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Intern Program Parnterships

CIS Imaging Bash

Achievements & Recognitions

Past Receptions & Upcoming Events

Alumni Spotlight on: Robert Loce

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FALL CIS NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

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CIS Intern Program: Sponsor an intern!

The High School Intern program at the Chester F. Carlson

Center for Imaging Science offers a limited number of highly

qualified juniors the opportunity to work side-by-side with

world class scientists on a variety of imaging-related research

projects. These paid internships give students the chance to

get valuable hands-on experience in a real laboratory setting

as contributing members of a research team. This coveted

opportunity has jump started successful academic and

professional careers for 144 participants over thirteen years.

To celebrate the accomplishments of past interns, a new Story

category has been created on the CIS website. As interviews

with intern alumni are conducted, their responses are posted

to the Stories about Our Summer Interns page. The series was

unveiled with six intern alumni profiles, and many more to

come—so please check back often to see what great things our

interns have gone on to achieve.

The benefits of the CIS intern program are four-fold: to

students; to the community; to CIS and RIT; and to STEM

(science, technology, education, and math) education in the

United States as a whole. Participants benefit from research

experience, exposure to a college environment, experientially

exploring their academic interests, and learning the

responsibilities of a full time job. The intern program is a

community builder, as schools and students from across the

area participate, and local companies and research centers are

showcased through field trips. The program is also CIS’s most

successful recruitment initiative: ~50% of participants have

applied to RIT for STEM-related disciplines, with 15% applying

to Imaging Science and 12% ultimately enrolling as students in

the Imaging Science program*. Lastly, our internships

encourage the further pursuit of STEM disciplines by up-and-

coming young talent.

Now there is an opportunity for everyone to get involved! CIS is

looking for partners to help foster the continuance and growth

of the internship program. A very simple online form has been

developed that makes sponsorship incredibly easy, and ensures

that your generosity is placed exactly where you direct it. We

hope that you will consider supporting the future of our intern

program through a personal donation or company sponsorship.

Every little bit helps—even a donation of $25 can make a

difference in providing these special opportunities. For more

information, please visit our online giving form. Offline

donations can be arranged by e-mailing us. All sponsors will

receive a small appreciation gift and will be listed on our

interns website, which to date has over 12,000 views. We

sincerely thank all sponsors past, present, and future for

your generous support of our high school intern program.

* Data does not include 2012’s fourteen interns, as their college application

and acceptance process has not yet completed.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Past & Future Receptions

John Schott Appointed to Landsat Science Team: Frederick

and Anna B. Wiedman Professor in Imaging Science Dr. John

Schott has been named to the Landsat Science Team by the

U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA. Schott joins

an expert team of scientists and engineers that will serve five

years and provide technical and scientific support of the

upcoming Landsat 8 spacecraft to be launched in February

2013. He will give input on issues pertaining to the use of

satellite data for monitoring fresh and coastal waters. Schott’s

history with the program began in 1981, with a grant from

NASA to work on Landsat 4. It was RIT's first major research

grant and laid the cornerstone for the university’s imaging

science program. Read more

Imaging Science PhD student David Kelbe featured in

University Magazine: Dave Kelbe was recently pictured on the

front of RIT University Magazine and profiled in the article

“Graduate Students Making a Difference.” Kelbe was

recognized for his extensive volunteer efforts with refugee

children, homeless men, and orphans in Southeast Asia. The

article also celebrates Kelbe’s Bruce R. James ’64 Distinguished

Service Award as well as his National Science Foundation

Graduate Research Program award. Read More

Third year student Kevin Dickey named recipient of a

Greater Research Opportunities undergraduate fellowship:

Sponsored by the EPA, this award supports environmental

education and research for undergraduates. As a recipient,

Dickey has been awarded $48,900 over two years, is funded to

attend two scientific conferences of his choosing, and will

participate in a 12-week paid summer internship at an EPA

research facility. Read More

Several students present at Image Processing Workshop: Five

CIS students, both graduate and undergraduate, presented as

part of the 15th annual Western New York Image Processing

Workshop. PhD student Tommy Keane won the Best Paper

award for his paper on mapping a collection of 2D images into a

3D sphere for easy viewing. Read More

CIS Achievements and Recognitions

Previous Issues

Happy holidays from CIS!

These festive trees were created

using LiDAR (click image to enlarge)

Job Listings

5th Annual CIS Imaging Bash

The College of Science is collecting business cards from alumni

to showcase all the amazing places our graduates have gone on

to! In the future we hope to digitize all of the cards and

incorporate them in an interactive display for students that

maps alumni across the globe. We hope that you will be a part

of our display! To participate, please mail 2 business cards to

Lauren Sauer, Assoc. Director Alumni Relations, Rochester

Institute of Technology, Crossroads 1330, 41 Lomb Memorial

Drive, Rochester, NY 14623.

