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Submit only ONE copy of this form for each PI/PD and co-PI/PD identified on the proposal. The form(s) should be attached to the original
proposal as specified in GPG Section II.B. Submission of this information is voluntary and is not a precondition of award. This information will
not be disclosed to external peer reviewers. DO NOT INCLUDE THIS FORM WITH ANY OF THE OTHER COPIES OF YOUR PROPOSAL AS
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PI/PD Name: Carl Salvaggio

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of race.
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America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.
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example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa,
or other Pacific Islands.
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0754916
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Center for Imaging Science 141 Lomb Memorial Drive
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Rochester, NY 146235603
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PI/PD NAME
Stefi Baum PhD 1987 585-475-7525 baum@cis.rit.edu
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Project Elements: New REU Site; Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences; Principal
Investigator: Dr. Stefi Baum; Submitting Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology;
Location: Rochester Institute of Technology, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science;
Main field(s) & sub-field(s) of research: physics, mathematics, astrophysics, remote sensing, biomedical
research, environmental science, vision science, nano-technology, materials science, color science,
computer graphics, archaeology, and microelectronic engineering; No. of undergraduate participants per
year: Year 1: 5 and Years 2-4: 10; Summer REU Site; 10 weeks; Project includes an ethics component;
REU Site Coordinator: Jacob Noel-Storr, Phone 585-475-2521, jake@cis.rit.edu; No website.
Project Summary – NSF REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences
The Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (CIS) at RIT is a highly interdisciplinary University
Research and Education Center, dedicated to pushing the frontiers of imaging in all its forms and uses.
The IPS REU program will introduce young scientists to research in a highly interdisciplinary environment,
where cross-disciplinary team problem solving is the norm. The IPS REU has the following specific goals:
(i) Involve undergraduates from a wide range of host institution type, gender, and ethnicities in a coherent
and extendable (multi-year) research experience, starting after their freshman or sophomore years; (ii)
Involve undergraduates originating from a specific science or engineering major in a highly
interdisciplinary research environment, engaging them to work in teams across traditional disciplinary
boundaries in problem-based research; (iii) Expose students to the emerging field of imaging science and
its many and varied application areas; (iv) Encourage students to pursue graduate studies in STEM; (v)
Assist students in the dissemination of their research; (vi) Create an ongoing research incubator
environment, including feedback from advisory scientists external to RIT, mentoring in public speaking,
scientific writing, professional ethics, and social engagement; (vii) Assess the implementation and impact
of our REU Program.
Intellectual Merit - As humans, we are highly geared to gather information, understand, process and
document the world around us through imaging. Imaging scientists form images today using the full range
of the electromagnetic spectrum and techniques such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging to
transcend the realm of electromagnetic waves. To increase the physical information and diagnostic power
of images, scientists employ a range of techniques, such as spectroscopy, radar and polarimetry; utilize
in situ sensors to provide calibration for remotely sensed images; and manipulate particle beams to probe
on nano-scales at the highest energies. Scientists create databases of the images so obtained, computer
algorithms that fuse information from multiple imaging modalities, and visualization products that allow
humans, aided by computers, to obtain the answers to fundamental and applied questions critical to
human knowledge, health, and security. The following application areas of imaging research within CIS
create an array of research opportunities for undergraduate REU students: astrophysics, remote sensing,
biomedical research, environmental science, vision science, nano-technology, materials science, color
science, computer graphics, archaeology, and microelectronic engineering.
Broader Impacts - Over the past 5 years, CIS has regularly engaged tens of undergraduate student
researchers per quarter during the academic year and summer in active research in our constituent
laboratories. Over the same period undergraduates (and high-school interns) working in our labs have
published over 100 conference proceedings and refereed journal articles. Using this experience, CIS
faculty have developed summer NSF REU projects that can be completed by undergraduates during a 10
week program. In addition to the targeted research projects, the IPS REU program will create a broad
array of associated program elements for our Summer REU students, in order to maximize the probability
that the REU students will decide to pursue STEM careers. These include: (i) an introduction to the
interdisciplinary field of imaging science; (ii) a biweekly seminar in developing research and career skills;
(iii) a research incubator environment, including team and leadership building and social activities; (iv)
presentation, grant writing, and paper writing experiences with feedback; (v) field trips to local industry;
and (vi) ethics training. A research coordinator will facilitate these program elements in conjunction with
the faculty and program director. The IPS REU will recruit students from outside RIT from a broad range
of backgrounds, gender, and ethnicities, starting in their freshman or sophomore summers, and work with
them, over multiple summers whenever possible, to grow a strong cohort who confidently pursue careers
in STEM disciplines and who thrive in an interdisciplinary environment. The IPS REU program is
committed to recruiting 80% of its students from outside RIT, with at least 50% of our undergraduates
from underrepresented populations. Through our evaluation process we will conduct, document and
disseminate research on the successful elements of our program, as we track our students over their
careers.
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References Cited 1

Biographical Sketches (Not to exceed 2 pages each) 23

Budget 7
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Current and Pending Support 22

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Project Description
1. Overview
The NSF REU Program Imaging in the Physical Sciences is a new program that will build on the
strength of the research and educational programs in the interdisciplinary Chester F. Carlson
Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology, extending a rich history of
undergraduate research experiences with RIT students to students from beyond RIT’s walls. We
will recruit undergraduates to our program from a range of backgrounds, home institution types,
ages, and ethnicity focusing first on students who have just completed their freshman or
sophomore years. In subsequent summers the program will not only serve students new to the
program, but will also invite students who have successfully completed one summer REU
experience with our program to come back for successive summers allowing returning students to
expand the depth of their research and expertise, further drawing them along the road to
successful STEM Careers. The returning students will also serve as peer mentors for the new
students in successive summers. Our program will introduce young scientists to research in a
highly interdisciplinary, team-oriented setting, preparing the students for the type of goal-oriented
research they are likely to encounter in real-world environments.

Our program has the following seven specific goals:

1. Involve undergraduates from a wide range of host institution type, gender, and ethnicities
in a coherent and extendable (multi-year) research experience, starting after their
freshman or sophomore years in college.
2. Involve undergraduates originating from a specific science or engineering major in our
highly interdisciplinary research environment, engaging them to work in teams across
traditional disciplinary boundaries in problem-based research.
3. Expose students to the emerging field of imaging science and its many and varied
application areas.
4. Encourage students to pursue graduate studies in a STEM discipline or interdisciplinary
STEM field.
5. Assist students in the dissemination of their research through conference presentations
and refereed publications.
6. Create an ongoing research incubator environment for the students, including feedback
from advisory scientists external to RIT, mentoring in public speaking, scientific writing,
professional ethics, and social engagement.
7. Assess the implementation and impact of the REU Program on a diverse group of
students, and investigate the value of exposing teams of students from specific STEM
majors to an interdisciplinary research program.

1.1 Intellectual Merit

The Unifying Subject: Imaging Science. “To see with a keener eye has been a human
obsession since the times of Leeuwenhoek and Galileo, considered fathers of the microscope
and telescope, respectively. For centuries keener vision meant to see more clearly what was far
away or what was very small—to magnify and sharpen. But in the 20th century it also came to
signify all sorts of vision that once would have been deemed ’magic’—the penetration of veils
both around us and within us as well as the registering of forms of "light" to which human sight is
utterly blind.” (http://www.greatachievements.org/).

The reliance of modern scientific and engineering research on imaging techniques has created
the need for a new generation of scientists who can not only design and develop the optical
systems, electronics, sensors, image processing algorithms, and integrated imaging systems of
the future, but who can apply those systems to answer fundamental questions about ourselves
and our universe, monitor and protect our environment, help keep our nation secure, and improve

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our medical care. The science of imaging encompasses a very wide range of subject areas, from
the physics of optics and radiation sources, to the mathematics of statistics and topology, to the
chemistry of materials, to the engineering of sensors, to the computer science of data mining, to
the brain science of vision, to the psychophysics of perception. Imaging science addresses
questions about every aspect of systems and techniques that are used to create, perceive,
analyze, optimize and learn from images. Application areas of imaging are equally diverse,
including for example the following areas of active research within the Center for Imaging
Science: astrophysics, remote sensing, biomedical research, environmental science, vision
science, nano-technology, materials science, color science, computer graphics,
archaeology/ancient documents, and microelectronic engineering.

Interdisciplinary Research – a Key Element of our Program. Today we both recognize the
importance of interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research and understand the difficulties in
creating an environment where such research can truly flourish. To quote a recent National
Academies Report “Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research”: “Interdisciplinary research (IDR) can
be one of the most productive and inspiring of human pursuits, one that provides a format for
conversations and connections that lead to new knowledge. As a mode of discovery and
education, it has delivered much already and promises more… Despite the apparent benefits of
IDR, researchers interested in pursuing it often face daunting obstacles and disincentives….”
(http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11153.html).
With a 20-year history, the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (CIS) at RIT has
created a diverse interdisciplinary environment for education and research focused on the theme
of Imaging Science and its applications areas. The NRC report on Interdisciplinary Research
states “Researchers and faculty members desiring to work on interdisciplinary research,
education, and training projects should immerse themselves in the languages, cultures,
and knowledge of their collaborators in Inter-Disciplinary Research”. This is the kind of
environment we have worked to establish at RIT in CIS. CIS has 34 faculty whose PhDs are
distributed between the Physical Sciences (Physics [7], Astronomy [5], Chemistry [5], Imaging
and Remote Sensing [3]), Mathematics and Computer Science [4], Engineering [8], and Brain and
Cognitive Science [3]. Our collaborative networks extend to research hospitals (University or
Rochester’s Strong Hospital and Syracuse’s Upstate Medical), national centers (e.g., the National
Radio Astronomy Observatory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory), many universities and over 30 industry partners with whom we engage in
research. Within CIS we approach imaging from a systems perspective, including the
interpretation, modeling, physical understanding, fusion, display and perception of data from
imaging systems. This systems approach depends on and engenders a tight collaboration
between interdisciplinary imaging scientists and the many scientists and engineers who reside
purely in the application disciplines with whom we work. Thus, Imaging Science is both truly
interdisciplinary in its content and multi-disciplinary in its applications. As such it provides an ideal
gateway through which to introduce young minds to a range of fascinating pure and applied
research problems, as well as an ideal medium in which to grow researchers who are facile
working in a highly interdisciplinary research environment.

