges even considered co-education, we have of China, Paola Gonzalez of thee intentionally sought students, faculty, and staff Dominican Republic and Jassimm Dalwai, who was born in India and from multiple backgrounds, ethnicities, and raised in Kuwait. countries. Th e 1968 addition of NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf) brought an intel- lectual, linguistic, and programmatic diversity to RIT that is unmatched in higher education. We are likewise proud of the high percentage of low- income students enrolled at RIT (as measured by the number of Pell grants awarded annually) as well as of our growing ranks of under- represented and international students. Th e unmatched diversity of our academic programs is a direct result of the diverse voices that constantly participate in the RIT conversation. Th rough our new strategic plan, we will intentionally develop practices, opportunities, and programs that harness the power of diff erence to drive creative solutions, innovative combinations, and produc- tive collaboration.

SPRING 2015 | 19 LEVERAGING DIFFERENCE 1

Difference Makers

• RIT will be among the top fi ve • RIT will be a model of excellence national universities in global in its deployment of diff erence to engagement, as measured by the solve problems and practice in- breadth and size of its internation- novation. al student and alumni populations. • RIT will initiate a comprehensive 2 • RIT students and faculty will be marketing campaign to make all internationally recognized for their current and potential stakeholders global experience, their mastery and higher education at large fully of intercultural competencies, and aware of the university’s extraordi- their engagement with globally nary history, its unique character, relevant problems. and its exceptional record of success.

• RIT will establish targeted centers of collaborative research with Supporting Objectives international universities, labora- Establish research partnerships in tories, and/or corporations in areas emerging international centers of of common expertise and aligned excellence. goals. All undergraduate programs will • RIT will be the largest producer of identify a place in their curricula for a female , under-represented male, specific program opportunity through and deaf or hard-of-hearing STEM which students can participate in a global, international, or multicultural graduates among all private col- educational experience. leges in the U.S. Develop 10-year plans for increasing • RIT will eliminate the achievement the number and percentage of females, gap between under-represented under-represented males, and deaf and majority students, becoming or hard-of-hearing students in STEM a model of inclusive excellence for majors. all students. Using an asset-based assessment and research model, develop a profile of • RIT will become a model of inclu- success factors and institutional chal- sive excellence for all faculty and lenges for under-represented males. staff in the areas of professional 3 development and promotion.

• RIT will refl ect diversity and inclusion as core values in assess- ing performance and promotion at all levels and in all functions of the university.

20 | SPRING 2015 4 ❶ Andrew Athias, a fourth-year computer engineering student, interned for the Chinese enterprise telecom company Huawei in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, from June to December. “It gave me an opportunity to see the world from an extremely diff erent point of view, learn a new language from scratch, and a chance to be a part of a new community and culture—all while applying what I am studying at RIT.”

❷ The RIT Men of Color, Honor and Ambition program has set its sights on improving the odds of young men of color graduating and helping them attain reward- ing careers. Programs such as this help eliminate the achievement gap between under-represented and majority students and help RIT become a model of inclusive excellence for all students.

❸ RIT Croatia, which off ers programs in Dubrovnik and Zagreb, was one of RIT’s fi rst global campuses. Other global campuses are the American University in Kosovo in Pristina, Kosovo, and RIT Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The campuses allow U.S. RIT students to study abroad and help bring international students to campus. RIT also has partnerships with the Dominican Republic and Turkey. The strategic plan calls for RIT to be among the top fi ve national universities in global engagement.

❹ Seventeen Executive MBA students took advantage of global learning opportunities during a trip last fall to Vietnam. 5 Partnerships such as this will grow in the decade ahead.

❺ Laura Fermin ’11 studied international business as well as service leadership and innovation at RIT. She now works as a lawyer for the government of the Dominican Republic. The strategic plan calls for developing ways to connect RIT students with alumni around the world.

SPRING 2015 | 21 More than 250 employers were on hand to meet with RIT students and alumni at the 2014 Fall Career Fair. It was the largest RIT career fair on record. A diverse range of employers attended, including computing technology companies Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook; engineering companies Tesla Motors and Toyota; government agencies and start-up companies.

22 | SPRING 2015 Dimension Four AFFORDABILITY, VALUE, AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT

ramatic changes in the demograph- ics of the college-going population will make it more important than ever for RIT to continue its tradi- Dtion of aff ordability and access. Increasing the amount of fi nancial aid available to students will help us sustain and enrich the student diversity so necessary to the creativity and productivity of the university community. RIT is committed to leading the aff ordability charge by addressing price and student fi nancial capacity, by ensuring ample fi nancial aid to accommodate high-need students, and by introducing technological solutions to reduce costs while improving learning outcomes. Recognizing that aff ordability is as much about quality outcomes as costly input, we will provide the next decade’s students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in satisfying and remunerative careers that will justify the expense of undergraduate and graduate education. Our students’ return on their tuition investment will come not only in the material form of future earnings, but also in their ability to eff ect positive change, contribute to the social good, and continue on a path of lifelong learning.

SPRING 2015 | 23 AFFORDABILITY, VALUE, AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT 1

Difference Makers

• RIT will be the university with the Supporting Objectives best placement rate and return on investment of all private universi- Publicize and deliver on a guarantee ties in the United States. that no student in good standing within 15 credits of graduation will drop out • RIT will become the university because of insufficient funds for the that best utilizes educational tech- remaining tuition. nology to improve access, main- Using the model of “RIT Online,” the tain academic quality, and achieve ILI (Innovative Learning Institute) will desired learning outcomes while identify, develop, and deliver courses balancing costs. and competency instruction to enhance the career advancement of alumni. • Th rough a tuition containment program and a capital campaign Direct a specified amount of funding drive for additional scholarship from the capital campaign scholarship support, RIT will address the drive to support low-income and under-represented students. fi nancial needs of promising low-income students.

• RIT will launch a blended capital campaign entitled “Greatness Th rough Diff erence” to raise the public, private, and research fund-d- ing necessary for the achievementt of critical “Diff erence Makers” in the 2015-2025 strategic plan. 2 • RIT will develop alternative methods of raising revenue, including developing innovative, fully online workforce development programs for nontraditionalall students, increasing opportunitiess for venue rentals by external parties, and providing services to the Rochester community.

24 | SPRING 2015 3 ❶ Ph.D. graduates in sustainability Xue Wang, Michele Goe and Chelsea Bailey celebrate the completition of their program last year with professor Gabrielle Gaustad. In less than 10 years, RIT has created a world-class research and education hub for sustainability. These graduates will help make the world greener for the next generation.

❷ After Leigh Raze graduates in May, he will be heading to Seattle to work for Amazon Game Studios, an internal production studio of Amazon that creates games for its devices. The game design and development graduate student secured his full-time position in 2014 while working at a co-op with the company.

❸ Tim Reed, a fi fth-year civil engineering technology student, began at RIT as part of the fi rst class of Rochester City Scholars, a scholarship program for top Rochester students who have the academic ability but may lack some of the fi nances for college. Reed, the fi rst in his family to go to college, will graduate in May. The strategic plan calls for increasing the number of Rochester City Scholars in the next 10 years.

4 5 ❹ The career fair and alumni connections helped fourth-year advertising and public relations student Mackenzie Pollock score a job with advertising giant SapientNitro months ahead of graduation. Pollock will begin working as a junior associate program manager for the Boston-based company in August.

❺ Ryan Kranz received an associate degree in computer integrated machining technology from RIT/ NTID in December and started a job in January with General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y., where he had worked as a co-op student. He is a machinist who helps make turbines and generators.

SPRING 2015 | 25 Dimension Five ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY

IT owes much of its past success to the alacrity with which it has been able to anticipate and respond to changes in the multiple environments in which it oper- Rates. In the next decade, these shift s will accelerate and in some cases expand to the level of seismic change, requiring us to develop innovative practices and policies that facilitate and encourage good ideas and the changes they lead to. In other words, we need to maximize our organizational agility. “Organizational Agility” is more than a dimension: it is a strategic imperative and the linchpin of this plan. Underlying every diff erence-making goal in the previous pages is the assumption that our institutional culture will be agile and effi cient— that we will be able to make decisions with dispatch; to move at least as quickly as the drivers of technology, science, and the global economy; and to reorganize as oft en as necessary to support the key themes of this plan (academic excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship and research; interdisci- plinarity; diversity; and aff ordability). At the same time, we must recognize that a defi ning element of organizational agility is the ability to respond to these external dynamics and opportunities without traumatic change to the organization. Our deep commitment to the sustainability and resiliency of the planet will require us to stay abreast of the latest research, to deploy the most current, appropriate, and effi cient tools, and to move quickly in responding to sustainability imperatives. Th e Diff erence Makers here could have intro- duced every dimension in the preceding pages, but they are so important to the success of Greatness Th rough Diff erence that we have given them pride of place as the fi nal words of this document.

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Difference Makers

• RIT’s curricular, administrative, and organizational structures will serve—not impede—discovery, border crossing, and collaboration among students, faculty, and staff .

• RIT will reduce academic and administrative silos and diminish the lingering negative eff ects of a silo culture.

• Following a thorough budget and space audit, RIT will create a master space plan.

• RIT will develop a university culture that is less risk-averse and less bu- reaucratic; it will streamline compliance measures and empower local decision-making responsibilities.

• In the service of ensuring a sustainable planet, RIT will restore, ame- liorate, and work within the systems and resources necessary to meet the needs of the current generation in an equitable manner without jeop- ardizing future generations.

Supporting Objectives Victor Perotti, chair of management information systems in Saunders College RIT will cultivate global citizens and of Business, and Andrea Hickerson, leaders prepared to address the inter- center, assistant professor of journal- connected ecological, economic, social, ism in the College of Liberal Arts, have and ethical challenges of creating a teamed up to create a unique inter- sustainable future. disciplinary course—Digital Journalism Incubator. Students representing many RIT will develop innovative curricula, RIT programs, such as Cortney Myers, programs, and research that foster a a fourth-year visual media student in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, commitment to sustainability. learn at the intersection of journalism, computing and entrepreneurship to To see the entire strategic plan, go to present compelling news products and rit.edu/president. services using the latest digital tools.

