You can be included among those grads who have sent us copies of their Business Cards by email or send us newsbriefs using email by sending it to ADavidhazy at andpph@rit.edu.

   Natalie Sinisgalli, who is ruinning a very successful portrait, wedding and social photography business came in on a Fridaty afternoon and met with curent stdunts discussing the methods and approaches for successful wedding photography.

Paul Reichert, was on a business trip to Rochester from Johnson Space Center and he came to the high speed lab to meet with current student and to present some of the activities that he is involved with as trainer of astronauts in the area of still and video photography.

The contributions of these two grads to the "education" of current students is much appreciated. Any other grads out there that pass by and could spend some time here would be MOST welcome. Free lunch people!

In addition, on Friday the 2nd, 2010, the Technical Photography Student Association and the joint student chapter of SPIE held a "movie night". Great turnout but the name of the flick has been forgotten by this reporter ... as well as the story line!

On April 9, 2010 Tech students went out to dinner for Italian fare as in past few years. There is a set of underexposed iPhone photos from the event as well HERE!

Michelle (HIll) Perham, dropped in recently with he husband Ryan. They have a distinct achievement to share in that they were married on Mt. Rainier. Additionally, Michele is expecting in early July! Congratulations!    Linda K. Le, dropped in during a visit to Roicjhester on business but she wanted to check out her undergraduate environs.    Marci (Fingeret) Heitner, is enjoying life on the west side of Orlando with her husband Eric. They have the most adorable Boston Terrier named Bailey.    David Murphy, sent a brief message. It goes like this: Stella Rose Murphy born March 9th at 10:30pm, 6 lbs. 12 oz., 20 inches. Stella & Jen are doing wonderful! We love our little girl so much, she is beauitful!!!    Bret Harmen, also has news of a new arrival to annouince; Lauren Alyssa Harmen b. 3/3/10 19" 8.1 lb. everyone healthy. Bret is a man of few words. Congratulations!!

After 20 years of murturing it, Andrew Davidhazy is no longer the chair of the Imaging and Photo Technology program.

Karen (Punis) Marks, 1991, dropped in to say hello during Brick City homecoming at RIT on the weekend of October 10, 2009. She is enjoying life and her family with husband Chris and sons River and Canyon. River is already planning to design a better Wii game and wants his own compiler! She says she had a great corporate experience but that she is enjoying being a mom and domestic engineer and substitute teacher.

Alicia Novi, 2002. whizzed by here as well and we had a chence to make a picture almost "on the run". Alicia went on to a law career but says that the techical and science courses she took as part of the program made is much easier to pursue her law graduate program.

As Saturday was drawing to a close John Coleman, 2009, and his finacee, Lori Duprey, ambled in from other homecoming activities and related that they will be married this coming May. He is enjoying his work at Filmetrics here in Rochester and she is starting her own photo business.

Greg Schrider happened by on his way to Toronto to deliver some of his company's products. He is the VP of Sales for BYK-Gardenr (manufactrurer of many types of color related instruments) in Columbia, MD and living now in Mt. Airy nearby. Rick Behrens recently had an extraspatial experience. Here he tells about it: "There are few things I've wanted to do since I was a kid. I've wanted to see a shuttle launch since my first visit to Kennedy Space Center in 1979 - two years before Columbia's first flight. With only a six flights remaining in the Shuttle program, I finally got to see one take off. Quite a spectacle! This shot was taken at 1 min 13 sec from launch (12:01 this morning). Rick"

And a very brief message arrived from Ian Grob from out there in Montana. Something about Dana. Guess what it was about. See middle photo!

On August 28, 2009 Nan (Judge) Headrick who graduated from the program in 1991 returned for a whirlwind visit and brought her family along and toured the Institute marveling at all the new buildings, programs, and landscaping. She was quite impressed by the changes. Nan was the prime mover and shaker behind the TPSA in those years and organized several very successful mini-trade shows on campus that to this date have not been duplicated by any other group. She was accompanied by her husband Tone who works with the Navy and her son Aaron who is now 7 and a most inquisitive and active young man. Obviously not camera shy and delights in posing for group photos! Nan is doing home-schooling with Aaron and enjoying every minute of it. Her plans for the future include a possible visit to Kennedy Space Center to witness a launch of the Space Shuttle before the program is discontinued.

This is a bit about an experimental photo contest just for members of the Imaging and Photo technology group on Facebook on the theme of HAPPY or HAPPINESS.

