Periodicals R·I·TRochester Institute of Technolo gy L:INDA L COPPOLA WALLACE LIBRARY - :INSTRUCTION & EDUC BLDG OS www.rit.edu Imagine RIT Innovation and Creativity Festival R·I·TThe University Magazine Winter 2007-08 Features1 1 O Focused on innovation Celebrate innovation and creativity on May 3 President Bill Destler champions RIT's 'unfair advantage' In my firstfew months on campus, I 13 Peak experience have discovered a university of artists Three alumni prepare to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and designers on the one hand, and scientists, engineers and business 15 Golisano gift funds green goal leaders on the other. Blend in the Businessman/philanthropist supports sustainable manufacturing center National Technical Institute for the Deaf and you have the makings of 18 Building businesses what could be the nation's first "In­ RIT expands programs designed to foster entrepreneurship novation University." Indeed, RIT has an unfair advantage in this area with 22 Words on pictures its unique program mix and diverse student body. A look at new books that shed light on the art and science of photography Now we need to show off this ex­ Bill Destler chats with Formula SAE project manager Law­ 24 Ten times the fun traordinary place to the world. Please rence Litchfield, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major. accept this invitation to the inaugural Alumni, families, students and friends celebrate Brick City Homecoming Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. Save the date: Saturday, May 3. 30 The year in review: RIT by the numbers We want to attract 30,000 people to this distinctive festival and expose them to hun­ dreds of examples of student, faculty and staff creativity and innovation. The festival will An overview of university finances, enrollment and alumni activity showcase new ideas for products and services, creative arts and crafts, faculty and student research, and more. Departments I We will showcase prototypes, engineering design projects and products, new companies at our incubator, and unique productions in NTID's Panara Theatre. We'll show off the 2 On Campus baja team and the formulacar. We'll display work from the School for American Crafts. And we will have interactive experiences for visitors of all ages. 6 Letters This hotbed of innovation and creativity will be free and open to the public. More than 30,000 of our 100,000 alumni live in Greater Rochester, and many more live within a few 7 Tiger Sports hours' drive of RIT. We urge you to bring your families and invite your friends. The festival's mission goes beyond bringing you back to the thriving RIT campus. We 34 Alumni Activities see it as a call to national service. Innovation is one of our country's last competitive 36 Class Notes advantages. Young Americans want to walk to the beat of their own drummer, and their desire to be different is an innate American characteristic. Channeling that passion in con­ structive ways will foster the United States' leadership in technical innovation and creative ideas for new products and services. some of which are displayed in his RIT office. As I've said before, RIT has an unfair advantage. Let's exploit it! Help us on our quest to become the nation's first "Innovation University." I look forward to seeing you - rain or shine - on May 3. Cover RIT's ninth president, Bill Destler. Cordially, (Photo by A. Sue Weisler '93) Right: Jo-Ann Strube, right, and Kathy Papa model party hats they created at Brick City Homecoming. Bill Destler Strube's son, Frank, is a fourth-year information President technology major. Papa's son, Stephen, is a fifth-year industrial engineering major. www.rit.edu/president R·I·TThe University Magazine Winter 2007-08 Features1 1 O Focused on innovation Celebrate innovation and creativity on May 3 President Bill Destler champions RIT's 'unfair advantage' In my firstfew months on campus, I 13 Peak experience have discovered a university of artists Three alumni prepare to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and designers on the one hand, and scientists, engineers and business 15 Golisano gift funds green goal leaders on the other. Blend in the Businessman/philanthropist supports sustainable manufacturing center National Technical Institute for the Deaf and you have the makings of 18 Building businesses what could be the nation's first "In­ RIT expands programs designed to foster entrepreneurship novation University." Indeed, RIT has an unfair advantage in this area with 22 Words on pictures its unique program mix and diverse student body. A look at new books that shed light on the art and science of photography Now we need to show off this ex­ Bill Destler chats with Formula SAE project manager Law­ 24 Ten times the fun traordinary place to the world. Please rence Litchfield, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major. accept this invitation to the inaugural Alumni, families, students and friends celebrate Brick City Homecoming Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. Save the date: Saturday, May 3. 