1.2 Broader Impacts

The Imaging Science REU Program Elements

CIS provides a rich and diverse environment for undergraduate research. Over the past 5 years,
CIS has regularly engaged ~40 paid undergraduate student researchers per quarter during the
academic year and ~20 undergraduates per summer in active research. Over the same period
undergraduate researchers (and high-school interns!) have published over 100 conference
proceedings and refereed journal articles. These past successful experiences with RIT student
researchers allows the CIS faculty to specifically design summer NSF REU projects that can be
completed by undergraduates during a 10 week program. Section 2.1 describes these programs,
each of which is focused in one of the major research laboratories within CIS.

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The faculty engaged in this program, supported by the Research Coordinator, will conduct all
NSF-REU program mentoring. The summer research environment here in CIS encompasses
faculty, research staff, postdocs, graduate students (at the masters and PhD levels),
undergraduates, honors pre-freshmen, and high-school juniors serving as interns in our
laboratories. Thus our undergraduate researchers will benefit from a rich integrated environment
where they will interact with scientists and engineers at all career stages.

In addition to the targeted research projects in our laboratories, we have developed a broad array
of associated program elements for our Summer REU students, designed to draw students into
and prepare them for STEM careers. These include: (i) an introduction to the interdisciplinary field
of imaging science; (ii) a biweekly seminar in developing research and career skills; (iii) a
research incubator environment, including team and leadership building as well as social
activities; (iv) presentation, grant writing, and paper writing experiences with feedback; (v) field
trips to local industry; and (vi) ethics training.

We will recruit students from a broad range of backgrounds, gender, and ethnicity to our program,
starting in their freshman or sophomore summers, and work with them, over multiple summers
whenever possible, to grow a strong cohort who confidently pursue careers in STEM disciplines
and who thrive in an interdisciplinary environment. Through our evaluation process we will
conduct, document and disseminate research on the successful elements of our program, as we
track our students over their careers.

Finally, an interdisciplinary field such as Imaging Science, unburdened by preconceptions that the
discipline is non-traditional for women or minorities, has the potential to draw underrepresented
populations into the STEM fields. This summer CIS had 32 undergraduate students and rising
high-school seniors participate in research in our laboratories – of those 15 (or 47%) were women
or underrepresented minorities. Additionally, RIT is the site of the National Technical School for
the Deaf and within CIS we have substantial experience teaching deaf students and mentoring
deaf students in research experiences.

2. Nature of Student Activities

2.1 Research Program
Research within CIS is organized within constituent Laboratories, each of which has several
collaborating faculty and associated research staff and student participation. The laboratories in
CIS that have proposed projects for the NSF Summer REU program in Imaging Science include;
the Biomedical and Materials Multimodal Laboratory, the Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory,
the Nano-Imaging Laboratory, the Nano-Power Research Lab, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Laboratory, the Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Laboratory, the Digital Imaging and
Remote Sensing Laboratory, the Munsell Color Science Laboratory, the Print Systems Research
Laboratory, the Multidisciplinary Vision Research Laboratory and the Document Restoration
Laboratory. We will match the REU students’ interests and capabilities with appropriate projects.

Biomedical and Materials Multimodal Imaging Lab – Assistant Professor Maria Helguera
This laboratory’s mission is to develop innovative ways to visualize, analyze, and characterize
biological tissues and synthetic materials. The research projects proposed by this lab are
particularly suited for undergraduates since all of them involve a basic understanding of the
physical principles required for image formation by the different biomedical imaging modalities.
Students are exposed to programming languages such as Matlab, IDL, and C++, and in some
instances will be able to develop their own code for image processing and simulation. In some
projects the students will operate ultrasound equipment, and in others students will be exposed to
medical imaging digital simulators such as SIMRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI) and
SimSET (Positron Emission Tomography, PET, and Single Photon Emission Tomography,
SPECT). IRB authorization will be obtained where necessary.

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One active area of research in the lab is improvement in medical imaging ground truth evaluation
by creation of synthetic images with the appropriate physical properties and characteristics that
can be analyzed in digital simulators. The quality and realism of simulated images is currently
limited by the quality of the digital phantoms used for the simulations. The transition from simple
raster based phantoms to more detailed geometric (mesh) based phantoms has the potential to
increase the usefulness of the simulated data. A second active area of research [1] is the fusion
of multi-modal breast imaging data to improve diagnosis and tracking of disease, including X-ray
computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission
computer tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), and ultrasound.

Possible REU student projects include:

• High-frequency ultrasound characterization of skin (see also [2]).
• Investigation of Lamb wave-generation in layered media.
• Implementation of dynamic range adjustment of fused images based on cubic splines.
• Design of a breast phantom including the following components: adipose, air, areola,
blood, bone, ductal, cooper’s ligament, lobule, muscle, skin, stromal, and tumor.

Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory – Professor Donald Figer

The Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory (RIDL) develops advanced imaging detector
technologies for cross-disciplinary applications. Started in 2006, the lab is leading several
projects to build next generation devices for astronomical, biomedical, and homeland safety
platforms. In addition, the lab collaborates with other organizations in testing existing detectors
that will be used in the world's largest cameras ever built. The RIDL is staffed by two technicians
and two postdocs. Two professors serve as principal investigators.

Possible REU student projects include:

Project 1. An REU student will participate in characterizing properties of cutting-edge detectors
operated in the RIDL. The student will experience the whole process of conceiving of an
experiment, writing data acquisition code, running the experiment, analyzing the data, and writing
up the results. We envision that the best experiment for this purpose would be a measurement of
inter-pixel capacitance, an effect that manifests itself as cross talk of signal between adjacent
pixels. This is an important effect that some detectors display and that l affects science return.

Project 2. An REU student will participate in building hardware to enable testing of a new kind of
detector being designed in the RIDL. The new detector will be the first cryogenic device having a
circuit that digitizes the signal inside each pixel. The student will participate in building the post-
processing electronics to read out the detector.

The Nano-Imaging Laboratory – Associate Professor Rich Hailstone

The mission of this laboratory is to operate a state-of-the-art facility with instrumental capabilities
sufficient to image nanostructures and to develop imaging nanomaterials for basic and applied
research. An active area of research is the development of Hybrid Light Emitting Devices. Light
emitting devices (LEDs) are built using either bottom-up techniques by successive layering of
different materials, or top-down techniques using microlithography as in semiconductor device
manufacturing. This research project uses the former approach. LEDs function by the injection of
electrons and holes into a material that is designed to cause their eventual recombination. When
electrons and holes recombine energy is released and this energy is in the form of either heat or
light. Efficient LEDs must emphasize the latter. These LEDs will serve as the basis of next
generation image displays. Hybrid LEDs utilize both organic and inorganic layers. The organic
layers provide a medium for conducting the injected electrons and holes to the recombination
sites, and the inorganic layer (a monolayer of nanocrystals) serves as a site where the electrons
and holes recombine to emit light. These devices are fabricated using a combination of thermal
evaporation and spin coating techniques. Evaluating the performance of these devices requires
measuring the I-V curve (amps out vs volts in), the electroluminescence spectra, and the
radiometric output (photons out vs energy in, photons/watt). Ideally, there should be one photon
out for every injected electron, but there are a variety of factors that conspire to prevent this

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idealized state. Imaging techniques for characterizing the device include scanning electron
microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy — all available in an
adjacent microscopy facility.

Possible REU student projects include:

• Fabricate and evaluate a small-molecule LED.
• Fabricate and evaluate a polymer-based LED.
• Synthesize and characterize nanocrystals.

Nano Power Research Laboratories – Professor Ryne Raffaele

The NanoPower Research Laboratories (NPRL) are a CIS affiliated lab, established in 2001. A
major focus of the NPRL has been the synthesis, characterization, and utilization of new
nanomaterials for a wide variety of power devices. This has led to the development of research
solutions for applications including space, consumer, health, military, and intelligence devices.
Students, faculty and staff from more than 14 diverse academic programs spanning 6 RIT
colleges contribute to the ongoing success of the NPRL. The scholarship efforts during the first
five years have resulted in more than 70 professional publications with many containing student
co-authors. Roberta DiLeo worked in the NPRL as part of the Dean's Undergraduate Research
2006 Summer Program. Her project was focused on building a low pressure chemical vapor
deposition reactor to produce multi wall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs). Roberta's project was an
outstanding success. Not only was she successful in building a reactor which could synthesize
MWNTs, but her work contributed to three different patent disclosures, a number of funded
research project reports, and her first peer reviewed publication as a first author in Applied
Physics Letters.

An active area of research within the NPRL is single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). SWNTs
have been shown to have a variety of remarkable optoelectronic properties. Many groups are
trying to exploit these properties for the next-generation of imaging devices. SWNTs are
produced in the NPRL using a laser vaporization process. Precise control over the various
properties (i.e., length, chirality, purity) are essential to fully maximizing the potential impact that
these materials may have on future imaging systems. The question to be answered in this
project is what laboratory conditions produce the largest yield of nanotubes, the longest
nanotubes, and most importantly the chirality distribution under the various conditions. This
project will involve using different laser pulse widths, laser wavelengths, energy densities, oven
temperatures, metal catalysts, buffer gases, and flow tube conditions and measuring the resulting
nanotube properties. This project will use multiple areas of physics including, but not limited to,
nanotechnology, condensed matter physics, and physical chemistry.

Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (MRL) – Professor Joseph Hornak

The MRL is a research and development laboratory devoted to solving real world problems with
magnetic resonance. One area of active research is phantom development. Magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) phantoms are anthropogenic objects used to test the performance of an MRI
system. A phantom filler material must possess a controllable nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation rates (R1 and R2 respectively), have a single spectral
absorption, be devoid of artifacts, and have a low cost. There are two interesting problems
related to the development of MRI phantoms. First problem is the control of R1 and R2. In both
aqueous and non-aqueous filler materials, R1 and R2 are typically controlled by the addition of
paramagnetic ions. Adding a single ion type gives a specific ratio of R1/R2 as a function of
concentration. Adding two ion types allows the control of both R1 and R2 but the effect is often
not linear due to the formation of complexes. For example, Cu and Gd(DTPA-BMA), two
commonly used ions form a Cu2-Gd(DTPA-DMA) complex with an R1 and R2 which is different
than the sum of the relaxivities of the two individual dopants. The second problem related to the
development of MRI phantoms is minimization of artifacts. This problem has become more
relevant with the approval of higher magnetic field strengths (Bo) by the USA FDA. The phantom
filler material should possess a low dielectric constant (εr) to minimize the standing wave artifact
[4]. The filler material should also possess a moderate resistivity (ρ) to load the radio frequency

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(RF) coil on the imager as the human body would, but avoid the conductivity artifact [4]. Because
a low εr and a moderate ρ are often mutually exclusive in a single material, low dielectric constant
hydrocarbons are often doped with paramagnetic materials. For example, t-butanol is a relatively
inexpensive alcohol with an εr ≈ 18 and a CH3 to OH proton ratio of 9:1. Adding HCl to t-butanol
creates t-butyl chloride and water. Removing the water leaves t-butyl chloride with an εr ≈ 10 and
a single proton NMR absorption peak. The MRL is currently developing a filler material with a
controllable R1 and R2, and a low εr and moderate ρ values. With these materials, the MRI
community will have a phantom which can be used to test the performance of RF coils and the Bo
homogeneity on higher field MRI systems.

Possible REU student projects include:

• Determine the NMR relaxivity of aqueous mixtures paramagnetic ions as a function of Bo.
• Determine the composition and relaxivity of paramagnetic ion-ion-ligand complexes.
• Examine polymeric materials for phantom filler materials by measuring εr, ρ, R1, and R2.

Laboratory for Astrophysical Science and Technology – Professor Stefi Baum

The laboratory for astrophysical science and technology conducts research in stellar and
extragalactic astrophysics, develops astronomical technology and carries out astro-informatics
research. REU Projects will involve data reduction and analysis of multiwavelength astronomical
data using many ground based and space based observatories, including e.g., the VLA, KPNO,
Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra.

Possible REU student projects include:

• The Nature of Accretion in Powerful Radio Galaxies”. This project combines Spitzer,
radio, and X-ray observations of low redshift radio galaxies. The goal is to determine the
accretion disk luminosity in different types of radio galaxies. These sources may have
different modes of accretion that produce different accretion disk properties leading to
qualitatively different jet properties. The role of the student is to reduce the Spitzer IRS
spectra and Chandra observations, and estimate the luminosity in the IR and X-rays.
• Mid-IR observations of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs). This project combines Spitzer
near-mid IR photometry with HST FUV observations of BCGs in order to determine the
star formation rates in these galaxies. Star formation is likely to be the ultimate sink of the
cooling gas, and thus provides a constraint on the effectiveness of re-heating of the ICM.
The role of the student is to measure photometry for the BCGs in the IR and FUV
images, determine the size scales and physical relationships between the IR and FUV
emission, and estimate star formation rates.

Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory – Assoc. Professors Salvaggio & Vodacek
The DIRS group conducts research on a variety of topics related to the development of hardware
and software tools to facilitate the extraction of information from remotely sensed data of the
earth. The research focus is broadly broken into three areas: modeling and simulation,
phenomenology and algorithms, and measurements and experiments. Some common themes
across these areas are the use of multi- and hyperspectral image data, physics-based
understanding of scene content, and statistical algorithms. Special expertise areas within DIRS
are infrared imaging and reflectometry, polarimetric imaging, atmospheric compensation,
modeling sparse aperture systems, spectral quality metrics, remote sensing data assimilation,
airborne imaging hardware, radiometric calibration, and radiometric modeling of synthetic scenes.

Past research projects in this laboratory have often involved undergraduates both during the
school year and summer. Student projects are generally assigned according to their scientific
interest and skills in mathematics, physics, experimental science, and computer coding. Students
have the opportunity to learn to use specialized image processing software and to work on field
experiments, operating research quality radiometers and reflectometers. Other students will use
their software skills to add new capabilities to our suite of image generation tools.

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Potential REU summer research projects include:
• Assessing the impact of bi-directional reflectance on target detection algorithms.
• Generating a phenology-based classification algorithm using growing season spectral
reflectance measurements of purple loosestrife, an invasive wetland plant.
• Quantifying the impact of environmental exposure (weathering) on target signals.

Munsell Color Science Laboratory –Professor Mark Fairchild

The Munsell Color Science Laboratory conducts research in the multidisciplinary field of color
science, involving the study of light sources, objects/materials, and the human visual system, with
research spanning the gamut from fundamental questions of color perception to development of
practical color reproduction systems. One active area of research concerns the spectra and color
of high-efficiency home lighting. Incandescent home lighting is very inefficient. Less than 5% of
the energy used is converted into light - the remaining energy is largely converted to heat. As
such, and with the need to reduce energy usage, energy efficient compact fluorescent lighting is
becoming a viable alternative. In the near future, LED lighting will offer another potentially better
alternative. Despite the energy-efficiency advantages, these new light sources are not universally
accepted due to issues in their spectral, spatial, and temporal distributions of illumination. These
differences lead many consumers to prefer traditional incandescent illumination.

A better understanding of the physical nature of these sources and their interactions with user
environments (e.g., the illumination of objects and images, the rendering of illuminated scenes
when photographed, etc.) requires further study and proposals for improvement. This could lead
to resolution of the perceptual issues that are (or might in the future) holding back the adoption of
modern lighting systems and the huge potential environmental benefits. The proposed research
projects aim to quantify the physical and perceptual properties of the three lighting alternatives
(incandescent, compact fluorescent, and LED), model how those physical differences impact the
perceptual environment and user satisfaction, and propose improvements that could speed the
adoption of these important technologies.

Possible REU student projects include:

• Measurement of the physical properties (spectral, colorimetric, geometric/spatial,
temporal, and energy efficiency) of currently available light sources.
• Computation of perceptual effects such as color rendering, image rendering,
photographic rendering, perceived brightness for various illumination types and viewing
environments.
• Modeling and feasibility analysis of improved lighting designs (e.g., faster onset, brighter,
more similar to incandescent in color rendering, etc.)

Print Research and Imaging Systems Modeling Lab –Assist. Professor Marcos Esterman
Established in 2005, the Print Research and Imaging Systems Modeling lab (PRISM) conducts
printing research projects combining Systems Engineering, Imaging Science, and Color Science.
An area of active research within PRISM is the study of Thermal Film Formation and Surface
Relaxation of Styrene-acrylate and Polyester Powders. The lab examines the thermally induced
film formation and surface relaxation kinetics of fine powders of polyester resins and styrene-
acrylate copolymers using an optical device developed at RIT for the non-contact measurement
of surface topography. The device is known as a micro-goniophotometer and makes a
quantitative measure of the distribution of topographic surface angles. The thermo/mechanical
treatment, called "fusing", of the resins and copolymers is the final stage of image formation in
electrophotographic printing and is responsible in large measure for the final quality of the printed
image. The fusing process is the rate-limiting step in electrophotographic printing. However,
increased fusing speed reduces image quality when using current toner formulations. The
summer REU student will be engaged in research on the design and measurement of toner
formulations for high speed fusing systems. Formulation variables that will be included in the
study will include pigment loading, polymer molecular weight and distribution, plasticizer type and
amount, and particle size distribution.

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Multidisciplinary Vision Research Laboratory – Professors Jeff Pelz and Andrew Herbert
The Multidisciplinary Vision Research Lab (MVRL) conducts research in vision, perception,
attention, and related areas using innovative eye-tracking technologies and traditional behavioral
research methods. In addition to the RIT-developed Wearable Eyetracker, the MVR has a full
suite of eye-tracking and analysis instrumentation, including one of the few binocular Dual-
Purkinje Image eye-tracking systems in the world. The MVRL goals are to develop and utilize
new eye-tracking techniques and technologies to address both fundamental questions and
applied problems relating to perception in complex environments.

An active area of research in the MVRL is the detection of symmetry. Nearly everywhere we look
there is something with a prominent axis of symmetry. Many studies have shown that isolated
patches of bilateral symmetry are detected rapidly and accurately [4,5]. But a symmetric patch
does not ‘pop-out’ from asymmetric distracters for when embedded in random noise [6,7]. The
surprising lack of symmetry pop-out in the periphery may be due to ‘accidental symmetry’ from
randomly placed elements. Another area of active research in the MVRL is the improvement of
the Wearable Eyetracker. RIT has played a central role in the development of a new field for
monitoring and analysis of complex behaviors by extending instrumentation for the study of gaze
patterns outside of the laboratory [8,9] and is uniquely qualified to extend this research.