The "winners" so to speak, it turns out are either graduates of the Tech program or past faculty in the department. One of the grads, David Murphy, finished the program not more than a couple of years ago and is now living and working in Golden, Colorado. He recently asked his girl friend to marry him and she nearly fell over the steep embankment at Pike's Peak out of sheer excitement and joy! (Just kidding!)

The other grad, David Gallagher, graduated many moons ago. Like in 1991. He is living and working in the Atlanta area and is a successful distributor of high end digital cameras. He recently married and is happy as a clam and his family can be in Atlanta.

Now the third winner among the top three is Prof. John Compton, who helped Drs. Zakia and Stroebel and Prof. Current put together the previous edition of the Materials and Processes of Photography book. John became an efficiency expert in the Graphic Arts industry and has been doing independent consulting in this area for maybe 20 years now.

Finally, by selecting the fourth thumbnail you can get to see their winning photograph. CONGRATULATIONS to you all and if you are not a member of the Imaging and Photographic Technology group on Facebook you might consider it.

Jessica Scott recently departed the 2nd floor of the building having completed her stint with the Image Permanence Institute. That group had a magnificent party to celebrate the occasion of her departure. :)
Chelsea McCulley dropped in to check things out and relayed that she is looking forward to several interviews related to her new love: microscopes.
John Coleman stopped by today, the 18th, with a big grin on his face. He is now working for Filmetrics along with Jarrett.
News from the rest of the Tech crew will be shared as they become available.

There was a special event at RIT and the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences on saturday July 25, 2009. It is called College and Careers day and it is a program designed to bring possible future students to RIT and give them a hands-on experience living in the dorms and exploring 4 possible career fields by participating in seminars and workshops presented by faculty. The imaging and Photographic Technology faculty rose to the occasion and three of them presented several of these seminars.

The Photo of Science and Science of Photo (Sampat), Color Image Transfer (Miller), and High speed photography (Davidhazy) were the titles of the seminars and the participants came from all over the nation.

Liana Schuetz dropped in to Tech Alley with her family towards the end of June 2009. She is now located in Texas and after going back to school she is now working as a dietitian.

Akira Hasegawa also came by and related that things are going well although the Japanese financial situation is also stressed. His Computer Education school is doing well. He is trying to get in touch with Jennifer Rossler.

Melanie (Krisantz) Niles sent an announcement of a possible opening at EFI and along with it she sent a photograph of her family, Mike, Samantha and Sydney.

Carl Teger sent this photograph of him with his 4 month old daughter Ruby Ann. A charmer!!

And Dave Gallager sent a very brief update with the photograph of his new family group now comprised of 5. He says: "Happily remarried and increased the size to 5! Opened a second office in South Beach last year. And looking for a salesman in the So. Florida area!"

Bruce Butkus and Kristin Castenschiold just complketed a tour of the Pacific Northwest and put up their photogrpahs on Facebook where you can take a look at them and at least vicariously enjoy the magnificent scenery of the area. These are Bruce's and these are Kritin's.

Chelsea McCulley took the Scanning Electron Microscopy course with Don Drake this past quarter and she made some stunning SEMs. In one case she made a series of images of the same object at different magnifications and ended up assembling the set and asking the question: What is it?.

To find out follow this link to the answer!

On May 23, 2009 graduation ceremonies were held at the Gordon Field House. Graduating seniors assembled there and immediately oroceeded to embark on the festivities associated with such a momentous occasion. As you can see they were the picture of seriousness and decorum. NOT! The graduates relished every moment of the ceremony and made sure that it would live in their memory for years to come.

Chelsea, Shane, Jessica, Eric, Eric, Brian, Chris, Cassie and Jon were joined by members of the department of Imaging and Photographic Technology (DIPT) faculty, Profs. Glenn Miller, Nanette Salvaggio and Andrew Davidhazy. Visit at small gallery of snaps taken by Nanette Salvaggio by CLICKING HERE!

Mote that the department has a presence on Facebook and you are invited to join the group. Click HERE to get to it!.

Also, in addition to the photograph of the brochure the graduates put together, and shown above right as a JPEG, you can obtain it as a PDF document suitable for printing by clicking GET PDF of GRAD S Brochure!

These three photographs comprise a sampling of an Imaging and Photographic Technology 1 Spring 2008-2009 class exhibition installed in the display cases of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences by freshmen students. Their photographs were the result of an Interior Architecture Assignment by adjunct professor Don Cochran If you would like to see the complete collection Select This Link to visit the online gallery of the exhibition.