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A Photo courtesy of Disney Animation Studios B Photo by Ken Geiger C—Clayton Turner D—Katie Linendoll E

A. Movies center’s Engineering Directorate and In print, Tom Curley ’77 (MBA) A little bit of RIT lives inside the was responsible for the conceptualiza- is the former president and CEO of Oscar-winning movie Frozen, the tion, design, development and delivery Th e Associated Press. Th omas Keene highest grossing animated fi lm of all of ground and fl ight systems in all ’75 (biology) is an editor-at-large at time. Along with Frozen, graduates NASA mission areas. In January, he Bloomberg News. worked on two other movies that won was appointed associate director at the On the music scene, deaf American Academy Awards—Life of Pi, which Research Center, now serving as its hip-hop artist Sean Forbes ’08 (multi- won for best visual eff ects in 2013, chief operating offi cer managing disciplinary studies) launched D-PAN, and Disney’s Paperman, which won day-to-day operations to meet current the Deaf Professional Arts Network. best animated short fi lm in 2013. and future NASA mission needs. He writes, performs and records his He is one of numerous alumni own music. B. Photography who work at NASA facilities across Th e lenses of their cameras have the country. Another dozen work E. Engineering documented iconic moments in at SpaceX, a company that designs, Next time you are in New York City history. Th eir photos—whether of manufactures and launches advanced and you look at the skyline, think of war-torn countries and their people, rockets and spacecraft . RIT. Th e beacon on top of One World U.S. presidents or the Olympic Trade Center was designed by Th omas Games—have captivated readers on D. Media Trytek ’91 (civil engineering technol- a global scale. Seven Pulitzer Prize- At least two graduates have Emmy ogy) and his Syracuse company TDK winning photojournalists are gradu- Awards on their résumés. Michael Engineering Associates. ates of RIT. Th ey are: Paul Benoit ’76, Slovis ’76 (professional photographic Corey Mack ’11 (mechanical en- Robert Bukaty ’82, Ken Geiger ’11, illustration) is an Emmy Award- gineering technology), founder and Stan Grossfeld ’73, Dan Loh ’95, winning cinematographer and CEO of Laforge Optical, is behind Icis, William Snyder ’81 and Anthony Suau director of photography recognized prescription eyewear that displays us- ’78. Among the seven alumni, they’ve for his genius and groundbreaking ers’ smartphone notifi cations in their won a combined 11 Pulitzer Prizes. visual direction in the AMC hit fi eld of vision. series Breaking Bad. C. Space Katie Linendoll ’05 (information F. Technology Clayton Turner’s 24-year career with technology) won an Emmy Award as Austin McChord ’09 (bioinformatics) NASA’s Langley Research Center in associate producer for SportsCenter. was named a 2015 Forbes 30 under Hampton, Va., has soared nearly as Linendoll frequently shares her 30 in enterprise technology. Mc- high as NASA’s space fl ights. Turner tech expertise on CNN and the Chord started a company called Datto ’90 (electrical engineering) led the Today show. Inc. in 2007. Th e company provides

28 | SPRING 2015 Write to [email protected] with suggestions of other graduates already making a difference. DIFFERENCE We will profile them in future publications.

F—Austin McChord G H—Rick Kittles I—Sean R.H. Bratches J—Kevin Surace K—Librada Paz

hybrid cloud-based on-site and off -site H. Science Alex Kipman ’01 (soft ware engin- backup disaster recovery and business Rick Kittles ’89 (biology) helped eering) is also an inventor of Micro- continuity services. establish a national cooperative soft ’s HoloLens, a wearable computer. Tristan E. O’Tierney ’08 (computer network to study the genetics of Kevin Surace ’85 (electrical engin- science) co-founded the popular hereditary prostate cancer in the eering technology) was named Inc. mobile payment company Square African-American community. magazine’s 2009 Entrepreneur of the in 2009. Working with Twitter Th is project serves as a model for Year. At the time, he was CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey, O’Tierney recruitment of African Americans in president of Serious Materials, which developed Square’s original iPhone genetic studies of complex diseases. retrofi tted the 6,514 windows in the application and contributed to the Empire State Building to make the development of Square’s iPad I. Business iconic landmark more sustainable application and Square Wallet. What do the executive vice president and energy effi cient. of sales and marketing for ESPN, the G. Design group vice president, customer service, K. Humanities Have you ever heard of the for Toyota Motor Sales and the presi- A graduate and leader in New York’s LunaTik Touch Pen, a combination dent and CEO of True Value have in farmworker human rights movement roller ball pen and digital stylus, common? Th ey are all RIT graduates. received the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy or the TikTok band that turns Apple Sean R.H. Bratches ’83, ’91 (business Human Rights Award. Librada Paz Inc.’s iPod Nanos into wristwatches? administration), executive vice presi- ’03 (mechanical engineering technol- Both products are the brainchild of dent of sales and marketing for ESPN, ogy) worked with Rural and Migrant Scott Wilson ’91 (industrial design), was inducted into the 24th Annual Ministry to make conditions better founder of Chicago-based Minimal Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame for migrant laborers. She is a former Inc. and former global director in October. Nancy Fein ’76 (math- farmworker herself. at Nike. ematics) joined Toyota in 1982. John Patricia Moore ’74 (industrial Speaking of Nike, Eric Avar ’90 Hartmann ’85 (criminal justice) has design), president of Moore Associ- (industrial design) is vice president been with True Value since 2013. ates, was named by ID magazine as of design innovation at the company. one of the 40 Most Socially Conscious Avar joined Nike in 1991 and has J. Innovation Designers in the world. Moore trav- helped create some of Nike’s most Th e Microsoft engineer who was the eled throughout North America from innovative and award-winning National Inventor of the Year in 2012 1979 to 1982 disguised as a woman in designs, including products with for his work on Kinect for the Xbox her 80s. She wrote about her experi- the Nike Basketball, Nike Free, Lunar 360 video game system and Windows ences in her books Disguised: A True and Kobe Bryant series of footwear. PCs graduated from RIT. Story and Th e Business of Aging.

SPRING 2015 | 29 On Campus

NOTEBOOK Good to the last drop—caff eine for your car Commencement speaker named Coff ee can rev your engine. Really. Maj. Gen. Charles Rebecca Clontz, an environmen- Bolden Jr., head of the tal science graduate student, National Aeronautics is converting coff ee grounds into and Space Administra- a biodiesel-espresso for cars. tion, will be the keynote “I want to get a bumper sticker speaker for RIT’s 130th that says, ‘I run on coff ee,’” said commencement cel- Clontz, a native of Athens, Tenn. ebration. Clontz and her thesis adviser, Bolden will speak at Jeff Lodge, associate professor in the Academic Convo- RIT’s Th omas H. Gosnell School cation, set for 10 a.m. of Life Sciences, are exploring the May 22 in the Gordon potential of turning food waste into Field House and Activi- energy on a local level. Th ey startedd ties Center. by asking coff ee shops on campus RIT President Bill to donate their grounds every day Destler said the univer- in August. Employees at Artesano

sity is honored to have Bakery & Café, Beanz, Java Wally’s Weisler Sue Photo by A. Bolden addressing its and Midnight Oil helped Tubs of coff ee grounds take up a corner of RIT associate professor Jeff Lodge’s biology lab. graduates. Clontz collect 150 Graduate student Rebecca Clontz converts coff ee into biodiesel as part of her thesis research. gallons of used coff ee New alumni head grounds during one of Jon Rodibaugh ’12 the slowest months on campus. to make biodiesel. Th e multitude Clontz is exploring—is a “drop- (MBA) has been named “I washed out two buckets and of coff ee houses across the United in fuel” that won’t corrode a car’s executive director of put a sign on it that said, ‘Coff ee States adding coff ee grounds to engine, Lodge said. “It’s a cleaner Alumni Relations. In grounds for biofuel,’ and I showed landfi lls caught his imagination. burning fuel,” he said. “It’s not this role, he will have the managers the scientifi c paper I To expedite their research, perfect, but it is cleaner.” primary oversight for was trying to emulate,” Clontz said. Clontz and Lodge purchased a large Clontz’s thesis is about sustain- all alumni programs drying oven and rotary evaporator ability and uses “anything and and engagement with seed funding from a $15,000 everything” for multiple processes, activities at RIT. He Dean’s Research Initiative Grant Lodge said. reports to Kim Slusser, from the College of Science. Th e “It’s carbon neutral,” Clontz associate vice president grant, awarded in the fall, supports added. “Th e carbon removed from for Alumni, Parent Clontz’s research this semester and the atmosphere in growing the and Annual Giving provides travel money to present her coff ee is the same carbon released Programs. fi ndings at an energy conference. as a fuel.” “I’m extracting the oils from the Even the left over coff ee grounds Best value dried coff ee grounds and convert- will fi nd another use as compost RIT ranks among the ing that to a biofuel and extracting and an organic fertilizer. Clontz country’s best values the glucose and converting that to will grow plants in it this spring in in private colleges, ethanol,” Clontz said. the greenhouse attached to Gosnell according to Kiplinger’s During the intersession break, Hall and compare it to fertilizer Personal Finance. Scientists from the University Clontz and Lodge conducted a derived from algae. Kiplinger’s annual of Nevada, Reno, published the scaled-down version of the com- “Th e coff ee grounds are not list ranks 100 private study that inspired Clontz’s thesis mercial method to make biodiesel going to a landfi ll and that’s a huge universities and 100 lib- research. Lodge suggested the from 250 milliliters of oil extracted thing,” Clontz said. “We’re going to eral arts colleges. RIT project aft er reading about the from the campus coff ee grounds. use everything and compost at the ranked 97th on the list new lipid, or oil, the researchers Biodiesel produced from coff ee end. It’s exciting.” of private universities. extracted from Starbucks coff ee and algae—a second energy source Susan Gawlowicz ’95