Possible REU student projects include:

• Symmetry detection with Dual-Purkinje image (DPI) eyetracker: participate in the design,
execution, and analysis of symmetry-detection experiments using the DPI eyetracker.
• Natural-image scene statistics: a) survey natural images for regions of symmetry, and b)
perform eyetracking experiments to search for correlations between naturally occurring
symmetrical regions and areas that are more likely to be fixated by observers.
• Design and evaluation of a multiple-illuminator version of the Wearable Eyetracker. The
goal is to expand the lighting conditions under which the eyetracker can be used to full
sunlight, and to extend the range of eye positions that can be tracked without loss.

Digital Image Restoration Laboratory – Professor Roger Easton

The Digital Image Restoration Laboratory (DIRL) applies modern imaging collection technologies
and processing algorithms to extract information from historical documents, primarily handwritten
manuscripts, but also printed books and paintings. The best-known manuscript that we have
worked on is the Archimedes “palimpsest” (from Greek, /palimpsestos/ (“scraped again”), reused
writing material). This is a 10^th -century codex (bound book) containing parts of seven treatises
by Archimedes, including the only known copies of two. The manuscript was erased and
overwritten with a Christian prayer book early in the 13^th century. The work on the Archimedes
palimpsest began in 2000, with completion scheduled for October 2008. This may be followed by
work on an earlier Syriac palimpsest. DIRL has also imaged other manuscripts, including the
“Sarvamoola Granthas” in Udupi, India, which has led to a possible collaboration currently being
explored with the Oriental Collections at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, and a single
page of a palimpsest from the collection at the Cambridge University Library.

Possible REU student projects include:

• Digital registration of images from different collection methods, viz. optical and X-ray
fluorescence images. The geometries of these two schemes are very different, so that
images must be “warped” to make the features line up for subsequent multispectral
processing. Algorithm and technique development are needed for each project.
• Development, calibration and testing of illumination panels composed of light-emitting
diodes for multispectral image collection.

2.2 Supplemental Activities

The Imaging in the Physical Sciences REU program has a broad array of activities for our
students beyond the high quality research projects they will engage in the research laboratories.

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These activities are designed to draw the undergraduates into a family of researchers, to
encourage their retention in STEM, to help them acquire the skills they will need to be successful
in a STEM career, and to expose them to a full range of STEM opportunities. The REU Research
Coordinator and the RIT Insight Lab for Science Outreach and Learning Research will be
responsible for the overall management of the program of supplemental activities, social activities
and the research incubator (see below).

Introduction to Imaging Science. To introduce our summer REU students to the

interdisciplinary field of imaging science and help them place their summer research projects in
context, each student will receive the book, "The Science of Imaging: An Introduction," by
Graham Saxby. Students will also have the option of auditing or taking for credit, free of charge,
"Imaging in the Physical Sciences". This introductory course presents a survey of the field of
imaging science. Fundamental properties and characteristics of light and sensors, and
fundamental principles of image processing are presented and explored in the lab.
Representative scientific problems from fields such as medical science, remote sensing, and
astronomy are used. The class meets for three hours of lecture and three of lab per week.

Developing Research Skills. Every other week, all of the REU summer students will participate
in a 1-hour interactive session on an aspect of conducting and disseminating research. The REU
Research Coordinator will conduct the sessions. The seminar will be aligned to coincide with an
activity the students are conducting or assignment they must complete. Topics covered will
include; i) Week 1: Interdisciplinary Research, Working in teams, defining a common goal, (ii)
Week 3: Graduate School – do I need it, how to get ready, how to apply, (iii) Week 5; How to
write a research grant – students will write a 1-2 page travel grant request for a seminar
presentation at a research conference. Feedback will be provided to the students by the
Research Coordinator, (iv) Week 7: How to make a presentation (this is timed to coincide with
development of a presentation for the Undergraduate Research Symposium) – again this will be
reviewed and feedback provided; (v) Week 9: How to write a paper (students will be expected to
write a 5 page paper on their summer research – these papers will be bound together in a
volume, send to the home department chairs of each student, and posted on our web site. Our
external science evaluators will review these papers.

Research Incubator. The Research Incubator environment we will create for our summer REU
students will extend beyond the specific laboratories in which they conduct their research, and
form a virtual center within CIS to promote excellence in research and teamwork amongst the
group of REU students. We will provide a common space and the REU Research Coordinator will
tailor leadership and teamwork mentoring for these students to help the students become better
managers of their own time and research efforts, while encouraging them to work together
collegially, sharing knowledge and providing support to each other in their specific projects. The
incubator will also encourage students to socialize, reinforcing the social, team based aspects of
scientific research communities, including activities such as weekly bicycle trips along the Erie
Canal and a weekly Wings Night. More experienced students within the incubator (for example,
those returning for a second year) will be natural peer-mentors for those with less experience.
The incubator will be populated by the core of REU students, joined at various times during the
summer by students from a variety of existing programs across campus (some examples include
the College of Science pre-freshman program, the NorthStar academy bridging program for under
represented groups, and the CIS Science High School Intern program).

Real World Science: Field Trips. Several times throughout the summer, our summer REU
students will be exposed to scientific research in a real world setting when they go on a field trip
to a local STEM related industry or research center. Examples of field trips conducted by CIS for
our students the past years include: Bausch and Lomb, Xerox, Kodak, ITT, Infotonics.

Ethics Training. All summer REU students will participate in the “Ethics in Science” workshop
conducted by Dr. Wade Robison, the Ezra A. Hale Endowed Chair for Applied Ethics at RIT, and
founder of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. The workshop will focus on ethical

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issues in the conduct and dissemination of scientific research. A description of the workshop is
given in the appendix. The workshop will be given over two two-hour morning sessions.

Presentations. All of the summer REU students will present the results of their research in RIT’s
yearly undergraduate research seminar in August. Roughly one hundred students present at this
seminar each year - faculty from across the RIT Campus as well as industry representatives
serve as evaluators and judges. Awards are given for the best presentations, and all students
who present receive written feedback on their presentations, covering both content and style.

Grant Writing and Exposure at National Conferences. As noted in the Research Skills
Seminar section, each of our summer REU students will get experience in and feedback on a 1-2
page research travel grant request they write that can be used by the student, subsequently, to
propose to present their results at a national conference. The faculty mentors will help their
student select an appropriate conference, and we will provide funds as part of this REU proposal
to support the students to present at a national conference during the course of the school year.

Paper Writing. As the culminating product of their Summer REU project experience, each
student will write a ~5 page research paper summarizing the results of their research, in
publication format. This paper will be reviewed by our External Advisors and feedback provided
directly to the student and his/her faculty advisor. The paper should serve as the initial version of
a paper that will subsequently be submitted for publication in a journal. The papers produced
each summer will be bound together in a single volume and distributed to each of the students
and their home institution department chairs. In addition the volume will be posted on our REU
web site. Finally, we will ask our external advisors each summer to select the “best paper” from
our REU students submissions, and the winner of the best paper award will receive a copy of the
“Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and Technology”, edited by J. Hornak.

2.3 Facilities
CIS is a 70,000 square foot building with 36 teaching and research laboratories dedicated to
interdisciplinary study and research in all aspects of imaging science. We also have office and
laboratory space in the nearby Munsell Color Science Laboratory and the IT-Collaboratory. Our
facilities house a large array of instrumentation and equipment as well as a network of extensive
computer facilities that are part of RIT’s campus-wide research computing capabilities.

3. Research Environment
3.1 Experience with Undergraduate Research
All of the faculty members participating in this REU have extensive experience mentoring
undergraduate researchers from RIT within their laboratories, as noted in Section 1.2. In most
cases, the end point of this research is a student presentation at a national or international
meeting and/or publication in a refereed journal. In addition within CIS we have run, for the past
seven summers, a successful and highly touted high school intern program in which local high
school juniors participate in paid 10-week research projects within our labs. The PI has extensive
experience in directly mentoring young scientists of a wide range of ages, in administering
comprehensive education and research programs for undergraduate and highschool students
and in conducting K-12 outreach. The Co-PI is undergraduate coordinator of the Imaging Science
BS degree program and has worked and published extensively with undergraduate researchers.

We will work hard to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for our diverse summer
REU students. The PI of the proposal is a woman, one senior personnel and the external
evaluator are women, and two are Hispanic. Thus ~25% of our faculty come from traditionally
under represented populations in this highly technical field. RIT has experience in providing a
nurturing environment for AALANA (African American, Latin American, and Native American)

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students and faculty, as well as for the deaf/hearing impaired. We will utilize that experience and
existing RIT student mentoring services to assure a nurturing environment for all our students.

3.2 Student Publications and Presentations at National Conferences

We are firmly committed to each and every one of our summer REU students publishing the
results of their work. Over the past 5 years, RIT undergraduates engaged in research with CIS
faculty and laboratories have published over 100 papers in conference proceedings and refereed
journals; below we list just the 2006 and 2007 student papers (undergraduate authors indicated
with a *, highschool intern authors with a **).

Conference Papers and Presentations

“Preliminary Study of PET/MRI Image Fusion Schemes for Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis”,
by K.G. Baum, E. Schmidt**, K. Rafferty*, D.H. Feiglin, A. Krol, M. Helguera, 2007 IEEE Nuclear
Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Honolulu, October 28 - Nov. 3

J.S. Arney, Michelle Spampata*, S. Farnand, T. Oswald , and Jim Chauvin*, "Paper Roughness
and the Color Gamut of Color Laser Images" IS&T's Electronic Imaging Conference, (2007)

"Evaluation of Genetic Algorithm-Generated Multivariate Color Tables for Visualization of

Multimodal Fused Data Sets", by K. Baum, M. Helguera, E. Schmidt**, K. Rafferty*, A. Krol,
submitted to IEEE/NIH Workshop on Lifescience Systems and Applications. (2007)

Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Sinisgalli, N.M.*, Detection of gaseous effluents from airborne
LWIR hyperspectral imagery using physics-based signatures, Electronic Proceedings to 2006
International Symposium of Spectral Sensing Research (ISSSR), Bar Harbor, ME.

