In this issue:

Dr. Stefi Baum Stepping Down

Interim Director Announcement

New CIS Website

Summer REU Program

High School Interns

Alumni Admissions Volunteering

SUMMER CIS NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Quick Links: Previous Issues Job Listings

Uncovering Hidden Text on a 500-Year-Old Map That Guided Columbus CIS Professor Dr. Roger

Easton Jr. featured

Building bridges - WiSTEE Connect CIS Associate Professor Dr. Jie

Qiao featured

Diving for pearls with the Hubble Space Telescope Dr. Stefi Baum

featured

Taking NASA-USGS’s Landsat 8 to the Beach CIS Research Professor

Dr. John Schott featured

Imaging tools help radiologists diagnose lung cancer, save lives CIS Program Faculty Dr. Nate Cahill and Imaging Science PhD

student Kfir Ben Zikri featured

ALL CIS NEWS HEADLINES

Volume 5 | Issue 4 | Summer/Early Fall 2014

This summer presented the fourth year of our NSF-funded

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program,

"Imaging in the Physical Sciences". Nine undergraduate research

students came from far and wide to work for 9 weeks in

research labs with faculty mentors across CIS. In addition to

their research work, students participated in workshops on

giving presentations and writing papers, a weekly seminar

series given by the Imaging Science faculty, and a weekly

innovation and entrepreneurship movie session. All of the

students presented the results of their research at the annual

RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium. Meet the 2014 REU

students and read their weekly newsletters

Summer REU Program

Support CIS

ALUMNI ADMISSIONS EVENTS

Palo Alto, CA 10/13

Washington, DC 10/14, 10/15

Boston, MA 10/8, 10/10

Watertown, MA 10/9

NYC—Many dates; click link below

Philadelphia, PA 10/6, 10/26

Alexandria, VA 10/20. 10/21

Fairfax, VA 10/19

Please be sure to check the

FULL DETAILS AND LISTINGS

often for updates and to register.

Boston, MA October 27th

FULL DETAILS AND LISTINGS

Dr. Stefi Baum Steps Down as Director

Stefi Baum, professor and director of the Chester F. Carlson

Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of

Technology, has accepted the position of Dean of Science at

the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, effective

October 1.

Baum joined RIT in 2004 as the director of the Center for

Imaging Science and has held the longest tenure of this

leadership role. She will retain a position as research professor

at the Center, where she will continue to receive grant

funding, advise students and maintain ongoing collaborations at

RIT. Prior to her departure, Baum will help transition an

interim director of the center.

“This was a very, very difficult decision for me, as I am so

enormously fond of CIS, the faculty, staff and students, and

proud of all our accomplishments,” Baum wrote in an email to

her colleagues. Read More

Interim Director Announcement

Dr. David Messinger has been named Interim Director of the

Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. Dr. Messinger is

currently an Associate Professor in the Chester F. Carlson

Center for Imaging Science where he has served as the Director

of the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory (DIRS)

since 2007. As Director of DIRS, David has led the lab to many

accomplishments that brought national and international

recognition to the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging

Science, the College of Science, and RIT.

David earned his Ph.D. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute and his B.S. in physics from Clarkson University.

Before joining RIT, he worked as an analyst for XonTech Inc.

and on the National Missile Defense Program for Northrop

Grumman. Read More

While Dr. Messinger fulfills this role, Associate Professor Dr.

Jan van Aardt will be acting director of DIRS. David is joined by

Dr. Jeff Pelz, who will be serving a “deputy” role. Dr. Pelz

holds the distinctions of Frederick Wiedman Chair and

Professor, and leads the Multidisciplinary Vision Research Lab.

An international search for the new Director will be announced

soon.

Dr. Baum, right, accepts a plaque from Dr. John Schott in recognition of her dedicated service to CIS.

New CIS Website

After more than a year of preparation, CIS unveiled a new

website in August. The new site features a clean and polished

design while maintaining all of the functionality that has been

developed over the years. Entirely new content includes a

Prospective Students section, student profiles, and

testimonials. The new website was produced in association

with The Wallace Center at RIT. Check it out at cis.rit.edu!

We hope you like the new look and feel. If you have any

feedback, or would like to provide a testimonial quote, please

e-mail contactus@cis.rit.edu.