30 | SPRING 2015 NOTEBOOK Honoring innovation Alex Kipman ’01 (soft - ware engineering) will be inducted into the 2015 RIT Innovation Hall of Fame on May 1. Kipman, the Micro- soft engineer who was honored as National Inventor of the year for his work on Kinect for the Xbox 360 video game system and Win- dows PCs, is also an Photo by A. Sue Weisler Sue Photo by A. inventor of Microsoft ’s Soledad O’Brien, former anchor and special correspondent for CNN, was the keynote speaker for the 2015 Expressions of King’s Legacy HoloLens, a headset event in late January. O’Brien talked about her career in journalism as well as her focus on telling character-driven stories that resonate that displays holo- with people regardless of race. She also met with 20 journalism students and talked about how the media is evolving. grams. Th e HoloLens was announced earlier this year. For details, go to RIT establishes cybersecurity scholarship www.rit.edu/ihf/. Responding to the national de- and threaten our national security,” Bachelor/Master of Science degree Next Big Shot mand for workers highly trained said Andrew Sears, dean of RIT’s B. in computing security, Yuan said. Th e 2015 RIT Big Shot in cybersecurity, RIT will use a Th omas Golisano College of Com- RIT expects to grant six of these promises to be a beauti- multimillion-dollar federal grant to puting and Information Sciences. scholarships a year, Yuan said. ful photo fi nish when establish a CyberCorps Schola rship “RIT was one of the fi rst uni- Th e scholarships cover tuition, the longtime communi- for Service program. versities in the nation to create a books and professional devel- ty photography project Th e National Science Founda- dedicated department of comput- opment, plus a cash stipend of captures a spectacular tion has awarded RIT a fi ve-year, ing security, which allows us to $20,000 a year for undergraduates nighttime image of nearly $4 million grant that will draw on faculty from across the and $32,000 a year for graduate a national icon— allow the university to become part university to provide our students students. Th e total value of the Churchill Downs, of this federal scholarship program, with a cutting-edge education,” scholarship will be between home of the Kentucky established in 2000 in partnership Sears added. “Being part of the $50,000 and $60,000 a year. Derby, in Louisville, with the Department of Homeland CyberCorps program will allow us In exchange for the scholar- Ky., on Oct. 3. Security in response to ongoing to attract and retain the best and ship, students must agree to work Th e Big Shot relies threats to the nation’s information brightest students for work in this in computing security for the on the participation of technology infrastructure. Th e vitally important fi eld.” government one year for each hundreds of volunteers program provides full tuition and Th e fi rst two years of the grant year of scholarship received. So a to provide the primary a stipend in exchange for future is for $1.39 million. RIT expects to student in the program for three light source for the government service. off er the fi rst scholarships this fall, years would agree to work for the image while RIT pho- “Establishing this program is said Bo Yuan, chair of RIT’s com- government for three years aft er tographers shoot an ex- another way RIT is demonstrating puting security department. graduation. tended exposure. It’s a its commitment to producing well- Th e program will be open to Applications will be reviewed signature event for RIT educated, well-grounded gradu- RIT undergraduates entering their and scholarship recipients chosen and is led by the School ates who will be our best defense third or fourth year in computing by a faculty committee, Yuan said, of Photographic Arts from the countless, increasingly security, computer science or soft - adding that he expects signifi cant and Sciences, which is sophisticated cyber attacks that ware engineering, and would cover competition for the scholarships. nationally recognized invade our privacy, cost us money, the fi nal three years of a combined Ellen Rosen for its degree programs.

SPRING 2015 | 31 Alumni Updates

Jackie Russo Anderson ’07 was part of a team that improved the air quality system at the Sistine Chapel. Controlling the air inside a masterpiece

ichelangelo was 33 when he More than 6 million people a year take in engineering team studying cigarette smoke began painting scenes from the majestic beauty of the chapel’s frescoes particle deposition in the lungs. Th is became Genesis and the familiar hands on its walls and alcoves, under vaulted arches the basis for her master’s thesis. She refi ned of God and Adam on the and on the ceiling. But the 500-year-old this further as a doctoral student at Syracuse ceilingM of the Sistine Chapel—masterpieces chapel in Vatican City was showing signs of University, focusing on indoor air quality. Hired considered the work of a lifetime. wear due to the dust and debris brought in by by Carrier in 2011, Anderson uses all these Jackie Russo Anderson ’07 (mechani- tourists oft en exceeding capacity. accumulated skills working on new technology cal engineering) was just 30 when she was Anderson worked with an international development, fan design and system and involved as part of an international engineer- team of engineers from Carrier’s offi ces in custom applications for the company. ing team that designed an ultramodern air Syracuse, France and China, as well as art and “Th e work I did with Dr. Robinson easily management system to preserve the chapel’s communications representatives from the transferred to the indoor air quality work historic artwork, without changing any part Vatican and the Italian Consulate involved in that I studied for my Ph.D., which provided of the building’s original structure. the chapel preservation eff orts, which began for an easy transition to the air management “I would never have thought during my in 2011 and were completed this past October. team at Carrier,” she said. “Th e Sistine Chapel time at RIT, that at 30 years old, I’d be work- Th e previous air ventilation system was also project was both an air management and an ing on a project at the Sistine Chapel. Th at’s being taxed, as it was designed to accommo- indoor air quality challenge. Th e scale is very something that normally happens down date a maximum load of 700 simultaneous diff erent between a human lung and the Sis- the road, in your life, in your career,” said visitors. Today, the new system is designed to tine Chapel, but the underlying physics were Anderson, who is a senior engineer in air accommodate up to 2,000 visitors at one time. solved with the same methods.” management systems technology at Carrier, While an undergraduate at RIT, Anderson Th e team had some modeling limitations a division of UTC Building & Industrial Sys- studied airfl ow and contamination and was when it came to the building. It was a bigger tems, the company that led the project. part of Professor Risa Robinson’s mechanical scale than what they were used to, and they

32 | SPRING 2015 The Sistine Chapel, one of the most visited historical sites at the Vatican, was showing signs of wear due to the volume of visitor traffi c, and its air ventilation system was being taxed. Today, with a new system it can accommodate up to 2,000 visitors at one time in nearly any weather conditions.

couldn’t change anything in the structure. space,” she said. “But when I fi rst walked in I Th e team successfully increased the volume “Th e Sistine Chapel is just an enormous couldn’t believe how big it actually was and of air within the chapel through the complex building, and then you have these huge, really how amazing the paintings were. Michelan- diff user system, vented through several small thick stone walls on the exterior which are gelo was a true genius.” openings under the windows in the chapel, hundreds of years old,” she explained. It is ironic that Michelangelo’s impres- all part of the original ventilation system. It To prepare, Anderson and her colleagues sive masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine was also able to dilute carbon dioxide produced studied the HVAC system, put in place by Chapel illustrating the creation of humanity by visitors. Th e new diff user Anderson Carrier 20 years ago. It was still fully func- was being damaged by the crowds of modern produced could only have been achieved tional, but the air system capacity needed humanity that visit the chapel each year. with an understanding of airfl ow and how to increase. Th e chapel did not have the “My role related to the air management to manipulate the physics of increasing the ductwork or internal ventilation structures within the chapel and how we would deliver airfl ow through small, unyielding spaces. that modern homes and buildings do today. three times more airfl ow without increased Anderson returned to the Vatican for the Temperatures needed to be controlled for velocities near any of the paintings and system unveiling aft er installation was com- the sake of the paintings and the people, but without any structural changes to the chapel plete in October 2014. bringing in more air meant larger vent open- itself,” Anderson explained. “Th ere were also “When I fi rst started working on this, I ings, and this was not an option. aspects of controlling carbon dioxide and didn’t necessarily understand how amazing Anderson did not visit the Sistine Chapel other contaminants that I modeled with com- the project really was until it started to come until aft er her preliminary design and model- putational fl uid dynamic tools. One of the together,” she said. “Now, seeing how many ing work was complete in May 2014. major portions of the project that I worked people care about it, how much the Vatican “I had spent a lot of time modeling the on was the design, modeling and testing of has appreciated it, you really understand how interior of the Sistine Chapel, so I was very the diff user that now delivers the conditioned special a project this was to be a part of.” familiar with the overall dimensions of the air to the space.” Michelle Cometa ’00

SPRING 2015 | 33 Seth Eshelman ’06 credits RIT for helping him start his successful furniture company Staach. Photo by A. Sue Weisler Custom co-op forms furniture company

hen Seth Eshelman ’06 (industrial benches, chairs and tables. Although the Cain Collection continues design/graphic design) couldn’t Once he had the collection, Eshelman had to be the most popular, the company has fi ve Wfi nd a co-op during the winter to sell it. He began making cold calls to archi- other furniture lines. And the company has quarter of his senior year, he decided to create tects and designers, people he said he knew expanded beyond furniture. For example, it is his own. how to talk to, and found small fi rms who providing the design concept for a mixed-use “I used the fourth fl oor studios at RIT as were interested in working with him. residential and commercial building at 88 my fi rst workshop for my company,” Eshel- “One small commercial project turned into Elm St. in Rochester that will rise 13 stories. man said about his furniture design business. three, which turned into six, which turned Eshelman also established a subsidiary “I built some of the fi rst prototypes and the into 12 and it kept going from there,” he said. underneath Staach called Standard Industries, fi rst production run up in the fourth fl oor A big break came about fi ve years ago which will become the contract manufactur- aft er hours on the weekends and aft er school.” when a designer contacted him about the ing entity and expand into new markets. Today, that company, based in Rochester Cain Collection and said they were designing His goal is to become a major player in the and called Staach, focuses on functional restaurants in New York City and asked him manufacturing scene. sustainable design. Its products can be found to be part of the bid. All of this and he hasn’t forgotten his RIT around the world, including in Shake Shack He put together a quote, got the order and roots. He is teaching an industrial design class locations and at the Google offi ces in Moun- delivered the furniture to what turned out to of juniors this spring, employs RIT alumni tain View, Calif. be Shake Shack, which now has locations all and student interns, and regularly welcomes Eshelman started the business producing over the world. Staach furniture is in all but class tours at Staach. laser-cut plywood furniture then switched to a couple. “RIT is what provided us with our start. solid woods during his fi rst two years. Th e Cain Collection also can be found in Th at’s how everything happened,” he said. “If Aft er many 18-hour days, he created the Dwell Store and pieces have been featured it wasn’t for RIT, Staach wouldn’t really exist.” the Cain Collection, which includes stools, in Dwell magazine as a top product. Mindy Mozer

34 | SPRING 2015 Jennifer D’Ovidio ’08, above, and her husband, Will D’Ovidio ’07, opened an aerial arts school in Rochester. Photo by Will D’Ovidio Husband and wife team soar to new heights

year out from graduation, Jennifer off the way that it did,” Will said. Together, the couple studied around D’Ovidio ’08 (multidisciplinary Th e couple opened the business in 2010 the country for the better part of a year and Astudies) was working as an assistant as a pole dancing fi tness studio. Within a came to rebrand their studio as Aerial Arts wedding coordinator for Radisson Hotel few months, however, they were looking of Rochester in 2011. Rochester Riverside. Her husband, Will to expand their off erings. Since then, the studio has grown to off er D’Ovidio ’07 (advertising photography), “Th ere was a lot of competition and we more than 35 classes taught by 11 instructors, was a photographer for The New York Times. decided we needed to fi gure out what made including Christopher Henry ’07 (computer Th en the economy crashed, and they both us diff erent,” Will said. science). Aerial Arts of Rochester’s unique lost their jobs. Jennifer heard about a growing fi eld focus on fi tness and anyone-can-do-it So they decided to do the logical thing of exercise called aerial yoga and became approach have been key factors in the school’s and open a circus school. intrigued. Seeking training, she contacted success, according to the couple. Students “It was the best thing that could have Lynn Coleman, a renowned acrobatic from all age groups and walks of life train happened,” said Jennifer. “It made me really instructor from Denver. at the school, and the studio even off ers think about what I wanted to do with my “She started explaining that there’s therapeutic classes for people aff ected by life. I knew where I wanted my life to go, not just aerial yoga, there’s also silks, aerial fi bromyalgia and those with special needs. so I said, ‘Th at’s it, I’m opening a studio.’” hoops—there’s all these diff erent appara- “Th ere’s a common misconception that Today, that studio is known as the Aerial tuses,” Jennifer said. “She asked me, ‘If you’re you have to be strong and you have to be Arts of Rochester. It’s the only school within going to have me come all the way from fl exible to do this, but really all you need 150 miles of Rochester where students can Colorado to train you for aerial yoga, why is a sense of adventure,” said Jennifer. learn cirque arts like aerial silks, aerial hoops don’t I bring this other stuff ?’” “We break things down in a way that and ballet barre among many others. Once she completed the initial training, anyone can do them.” Th e studio underwent its third expansion Jennifer began to incorporate cirque classes Th e couple doesn’t take their success for in November and is the home of the UP! into her curriculum. granted, however. State Cirque Troupe. In addition to running Th e classes proved to be popular, so she “We’re always training,” Will said. “We the business, Jennifer and Will also instruct continued training in cirque arts and Will, need to make sure we’re keeping people safe. several classes themselves. a third-degree black belt in karate, began It’s our No. 1 priority.” “I had no idea that this was going to take training, too. Derrick Hunt ’15