Louten, C.* J., Pelz, J. B., Herbert, A. M., & Rosen, M. R., Eye-tracking studies in visual search
and image-based cueing. International Congress of Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, May 2006.

J.P. Hornak, C.L. Bray, T. Lucero**, A. Bright**, Surface MRI Using a Rastered Backprojection,
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 14th Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 2006.

Herbert, A. M., Pelz, J. B., Calderwood, L.*, Cook, M.**, Curtis, M*., DeAngelis, C.* & Garrison,
B.* (2006). Searching for symmetry: Eye movements during a difficult symmetry detection task.
Presented at the Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting, October, 2006, Rochester, NY.

“Non-Contact Ultrasound Characterization of Paper Substrates”, by M. Helguera, J. Arney, N.

Tallapally, D. Zollo**, Proceedings 9th European NDT conference, Berlin, 2006

Leahy, B. "Quantification of Material Identification Performance in an Urban Environment,"

presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp 2006, Denver, CO

Landi, B.; Denno, P.*; Raffaelle, R.; Darling, N.*; Worman, J. Effects of dipolar resonance and
tautomer contributions from alkyl amide solvents on the dispersion of single-wall carbon
nanotubes. 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, Sept. 10, 2006.

Harris, J.; Young, J.*; Djernes, K.*; Benjamin, J.*; Raffaelle, R.; Frost, B.* Chemical vapor
deposited carbon nanotubes for polymer solar cells. 61st Northwest Regional Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, Reno, NV, United States, June 25-28 (2006).

Refereed Publications
R. A. DiLeo*, B. J. Landi, and R. P. Raffaelle, J. Appl. Phys. 101, 064307, (2007)

J.S. Arney, and David Nilosek*, "Analysis of Print Gloss with a Calibrated Micro
Goniophotometer", submitted to J. Imag. Sci. & Technol, 51 2007.

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Daly, R., O’Dea, C., Kharb, P., Baum, S., Freeman, K*., Mory, M., 2007, ApJ, astroph-0707.466

Ferwerda, J.A. and Rehon, B.* (2007) MagnoFly: game-based screening for dyslexia. 7th Annual
Meeting, Vision Sciences Society, Journal of Vision, 7(9), 520a.

“Detection of Gaseous Effluents from Airborne LWIR Hyperspectral Imagery Using Physics-
Based Signature Predictions”, D.W. Messinger, C. Salvaggio, & N.M. Sinisgalli*, Accepted,
International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 2007

Kastner, Joel H.; Romanczyk, Paul*; Thorndike, Stephen;; et al. “Classification of Luminous
Infrared Sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud,” Astron. J., submitted (2007)

J.S. Arney, Ling Ye, and Steve Banach*, "Interpretation of Gloss Meter Measurements", J. Imag.
Sci. & Technol, 50(6), 567 (2006)

J.S. Arney, P.G. Anderson, Geoffrey Franz*, and William Pfeister*, " Color Properties of Specular
Reflections" J. Imag. Sci. & Technol, 50(3), 228 (2006)

J.S. Arney, Ling Ye, Jeff Wible*, and Tom Oswald, "Analysis of Paper Gloss", J. Pulp. & Paper
Sci., 32(1), 19 (2006).

Salvaggio, C.; Boonmee, M.; Sinisgalli, N.M.*; Messinger, D.W., Three-band temperature
extraction from airborne imagery with imprecise atmospheric knowledge, Journal of Geophysical
Research, 111, D13107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006770 (2006)

“Three-Band Temperature Extraction from Airborne Imagery with Imprecise Atmospheric

Knowledge”, C. Salvaggio, M. Boonmee, N. Sinisgalli*, & D. Messinger, J. Geophysical
Research, 111, D13107, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006770, 2006

C.L. Bray, N.C. Schaller, S.L. Ianapolo*, M.D. Bostick*, G. Ferranti, A. Fleming**, J.P. Hornak, A
Study of the 1H NMR Signal from Hydrated Synthetic Sands. J. Env. & Eng. Geophys. 11:1-8
(2006).

Meyer R., Horch E., Ninkov Z., van Altena W., Rothkopf C.* [2006] “RYTSI: The RIT YALE Tip-
Tilt Speckle Imager”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 118, 162

Tremblay, G*. …Baum, S. et al. 2006, Astrophysical Journal, 643, 10

4.0 Student Recruitment and Selection

Our program is designed to draw students from all year levels and from a range of undergraduate
majors, with a focus on our first-time students having just completed their freshman and
sophomore years. Through mailings and direct contact with department heads and faculty at
universities, small liberal arts colleges, community colleges, women’s colleges, HBCUs, and
minority serving institutions, the CIS REU program will recruit from a wide constituent base to
achieve broad representation in our program. NSF statistics show that roughly 1/3 of all minority
majors in STEM fields come from HBCUs and minority serving institutions, thus we will make it a
priority to use established research and administrative ties these institutions to recruit students to
our REU program. We will actively encourage applications of students from community colleges
and four-year undergraduate colleges. We will create a web sited explicitly devoted to our REU
program lined to the NSF-REU site, which will both serve to recruit students to our program, and
be a mechanism by which we trumpet the accomplishments of our students.

Our program is designed to serve 5 students new to our REU each year that have just completed
their freshman or sophomore years, and 10 repeat REU students who are returning to our

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program for a second summer as upper classpersons. Thus we will have 5 REU students the first
summer and 10 the second and subsequent summers (the balance between first time and repeat
participants will obviously be flexible, depending on the interests of the students). Qualified
students will have completed the first year of a physical science, engineering, mathematics, or
computer science program. Applicants will be asked to submit a transcript, resume, statement of
research and career interests, and two letters of recommendation. Applications will be reviewed
by a Preselection Committee, composed of the Program Director and three faculty who, based
upon the above criteria, will make recommendations of candidates suitable for the specific
research laboratories where students will work. Final selection will involve the Program Director
working with the Faculty advisors. The program’s aim is to have an application and a final
selection pool that is at least 50% women and minority and 80% from outside the host institution.

5.0 Project Evaluation and Reporting

5.1 External Consultants
CIS currently has four prestigious Affiliated Faculty (Dr. A. Garrett, Savannah River National
Laboratory, Dr. G. Johnson Apple Computers, Dr. N. Ohta Chiba University, Dr. V. Dogra,
University of Rochester), who will serve as external consultants for the IPS REU program. At the
end of the 10th week, each of our REU students will produce a ~5 page paper detailing the
results of their research project. The Affiliated Faculty will review these papers and provide timely
feedback to the students concerning the outcome of their research and its presentation,
empowering the students to seek publication in refereed journals. Through this process the
students will form connections with leading scientists in the greater community – further widening
the student’s research communities. This external review methodology was successfully utilized
by RIT’s NSF funded REU Site: Extremal Graph Theory and Dynamical Systems.

5.2 Independent Evaluator

Evaluation
The evaluation of the REU program will address two overarching questions using a sequential
mixed-methods study: (1) Is the REU program effective in introducing young scientists from
diverse backgrounds to problem-based research in an interdisciplinary research environment? (2)
Does the REU program increase the % of students who actively pursue research opportunities
and undergraduate/graduate study in a STEM discipline? The independent evaluator will
conduct the formal stages of the evaluation over four years; the CIS Insight Lab will collect longer
term data about the IPS REU for science outreach and learning research. Both the NSF REU
students and the pool of RIT undergraduates engaged in summer research will be assessed.

The purpose of the first question above is to determine the extent to which the REU program is
achieving its seven specific goals, and will serve as the focus of the formative evaluation. It will
assess the quality of the recruitment process, especially students from under-represented groups
(i.e. female and minority students) and the various REU program elements, including the
research program, the optional credit-bearing course in imaging, the interactive sessions in
research skill development, the research incubator, field trips, ethics training, presentations, and
writing experiences to determine if they are being implemented as intended. Question 2 (above)
will focus on the short-term and long-term impacts of the REU program on its participants, as
measured by their continued involvement in various STEM-related research activities.

Table 1 summarizes the proposed data collection instruments and schedule for the evaluation.
Each year, participants will be asked to complete surveys at three short surveys (pre-project, mid-
project, and post-project) to provide data for the evaluation (Question 1 above). The first
questionnaire is the Baseline Information Form, which will be used to collect background
characteristics such as the participants’ previous experience and involvement in imaging and the
characteristics such as the participants’ previous experience, related coursework in physical
science, engineering, and mathematics and other pertinent demographic information (gender,

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Table 1. Summary of Data Collection Instruments and Schedule for Evaluation

Evaluation Focus Data Collection Schedule

Data
Collection Participant
Formative Summative
Instrument Background 2008 2009 2010 2011
Measures Measures
Characteristics
REU Summer Experience Surveys

Pre-
X X X X X
Project
Mid-
X X X X X
Project
Post-
X X X X X
Project
Faculty X X X
REU Summer Experience Focus Groups
New
X X X X
Students
Returning
X X X
Students)
Knowledge of Imaging Science

Pretest X X X X X

Post-test X X X X X
Electronic Follow-Up Surveys
1-year X X X X
2-year X X X
3-year X X

ethnicity, host institution, major, how they heard of the program, etc). The mid-project and post-
project survey will assess the students’ reactions (i.e. overall satisfaction with the REU program,
each of the program elements, and usefulness of the course), and their learning (i.e. reflections
on what they learned from their laboratory experiences, coursework, ethics activities, and other
training; and their personal goals and progress toward goal attainment). The purpose of the mid-
project survey is to alert the project team to allow for mid-course corrections that may enhance
the current cohort’s REU experience. Participants’ completion of their presentation, grant
proposal, and paper for publication and the quality of those protocols (as evaluated by judges
and/or faculty instructors) will serve as additional objective measure. The faculty instructors will
complete an anonymous survey at the end of each year’s course to determine their overall
satisfaction with the REU program elements; the pace for students; and their recommendations
for future years. The Research Coordinator will work with the PI and faculty to ensure that each
year’s evaluation results result in program improvements for the following summer.