On April 31, 2009 the Technical Photography Student Association (TPSA) and the joint chapter of the SPIE met in Tech Alley to elect new officers for the coming year and to congratulate and thank Eric Evans, president for the last two years for a fantastic job of coordinating the club's activities. The new officers are: President: Brian Zazcek, Vice-president: Robert Crawford, Treasurer: Kristin Pelc-Pacheco, Secretary: Nino Gordeladze, Webmaster: Jonathan Damian Thank you again, Eric and best wishes to the new officers for a successful year next year!

Supported by a grant from Professor Emeritus Leslie Stroebel, on May 16, 2009 the Imaging and Photographic Technology department hosted 20 current students to dinner at the Shanghai restaurant. Candid photographs made at the event by passing the camera around are available as a small web gallery by clicking here!

IPT faculty contribute to the SPAS Faculty Exhibition

Caren (Firsty) Friedman was selected as the recipient of the 2009 CIAS Women's Career Achievement Award at RIT on April 27th and while she was visiting the school she also me with students in a class and several joined her for dinner. Caren was with Polaroid, Intel and Boston Scientific and is currently starting up a consulting operation to allow her to stay connected with the field of imaging while at the same time being able to spend more time with her 4 and 6 year old boys and her husband.

Eric Evans, Bryan Zaczek, Aly Artusio-Glimpose and Ross Dason ran an experiment they proposed to NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX on the (in)famous Vomit Comet. Their experiment was a follow-up on the one proposed and flown by another team of Tech students last year. Their flight took place on April 3, 2009 and from what we hear it was disappointing in terms of regurgitation of food stuffs. These opportunities are quite hard to come by with less than 40 schools selected each year for participation. By way of history it should be mentioned that the very first Tech team to fly on this airplane in 1997 carried Crystal (Embrey) Schroeder aloft and she was ultimately hired as a contract photographer at the Center and has photographed on the plane numerous times.

Lauren Harnett was hired last June as the latest addition to the Photo/Imaging Operations group at JSC. In fact, there is a whole slew of Tech grads working there in various capacities!

Pilar Martinez sent in a brief update on her whereabouts: She said: Hola Andy.... Tanto tanto tiempo.... Simplemente tu nombre poped up and thought it was about time to say HI!!!! Como va todo en la ciudad gris? Yo estoy finalmente de regreso en Argentina. Desde fines del 2006. Si.... dicen que todo vuelve, y yo no fui excepcion... Te cuento que tengo una bebe de 7 meses, Malena... es la cosita mas hermosa..... y bueno.... la cosita que mas trabajo me da!!!! Espero que todos se encuentren bien. Te mando un gran abrazo y saluditos desde este lugar recondito!!! So did you get it? How is your spanish?!!

Towards the end of March, 2009 the 2009 team of 4 Imaging and Photographic Technology students selected to fly an experiment on the inFamous NASA Vomit Comet gor a tour of the Johnson Space Center escorted by Paul Reichert, a Tech grad from some time ago.

On April 2, 2009 the deparetment was host to Mr. Gary Stone from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California. His ultimate purpose was to reestablish tioes to the department and epxlore possibilities for Tech students to coop at the lab particularly using their photographic sensitometry and photographic chemistry backgorunds.

A new team of four Imaging and Photographic Technology students is scheduled to fly and conduct experiments on the NASA Weightless Wonder (aka Vomit Comet) at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston later in March 2009. As part of the project they have to share their plans or experiences with local students. Here Jarret (who flew on the last round) and Bryan, Eric and Aly are visiting a science fair that was held at a nearby elementary school.

On March 13, 2009 several Imaging and Photographic Technology students went on a field trip to visit NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH where they got to see various high tech labs and experiments that depend on imaging technologies for data acquisition and performance evaluation. This was a unique experience and particularly made possible by the good reputation the program enjoys at the Center.

Imaging and Photographic Technology students in the winter 2008-9 Photographic Chemistry Class suited up for a visit to Eastman Kodak's Image Sensor Fabrication Production facility. Charge coupled devices are made there for a variety of imaging products including machine vision, satellite imaging and larger format professional/commercial sensors for Phase 1 and Hasselblad digital backs. We saw how chemical vapor deposition, photolithography and chemical etch processes connect to make these image sensors, as well as the testing and quality systems used.
Can you identify all the IPT students who are pictured here?. First person who gets them all right gets a free fast food lunch with the course instructor or any other Tech faculty member! Send answers to andpph@rit.edu

On February 09, 2009 first year students in the Imaging and Photographic Technology program installed on the 2nd floor display boards of the school an exhibition of their photographs completed as one of the assignments in the Photography I course presented by Prof. Steve Diehl. This is a "candid" view of the installation process. As usual some do the work and some watch. Makes you wonder how many Techs it takes to screw in a lightbulb!!:)

As usual to see a larger version of the thumbnail image on the left ... click on it! If you want to see the images as part of an online gallery and in a larger version you can follow the following link to: GLASSWARE ASSIGNMENT GALLERY.

