University of Rochester College of Arts Sciences and Engineering

The Excitement of Alive Performance

Ted Canning

Adjunct faculty

Director of Steelband Ensemble

For Professor Ted Canning, music is a universal language anyone can learn. No matter your major, no matter your level of experience, you can make music part of your life at RIT.
Power Combination

Diana Solt BS 'x, MS '17

Atomic number 82, Strategy Evolution

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.
MetroGnome

Barrington Campbell

Game Design and Evolution

Tinkering, testing, designing, coding – it's what he does. Through RIT's game design plan, Campbell and his team created a game that garnered attention from 20th Century Fox, leading him to an internship with the company.
Streaming Worldwide

Nate Bellavia

Film and Blitheness

RIT's pupil-run radio station broadcasts to the Rochester community and streams worldwide. Bellavia, WITR's music director, appreciates that RIT has a identify where people who dear music can bail over their passion and share that connection over the airwaves.
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 key life skill for all professionals.
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 Department of Performing Arts, Krugar focuses on enhancing a scene with music while keeping the audience immersed in the medium.
Architecture Is Crawly

Blair Benson

Compages M.Arch.

When Blair changed careers she realized that it is never also late to pursue your passion. Now she embraces the collaborative nature of the pattern procedure, combining functionality, artful entreatment, and responsible practices in her architectural piece of work.
Take the Leap

Michael Oshetski '03

CEO, Micatu Inc.

Focused on making the utility grid more than efficient and sustainable, Oshetski, an RIT alum, has a passion for entrepreneurship. Turning a outset-upwards into reality led him to sharing a cardinal piece of advice: Just go for it.
Making a Positive Impact

Katherine Duffy

Folklore and International Relations

She's a professional person ballet dancer and a humanitarian who spends her free time volunteering at a children's dwelling in Haiti. Duffy created a caste program in the School of Individualized Study so she tin can one day establish a non-turn a profit of her ain.
Biodegradable Packaging

Carlos Diaz Acosta

Associate Professor

Diaz Acosta'south enquiry in sustainable packaging led his class to a biodegradable solution. Developing corn-based packaging is non just being used to counteract the corporeality of food waste going into landfills, simply also making the world a more sustainable place.
A Role of Something Bigger

Kimberly Hedger

Computer Engineering Technology

For Hedger, giving back is a special part of the RIT community that lets her bear upon the world, i service project at a time.
A New Way to Tell Stories

Claire Wilcox

Undeclared Art and Design

Past combining the performing arts with technology and design, Claire Wilcox is creating a storytelling dynamic that engages technology to share stories on film and on stage.
The Spice of Life

Kate Ferguson

Finance and International Business

Diversity is what Ferguson thrives on. And no day is ever the aforementioned for this double major who plays soccer and is involved in a range of activities at RIT.
The Hands of Time

Landyn Hatch

Museum Studies

At RIT's makerspace you're free 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 showroom.
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 simply one of the ways experiential learning shapes a student'south time to come.
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 design will prepare her well for medical school, where today'due south doctors must be both knowledgeable and innovative in their approaches to patient care.
Eye on the Prize

Lily Lautenschlager

Biomedical Photographic Communications

Lautenschlager'due south passion for helping others drew her to a co-op opportunity in the medical science field. Through hands-on feel studying the eye, Lily has secured a part-time task while she continues her instruction at RIT.
The AI Gateway

Humza Syed

Figurer Engineering

Syed is pushing the world forward past developing algorithms that apply artificial intelligence to make everyday tasks like shooting fish in a barrel and more efficient.
Giving Back

Jennifer Wheeler, Chiliad.D. BS '01

Biotechnology

Family unit Medicine

After 9/xi, Wheeler enlisted in the US Army and served as a doctor in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan. At present, she practices family medicine and serves as a preceptor to RIT students who are embarking on their own careers in medicine.
Advancing Neurotechnology

Harrison Canning

Innovation Science in Neurotechnology

The School of Individualized Studies enabled Canning to create a degree that combines studies in computer scientific discipline, business, and neuroscience so he can build a business that can mass produce encephalon-reckoner interfaces to assistance people with disabilities.
Online Face up-Off

Evan Hirsh

Calculator Science

Trading gloves and helmets for a monitor and a mouse has ushered in a new era in sports: competitive, organized gaming. Past mirroring professional eSports, the RIT eSports team pursues competitive gaming at the highest possible level, rivaling the excitement of traditional sports teams.
The Sky's the Limit

Aaron Gordon

Movie and Animation

Gordon started Optic Heaven, an blitheness visitor, after graduating from RIT with a caste in flick. He helps develop new talent by inviting RIT students to work on his production crews.
Creating a Counterbalanced, Equal Earth

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 degree program in the Schoolhouse of Individualized Studies that targeted the specific areas of expertise he needed to arts and crafts the career path he wanted.
Giving a Voice to a Community

Tianna Manon 'fifteen

Communication

As an alum of the journalism plan, Manon has put into practice the storytelling platforms and opportunities She took advantage of at RIT. Today, Manon serves every bit editor-in-master of Open up Mic Rochester, an online magazine that gives a voice to Rochester's black community.
A Creative Pipeline

Andrew Sevigny

Movement Pic Science

Sevigny is conducting enquiry to help filmmakers interpret what they create on their computers to a full cinematic experience.
A Spit Accept

Diamond Guy

Biomedical Sciences

Guy's biomedical science inquiry is analyzing microbes linked to cardiac disease. She's hoping to keep the population healthy one vial of saliva at a time.
Education: A Powerful Tool for Sustainability

Elizabeth Moore

Sustainability Ph.D.