Separate focus groups with new and returning students will be held at the end of each summer.
The rich qualitative data collected from these focus groups will provide the evaluator with a more
comprehensive understanding of the program and greater insight into the interpretation of the
mid-project and post-project survey results. Specific probes will be used to assess students’
experiences in interdisciplinary settings and their experiences with the ‘research incubator. The
evaluation team will work with the PI and other faculty team members to collect objective
measures of student knowledge growth during the REU summer experience. The completion of

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the program, the oral presentation to the Undergraduate Research Seminar and the article
prepared for publication are objective indicators of student success.

We are mindful about the issues of long-term follow-up of student success and particularly
interested in assessing the benefits of the program for students who attend for multiple years. We
will stay in close contact with students annually via electronic surveys to assess long-term
outcomes. The goal of this summative evaluation will be to assess whether the REU program
increases the number of well-trained STEM researchers. The 2008 cohort of participants will
allow the evaluator to assess long-term outcomes for a period of ~three years after the
completion of the training program. The follow-up period for the 2009, 2010, and 2011 cohorts will
be 2 years, 1 year, and ~0.5 years respectively. Participants will be asked to provide information
on outcome measures representing their involvement in STEM research. We will work with the
evaluator to refine these indicators of continuing involvement in STEM into a weighted point
system. This weighted point system will be based on a previously defined “standard” of success
for young researchers in STEM. Deliverables will include an oral presentation and short written
report for the PI after each program year and a final report prepared in 2011. This report will
closely examine impacts for students who attended the program across 1, 2, and 3 years, and will
assess correlations between duration of participation and major outcomes.

6.0 Results from Past and Current NSF REU Support

RIT was awarded REU supplement to CNS-0324989 in 2006. This project (ITR: Collaborative
Research: DDDAS: Data Dynamic Simulation for Disaster Management) is focused on
developing a Dynamic Data Driven Application System (DDDAS) that will provide real-time
forecasting of wildfire propagation based on an integrated modeling and data assimilation system.
using ground and airborne sensors. In the summer of 2006 RIT Computer Engineering
undergraduate student Carl Kelso worked on the project with Prof. Vodacek and Senior Research
Scientist R. Kremens. Carl took on the task of designing and building data loggers to work with
sensors in disaster-management applications. His goal was to make them more light-weight, with
lower power consumption to extend battery life. His initial design reduced the size of the data
logger from a paperback down to an index card and his subsequent design resulted in a data
logger the size of a matchbox. The smaller more efficient format provided cost savings - ~$30
each compared to $120 for the original component - and could last up to six months on-station.
Carl, a graduate of Ward Melville high School in Long Island, N.Y., was especially enthusiastic
about his project. 'I love it,' he said. 'This is what I want to do. In a way, I am designing new
'Legos' – components that will go into systems others will build... I just find it very satisfying to
build something from scratch and see how it improves and grows.' In true DDDAS fashion, his
design incorporated programmable and wireless hardware so the data loggers could potentially
be dynamically reprogrammed to react to predicted measurement scenarios from the forecast.

RIT was awarded REU supplement REC-0307602, (8/2005-8/2007; Jeff Pelz) - "Eliminating
Communication and Technological Barriers to STEM Education". The project used an eyetracker
to monitor the gaze of hearing and deaf students as they watched lectures with sign-language
interpreters. In addition to the instructor and interpreter, a visual display (e.g., PowerPoint) was
present. Analysis of the gaze patterns of the students showed that while hearing students were
able to divide their attention by listening to the instructor while looking toward the display - deaf
students' focus decisions were more difficult. The REU supplement challenged undergraduate
students from the Colleges of Science and Liberal Arts or work together to explore methods of
eye tracking data analysis. The three students who participated in the project are continuing in
the area. Christopher DeAngelis, a junior in the Imaging Science at RIT, used his experience in
the lab to help in his application for a summer position with the NRL this past summer. Leanne
Stefano, an undergraduate in the Psychology program at RIT when she started the REU project,
has been admitted to the MS Engineering Psychology program. Brian Garrison, another Psych
undergraduate, begins the Ph.D. program this fall in Psychology at the University of Waterloo.

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Stefi Alison Baum
Director, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, New York 14623
(585) 475-6220 baum@cis.rit.edu

Professional Preparation (degree, school, year, thesis topic)

Harvard Physics B. A. cum laude 1980
University of Maryland Astronomy PhD. 1987
NFRA,Dwingeloo Active Galaxies 1987-1990
Hubble Fellow, JHU Active Galaxies 1990-1991

Appointments
07/04 - … Director, Center for Imaging Science, Full Professor, RIT
11/2002 – 06/2004 Senior Science/Diplomacy Fellow, US Dept. of State & American Institute of
Physics
10/2002 --07/2004 Promoted to Full Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
11/1999 --10/2002 Division Head, Engineering & Software Services Division, STScI
09/1999 --11/1999 Deputy, Science and Engineering Support Division, STScI
01/1999 -- 09/1999 Sabbatical, Princeton University
01/1996 --12/1998 Branch Chief, Spectrographs Team, STScI
01/1995 – 02/1996 Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Scientist, Servicing Mission Office,
STScI
10/1991 -- 01/1995 Archive Scientist, STScI

Publications (i)
S.A. Baum, “Women in Astronomy in the United States and Canada,” in the Proceedings of the
IAU General
Assembly Joint Discussion on Women in Astronomy, in the volume Highlights in Astronomy,
(1995).

Publications (ii)
S. A. Baum, A. Laor, C. P. O’Dea, J. Mack, A. Koekemoer, “Hubble Space Telescope STIS
Spectroscopy of the
Lyman Alpha Emission Line in the Central Dominant Galaxies in A426, A1795, and A2597:
Constraints on Clouds
in the IntraCluster Medium,” Astrophysical Journal, 632, 122, (2005).
S.A. Baum, Patrick J. McCarthy, “Emission-Line Properties of 3CR Radio Galaxies, III. Origins
and Implications
of the Velocity Fields,” Astronomical Journal, 119, 2634 (2000).
C. Xu, M. Livio, S.A. Baum, “Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet Active Galactic Nuclei,” Astronomical
Journal, 118,
1169 (1999).
J.F. Gallimore, S.A. Baum, and C.P. O’Dea, “A Direct Image of the Obscuring Disk Surrounding
the Active
Galactic Nucleus of NGC 1068,” Nature, 388, 852-854 (1997).
S.A. Baum, C.P. O’Dea, et al. “HST and MERLIN Observations of 3C264 – A Laboratory for Jet
Physics and
Unified Schemes,” Astrophysical Journal, 483, 178 (1997).

Synergistic Activities:
Reach for the Stars Outreach Program with the Girl Scouts of Genesee Valley, Lead
Rochester Museum and Science Center, Planetarium Advisory Board
Rochester Museum and Science Center, K-12 Education Advisory Board
American Astronomical Society, Employment Committee
Universities Space Research Association, Board of Trustees
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Visiting Committee Member
NRAO EVLA Science Advisory Group and EVLA Advisory Committee Meeting

Collaborations & Other Affiliations

Dr. David Axon Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. Catherine Buchanan Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. Mousumi Das University of Maryland
Dr. Megan Donahue Michigan State University
D. James Dunlop Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
Dr. Moshe Elitzer University of Kentucky
Dr. Martin Elvis Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dr. David Floyd Space Telescope Science Institute
Dr. Jack Gallimore Bucknell University
Dr. James Jackson Boston University
Dr. Anton Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute
Dr. Ari Laor Technion University
Dr. Ross McLure Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
Dr. Marek Kukula Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
Dr. Christopher O’Dea Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. William Sparks Space Telescope Science Institute
Dr. Andrew Robinson Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. Stuart Vogel University of Maryland
Dr. Mark Voit Michigan State University

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

Dr. Alan Bridle, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Dr. Timothy Heckman, The Johns Hopkins University

Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor

Dr. Baum has advised a total of 9 graduate students with the following in the last 5 years:
Dr. Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, University of Leiden
Dr. Jacob Noel-Storr, Columbia University
Dr. David Russell, University of Manchester
Dr. Avanti Tilak, Massachusets Institute of Technology
Andrew Michael, Rochester Institute of Technology
Grant Tremblay, Rochester Institute of Technology
Linpeng Cheng, Rochester Institute of Technology

Dr. Baum has sponsored 8 postdoctoral fellows during the last five years:
Anton Koekemoer, STScI
Marek Kukula, STScI
Andre Martel, STScI
David Floyd, STScI
Catherine Buchanan, RIT
Preeti Kharb, RIT
Jake Noel-Storr, RIT
CARL SALVAGGIO
Rochester Institute of Technology, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604
Phone: 585.475.6380 FAX: 585.475.5988
salvaggio@cis.rit.edu