On January 8, 2009 several Imaging and Photographic Technology students and friends went out on a bowling party to a nearby alley. As you can see from the photographs it was a time to show off all kinds of characteristic Tech attributes, from interesting fashion statements and impressive and astonishing bowling form and style being some among them.

As usual to see a larger version of the thumbnail image on the right ... click on it! If you want to see the images in a larger version you can follow the link to: January Bowling Gallery. Thanks to Chelsea for taking the initiative on organizing this outing!

On January 1, 2009 Bruce Butkus and Kristin came up from Philadelphia and met up with Carl Smith and Collin Becker and went to lunch at the "new" nearby pub in the B&N complex. These are all gadget freaks and so most of the conversation revolved around the latest and greatest or not so hot device from computer peripherals, to cameras and cars. Carl is working on his MS degree, Collin is working at Industrial Color Labs in Syracuse and Bruce is a resource at Edmund Optics especially when it comes to color issues. Another bit of news from Bruce and Kristin is that they bought a house. Congratulations y'all!!

On December 20, 2008 Crystal (Embrey) Schroeder, an Imaging and Photographic Technology graduate from 1998 and now working at NASA Johnson Space Center welcomed the arrival of her daughter Elizabeth Amy Schroeder. She says: She arrived at 6:25 PM on 12/20/08 and is healthy at 5 lbs. 13 oz. and 18.75 inches long. We go home tomorrow; just in time for Christmas. Visit http://crystaleyes.my-expressions.com/

Crystal, best wishes to you and your baby from all of us in snowy Rochester!

On Friday December 13, 2008 a group of 18 Tech students ( Jonathan Damian, Noah Cohen, Trent Seelig, Laura Mooney, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Chris Ubelacker, Matt Joch, Eric Evans, Brian Gamm, Nino Gordeladze, Kristin Pelc-Pacheco, Chelsea McCulley, Cassie Fecho, Clarissa Cole, Jessica Scott, Dan Justa. Elliot Krasnopoler and Lindsay Dias and three faculty members (Glenn Miller, Terry Kessler and Andy Davidhazy) went to dinner at a local italian restaurant and had a great time. The goings on at the event were recorded by a camera that was passed around and many somewhat embarrassing moments as well as laughter and good cheer were compiled and now available online by following the link to: Michelina's Italian Eatery

Of course there is this new YouTube video of the 4 Imaging and Photographic Technology students flying on the NASA microgravity airplane, aka Weightless Wonder. Although not quite seen in detail if you concentrate on what is going on you may catch a glimpse of the reason the airplane is more commonly called the "Vomit Comet".

Chris Ubelacker, Jarret Whetstone, Greg Sharp and James Craven proposed a projet for the NASA Microgravity program run out of Johnson Space Center to give students an opportunity to fly their experiments on the Weightless Wonder DC-9 aircraft (aka Vomit Comet). NASA accepted their proposal and the group flew on the plane last July.

We have a son now - Ian. He's 8 months old and doing well. Our daughter Zoe is 3 yrs 8 months (birthdays are one day apart). Ivan and Stacey "

Some things don't need words and a picture speaks volumes. That is the case with Crystal Schroeder and you can guess what the happy young lady wearing a pink scarf and hat is awaiting!!

and Sheri (Dunnette) Locke provided this update: I just delivered my twins Chloe and Sylvan on 10/8/08 and I'm am going to have my hands full for sometime. Everything is going well with the babies. However we are very very tired feeding them every 3 hours around the clock but hopefully they will be sleeping through the night soon! Sheri

The first, or inaugural meeting, of the Techical Photgraphy Student Association (TPSA) and the joint chapter of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) took place on September 12, 2008 in Tech Alley. The event was marked by a heated discussion related to several possibilities for activities to be undertaken by the gorup over the coming months. These include a golf put-put event, a bowling night, field trip to NASA Glenn Research Center, field trip to witness and photograph close-up the launch of the next Shuttle at KSC, running the Annual SPAS auction, bulding a TPSA kite camera, etc. The photograph here can be seen larger if you click on it. Congratulations to the officers and club members for a superior meeting. The pizza was not bad either!

To add news to this Departmental News Bulletin Board send text and attached images to: Andrew Davidhazy who will gladly add the item to this bulletin board dedicated to the students and faculty of the Imaging and Photgraphic Technology program at RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.