SPRING 2015 | 35 Anna Sweet ’04 works at Valve Corp. She returned to campus in October as part of the MAGIC Center Speaker Series. Photo by A. Sue Weisler Grad fi nds sweet spot in video game industry

hen Anna Sweet ’04 (computer was before the master’s degree in game of about 100 non-Valve games. Today, there science) was in grade school, her design and development was created in 2006 are 100 million customers and almost 4,000 Wfavorite toy was her friend’s Speak and the bachelor’s degree started in 2007. non-Valve games on the digital marketplace. & Spell. Th ose courses led to an internship at Sweet has recently been working on the Th e girls played Hangman on the bright Microsoft Game Studios with the Xbox Steam Machine rollout, which is a specialized red and yellow device, which they liked to group and a full-time job in Microsoft ’s gaming computer designed to be played on call a computer. shared technology group aft er graduation. a television. “Th at year my dad asked me what I Th at group helped build the infrastructure At Valve, she said, about 15 percent of wanted for Christmas and I said a computer, that would become Xbox Live. the employees are female. Sweet said she meaning the Speak & Spell,” Sweet said. “On But aft er a few years, Sweet realized she has never felt out of place in the male- Christmas morning when I woke up there didn’t want to write code all day. She took a dominated industry. But she has had some was a Tandy 1000 under the tree. I was like, job at MySpace in 2006 as a head of project interesting experiences, especially during ‘What is that?’” management, where she led a team of 40 business meetings. Sweet learned that her new home comput- project managers across three offi ces in “Someone will inevitably ask a technical er with more game options was cooler than Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco. question and they will turn to one of my male the Speak & Spell, and she wanted to know She liked working with people but missed counterparts,” she said. “Th en those male how the technology worked. the games industry, so in 2008 she moved counterparts will turn back and look at me Today, Sweet is still hooked on the video to Valve to work on the company’s game and then I’ll answer the question. Everyone games industry and has helped transform it platform called Steam. always looks confused when that happens.” at Valve Corp., where she is responsible for “At the time Steam was just getting started She is encouraged that the number of business development. and they were looking for someone who women is increasing and she hopes to Th e Penn Yan, N.Y., native started at RIT could bridge the gap between the technical encourage others to join the fi eld. in 2000 and was able to take some of the fi rst side and the business side,” she said. “Th ey “For me it has been both an incredibly game programming courses off ered by Pro- hired me to do that and I have been there enjoyable job but also something I am fessor Andy Phelps, now founder and director ever since.” really proud of,” Sweet said. “It was always of the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, When Sweet started at Valve, Steam had the thing I wanted to do.” Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC). Th at about 8 million customers with a catalogue Mindy Mozer

36 | SPRING 2015 A Special Request from President Destler

Dear RIT Alumni: Your Alma Mater has made amazing progress over the last decade and will almost certainly be moved to the “National University” category, ranked among the very best colleges and universities in the United States. One important ranking factor will be the percentage of graduates who contribute to RIT each year, an area where we simply do not compete well. I am, therefore, asking each of you to make a contribution to RIT by the close of this fiscal year (June 30th) and every year thereafter as we make this important transition. And, for those of you who have already given this year—thank you. Any gift, regardless of how big or small, makes an impact and counts toward an improved alumni contribution rate, so don’t feel that answering this call is beyond your means. My dream is that RIT will soon be recognized as one of the finest universities in the world, and you can help me achieve that dream. It is indeed a privilege to serve as your President. Heartfelt thanks in advance for your continued help. Sincerely,

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© 2015 Rochester Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. Rochester Institute of Technology | One Lomb Memorial Drive | Rochester, New York 14623 SPRING 2015 | 37 Th e autobiography, Search for Expression, Th e Life and Art of Brian 1979 1986 Class Notes Shapiro, can be purchased at www. James Cole ’86 (KGCOE) has joined LuLu.com. the adjunct faculty in the computer engineering department. He will teach Key to abbreviations 1970 Digital Signal Processing for computer Donald Milton ’70 (CCE), a member engineering students beginning in the CAST College of Applied Science of the faculty of SUNY Empire State spring. and Technology College at the Genesee Valley Center CCE College of Continuing Education in Rochester, has been chosen by the 1988 (now CMS) nominating committee of Rotary Ken Huth International’s District 7120 to serve as ’88 (GAP) CHST College of Health Sciences district governor for 2017-2018. He is a has begun to and Technology 37-year Rotarian and past president of Collette Fournier ’77, ’79 (GAP) work more CIAS College of Imaging Arts and Sciences the Penfi eld, N.Y., Rotary Club, as well held a retrospective of her work in regionally as past president of Camp Haccamo, a September/October 2014, which in the east CLA College of Liberal Arts camp for children with special needs included archived works from 1988- by moving CMS Center for Multidisciplinary Studies supported by the Rotary Clubs of 2012. She produced the presentation his main Monroe County. over a period of six months between offi ce to SCB Saunders College of Business working full-time and teaching a Durham, KGCOE Kate Gleason College of Engineering 1973 photography course at Rockland N.C. COS College of Science Paul Cocca ’73 (KGCOE) is now work- Community College. She is a 10-year HuthPhoto ing at the Prince William Chamber of member of Kamoinge Inc., an African- will con- FAA Fine and Applied Arts (now CIAS) Commerce as a member engagement American photography collective. tinue covering events like RIT Brick GAP Graphic Arts and Photography specialist. City Homecoming & Family Weekend, (now CIAS) 1982 Geva Th eatre Center shows, and publi- Bruce Glen Abbott ’81, ’82 (GAP) has transi- cations for the University of Rochester GCCIS B. Thomas Golisano College of Manthey ’73 tioned into travel writing and photogra- Medical Center—as well as events Computing and Information Sciences (KGCOE) phy, specializing in motorcycle touring in Chicago, Boston and upstate NTID National Technical Institute was one of 38 and travel, aft er a 30-year career as a New York. He is now active with the for the Deaf former House television news videographer. In addi- Raleigh/Durham chapter of the RIT LS Residents tion to feature stories and videos, he is Alumni Association. For more, go to SVP NTID “Summer Vestibule Program” who met in also a columnist for Harley-Davidson’s HuthPhoto.com. June at RIT HOG magazine and American Iron’s About Class Notes to reacquaint Motorcycle Bagger magazine. Daniel Ari and reminisce Mendelson ’88 Class Notes are edited for space, about dorm 1983 (COS) was promoted clarity and style. Share details and life together in Stephen Beckwith to associate chief RIT’s fi rst-ever ’83 (KGCOE) writes, of medicine at photos of special occasions and Club House. “I was laid off on Highland Hospital professional achievements in your Jan. 10, 2013, from in Rochester in life by going to www.rit.edu/ 1976 LSI in Allentown, August. Daniel Larry Kiser ’76 Pa., aft er almost and Linda (Eckel) aluimni/news. (KGCOE) is now a eight years. I packed Mendelson ’87 lecturer in soft ware up, moved to (COS), who met at engineering at RIT. Pittsburgh to work at a startup doing RIT, celebrated their 25th wedding 1950 He is enjoying embedded Linux support. I lost this anniversary in August. sharing his years job in October 2014 but was able to get of experience with a new job with NetApp within only a 1989 the students with few short weeks. Now, I am working as David Haviland ’87 (GAP), ’89 (GAP) a particular focus a diagnostics engineer for their FAS HW has taken on a new role as television on real-time and systems. My RIT education still remains and media production teacher through embedded systems. my No. 1 asset in moving along in my the continuing technical education career, aft er 32-plus years of industry department at New Kent High School 1977 experience.” in New Kent, Va. He spent the past 11 Kevin Hall ’77 years teaching in the special education (FAA) is a 1984 fi eld in Virginia. Before becoming a Roger Stabley ’50 (GAP) was awarded a nationally known Neil Darish ’84 (GAP) has a hit televi- teacher in Virginia, he worked in the trophy for participation in the York, Pa., graphic designer sion series on Discovery Channel. Th e Rochester television broadcast market as YMCA Annual 5K Turkey Trot Run on who recently documentary-style dramatization about a news videographer, editor, live truck Th anksgiving Day 2014. He placed fi rst received a Best McCarthy, Alaska, features Darish as operator, assignment editor and talk in the over 80 age division. In Category award the villain in a town of frontier heroes. show producer. from American Edge Of Alaska is fi lming season 2 from 1962 Graphic Design & January through May 2015. Season 2 1992 Advertising for his brand identity work. will air in the fall of 2015. Dana-Lynn Hall also had a poster selected for inclu- (Yannich) Fournier sion in the New Haven Museum’s exhi- Martha DiMeo ’84, ’92 (FAA) was bition “From Clocks to Lollipops: Made ’84 (GAP), owner of awarded the 2014 in New Haven.” For more, go to www. ChromaQueen.com, Designer of the Year KevinHallDesign.com. a photo retouching award at the company, was National Education 1978 invited to share her Association’s State Richard Margolis ’78 (CIAS) began passion for superb Education Editors Brian Shapiro ’62 (FAA) has launched photographing Rochester’s landmarks color reproduction with the Rhode Conference. She was also the recipient a website to feature a sampling of more 15 years ago. Th e entire portfolio of 90 Island School of Design community. this year of the prestigious Mary Heaton than 3,700 artworks he has created over pictures will be published in a book On March 10, she presented the webinar Vorse Award from the Labor 50 years of continuous art production. called Rochester Landmarks. In addition, “Color Management for Graphic Communications Council and a fi rst In addition, several of his paintings are an exhibition of his work will be at Th e Designers & Fine Art Professionals” place award for Best Front Page/Cover available as signed and numbered prints Little Th eatre Cafe in Rochester from for the Rhode Island School of Design in Print from the International Labor in limited editions on archival paper. March 29 through April 25. Alumni Association. Communications Association.