(i) Professional Preparation

a. Rochester Institute of Technology / Imaging Science / BS 1987
b. Rochester Institute of Technology / Imaging Science / MS 1987
c. State University of New York/Syracuse University / Environmental
Resource Engineering / Ph.D 2004
(ii) Appointments
a. Rochester Institute of Technology / Associate Professor / 2002-present
b. Imagery Solutions, Incorporated / President and Principal Scientist / 1997-
2005
c. MRJ Technology Solutions/Veridian Information Systems / Principal
Engineer / 1996-2000
d. Hughes Aircraft Company / Scientist/Engineer / 1994-1996
e. Rochester Institute of Technology / Research Scientist/Instructor / 1986-
1994
f. Central Intelligence Agency / Photographic Engineer / 1983-1985
(iii) Publications (undergraduate student collaborators indicated by ***)
a. Weith-Glushko, S.A.***; Walli, K.C.; Salvaggio, C., Automatic tie point
selection using the Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) spatial filter, Submitted
for publication in the SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, July (2007)
b. Messinger, D.W.; Salvaggio, C.; Sinisgalli, N.M.***, Detection of gaseous
effluents from airborne LWIR hyperspectral imagery using physics-based
signatures, Accepted for publication in IEEE International Journal of High
Speed Electronics and Systems (2007)
c. Salvaggio, C.; Boonmee, M.; Sinisgalli, N.***; Messinger, D.W., Three-band
temperature extraction from airborne imagery with imprecise atmospheric
knowledge, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D13107,
doi:10.1029/2005JD006770 (2006)
d. Weith-Glushko, S.A.***; Salvaggio, C., Automatic tie-point generation for
oblique aerial imagery: An Algorithm, Geospatial Goes Global: From Your
Neighborhood to the Whole Planet, Data Processing and Techniques,
Techniques for Improvement of Image Accuracy, ASPRS 2005 Annual
Conference, Baltimore, MD, March (2005)
e. Salvaggio, C.; Smith, L.E.; Antoine, E.J.***, Spectral signature databases
and their application/misapplication to modeling and exploitation of
multispectral/hyperspectral data, Proceedings of the SPIE, Sensor Data
Exploitation and Target Recognition, Algorithms and Technologies for
Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery X, Vol. 5806,
Orlando, FL, April (2005)
(iv) Synergistic Activities
 a. Serve as the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Center for Imaging
Science (2006-present) / Serve the undergraduate student population in
Imaging Science in academic advising, curriculum development,
recruiting, external relationships with other colleges, as well as
relationships with other RIT departments.
b. Serve as the Minor Coordinator for the Center for Imaging Science (2003-
present) / Meet one-on-one with all students interested in pursuing a minor
in Imaging Science, develop a specific course of study, track progress of
each student toward their goal, certify the students by notifying their home
departments once they have met all the requirements.
c. Serve as the Chairperson for the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
for the Center for Imaging Science (2002-present) / Responsible for
defining and enacting the evolving curriculum in the Center - in my time on
this committee, we have defined and put in place a revised undergraduate
curriculum that had to meet (and helped shape) the Provost’s new
requirements for undergraduate programs across RIT enabling students
more flexibility to pursue minors and dual majors, we have dealt with daily
student related issues, listened to and enacted student communications
regarding changes they’d like to see in their education, and kept an open
dialog with the undergraduate population in the Center.
d. Serve as a representative on the College of Science Academic Conduct
Committee (2004-present) / Serve as the Center’s representative on this
committee that hears and decides on cases of grievance brought forward
by either faculty or students regarding academic honesty issues. The
committee has heard and made decisions on 4 such instance during my
service period.
(v) Collaborators and Other Affiliations
a. Mentor/primary research advisor for the following undergraduate students
i. Michael Denning (co-advisor with Joel Kastner) / February 2007 /
Classification of astronomical infrared sources using Spitzer space
telescope data
ii. Bethany Choate / May 2006 / Use of agglomerative hierarchical
clustering for the classification of hyperspectral image data
iii. William Pfeister / May 2006 / Design and implementation of a
goniometer for the measurement of spectral bidirectional
reflectance function distributions for solid materials
iv. Christopher Bayer / May 2005 / Development of algorithm for fusion
of hyperspectral and multispectral imagery with the objective of
improving spatial resolution while retaining spectral data
v. Brandon Migdal / May 2004 / Extraction methods of watermarks
from linearly-distorted images to maximize signal-to-noise ratio
vi. Seth Weith-Glushko / May 2004 / Automatic tie-point generation for
oblique aerial imagery: An algorithm
b. Mentor/primary/co-advisor for graduate students
i. Six (6) doctoral candidates since 2004
ii. Ten (10) masters candidates since 2004
 Biographical Sketch – Marcos Esterman Jr.
Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
81 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5603
(585) 475-6922 mxeeie@rit.edu

A. Professional Preparation.
2002 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Design Division, Stanford University
1990 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B. Appointments.
09/04 – Present Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
• Teach industrial engineering courses related to Product & Process Development,
Systems Engineering, Design Project Management, Multi-disciplinary Senior Design.
• Director of the Print Research and Imaging Systems Modeling Laboratory. Research
areas: design for warranty, modeling of printing behavior, robust design and
sustainable design.
• Extended Faculty Center for Imaging Science, RIT, Rochester, NY
06/02 – Present Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, Boise, ID
• Taught mechanical engineering course in Quality Engineering.
• Ph.D. reading committee member.
01/03 – 7/04 Expert Engineer, Hewlett-Packard, Boise, ID
• Development of LaserJet electrophotographic cartridge platforms.
• Developed Monte Carlo simulations and statistical analysis methods to assess risk
for different product architectures under different usage conditions.
• Provide statistical analysis expertise for cross-platform technology projects.
07/00 – 12/02 Quality Engineer/Project Manager, Hewlett-Packard, Boise, ID
• Initiated and led an effort to create warranty cost models, tools and processes to
support warranty predictions and to evaluate mitigation strategies during the product
development process, including design, service model and warranty policy decisions.
• An initial prototype model and process was developed to demonstrate feasibility of
warranty analysis and decision support for policy and product design.
• Provided support on printer development programs to review and critique warranty
estimates and provide warranty cost targets and estimates for management team.
04/99 – 06/00 Manufacturing Program Management, Hewlett-Packard, Boise, ID
• Influenced product design to facilitate product integration, improve manufacturability,
and optimize the supply chain.
• Developed supply chain modeling capability to assess design and process
improvement proposals.
• Developed supply chain quality systems strategy and implementation plan.

03/97 – 03/99 Manufacturing Development Engineer, Hewlett-Packard, Boise, ID

• Provide electrophotographic (EP) process, mechanical and quality system support
for the Color LaserJet 8500 high end color printer engine during development.
• Provided technical support and developed quality evaluation tools during
manufacturing development and production ramps at three different integration sites.
• Provided product support to resolve manufacturing and field quality issues.
01/91 – 12/94 General Electric Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI
• Introduced quality improvement fix into manufacturing, which included design
changes and tooling design to minimize impact to the current production. .
• Engineering committee defining standards for of Demand Flow Technology (DFT).
• Completed 4 engineering training rotations as: Design Engineer, Manufacturing
Systems Integration Engineer, Analytical Engineer, and Product Support Engineer.

C. Publications –current and most relevant (no undergraduate collaborators listed)

A. Rojas, J. M. Wesline, M, R. McLaughlin, C. Goldstein, M. Esterman, A Selection Framework for
Derivative Products, Proceedings of IDETC ‘07: ASME International Design Engineering Technical
Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences
September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
M. Esterman, V. Amuso, D. Patru, E. Hensel, M. Smith, Development of Integrated Project Tracks for a
College-Wide Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Program at RIT, accepted in Proceedings of 2007 ASEE
Annual Conference & Exposition, June 24-27, 2007, Honolulu, HI.
M. Esterman, P. Gerst, E. DeBartolo, M. Haselkorn, Reliability Prediction of a Remanufactured Product: A
Welding Repair Process Case Study, Proceedings of IMECE2006, 2005 ASME International Mechanical
Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-10, 2006, Chicago, IL USA.
M. Esterman and K. Ishii, The Development of Project Risk Metrics for Robust Concurrent Product
Development across the Supply Chain, Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications, Volume 13,
No.2, pp. 85-94, June 2005..
S. Kakouros, B. Cargille, Brian , M. Esterman, Reinventing Warranty at HP: An Engineering Approach to
Warranty, Quality and Reliability Engineering International Journal, February, 2003, Volume 19, Issue 1,
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Hoboken, NJ.
M. Esterman, P. Gerst, P. Stiebitz, K. Ishii, A Framework For Warranty Prediction During Product
Development, Proceedings of IMECE2005, 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress
and Exposition, November 5-11, 2005, Orlando, Florida USA.
M. Esterman and K. Ishii, Concurrent Product Development across the Supply Chain: Development of
Integrator/Supplier Risk and Coupling Indices, Proceedings of DETC ‘01: 2001 ASME Design Engineering
Technical Conferences, September 9 - 12, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA.
M. Esterman and K. Ishii, Challenges in robust concurrent product development across the supply chain,
Proceedings of DETC ‘99: 1999 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 12 - 15,
1999, Las Vegas, NV.
M. Esterman, I. Nevarez, K. Ishii, D.V. Nelson, Robust Design For Fatigue Performance: Shot Peening,
Proceedings of The 1996 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering
Conference August 18-22, 1996, Irvine, CA.

D. Synergistic Activities.
• Center for Sustainable Engineering NSF Workshop, July 18-20, 2007 at the U.T. at Austin
• 2006 ASME IMECE Design for Manufacturability Symposium Chair
• Coordinating Team & Strategic planning committee for Multi-disciplinary Senior Design.