Send us your cards!

Can we predict the years when algae will stink up our beaches? Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anthony Vodacek

featured

RIT Doctoral Student Wins Time with Two NASA Observatories AST PhD student David Principe

featured

RIT Professor Named Editor-in-Chief of ‘Journal of the Optical Society of America B.’ Assoc. Prof.

Dr. Grover Swartzlander featured

University Receives $3.2 Million Award from the NSF to Advance Female Faculty Director and

Professor Dr. Stefi Baum featured

Sweeping X-ray Imaging Survey of Dying Stars is ‘Uncharted Territory'

Prof. Dr. Joel Kastner featured

Remote-sensing systems for real-world applications Assoc. Research Prof. and DIRS lab director Dr.

David Messinger featured

Rochester-area colleges offer more online courses Assoc. Research Prof. Dr. Emmett Ientilucci

featured

Online learning at RIT Video featuring Assoc. Research Prof.

Dr. Emmett Ientilucci

These are only a sampling of

our 17 news headlines since

the last newsletter! So make

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ALL CIS NEWS HEADLINES

Volume 4 | Issue 1 | Fall 2012

PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED ——————————————————————

CIS Welcome Back Picnic—Over 40 faculty, staff, students, and

alumni enjoyed food, games, and raffles at our annual fall

picnic. All attendees were asked to contribute a canned good

for admission, and as a result members of the IS&T Student

Chapter donated 50 cans of food to the Rush Henrietta Area

Food Terminal! You can view pictures from the picnic here.

STILL TO COME ——————————————————————————-

Imaging Hall of Fame Ceremony and Reception— Join us at

the 2012 Imaging Science Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and

find out who will join the ranks of famed notables in the field

of Imaging Science. For the first time ever, one of the current

recipients will be present for the ceremony. The celebration

will also include special recognition of Dr. John Schott for his

many contributions to CIS. Keynote speaker Dr. Ray

Jayawardhana will follow his presentation “First Glimpses of

Alien Worlds” with a signing of his book Strange New Worlds:

The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond our Solar

System. Following the induction ceremony, join us for an after

party at TC Riley's, located just off campus at Park Point,

where we will raise a glass and toast the 2013 inductees. Even

if you are unable to join us for the ceremony, come to the

after party anyway and take advantage of this opportunity to

celebrate the accomplishments of the inductees and reconnect

with fellow alumni and faculty/researchers from the Center for

Imaging Science. Hors d'oeuvres will be served and a cash bar

will be available. Both events are free, but registration is

required by January 13. REGISTER NOW

Boston, MA— We are in the early stages of planning an alumni

event in your area for Spring 2013—Really! If you live in or

around Boston, please contact us to help determine details.

RIT Imaging Science’s first PhD recipient, Dr. Robert Loce, was featured recently in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle for being a patent leader at Xerox, which is set to be the local company with the most patents received in 2012. Xerox researchers were named on 536 new patents through the end of October. 12 of those patents come from Loce, including ones for something called “flicker boxes,” which use a polarization technique to create an interactive visual effect when a customer opens up a box, such as a product package. To read the full article, click here.

Congratulations, Bob!

CIS hosted our fifth Imaging Bash event on December 12. We

received 30 images from faculty, research staff, and students.

For the Bash, everyone gets two minutes with their image

displayed to state their name, something about themselves,

and a summary of the research or creative aspect of their

work. CIS welcomed a healthy audience of 50 attendees who

also enjoyed delicious finger foods and refreshments during the

show. The learn more about the Bash’s history, browse

submitted images, and view photos from the event, click here.

Jason Mitchell says his summer internship “helped me choose what I wanted to do with the next stage

(Photo by A. Sue Weisler) Imaging science graduate student David Kelbe spends one night a week working with refugee children at Mary’s Place in Rochester. Here, he shows the children how a piece of equipment he uses in his research works and then uses the equipment to take a 3-D scan of the group. Read the full magazine here.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jan van Aardt presents LiDAR research in two minutes or less to a packed house at the CIS Imaging Bash. More pics

recently awarded a microgrant to perform her own research. She says she “would definitely recommend this experience to anyone who gets a chance and is interested in the field of science.” Read more of Cicely’s story

Imaging Science PhD student Dong Wang proudly holds up raffle prize from the annual Fall picnic, a Bayer pattern CIS t-shirt. More pics Wondering how to score a shirt of your own? Become a CIS Ambassador

Just for fun: A group from CIS participated in this year’s Mud Tug for charity on Sept. 22. More pics

in my life. It also taught me to be more independent by introducing me to working on a task with nobody telling you how to do it.” Read more of Jason’s story

Cicely DiPaulo enrolled in Imaging Science after her summer as an intern, and was