38 | SPRING 2015 Raymond Tesiero ’95 (KGCOE) 1993 received a Ph.D. in computational sci- 2005 George ence and engineering at North Carolina “David” A&T State University in October 2014. Gipson He is currently responsible for govern- ’93, ’93 ment grant proposals, energy audits, (GAP) has building thermal modeling and green- been work- house gas analysis for the Center for ing in the Energy Research and Technology. He is New York pursuing full-time tenure track profes- Karen (Donnelly) Schroeder ’98 City photo sor positions in civil and mechanical (CAST) and Scott Schroeder were mar- industry engineering. ried in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on Sept. since 3, 2014. Th ey later celebrated with graduating 1996 friends and family on Oct. 5, 2014, at from RIT. Beverley (Waller) Braun ’96 (COS) the Rabbit Room in Honeoye Falls, N.Y. He has has been named partner at Jaeckle She is now an estimator for Tucker assisted Fleischmann & Mugel LLP, a full-service Printers, an RR Donnelley company in established photographers, produced corporate law fi rm. She is a member of Henrietta, N.Y. jobs for many name brand clients, the fi rm’s litigation practice group. done photography for a number of 2000 commercial clients and managed Sarah (Laughter) Crandall ’96, ’98, two of New York City’s largest photo ’00 (CIAS) began a new chapter in her Hayley (Fisch) Donoghue ’05 (CIAS) studios. Currently, he is focused on career in April 2014 when she joined and Sean Donoghue are happy to his shooting career. For details, go to Blue Ridge Orthopaedic & Spine Center announce their marriage on Oct. 25, www.davidgipsonphotography.com. in Warrenton, Va., as a marketing spe- 2014, in Sterling, Va. Th ey live in cialist. Alexandria, Va. RIT alumni in atten- James “Jim” Harmon ’93 (GAP) dance included Joelle (Tannenbaum) accepted a specialist position with 2001 Boedecker ’05 (CIAS). Apple Inc. in the education division Andrew Warycka ’01 (CIAS) recently in Cupertino, Calif. Stacy (Kalisz) Johnson ’96 (KGCOE) accepted a position as a photo editor Michael set a personal goal to help 500 people at Pierce-Eislen, a real estate research Murawski ’05 Christine Vargas ’93, make one heart healthy change in 2014 company specializing in the apartment (CIAS) has ’93 (KGCOE) both through her virtual fi tness coaching market, located in Scottsdale, Ariz. taken a posi- is pleased to and her volunteerism with the American tion as a cellar announce the 10-year Heart Association’s Go Red for Women 2002 hand at anniversary of her movement. She also has been selected Venessa Mitchell ’02 (CAST) writes, “I Montinore company, Vargas for a leadership program at her company, attained doctoral status by completing Estate winery Associates. A facilities Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent all my requirements from the University in the project management Technologies Electronic Measurement of Phoenix for an Ed.D. in educational Willamette and interior design Group), and will be part of the 2015 leadership curriculum/instruction in Valley wine region of Oregon. He previ- fi rm, it has contributed to some of Emerging Leadership Program. 2014. Doctoral journey completed; now ously worked at Adelsheim Vineyard in the more notable projects in Rochester the hard work begins.” Newberg, Ore., as a laboratory assistant, and western New York, including Mary Kitzel ’89 (NTID), ’96 (CCE) and as a cellar technician and assistant the Irondequoit Library, Golisano graduated with her Ph.D. in historical winemaker at Casa Larga Vineyards and Children’s Hospital, Saunders Research geography from the University of Sussex Winery in Victor, N.Y. He and his fi an- Building, several initiatives for the in July 2014. A former interpreter at cée, Melissa Backus, currently live in Rochester schools modernization RIT, she has returned to the university McMinnville, Ore., having relocated program, the City of Rochester, as a visiting assistant professor in the there from Rochester in July 2014. and area K-12 schools, among others. history department. Her staff includes several RIT graduates. 2006 David Stern ’96 (KGCOE) was selected Bonnie 1994 as the technical lead for the inter- Harriman Charles King Sadler agency SDN workgroup at the Defense ’05 (CAST), ’94, ’94 (CIAS), Information Systems Agency (DISA). ’06 (CIAS) founder of King DISA is the communications and enter- and Jake Garden Designs in prise infrastructure provider for the Brunner ’08 Irvington-on- Department of Defense, national level (SCB) met Hudson, N.Y., leaders, and other mission and coali- at alumni earned the ISA tion partners across the full spectrum of weekend in Certifi ed Arborist operations. October credential on Dec. 8, 2011. Th eir 2014, by successfully 1997 wedding is completing the Matthew Staub ’97 (CLA) returned to planned for Certifi ed Arborist exam administered by Oracle as a manager in the Solaris and Graham Yeager’s ’02 (CIAS) solo art May 2015. the International Society of Network Systems Services team respon- exhibition “Making Adjustments” was Arboriculture and the local chapter of sible for the Acme Packet product line. on display at the James Watrous Gallery Lauren ISA. King Garden Designs He had spent the last year as a solutions during the summer of 2014. Th e show Henry ’06 is a landscape design/build practice, architect at SiteSpect in Boston and was named to Spackle Madison’s list of (SCB) entered which also specializes in tree care in the previous seven years in the support Favorite Art Shows of the year. Each her fi rst Westchester County, N.Y., and beyond. organization at Acme Packet prior to its piece is dynamic: parts move, pull apart body building acquisition by Oracle. or rearrange, encouraging actions competition 1995 that suggest simple machines, tools, on Nov. 15, Michael 1998 jewelry or toys. Learn more at www. 2014, where Ruzhansky ’95 (SCB) Jason W. Gallo ’98 grahamyeager.com. she placed joined (KGCOE) has been sixth in debut Lenox Advisors promoted to global 2004 class, fourth in New York director of soft ware David T. Fetzer ’04 (COS) accepted in novice City as vice channels business an assistant professor faculty position class and president of development at at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s ninth in the fi nancial planning. Cisco Systems. department of radiology in Dallas. open class.

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Eric Ignatowski ’08 and Colleen Fitzgerald ’08 were married at RIT’s Ritter Arena in 2013. Photo by Eric Jackling Hockey fan scores perfect wedding

IT and Friday the 13th play a huge that Eric swooped in—on Dec. 13, to events for the ceremony, which was per- role in the love story of Eric Igna- be exact. “I was patient,” Eric said with formed on red carpet runners on the ice. Rtowski ’08 (new media interactive a smile. Th eir guests sat in the bleachers and ceremo- development) and Colleen Fitzgerald ’08 Nearly four years later on Friday, July 13, ny participants were on the bench. (fi ne arts studio). 2012, Eric proposed by sending Colleen on a At the end when they kissed, the goal Let’s start with RIT. Th ey fi rst met in scavenger hunt with 13 clues. Th e clues took horn blew and guests surprised them by person outside a residence hall. Eric proposed her on a journey backward through their showering them with stuff ed octopi, follow- to Colleen on campus. Th eir wedding took relationship, ending at the campus bench ing a tradition of the Detroit Red Wings— place inside Ritter Arena. where they fi rst talked in person. Eric’s favorite team. Colleen, who grew up in the Rochester When it came time to plan the wedding, “Quite a few people asked, ‘Why are you suburb of Greece, fi rst met Eric, who is Eric, who works at Paychex as a quality assur- getting married at a hockey rink,’” Eric said. originally from Red Hook, N.Y., in a chat ance specialist, and Colleen, an art therapist, “My favorite response was, ‘Well, I’m not very room in 2005. Th ey talked online for months were looking for a venue other than a church. religious so a hockey rink is where I do most before Eric convinced Colleen, who had Because it was winter, they needed a place of my praying.’ Th at seems to satisfy them.” recently transferred to RIT, to step outside where they could have both the wedding Th eir guest book was a Friday the 13th her residence hall and meet him in person. and reception inside. poster and they cut their cake with a machete “We clicked pretty well as friends,” Colleen Colleen’s mom suggested Ritter Arena in honor of Friday the 13th character Jason. said about their talk that night on a bench for the ceremony because Eric is a huge “We did a lot of things diff erently,” Colleen near Th e Commons. hockey fan. (When he was selecting a college, said. “It was a lot of fun.” Th e two bonded over Friday the 13th he made sure to pick one where he could Mindy Mozer horror movies, watching all 11 out at the time both watch hockey and play recreationally.) together. But they never dated while they Th ey were married on Friday, Dec. 13, were students. 2013, exactly fi ve years aft er they met in About Tiger Love To suggest one of RIT’s 4,600-plus alumni couples Colleen dated another student her entire person. to feature, email us at [email protected]. time as an undergraduate. It wasn’t until 2008 Th ey had 45 minutes between hockey