30 The year in review: RIT by the numbers We want to attract 30,000 people to this distinctive festival and expose them to hun­ dreds of examples of student, faculty and staff creativity and innovation. The festival will An overview of university finances, enrollment and alumni activity showcase new ideas for products and services, creative arts and crafts, faculty and student research, and more. Departments I We will showcase prototypes, engineering design projects and products, new companies at our incubator, and unique productions in NTID's Panara Theatre. We'll show off the 2 On Campus baja team and the formulacar. We'll display work from the School for American Crafts. And we will have interactive experiences for visitors of all ages. 6 Letters This hotbed of innovation and creativity will be free and open to the public. More than 30,000 of our 100,000 alumni live in Greater Rochester, and many more live within a few 7 Tiger Sports hours' drive of RIT. We urge you to bring your families and invite your friends. The festival's mission goes beyond bringing you back to the thriving RIT campus. We 34 Alumni Activities see it as a call to national service. Innovation is one of our country's last competitive 36 Class Notes advantages. Young Americans want to walk to the beat of their own drummer, and their desire to be different is an innate American characteristic. Channeling that passion in con­ structive ways will foster the United States' leadership in technical innovation and creative ideas for new products and services. some of which are displayed in his RIT office. As I've said before, RIT has an unfair advantage. Let's exploit it! Help us on our quest to become the nation's first "Innovation University." I look forward to seeing you - rain or shine - on May 3. Cover RIT's ninth president, Bill Destler. Cordially, (Photo by A. Sue Weisler '93) Right: Jo-Ann Strube, right, and Kathy Papa model party hats they created at Brick City Homecoming. Bill Destler Strube's son, Frank, is a fourth-year information President technology major. Papa's son, Stephen, is a fifth-year industrial engineering major. www.rit.edu/president On Campus New Tigers expand the RIT team Peter Schottland, American Packaging CEO and owner, and Carol Richardson, CAST interim dean, Kate Gleason College's new research wing opens at the news conference announcing the company's support of a new packaging center at RIT. Students and faculty in the Kate Gleason plication, education and research is a major College of Engineering are making use of a asset to our region and the engineering new, multi-million dollar research wing of community," says James Gleason, chair­ American Packaging Corp. the James E. Gleason Building dedicated in man of the Gleason Foundation and trustee donates S1 million to September. The wing houses the Depart­ emeritus of the RIT Board of Trustees. "We ment of Computer Engineering, the Brink­ are happy to continue our support of the fund packaging center man Machine Tools and Manufacturing College of Engineering's mission through RIT welcomed 2,530 first-year students with the festive Tiger Walk that has become a tradition Laboratory and space for student project this important project." A $1 million gift from Rochester-based since the processional was introduced three years ago. On their second day at RIT, the first-year work through the college's multidisci­ "Having grown up in the machine tool American Packaging Corp. will fund the students walk en masse from the residence halls to a convocation ceremony at the Gordon Field plinary senior design program. industry, I have a better appreciation than expansion of RIT's Center for Packaging House and Activities Center, while faculty and staff members line the walkways to cheer for the The addition includes a number of most of how important the machine tool Innovation. new arrivals. The new students comprised the largest freshman class in RIT history and a 3.3 per­ state-of-the-art laboratories that will assist industry is to the well being of the coun­ The renamed American Packaging cent increase from last year's record-setting class, with more than half coming from outside New in advancing the college's collaborative try," says Robert Brinkman, chairman Corporation Center for Packaging Innova­ York state. RIT also welcomed 740 new transfer students. Total enrollment is now 15,989. efforts with industry, promote expansion of of Brinkman International Group. "De­ tion at RIT is slated to move into the College research initiatives and provide additional fense, home building, electronics, plastics, Kate Gleason College of Engineering Dean Harvey of Applied Science and Technology's new facilities for undergraduate and graduate transportation and medicine would all be Palmer, left, chats with Ralph Harper, secretary Engineering Technology building when it Alumnus/professor recognized by Royal Photographic Society student work, including senior design.