University of Rochester Arts Sciences Engineering 2016 2017 Fact Sheet

Merging Past and Nowadays

Devin Klibanow

3D Digital Design

RIT'due south Cary Graphics Art Drove allows students to view printing styles and graphic art from thousands of years ago. In order to preserve these artifacts, Klibanow is working with other students and kinesthesia to create a virtual viewing experience.
Entrepreneurial Solutions for Environmental Problems

Sherwyn Millette

Sustainability Ph.D.

Millette is from Trinidad and Tobago, an island nation that needs a fashion to manage a waste problem in a state with limited space. Millette is exploring if a round economy tin can be the solution.
Advancing the Success of Women

Shannon McHale

Cybersecurity

As head of public relations for Women in Calculating, McHale strives to organize professional person opportunities for its members, advancing women's experience in calculating majors, and giving back to a club that has given her so much.
Stepping Upwards

Ashley Kosak

Mechanical Engineering

Information technology might be just a stool, but it represents more reaching equipment in the Car Shop. It'southward a symbol of the heightened awareness and inclusivity of women in engineering at RIT. After graduation, Kosak wants to influence change past helping women pursue careers in technology.
Learning to Learn

John Myers '83

Photography

For Myers, who has traveled the world to photograph people and places, RIT was key to preparing him to adapt to an ever-changing industry. The skills he honed as a student – curiosity, responsibility, communication skills – accept enhanced his decades-long career as a photographer.
The Power of Architecture

Nana-Yaw Andoh

Banana Professor, Department of Architecture

Nan-Yaw Andoh teaches his students that architecture is more than than beautiful buildings. It'southward an element that tin connect and unify communities.
Enhancing Reality

Kevin Kha

Imaging Scientific discipline

Kha interned with Oculus testing their side by side generation of VR cameras, which have the potential to help police enforcement and affect learning in schools. The internship turned into a full-time job, and Kha plans to work on enhancing the VR experience.
The Easily of Time

Landyn Hatch

Museum Studies

At RIT's makerspace you're costless to design, test, tinker, and build. Hatch utilizes The Construct to create 3D-printed mannequin hands for Genesee Country Village & Museum's 19-century clothing exhibit.
The Power of Music

Becky Jasen

Physician Banana

Jasen is a dr. assistant major and the music director for RIT Players. She is applying her passion for music to research that studied how music can reduce pain and anxiety in pediatric patients.
Making a Positive Impact

Katherine Duffy

Sociology and International Relations

She's a professional ballet dancer and a humanitarian who spends her free time volunteering at a children's home in Republic of haiti. Duffy created a degree program in the Schoolhouse of Individualized Study so she tin can ane day establish a non-profit of her own.
Expanding ASL

Tina Goudreau Collison

Professor of Chemical science

A complicated vocabulary and a lack of defended signs in American Sign Language makes Organic Chemistry a challenge for deaf and hard of hearing students. Collision worked with interpreters to develop new ASL signs, leading to profound learning improvements for her students.
A Spit Take

Diamond Guy

Biomedical Sciences

Guy's biomedical scientific discipline research is analyzing microbes linked to cardiac disease. She's hoping to keep the population healthy ane vial of saliva at a time.
The Art of Negotiation

Shal Khazanchi

Department Chair and Professor, Department of Management

It's more than than mediating a good salary, negotiation is a predicter of success and a fundamental life skill for all professionals.
Connecting Kids to Scientific discipline

Devon M Christman

Physics

Over the summer, Christman taught a workshop chosen "Experiments in Science" to a group of children from RIT's Kids on Campus program. Past helping to change their perspectives on who and what a scientist is, Christman is shaping the minds of tomorrow's scientists.
The Physics of Animation

Mari Jaye Blanchard

Assistant Professor

School of Picture & Animation

To create move, Blanchard's classes are full of motion, with students jumping, crawling, and walking to better empathise the physics they are trying to draw.
Streaming Worldwide

Nate Bellavia

Pic and Animation

RIT's student-run radio station broadcasts to the Rochester community and streams worldwide. Bellavia, WITR's music director, appreciates that RIT has a place where people who love music tin can bail over their passion and share that connection over the airwaves.
Visual Exploration

As outreach coordinator for Sunshine 2.0, a theater grouping at RIT's National Institute for the Deaf, Beam and his troupe provide performances and activities for deaf and difficult-of-hearing children and adults that highlight the fields of deaf culture, literacy, and STEM.
Beyond Human