40 | SPRING 2015 Emily (Marquis) Reeder ’11 (CIAS) has 2010 instructed hundreds of students over Michele the last two years at JewelryClassDC. “Shelly” Knapp Th e jewelry school, established in 2011 ’10 (CAST) by owner Daniel Valencia, is located in joined the Northwest Washington, D.C. She lives in Anthony Jordan Arlington, Va., with her husband Alex Health Center Reeder ’12 (GCCIS). leadership team as senior direc- 2012 tor of human Alisha Cheryl LaTray ’04 (CAST), ’06 (SCB) Kacie Mulhern ’08 (COS) and Timothy resources and (Blackman) celebrated the grand opening of her Liwosz ’09 (COS) were married on Dec. talent manage- Good ’12 business’ new offi ces in the Winton 21, 2013, in Rochester. RIT alumni in ment, eff ective (CAST) and Design Center in Henrietta, N.Y. LaTray attendance included: Kellen Mulhern Aug. 11, 2014. Michael owns LaTray Realty Group. ’10 (COS), Jillian Lynch ’15 (CAST), Good were George During ’09 (CAST), Timothy married on 2007 Griffi n ’09 (CAST), Brittany Lipchick May 17, 2014, ’09 (COS), Laurel Vernarelli ’09 (COS), in their and Andrew Calvete ’10 (COS). Th ey hometown of both completed their Ph.D.s in chemis- Towanda, Pa. try from the University at Buff alo in Th ey live in 2013 and 2014, respectively, and are cur- Henrietta, rently working as professors in Buff alo. N.Y. Many RIT alumni and employees attended the ceremony, including Steven Zuk ’08 (CAST) obtained his bridesmaid Erin Kiselica ’12 (GCCIS) professional engineering license in the Jason Smith ’10 (KGCOE) and Sarah and groomsman Evan Seary ’12 state of Virginia in June 2014. Bicho ’09 (CIAS) were married Sept. 20, (GCCIS). 2014. Th omas Bratton ’07 (GCCIS) and 2009 Conzetti Finocchiaro ’07 (GCCIS) 2011 were among a select few who received Kyle Th e Presidents Award at EMC Corp. O’Neill Th is award is EMC’s highest honor for ’10, ’11 innovation and team achievement that (SCB) and promises to make a deep and lasting Elena impact on EMC’s global business. Th ey (Small) delivered a cutting-edge, global public O’Neill cloud spanning four continents with an ’10 (CLA) unprecedented amount of storage and are excited Steven Singer ’12 (NTID) married network capacity. to Katherine Vroman on Oct. 11, 2014. Tiff any Backhus ’09 (CIAS) and Erik announce Singer continues his doctoral studies at Larson ’10 (CIAS) exchanged vows on their mar- Syracuse University, where he has begun Nov. 8, 2014, with several alumni in the riage. Th e his dissertation on the relationship bridal party and celebrating as guests. ceremony between socioeconomic status and Pictured are: Ken Krug ’10 (GCCIS), took place disability identity development. Julie Krug ’09 (CIAS), Pam Waclawski in the Burke Museum of Natural ’10 (CIAS), Tiff any (Backhus) Larson History and Culture in Seattle on Aug. 2013 ’09 (CIAS), Phil Damiani ’89 (CAST), 10, 2014. Many RIT alumni attended, Amanda Fontaine Erik Larson ’10 (CIAS), Corey including maids of honor Zoe Mallios ’13 (SCB) joined the Wischmeyer ’11 (COS) and Andrew ’12 (SCB) and Kayla Garrett ’10 (COS). accounting fi rm Pohl ’10 (CIAS). A reunited cast of RIT’s original Lumsden McCormick BrainWreck Improv group performed at as a staff accountant. Matt Burrough ’07 (GCCIS) completed the reception, including Jeremy Allston She will be working his master’s degree in computer science ’10 (GCCIS), Jason Eberle ’10 in the fi rm’s tax at the University of Illinois at Urbana- (GCCIS), Samuel Roden ’12 (GCCIS), department responsi- Champaign. Nathan Horn ’10 (KGCOE) and ble for rendering tax- Lowren Lawson ’11 (GCCIS). RIT related services to commercial businesses Taylor Rosa ’07 (COS) graduated alumni Katie Martin ’10 (CIAS), and individuals. She holds a Master of from Duke University with her MS in Robert Gaulin ’13 (GCCIS), Robert Science in forensic accounting from pharmacology and cancer biology in Schriver ’12 (GCCIS) and sister Ciara Canisius College, graduating in 2014. February 2015. O’Neill ’12 (CLA) were also present. Th e couple lives in Seattle. He works for 2014 2008 Ammar Jangbarwala ’09 (KGCOE) Wizards of the Coast. She earned her Jeff rey Conner ’08 (CIAS) earned is a chief technology offi cer for the Master of Public Administration degree his Master of Education degree from Los Angeles-based company SOMABAR. from the University of Washington in Cabrini College. He continues to work Th e company recently launched a 2013, where she now works as a budget as a technology and engineering educa- Kickstarter with the world’s fi rst fi scal analyst. tion teacher in West Chester, Pa. Keurig for cocktails. Daniel Panciera ’11 Steven Dibelius ’08 (GCCIS) recently Timothy Quinn ’09 (CAST) fi nished (CAST) accepted a accepted a position at the Vermont State his master’s degree in engineering position as head of Archives and Records Administration in management last fall from Clarkson engineering at GSC Aaron Baumeier ’14 (CMS) has started Middlesex, Vt., as chief records offi cer. University. He also started a new posi- Power-Division in a business in Howell, Mich. Taste Buds He is responsible for developing and tion as a process engineer and main- Charleston, S.C. Food Co. is a restaurant/wholesale/ implementing statewide records man- tenance manager at Ampac Paper in GSC Power-Division specializes in catering company that focuses on pack- agement programs. He was previously Walden, N.Y. design and manufacturing of aft ermar- aging and wholesaling fresh-made food employed at the International Monetary ket components for automotive valve- for those on-the-go across southeast Fund. train systems. Michigan.

SPRING 2015 | 41 She splits her time between working full-time as a sign language interpreter in elementary special education, tutor- ing and tattooing full-time on nights and weekends.

Christian Pace ’14 (GCCIS) started working for Amazon.com right aft er graduation. Pace interned at Amazon twice before he graduated, working with Hanna Kathleen Stoehr ’14 (CLA) the Amazon Studios team as well as the became engaged to Alexander August Justin Farnsworth ’14 (SCB) was Amazon Silk team. When he was off ered Johnson of Minneapolis on March 3, elected to serve on his local Dorchester to return as a full-time soft ware devel- 2014. Th eir wedding is planned for May District 2 School Board of Trustees on opment engineer, he chose to go work 30, 2015. Nov. 4, 2014. Th e district serves more Andrea Mayorca Bohorquez ’14 (SCB) for Woot.com, an Amazon-owned sub- than 25,000 students, employs over opened a consulting fi rm, which helps sidiary. 3,500 educational staff members and is foreign nationals and foreign companies ranked as one of the highest performing start businesses in the United States. Th e districts in the state of South Carolina. company has offi ces in New York City Are you moving? and Chicago with headquarters in Report your new address to the Dustin Miami. Offi ce of Alumni Relations. Send Kochensparger ’14 an email to [email protected] or call (GCCIS) accepted a Nicholas Newland ’14 (CAST) is cur- the offi ce toll free at 866-748-2586. position as a produc- rently employed as a manufacturing Written change of address notifi cation coordinator at engineer at IEC Electronics Corp., a tions can be sent to the Offi ce of Bungie, creator of provider of electronic manufacturing Alumni Relations, RIT Crossroads the Halo series as well as Destiny. He services to advanced technology compa- Gabrielle Ripka ’14 (CIAS) opened her Building, 41 Lomb Memorial Drive, moved to the Washington area in nies primarily in the military, aerospace, fi rst tattoo shop, Little Fish Studios, in Rochester, NY 14623-5603. January to begin this new job. medical and industrial sectors. upstate New York in September 2014.

Join fellow alumni and RIT friends as we travel around the world to exotic and well-known destinations. Explore / Travel to Scotland for the highland tradition of the military tattoo in August / Marvel at ice capped mountains and the world fjords of South America / Enjoy an azure colored sea during a with RIT. Mediterranean cruise / See Alaska with its wonders of a pristine environment and wildlife The world is yours to discover. To learn more, please visit rit.edu/alumnitravel. Make your mark.

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Tiger Cubs vice president of international sales at (CIAS) are proud to announce the birth Christopher Slifk a ’14 (NTID) 1970s the Consumer Electronics Association. of their baby girl, Mackenzie Elizabeth 18 is proud to announce the birth Mark Th omas ’77 (CCE) is proud Bentley, born Aug. 16, 2014. of his baby boy, Connor Christopher, 1 to announce the birth of his Dean Bailey ’02 (CIAS) is proud born May 24, 2014. “Four and a half grandson, Hayden David Th omas, born 6 to announce the birth of his baby Deidre Strutz ’09 (CLA) and hours before dad received his master’s May 20, 2014, in Austin, Texas. “His boy, Luke Edward, born July 19, 2014. 13 Adam Strutz ’08 (CAST) are from the MSSE program at NTID, we father, my son, is a U.S. Army Chief pleased to announce the birth of their welcomed Connor Christopher to the warrant offi cer who completed two Kevin Foster ’04 (GCCIS) and fi rst child, Carter Alexander Strutz, born world. Mom, Dad and Connor all live tours, including one in Afghanistan, and 7 wife Tricia Foster are proud to on Aug. 22, 2014. in Rochester.” works for the University of Texas at announce the birth of their second Austin.” child, Eloise. She was born on Oct. 12, Ruth Gay ’09 (KGCOE) is proud 2014, in Exeter, N.H. 14 to announce the birth of her baby 1990s girl, Fiona Joy Gay. She was born at home Jennifer Kuplinski Wick ’92 Tung-To Lam ’04 (CAST) is July 1, 2014. In the morning, she met her 2 (CLA) is proud to announce the 8 proud to announce the birth of his stepsister Katie, brother Derek and sister birth of her baby girl, Sophie Anna, on baby girl, Alivia Lei Lam, born Nov. 1, Elinor for the fi rst time. Th e family has April 8, 2014. Sophie was born in 2011. Another child is on the way, been in Connecticut for fi ve years where Rochester and joins big sisters Emma expected to join the family in April she is an energy engineer at ESC. and Madeleine. 2015. 2010s Russell Brents ’97 (CAST) and Daniel Guillaudeu ’06 (KGCOE) Kayleigh (VanDuyne) Sgroi ’10 3 Karyn Brents are proud to 9 and Jackie (Capeci) Guillaudeu 15 (COS) is proud to announce the announce the birth of their second son, ’06 (KGCOE) are proud to announce birth of her baby girl, Addilyn Paige, Sebastian Goodman Brents, on Nov. 7, the birth of their baby girl, Mae Ann, born Dec. 19, 2013. 2014, in Christchurch, New Zealand. born Aug. 18, 2014. Azlina Azizul ’12 (COS) is proud David Grenetz ’99 (CAST) and Damian Kumor ’08 (GCCIS) and 16 to announce the birth of her baby 4 Olga Zilberbourg ’00 (SCB) are 10 Rachel Robbins ’07 (CAST) are boy, Alif Nublam, born May 4, 2013. proud to announce the birth of their proud to announce the birth of their “We welcomed our little boy on Star baby boy, Bowie, born Nov. 24, 2014. twin boys, Colin and Grant, born Sept. Wars Day!” Tiger baby bib 15, 2014. If you are a graduate of Daniel Holland ’99 (KGCOE) Michael Cheney ’12 (KGCOE) is RIT and you have recently 5 welcomed his second child, Matthew Roth ’08 (CAST) and 17 proud to announce the birth of his Madison Grace Holland, into the world 11 Melanie Roth are proud to baby girl, Joy Beth Michaela, on Nov. 17, had a child join your family, on Sept. 24, 2014. announce the birth of their baby boy, 2014. request your free future Hunter Matthew Roth, on Oct. 12, 2014. RIT tiger baby bib at 2000s Hunter was born in Buff alo, N.Y. Sheila (Maynard) Bruce ’14 (CLA) is Brian Moon ’00 (CLA) and his wife are proud to announce the birth of her baby www.rit.edu/alumni/ proud to announce the birth of their Rachel (Greenhalgh) Bentley ’09 boy, Cayden Charles Bruce, born Aug. updateinfo/babybib.php. twin boys, born Oct. 19. Moon is now 12 (CIAS) and Matt Bentley ’11 16, 2014.