Moore is researching nanomaterials and their use in clean free energy technologies. She'south sharing this knowledge with future generations, who have the ability to bear upon the surroundings.
Connecting Kids to Science

Devon M Christman

Physics

Over the summer, Christman taught a workshop called "Experiments in Science" to a grouping of children from RIT's Kids on Campus program. By helping to change their perspectives on who and what a scientist is, Christman is shaping the minds of tomorrow's scientists.
The Power of Music

Becky Jasen

Physician Assistant

Jasen is a physician assistant major and the music managing director for RIT Players. She is applying her passion for music to research that studied how music tin can reduce pain and anxiety in pediatric patients.
Improving Human being-computer Interactions

Matt Huenerfauth

Professor

Improving interactions with online platforms for those with disabilities is the ultimate goal behind Huenerfauth'southward research. Past training designers to create and develop more accessible websites and mobile networks, a wider audience tin can connect to and benefit from these technologies.
More Than 1 Path

Berta Rivera

Applied Arts and Sciences

With the flexibility to shape her instruction effectually her professional and personal lives, Rivera has institute the Schoolhouse of Individualized Study to exist the pathway toward a fulfilling caste and a rewarding career that pays information technology forward.
Enhancing Reality

Kevin Kha

Imaging Science

Kha interned with Oculus testing their side by side generation of VR cameras, which have the potential to assistance law enforcement and touch learning in schools. The internship turned into a full-time job, and Kha plans to work on enhancing the VR experience.
Relationships Are Key to Success

Jess Sudol '06

VP/Civil Dept. Managing director - Passero Associates

Building relationships and honing advice skills are crucial skills for success in any field. Passero Associates has recognized the collaborative nature of RIT students. They continue to rent RIT students and graduates for their dynamic interpersonal skills as well as their knowledge.
Bringing Deaf Culture to the Big Screen

Rydrea Walker

Design and Imaging Technology

Walker wants to share Deafened and hard-of-hearing stories to bridge the gap between cultures and represent the Deafened customs in Hollywood.
Medicine's Future

Nicole Pannullo

Biochemistry

By working on a kinesthesia-guided research project, Pannullo has gained hands-on research experience to pursue a hereafter in regenerative medicine. It's 1 way Pannullo is putting experiential learning to work.
Where You Belong

Corinne Mendieta

Mechanical Technology Technology

Mendieta has found a abode in student government. As vice president she makes certain that all students have what they need to succeed.
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 conform to an ever-changing industry. The skills he honed as a pupil – curiosity, responsibility, communication skills – have enhanced his decades-long career as a lensman.
The Power of Compages

Nana-Yaw Andoh

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture

Nan-Yaw Andoh teaches his students that compages is more than beautiful buildings. It'due south an element that can connect and unify communities.
Entrepreneurial Solutions for Ecology Problems

Sherwyn Millette

Sustainability Ph.D.

Millette is from Trinidad and Tobago, an island nation that needs a way to manage a waste matter problem in a country with express space. Millette is exploring if a circular economy can exist the solution.
Dear What You Do

David Even MBA 'eighteen

Vice President, Westward.Grand. Arthur Co.

Growing to love the business he began working for at xv, Even 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 correct is always the best policy.
Expanding ASL

Tina Goudreau Collison

Professor of Chemistry

A complicated vocabulary and a lack of dedicated signs in American Sign Linguistic communication makes Organic Chemical science 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.
Picture Perfect

Amelia Hamilton

Photography

With only a split second to go the perfect shot, Hamilton's passion for capturing emotion is an asset to creating authentic images in the moment.
Beyond Human

Jessica Wegman

Psychology Major

Seeing the earth through the eyes of a different species is but one fashion we connect with the globe around us. Through faculty-led research, Wegman is working to improve the quality of life for Northward American River Otters by studying their visual perception.
Stepping Upwardly

Ashley Kosak

Mechanical Engineering

It might be just a stool, but it represents more than reaching equipment in the Car Shop. Information technology's a symbol of the heightened awareness and inclusivity of women in engineering at RIT. After graduation, Kosak wants to influence modify by helping women pursue careers in engineering.
Visual Exploration

As outreach coordinator for Sunshine two.0, a theater group at RIT'due south National Institute for the Deafened, Beam and his troupe provide performances and activities for deafened and hard-of-hearing children and adults that highlight the fields of deaf civilisation, literacy, and STEM.
Innate Happiness

Amanda DeVito MBA '19

Vice President of Client Date, 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 customer's business organisation is satisfaction in itself.
Always Evolving

Elizabeth Ruder

Banana Professor

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

Shannon McHale

Cybersecurity

As head of public relations for Women in Computing, McHale strives to organize professional opportunities for its members, advancing women'southward experience in computing majors, and giving back to a club that has given her so much.
Protecting Those Who Protect United states of america

Rachael Aho

Practice Science '17

Aho is putting her practise science degree to work as a personal trainer who works with outset responders. She helps firefighters stay in shape and forbid on-the-chore injuries.
The Physics of Animation

Mari Jaye Blanchard

Banana Professor

Schoolhouse of Film & Animation

To create movement, Blanchard'southward classes are full of motion, with students jumping, crawling, and walking to better understand the physics they are trying to draw.
Engineering Amend Solutions

Poornima Padmanabhan

Assistant Professor

Professor Padmanabhan'southward students engage in hands-on research experiences that help build a meliorate future through the cosmos of avant-garde complex materials that tin can solve problems in solar energy, health care, agriculture, and more.
Merging Past and Present

Devin Klibanow

3D Digital Design

RIT's 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 faculty to create a virtual viewing experience.