Jessica Wegman

Psychology Major

Seeing the world through the eyes of a different species is just i way we connect with the world around us. Through kinesthesia-led enquiry, Wegman is working to improve the quality of life for North American River Otters by studying their visual perception.
A Part of Something Bigger

Kimberly Hedger

Computer Engineering Technology

For Hedger, giving dorsum is a special part of the RIT community that lets her affect the world, one service projection at a fourth dimension.
Motion picture Perfect

Amelia Hamilton

Photography

With but a split second to get the perfect shot, Hamilton'south passion for capturing emotion is an nugget to creating authentic images in the moment.
Where Yous Belong

Corinne Mendieta

Mechanical Technology Technology

Mendieta has found a home in student authorities. Every bit vice president she makes sure that all students have what they need to succeed.
Medicine'southward Future

Nicole Pannullo

Biochemistry

By working on a faculty-guided research project, Pannullo has gained hands-on research experience to pursue a future in regenerative medicine. It'southward ane way Pannullo is putting experiential learning to work.
Improving Human-computer Interactions

Matt Huenerfauth

Professor

Improving interactions with online platforms for those with disabilities is the ultimate goal behind Huenerfauth'southward inquiry. By training designers to create and develop more attainable websites and mobile networks, a wider audience can connect to and do good from these technologies.
The Spice of Life

Kate Ferguson

Finance and International Business concern

Diverseness is what Ferguson thrives on. And no day is ever the same for this double major who plays soccer and is involved in a range of activities at RIT.
Online Confront-Off

Evan Hirsh

Reckoner Science

Trading gloves and helmets for a monitor and a mouse has ushered in a new era in sports: competitive, organized gaming. By mirroring professional person eSports, the RIT eSports team pursues competitive gaming at the highest possible level, rivaling the excitement of traditional sports teams.
Take the Spring

Michael Oshetski '03

CEO, Micatu Inc.

Focused on making the utility filigree more efficient and sustainable, Oshetski, an RIT alum, has a passion for entrepreneurship. Turning a start-up into reality led him to sharing a key piece of advice: Just get for it.
Always Evolving

Elizabeth Ruder

Assistant Professor

The nutrition is an ever-changing field where knowledge is always evolving. Ruder enjoys watching her students question what they know as they use hands-on experiences to contribute to time to come nutritional guidelines.
Eye on the Prize

Lily Lautenschlager

Biomedical Photographic Communications

Lautenschlager'south passion for helping others drew her to a co-op opportunity in the medical science field. Through hands-on experience studying the center, Lily has secured a function-time job while she continues her pedagogy at RIT.
The AI Gateway

Humza Syed

Estimator Engineering

Syed is pushing the world forward past developing algorithms that utilize artificial intelligence to make everyday tasks easy and more efficient.
Bringing Deaf Culture to the Big Screen

Rydrea Walker

Pattern and Imaging Technology

Walker wants to share Deaf and hard-of-hearing stories to bridge the gap between cultures and stand for the Deaf customs in Hollywood.
Biodegradable Packaging

Carlos Diaz Acosta

Associate Professor

Diaz Acosta's research in sustainable packaging led his class to a biodegradable solution. Developing corn-based packaging is not merely being used to counteract the amount of food waste going into landfills, merely also making the world a more sustainable identify.
Architecture Is Awesome

Blair Benson

Architecture M.Arch.

When Blair changed careers she realized that it is never besides late to pursue your passion. Now she embraces the collaborative nature of the design process, combining functionality, aesthetic appeal, and responsible practices in her architectural work.
Protecting Those Who Protect Us

Rachael Aho

Exercise Science '17

Aho is putting her exercise science caste to work as a personal trainer who works with first responders. She helps firefighters stay in shape and forestall on-the-chore injuries.
A Creative Pipeline

Andrew Sevigny

Move Picture Science

Sevigny is conducting inquiry to help filmmakers translate what they create on their computers to a total cinematic experience.
The Sky's the Limit

Aaron Gordon

Moving-picture show and Blitheness

Gordon started Optic Sky, an blitheness company, after graduating from RIT with a caste in film. He helps develop new talent by inviting RIT students to work on his product crews.
The Excitement of Live Performance

Ted Canning

Adjunct faculty

Director of Steelband Ensemble

For Professor Ted Canning, music is a universal language anyone tin learn. No thing your major, no matter your level of feel, you can make music part of your life at RIT.
Relationships Are Key to Success