SPRING 2015 | 43 Distinguished Alumni

Leaders in education and industry, innova- She fi rst became involved with C.A.S.H. College of Health Sciences tors in imaging, advocates for social justice as a volunteer for the Volunteer Income and Technology and equity, compassionate healers and skillful Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. Now, as As vice president and communicators: these are the RIT Distin- one of the youngest minority directors in chair for Unity Health guished Alumni of 2015, and they are making the nation overseeing such a program, she Systems, Dr. Mary a powerful mark on the world. Th ey will be is responsible for the overall management Dombovy ’01 (health honored on April 17 in a public ceremony of C.A.S.H., including strategic planning systems administration) in Webb Auditorium on the RIT campus. and budgeting, fund development, volunteer leads an experienced, Reserve your seat at www.rit.edu/alumni/ training and management, VITA site opera- compassionate team of daacelebration2015. For more about tions, fi nancial literacy, asset-building initia- professionals who provide the alumni, go to www.rit.edu/alumni/ tives and community outreach. Mary Dombovy medical care, rehabilita- recognition. Th e fi rst college graduate in her family, tion and hope to patients she was inspired to pursue higher education and their families. Unity B. Thomas Golisano College of aft er participating in a Virtual Enterprise Health’s Brain Injury Unit is a nationally Computing and Information Sciences Program Fair in Austria as a student repre- recognized program that cares for patients Just about any time you sentative of the Rochester School District. aft er traumatic brain injury caused by navigate the Internet, you She credits good advice from her high accidents, strokes or illnesses. It’s the only encounter John Resig’s school guidance counselors and her parents’ licensed inpatient acute brain injury program work. Resig ’05 (computer unlimited support for her success at RIT in upstate New York and the only one in science) is the creator of and beyond. western New York that treats children. the jQuery JavaScript Dombovy also is a clinical associate library. He has also College of Applied Science professor of neurosurgery, neurology and contributed to numerous and Technology physical medicine and rehabilitation at the John Resig other JavaScript libraries With more than 30 University of Rochester School of Medicine including Processing.js, combined years of and Dentistry. Env.js, Sizzle.js, and document imaging Widely published in her fi eld, her re- QUnit. He is the author of the books Pro experience and leadership search interests include outcomes following JavaScript Techniques and Secrets of the in the fi eld, Dolores restructuring of health care service delivery, JavaScript Ninja. Kruchten, president of epidemiology of functional recovery and He is currently the dean of computer Kodak Alaris’ document outcome following stroke and brain injury science at Khan Academy, where he is imaging business, is and pharmacologic and rehabilitative therapy leading Khan Academy Computer Science, Dolores Kruchten making an impact in for stroke and brain injury. a new platform that targets people with the imaging industry no programming knowledge. Th e program and in Rochester. College of Imaging Arts and Sciences emphasizes creativity and exploration She started her career at Eastman Kodak Revelers attending the and makes computer science approachable Co. in 1981 and she has held leadership Presidents’ Alumni Ball in for people of all ages. positions throughout the company. Prior the Gordon Field House He also is a visiting researcher at Ritsumei- to Kodak Alaris’ spinoff , Kruchten ’87 on campus last fall had the kan University in Kyoto where he is working (mechanical engineering technology) chance to be frozen in on the study of Ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock was president of Kodak’s Enterprise time by Robert Latorre’s printing), applying his programming exper- Services group. “Big Freeze” camera array tise to create a comprehensive woodblock At that time, the group was responsible system, just like Holly- print database and image search engine. for leading the company’s creation and Robert Latorre wood stars making their implementation of services-led businesses red carpet entrance to an Center for Multidisciplinary Studies that enabled more effi ciency and business awards extravaganza. Berta Rivera ’12 (applied growth for Kodak’s customers. In 2007, Latorre ’75 (photography) grew up in a arts and sciences) is Kodak’s Board of Directors elected her creative family headed by his sculptor grand- director of the C.A.S.H. as a corporate vice president. father and jazz musician father. His own Coalition (Creating Tiger pride runs in the family. Husband creativity fl ourished in photography. He be- Assets, Savings and Brad Kruchten is also an alumnus with gan his photography career with the National Hope), a community a master’s degree in applied statistics. News and Wire services in New York City coalition supported by the Daughter Shauna is a 2014 graduate of as a photojournalist with a global beat. He Empire Justice Center and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering eventually settled in Texas where he opened Berta Rivera United Way of Greater and is currently pursuing an MS in manage- Robert Latorre Productions, which grew into Rochester. ment in the Saunders College of Business. Big Fish Films, a successful TV commercial

44 | SPRING 2015 fi lm company in Dallas. Not only is Latorre science, cybersecurity, environmental studies outreach specialist in Government Aff airs at an award-winning commercial photographer, and a shared robotics engineering program. the National Railroad Passenger Corp. he is also an accomplished director known Oates ’71, ’73 (medical technology) joined (Amtrak). He is responsible for providing for his dramatic lighting and innovative WPI from the National Science Founda- accessibility information, managing outreach directorial approach. tion, where she served as deputy director of activities by Amtrak to the disability In 1995, he became fascinated with the the Division of Undergraduate Education, community and overseeing internal projects frozen moment, and he engineered ways to charged with supporting innovative programs to ensure accessible compliance. use this unique look in his commercials. He to strengthen undergraduate education and Prior to joining Amtrak in 1990, Nelson designed and built his fi rst Big Freeze system, help revitalize American entrepreneurship worked for Congressman Tony Coelho which produced a cutting-edge frozen eff ect, and competitiveness. (D-Calif.), who was one of the authors of the earning him an Emmy nomination and a She began her academic career at George Americans with Disabilities Act, which marks Clio award for Special Eff ects. Th e Big Freeze Mason University, where, as associate dean its 25th anniversary in July. Worldwide is the largest and most advanced for the new College of Integrated and Inter- He also served as president of the D.C. camera array system in the world. disciplinary Studies, she helped create George Association of the Deaf and the Florida Mason’s New American College environment. School for the Deaf Alumni Association. In College of Liberal Arts 2004, he received the National Association of Kathleen (Cole) Anderson Kate Gleason College of Engineering the Deaf’s most prestigious award, the Fred arrived at RIT with her Jim Swift ’88 (mechanical C. Schreiber Distinguished Service Award. sights set on a career in engineering) has parlayed He now represents the association on issues medical research until his boyhood fascination concerning telecommunication access and a single elevator ride with sports statistics into a transportation. changed her forever. successful career as a data A conversation in that geek. As CEO of Cortera, Saunders College of Business elevator ignited in her his mission is to change the Sean R.H. Bratches ’83, Kathleen Anderson a passion for the art of B2B information universe ’91 (business administra- communication that Jim Swift with long overdue insights tion) is executive vice would launch a career into businesses to help president, sales and craft ing advertising strategy for global brands organizations improve marketing for ESPN, including Weight Watchers, WWE and sales performance and risk management. overseeing all affi liate Corning Display Technologies. Cortera provides information-centric sales, advertising sales, Currently an account executive at Gelia, solutions that power business-to-business research, marketing, Wells & Mohr, Anderson ’94 (professional interactions, delivering behavioral intelli- Sean R.H. Bratches consumer products and technical communication) manages the Cat- gence on millions of businesses, working special events. erpillar Building & Construction Products with thousands of companies throughout In this role, he leads global accounts. When not working in heavy the supply chain to streamline processes and a sales and marketing team that provides machinery, she also advises national, state inform decisions. Prior to taking the helm national advertisers access to the premier and local political candidates on campaign at Cortera in 2006, Swift was the COO of media and marketing platforms and content media strategy. LexisNexis Risk Management, where he under the ESPN umbrella, which includes the Anderson has been a member of the RIT was responsible for the unit’s commercial company’s domestic cable television networks Alumni Association Board of Directors since markets, and executive vice president at ABC Sports and ESPN.com. 2009 and was president from 2009 to 2013. Seisint, which was acquired by LexisNexis. Bratches joined ESPN in 1988 as an She has also served on the university’s Board At Seisint, he was a key executive serving in account executive and within a year was of Trustees and is currently a member of the leadership positions in operations, sales, promoted to senior account executive. In College of Liberal Arts Advisory Board. product development and strategy. 1992, he was named director, northeast Swift lives with his wife and their three region, before being promoted to vice College of Science children in Florida. He has returned to RIT president, eastern division, in 1995. A noted scientist, to share his expertise with current students, He was promoted to senior vice award-winning educator most recently presenting “Your Competitive president, affi liate sales and marketing and respected leader, Advantage? Data Superhero!” in the college’s in 1998 and to executive vice president, Karen Kashmanian Oates Dean’s Alumni Speaker Series. ESPN affi liate sales and marketing in 2001. is a professor of biochem- Most re cently, he was president, Disney istry and the Peterson National Technical Institute for the Deaf and ESPN Networks affi liate sales and Family Dean of Arts and Riding the rails is a marketing before being promoted to his Sciences at Worcester better experience thanks current position in 2005. Karen Oates Polytechnic Institute. As to David Nelson, who Bratches has received two Vanguard dean, she is responsible has been instrumental Awards, the cable industry’s most prestigious for eight departments and in accessibility for all award. Th e Sports Business Journal also six programs of study spanning the natural passengers. named him one of the top 50 most powerful and life sciences, social sciences, arts and Nelson ’81, ’85 (applied people in sports. He was inducted into the humanities, mathematics and computer computer technology, 24th Annual Broadcasting & Cable Hall of science, plus several interdisciplinary David Nelson computer systems) is Fame in 2014. programs including bioinformatics, data senior community

SPRING 2015 | 45 It’s much more than a donation. It’s our legacy.

After earning their degrees, trips back to RIT were few in number for Rick and Patty Stoffel. Renewed interest in RIT began when they attended both Brick City Homecoming and Imagine RIT. The campus they once knew had grown considerably and they wanted to help continue its progress. RIT also proved to be a great fit for their son, David. RIT became a true partner in David’s education, recognizing academic achievement with scholarships, and providing experience through co-op. “It was not a hard decision to continue a legacy at RIT through our estate planning. RIT provided us with a well-rounded, useful education and has done the same for our son. We have been blessed as graduates of RIT and encourage our fellow alumni to join us in giving back through their own estate planning—establishing a legacy of their own.” ——Rick ’79, ’86 and Patty ’88 Stoffel

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^Make your mark—as Rick and Patty have done. To create your legacy, please contact Robert Constantine, director of Planned Giving, at 800.477.0376 or [email protected]. Visit us online at rit.planyourlegacy.org.