High School Summer Interns

2014 marked the 15th year of the High School Internship

Program. Despite being unpaid by CIS this year, 15 of the

brightest and most motivated interns we’ve ever had

participated. Another change for this year was a shortening of

the program from seven weeks to six, due to RIT’s semester

calendar conversion; thankfully this did not have any negative

impact on the ability of the interns to complete meaningful

research. In addition to their research projects, interns

enjoyed weekly cookouts; a professional development lunch

with CIS alumnus Matt Montanaro, who Skyped in from NASA

Goddard; and the ever-popular field trip to Mees Observatory.

At the conclusion of the internship, interns were each

presented with a certificate of successful completion and a

personalized letter of recommendation signed by the Director.

Titles and abstracts from the 2014 final presentations are

available here, and video recordings of the presentations are

available at the following links: Part 1, Part 2.

A team of imaging scientists got their CIS-logo Bayer pattern t-shirts dirty on September 20th during Mud Tug XIX hosted by Phi Kappa Psi and Zeta Tau Alpha. Proceeds from the event went to the Hillside Family of Agencies.

JUST FOR FUN

Dr. David Messinger has assumed the role of Interim Director for CIS.

2014 REU students at the RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium

From the Archives: (click image to enlarge) Sue Chan and Jeff Pelz are feeling a little American Gothic as part of the United Way Day of Caring. Photo ca. early 1990’s.

High School Summer Interns 2014

Dr. Sophia Maggelakis, Dean of the

College of Science, and Dr. Stefi

Baum at Baum’s going-away party in

the Strasenburgh Planetarium.

Volunteer as an Alumni Admissions Officer: You can assist our

efforts with the Office of Admissions to recruit qualified

students to study Imaging Science at RIT. By representing CIS/

RIT at area college fairs or participating in Admissions

receptions in your area, you can play an important role in

helping prospective students learn more about CIS and RIT.

Even better, when you represent CIS at such events, you

qualify for rewards via the CIS Ambassador Program. Becoming

an Alumni Admissions Officer is easy—simply contact CIS

Outreach Specialist Bethany Choate, and she will both connect

you with the Admissions Office and arrange to send you CIS

informational materials along with your very own CIS Polo Shirt

to wear to the event. For your convenience, upcoming event

dates in cities with large CIS alumni populations are listed in

the right-hand column of the newsletter, under “Alumni

Admissions Events”.

Application Fee Waivers: You can give a college-bound student

of your choice a fee-waived application for undergraduate

admission. If you know a high school senior that would thrive

and excel at RIT, this is your opportunity to recruit the best for

your alma mater. By encouraging a student to apply, you can

share your RIT experiences with a prospective student, while

helping to defray the cost of applying to the university.

Request a waiver online

‘Tis the Season... for Alumni Admissions

Events

PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED—————————————————————–—

SPIE/OSA Picnic—The SPIE/OSA Student Chapter at RIT is a

student organization affiliated with two not-for-profit

professional societies: the International Society for Optics and

Photonics (SPIE) and the Optical Society (OSA). The Student

Chapter provides for the community of students at RIT who are

interested in the science and technology of light by hosting

professional talks, mixer events with other universities and

local professionals, and by providing travel opportunities for its

students to attend international conferences. Towards this

end, the RIT and University of Rochester student chapters of

SPIE/OSA hosted a joint picnic in Genesee Valley Park on

September 19. The event was a huge success with

approximately 50 people in attendance!

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

Brick City Homecoming—Don’t miss RIT’s annual homecoming

weekend, October 16-19! Reconnect with CIS at the following

events:

Celebrate Science: Enjoy several science booth exhibits

and meet students at this new event. 11AM-3PM Oct. 17 and

18, Bruce and Nora James Atrium, Gosnell Building

Imaging to Recover Historical Writings—Dr. Roger

Easton: Learn about how modern imaging technologies are

being applied to help scholars read writings of historical

value, 11AM-12PM, Oct. 18, Room 2155, Carlson Building

IEEE IPW—This fall's IEEE Western New York Image and Signal

Processing Workshop will be held at RIT on Friday, November 7.

The WNYISPW is a venue for promoting image and signal

processing research in our area and for facilitating interaction

between academic researchers, industry researchers, and

students. Learn More

>>SEE THE FULL CIS EVENTS CALENDAR

Interns Rachel Shadler, Madeline Wolters, and David Lewis presented a Do-It-Youself Camera of their own design to Steve Sasson, inventor of the digital camera, as part of their final presentation.

UR and RIT students get together for the SPIE/OSA student chapters picnic on September 19.