Jess Sudol '06

VP/Ceremonious Dept. Manager - Passero Associates

Edifice relationships and honing communication skills are crucial skills for success in any field. Passero Associates has recognized the collaborative nature of RIT students. They continue to hire RIT students and graduates for their dynamic interpersonal skills every bit well as their noesis.
Technology Better Solutions

Poornima Padmanabhan

Assistant Professor

Professor Padmanabhan's students engage in hands-on inquiry experiences that assistance build a better future through the creation of avant-garde complex materials that can solve problems in solar energy, health care, agriculture, and more.
MetroGnome

Barrington Campbell

Game Design and Development

Tinkering, testing, designing, coding – it'south what he does. Through RIT'south game blueprint program, Campbell and his team created a game that garnered attention from 20th Century Fox, leading him to an internship with the company.
Advancing Neurotechnology

Harrison Canning

Innovation Science in Neurotechnology

The School of Individualized Studies enabled Canning to create a caste that combines studies in information science, business, and neuroscience so he tin can build a business that tin can mass produce brain-estimator interfaces to help people with disabilities.
Love What You lot Practice

David Even MBA 'eighteen

Vice President, Due west.G. Arthur Co.

Growing to love the concern he began working for at 15, Fifty-fifty is at present a vice president at W.G. Arthur Co. With a passion for helping others, Even learned from his mentors that treating people right is always the best policy.
Where Science Meets Art

Zayneb Jaff

Pre-health Studies

Metals and Jewelry Design

Studying health studies has helped Jaff develop her logic and analytical skills. Adding a dual major in metals and jewelry blueprint will prepare her well for medical school, where today's doctors must exist both knowledgeable and innovative in their approaches to patient care.
More than One Path

Berta Rivera

Applied Arts and Sciences

With the flexibility to shape her pedagogy around her professional person and personal lives, Rivera has plant the School of Individualized Report to exist the pathway toward a fulfilling degree and a rewarding career that pays it forward.
A New Way to Tell Stories

Claire Wilcox

Undeclared Art and Pattern

By combining the performing arts with applied science and pattern, Claire Wilcox is creating a storytelling dynamic that engages applied science to share stories on movie and on stage.
Ability Combination

Diana Solt BS '10, MS '17

Atomic number 82, Strategy Development

L3/Harris Corp. Communication Systems

Combining her technology degree with liberal arts provided Diana Solt the powerful combination she needed to develop business strategies for L3/Harris.
Headed to Google

Ethelia Lung

New Media Design

The skills Lung learned in the new media design major prepared her for an internship at Google. This career-related work experience, which turned into a full-time job, is just one of the means experiential learning shapes a student'due south time to come.
Creating a Counterbalanced, Equal Globe

Remy DeCausemaker

Communications and Media Technology

Public Policy

Open source software is integral to building a movement toward equality. For DeCausemaker, that meant creating a caste program in the School of Individualized Studies that targeted the specific areas of expertise he needed to craft the career path he wanted.
Giving a Voice to a Community

Tianna Manon '15

Communication

Equally an alum of the journalism plan, Manon has put into practise the storytelling platforms and opportunities She took advantage of at RIT. Today, Manon serves as editor-in-chief of Open up Mic Rochester, an online magazine that gives a voice to Rochester's black community.
Giving Back

Jennifer Wheeler, Chiliad.D. BS '01

Biotechnology

Family unit Medicine

After nine/11, Wheeler enlisted in the Usa Army and served equally a doctor in Afghanistan. Now, she practices family medicine and serves as a preceptor to RIT students who are embarking on their ain careers in medicine.
Innate Happiness

Amanda DeVito MBA '19

Vice President of Client Engagement, Butler/Till Media

Happiness of employees and driving business outcomes are DeVito's main focus at Butler Till Media and Communications. Knowing all the work and energy she puts into driving a client'southward business is satisfaction in itself.
Evoking Emotion Through Music

Jonathan Kruger

Professor

A difficult task to accomplish, yet a joy to teach, Kruger enjoys composing for visual mediums. As chair of the Section of Performing Arts, Krugar focuses on enhancing a scene with music while keeping the audience immersed in the medium.
Education: A Powerful Tool for Sustainability

Elizabeth Moore

Sustainability Ph.D.

Moore is researching nanomaterials and their employ in clean energy technologies. She's sharing this knowledge with time to come generations, who have the power to impact the surroundings.