THE ELLINGSON SOCIETY

Alumni Sonia (Scrimshaw) Ingle Joseph Mazzara ’61 (SCB), 1971 David Alan Bellinger ’79 1994 1938 ’52 (SCB), Oct. 1, 2014 Oct. 2, 2014 Kenneth Kirschbaum ’71 (CCE), Oct. 22, 2014 Otto Peter Resch ’94 Peter F. Derso ’38 Francis A. Perry ’52 Donald G. Santangelo ’61 (GAP), Oct. 16, 2014 Wade Samuel Grana ’79 (CAST), Oct. 8, 2014 (KGCOE), Dec. 8, 2014 (CCE), Oct. 25, 2014 (CCE), Oct. 7, 2014 (CCE), Sept. 19, 2014 Janice Wasilewski ’94 Merton Vanderbrooke ’52 Clarence Tucker ’61 1972 Mark G. Kindig ’79 (SCB), (CCE), Oct. 8, 2014 1940 (CCE), Dec. 2, 2014 (KGCOE), Sept. 23, 2014 Barry J. Brown ’72 (GAP), Nov. 17, 2014 Llewellyn H. Patrick ’40 Henry Westphalen Jr. ’52 Dec. 8, 2014 Carl Eugene Link ’79 1995 (KGCOE), Oct. 4, 2014 (GAP), Dec. 6, 2014 1962 Frederick Daniels Jr. ’72 (CCE), Dec. 6, 2014 Jeff rey K. Becken ’95 Edward B. Start ’40 William R. Bishop ’62 (CCE), Oct. 22, 2014 Kathleen Marie Sinel ’79 (CAST), Nov. 19, 2014 (COS), Oct. 12, 2014 1954 (CCE), Sept. 12, 2014 Donald A. Hook ’72 (CCE), ’80 (CCE), Oct. Th omas Alaimo ’54 Robert D. Boorom ’62 (CCE), Oct. 22, 2014 31, 2014 1996 1945 (CCE), Sept. 27, 2014 (CCE), Nov. 28, 2014 Richard Okolowicz ’72 Vienchaleun Vino Betty J. Byrnes ’45 (SCB), Th eodore F. Specchio ’54 Lynn I. Robertshaw ’62 (KGCOE), Sept. 9, 2014 1981 Kettavong ’96 (CCE), Sept. Sept. 15, 2014 (KGCOE), Oct. 12, 2014 (KGCOE), Dec. 21, 2014 Th omas C. Raders ’72 Donald E. Buehlman ’81 23, 2014 Catherine (Blodgett) Robert J. Warth ’62 (SCB), (GAP), Oct. 14, 2014 (SCB), Nov. 28, 2014 Charlotte MacGowan ’96 Partyka ’45 (SCB), Sept. 1955 Nov. 6, 2014 Stephen R. Schultz ’72 John David Killigrew ’81 (KGCOE), Dec. 28, 2014 16, 2014 Anthony U. Carbone ’55 (SCB), Oct. 13, 2014 (SCB), Sept. 30, 2014 Betty J. (Th ompson) (CCE), Sept. 14, 2014 1964 Th omas W. Simons ’72 John Kirk Olin Sr. ’81 1997 John S. Lylak ’97 (CAST), Prince ’45 (SCB), Sept. Francis Maslyn ’55 (CCE), William R. Groh II ’64 (CCE), Oct. 25, 2014 (CCE), Aug. 31, 2014 Jan. 4, 2015 11, 2014 Oct. 28, 2014 (SCB), Sept. 12, 2014 Ruth (Th omas) Stewart Leonard J. McCowan ’64 ’72 (SCB), Aug. 27, 2014 1982 1946 1956 (CCE), Jan. 4, 2015 William D. Bundschuh ’82 1998 Jane Th eresa Cody ’98 Elizabeth Harris ’46 John Tice ’56 (CCE), Nov. William V. Mereau ’64 1973 (CAST), Sept. 29, 2014 (CAST), Oct. 27, 2014 (SCB), Oct. 23, 2014 11, 2014 (CCE), Jan. 1, 2015 William L. Bergevin ’73 Charles P. Elberti ’82 Th eodore J. Kellogg ’98 Lorran Latham ’46 (CCE), Robert L. Reed ’64 (SCB), (CCE), Oct. 29, 2014 (CCE), Sept. 14, 2014 1957 (KGCOE), Nov. 21, 2014 Oct. 18, 2014 Aug. 28, 2014 Owen J. Booth ’73 (CCE), Carmen M. Cinanni Sr. Ronald J. Stephany ’64 Jan. 4, 2015 1983 Kevin H. Plonsky ’98 1947 ’57 (CCE), Oct. 30, 2014 (CCE), Nov. 10, 2014 Charles Hance Jr. ’73 Paul M. Cecilia ’83 (CAST), Sept. 21, 2014 John W. Clawson ’47 Robert V. Morris ’57 (CCE), Dec. 2, 2014 (CAST), Sept. 24, 2014 (KGCOE), Oct. 12, 2014 (CCE), Oct. 5, 2014 1965 James E. Wilson ’73 Th omas Benton Cole ’83 2003 John F. Petrycki ’57 Mary C. Heinsler ’65 (KGCOE), Oct. 28, 2014 (CCE), Dec. 15, 2014 Cara Gordon Bosso ’03 1948 (GAP), Dec. 21, 2014 (CCE), Sept. 19, 2014 Michael J. Doehler ’83 (CLA), ’08 (NTID), Oct. Tracy R. Ackerman ’48 James A. Quick ’57 (CCE), Robert N. Platt ’65 (CCE), 1974 (SCB), Nov. 26, 2014 5, 2014 (COS), Nov. 3, 2014 Sept. 10, 2014 Dec. 29, 2014 Dennis E. Costich ’74 Raymond K. Meney ’83 Anthony Lasaponara ’48 Sam R. Ronzo ’57 (CCE), (SCB), Nov. 15, 2014 (CCE), Dec. 4, 2014 2007 Steven F. Bigelow ’07 (CCE), Nov. 18, 2014 Sept. 20, 2014 1966 Mark D. Hoag ’74 (CCE), (CAST), Oct. 5, 2014 Richard Phillips ’48 Marvin Skolnik ’57 Donald J. Murphy ’66 Oct. 2, 2014 1984 (GAP), Sept. 22, 2014 (GAP), Sept. 12, 2014 (CCE), Sept. 15, 2014 Daniel A. Busch ’84 John W. Roos ’66 1975 (CCE), Nov. 14, 2014 2012 1949 1958 (KGCOE), Oct. 15, 2014 Robert V. Bassage ’75 Katherine A. Bukys ’12 (CAST), Nov. 2, 2014 Francis J. Altobello ’49 James L. Fillman ’58 (CCE), Nov. 25, 2014 1986 (FAA), Nov. 12, 2014 (GAP), Sept. 15, 2014 1967 Mervin Hostetler ’75 Jeff rey W. Hoff man ’86 Timothy I. Holmes ’12 Daniel M. Lombardo ’49 David J. Cirri ’67 (CAST), Nov. 3, 2014 (SCB), Oct. 4, 2014 (NTID), Aug. 27, 2014 (FAA), Nov. 20, 2014 1959 (KGCOE), Oct. 30, 2014 Mary E. Jenkins ’75 Roy L. Kuphal Jr. ’86 Wilfred D. Dwyer ’59 James E. Dertinger ’67 (GAP), ’85 (CIAS), Jan. (COS), Nov. 17, 2014 Daniel H. Th ering ’12 1950 (SCB), Oct. 1, 2014 (GAP), Nov. 1, 2014 4, 2015 G. Edward Pfenninger ’86 (KGCOE), Sept. 5, 2014 William M. Drumm ’50 Ray W. Pfoutz ’59 (GAP), Ronald D. Kniffi n ’67 (SCB), Dec. 16, 2014 Arthur K. Moore ’75 2014 (GAP), Sept. 23, 2014 Nov. 25, 2014 (SCB), Dec. 18, 2014 (SCB), Dec. 23, 2014 Robert H. Murray ’50 William G. Roche ’59 Amedio D. Petrangelo ’67 1987 Rulon J. Andrew ’14 (GAP), Oct. 26, 2014 (CCE), Sept. 12, 2014 (CCE), October 2014 1976 Karen E. (Frediani) Rosell (NTID), Sept. 16, 2014 Laura (Goldman) Duane W. Whitcomb ’67 David F. Butler ’76 ’87 (COS), Sept. 17, 2014 1960 Rothstein ’50 (FAA), Oct. (KGCOE), Nov. 18, 2014 (KGCOE), Sept. 18, 2014 Faculty and staff 19, 2014 Francis S. Nayman ’60 John M. Hulbert ’76 1988 (KGCOE), Dec. 12, 2014 Daren Robert Gray ’88 Robert M. Turnquest ’50 1969 (CCE), Sept. 28, 2014 Stanley Bissell, professor John E. Stolz ’60 (FAA), (CIAS)(GAP), Oct. 10, (GAP), Dec. 23, 2014 Ronnie R. Feiock ’69 Roy A. Irving ’76 (CLA), emeritus in the College Aug. 27, 2014 2014 (CCE), Aug. 26, 2014 Dec. 11, 2014 of Applied Science and 1951 Daniel T. Hanley ’69 Technology, Dec. 20, 2014 James J. Feeney ’51 (FAA), 1961 (CCE), Dec. 20, 2014 1977 1989 Nov. 17, 2014 James Casper ’61 (CCE), Douglas R. Legenhausen Jon C. Covington ’77 Laurie A. Bartholomew- David Forbes, associ- Ernest Imperial ’51 (CCE), Nov. 23, 2014 ’69 (FAA), Sept. 20, 2014 (CCE), Oct. 10, 2014 Schaefer ’89 (GAP), ’91 ate research professor Oct. 12, 2014 Betty A. Clarke ’61 (CCE), Robert J. Palozzilo ’69 Th omas Jeff erson Hickey (GAP), Nov. 21, 2014 for Golisano Institute for Samuel J. Maida ’51 Sept. 14, 2014 (CCE), Dec. 14, 2014 ’77 (SCB), Dec. 2, 2014 Ellen T. (Connelly) Sustainability, Jan. 23, 2015 (CCE), Sept. 2, 2014 George E. Cotsworth ’61 James T. Rund Jr. ’77 Wozniak ’89 (SCB), Oct. (CCE), Sept. 7, 2014 1970 11, 2014 Edward “Eddie” Killings, William J. Perticone ’51 (SCB), ’80 (SCB), Aug. dining services, Jan. 7, 2015 (FAA), Sept. 24, 2014 Gerald R. Della-Torre ’61 David A. Dubois ’70 27, 2014 (GAP), Nov. 22, 2014 (SCB), Oct. 12, 2014 1993 Barb Shaff er, program 1952 Herbert J. Lester ’61 John P. Slish ’70 (SCB), 1979 James C. Carpenter ’93 staff assistant in Saunders Ezio DiCristofaro ’52 (SCB), Nov. 8, 2014 Dec. 4, 2014 Robert Lewis Bagshaw ’79 (CLA), ’14 (NTID), Sept. College of Business, Jan. (GAP), Oct. 14, 2014 (CCE), Aug. 27, 2014 30, 2014 5, 2015

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