E. Collaborators and Other Affiliations:

• Collaborators. Dr. Larry Stauffer, University of Idaho, Boise
Dr. Jonathan Arney, RIT, Rochester, NY
• Graduate Advisors: Dr. Kosuke Ishii, Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Dr. Emanuel Sachs, MIT (MS)
Dr. Don P. Clasuing, MIT (MS – not formal advisor)
• Student Supervision: Ren Hong, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Idaho, Boise (Reading Cmte.)
Rong Yan, MS Thesis Advisor, RIT Sourabh Dargan, MS Thesis Advisor, RIT
Miguel Baazan, MS Thesis Advisor, RIT Dan O’Connell, MS Thesis Advisor, RIT
Alvaro Rojas, MS Thesis Advisor, RIT Anne DeWitte, MS Thesis Advisor, RIT
 Mark D. Fairchild 
mdf@cis.rit.edu 
www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild 
 
Professional Preparation: 
Undergraduate: Rochester Institute of Technology 
    Imaging Science 
    B.S. 1986 
Graduate:  Rochester Institute of Technology 
    Imaging Science 
    M.S. 1986 
    University of Rochester 
    Vision Science 
    M.A. 1989  Ph.D. 1990 
 
Appointments: 
  Rochester Institute of Technology, Imaging Science & Color Science 
      Professor, 1999‐Present 
      Xerox Distinguished Professor, 2003‐2006 
      Associate Professor, 1994‐1999 
      Assistant Professor, 1990‐1994 
      Instructor, 1986‐1990 
  Cornell University, Program of Computer Graphics 
      Visiting Associate Professor, 1997‐1998 
 
Selected Publications (*most related to this project): 
M.D. Fairchild and G.M. Johnson, Measurement and modeling of adaptation to noise in images, 
Journal of the Society of Information Display, in press (2007). 
*R.L. Heckaman and M.D. Fairchild, Expanding display color gamut beyond the spectrum locus, 
Color Research and Application 31, 475‐482 (2006). 
*M.D.  Fairchild,  Color  Appearance  Models,  Second  Edition,  Wiley‐IS&T  Series  in  Imaging 
Science and Technology, Chichester, UK (2005).  
*E.L. Landa and M.D. Fairchild, Charting color from the eye of the beholder, American Scientist 
93, 436‐443 (2005). 
M.D. Fairchild and G.M. Johnson, The iCAM framework for image appearance, differences, and 
quality, Journal of Electronic Imaging 13, 126‐138 (2004).  
G.J. Braun and M.D. Fairchild, Image lightness rescaling using sigmoidal contrast enhancement 
functions, Journal of Electronic Imaging 8, 380‐393 (1999).  
R.L.  Alfvin  and  M.D.  Fairchild,  Observer  variability  in  metameric  color  matches  using  color 
reproduction media, Color Research and Application 22, 174‐188 (1997). 
*M.D. Fairchild, Standard guide for designing and conducting visual experiments, ASTM E1808‐
96 (1996).  
*B.D.  Nystrom  and  M.D.  Fairchild,  Perceived  image  quality  of  16:9  and  4:3  aspect  ratio  video 
displays, Journal of Electronic Imaging 1, 99‐103 (1992). 
M.D.  Fairchild  and  L.  Reniff,  Propagation  of  random  errors  in  spectrophotometric  colorimetry, 
Color Research and Application 16, 360‐368 (1991). 
 
 
Synergistic Activities: 
Commission International de L’Eclairage: Member of 12 Technical Committees and Chair of TC1‐
34 that developed CIECAM97s. 
IS&T:  Previous  Color  Imaging  Editor  (1999‐2002)  for  the  Journal  of  Imaging  Science  and 
Technology. 
IS&T/SID:  Member  of  Technical  Committee  (1994‐2004)  and  Technical  Co‐Chair  (1994)  for  the 
Color Imaging Conference. 
Educational Website Development: The Color Curiosity Shop, <www.shyiscolor.org> 
Imaging Research Internet Database: The HDR Photographic Survey, 
<www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild/HDR.html> 
 
Collaborators & Other Affiliations: 
Collaborators & Co‐Editors 
Paula  Alessi,  Kodak;  Jason  Babcock,  RIT;  Gus  Braun,  Eastman  Kodak;  Karen  Braun,  Xerox; 
Anthony  Calabria,  Benjamin  Moore;  Jorge  Caviedes,  Intel;  Scot  Fernandez,  Hallmark;  Jason 
Gibson,  HP;  Sergio  Gonzalez,  CYDSA;  Tim  Hattenberger,  RIT;  Rod  Heckaman,  RIT;  Sharon 
Henley, Canon Development Americas;  Robert W.G. Hunt, University of Leeds; Francisco Imai, 
Pixim;;  Xiaoyun  Jiang,  Qualcomm;  Garrett  Johnson,  Apple;  Ed  Landa,  U.S.  Geological  Survey; 
C.J.  Li,  Changmeng  Liu,  RIT;  University  of  Leeds;  M.  Ronnier  Luo,  University  of  Derby; 
Nobohito Matsushiro, Oki‐Data; Eriko Miyahara, University of California; Ethan Montag, Leuez 
Lumiflux;  Nathan  Moroney,  HP  Labs;  Kiyotaka  Nakabayashi,  Sony;  Todd  Newman,  Microsoft; 
Noboru  Ohta,  RIT;  Sun  Ju  Park,  Canon  Development  Americas;  Jeff  Pelz,  RIT;  Yue  Qiao,  IBM; 
Mitchell Rosen, RIT; Mel Sahyun, Journal of Imaging Science & Technology; Carl Salvaggio, RIT; 
Masato Sakurai, Sony; Michael Sanchez, Xerox; Qun Sun, IC Media; Mark Shaw, HP; Kazuhiko 
Takemura, Fuji Photo Film; Steven Wright, IBM; David Wyble, RIT; Hiro Yamaguchi, Fuji Photo 
Film; Honghong Zhang, RIT 
 
Graduate Advisors 
Roy Berns, Rochester Institute of Technology 
Franc Grum, Deceased 
Peter Lennie, University of Rochester 
 
Graduate Advisees (Past 7 Years, Total for Career = 52) 
Jason Babcock, RIT  Anthony Calabria, Sun Chemical 
Fritz Ebner, Xerox  Scot Fernandez, RIT 
Ken Fleisher, National Gallery of Art  Jason Gibson,  HP 
Sergio Gonzalez, CYDSA  Meredith Graham, Kodak 
Tim Hattenberger, Aerospace  Rod Heckaman, RIT 
Sharon Henley, Canon  Jim Hewitt, HP 
Xiaoyan Jiang, Qualcomm  Garrett Johnson, Apple 
Jiangtao Kuang, OmniVision  Jim Leland, Labsphere 
Changmeng Liu, RIT  Susan Lubecki, Kodak 
Sun Ju Park, Canon  Rohit Patil, Onyx Graphics 
Michael Sanchez, Xerox  Abhijit Sarkar, RIT 
Xiaoyan Song, Polaroid  Qun Sun, IC Media 
Richard Suorsa, Xerox  Hongqin Zhang, RIT 
Dr. Donald F. Figer, R.I.T

(a) Professional Preparation

Northwestern University Phys/Math/Astron. B.A. 1989
University of Chicago Astronomy M.S. 1992
UCLA Astronomy PhD 1995
UCLA Astronomy Post. Doc. 1996

(b) Appointments
Rochester Institute of Technology Professor 1/2006 – Current
Space Telescope Science Inst. Associate Astronomer 1/2004 – 1/2006
Space Telescope Science Inst. Assistant Astronomer 7/1999 – 1/2004
JHU Adjunct Assistant Astronomer 5/2000 – 5/2002
UCLA Assistant Research Astronomer 10/1996 – 7/1999

(c) Publications
Simms, L., Figer, D. F. et al. 2007, “First results with a 4Kx4K Si PIN detector,” SPIE, 6619, in press
Radeka, V., Geary, J. C., Gilmore, K., Nordby, M., Tyson, J. A., Oliver, J., Figer, D., & Stubbs, C. 2007,
The LSST Sensor Development Program AAS, 0.86 LSST
Baggett, S., Brown, T., Boucrarut, R., Figer, D., Hartig, G. F., Kimble, R., MacKenty, J., Robberto, M.,
Telfer, R. C., Quijada, M. A., Quijano, J., Arsenovic, P., Allen, G., Hilbert, B., Lupie, O. L., Townsend, J. M
, P. 2006., Filters for WFC3 SPIE, 6265
O'Connor, P., Figer, D., Geary, J. C., Gilmore, K., Oliver, J., Stubbs, C. W., Takacs, P. Z., Tyson, J. A., P.
2006., Silicon Sensor Thickness Optimization for LSST SPIE, 6276
S. Baggett (STScI), R. Boucarut (GSFC), R. Telfer (OSC/GSFC), J. Kim-Quijano (STScI), M. Quijada, P.
Arsenovic (GSFC), T. Brown (STScI), M. Dailey (GSFC), D. Figer, G. Hartig, B. Hilbert (STScI), R.A.
Kimble, O. Lupie (GSFC), J. MacKenty (STScI), T. Madison (GSFC), M. Robberto (STScI), S. Rice, J.
Shu, J. Townsend (GSFC), P. 2006., Characterization Tests of WFC3 Filters AAS, #73.04

Figer, D. F., Regan, M., & Morse, E. 2004, Si PIN Detector Testing for LSST, AAS, #108.08
Meixner, M., Doering, R., Knezek, P., Indebetouw, R., Barkhouser, R., Smee, S., Figer, D. F., Churchwell,
E., Fruchter, A., MacKenty, J. 2004, Design study for the WIYN high resolution infrared camera, AAS,
#49.12
Figer, D. F., Rauscher, B. J., Regan, M. W., Morse, E., Balleza, J., Bergeron, L., & Stockman, H. S. 2004,
Independent Testing of JWST Detector Prototypes, SPIE, 5167, 270
Figer, D. F. et al. 2003, The Independent Detector Testing Laboratory and the JWST Detector Program,
BAAS, 201, 131.05
McLean, Ian S., Graham, James R., Becklin, Eric E., Figer, D. F., Larkin, James E., Levenson, N. A.,
Teplitz, Harry I. 2000, Performance and results with the NIRSPEC echelle spectrograph on the Keck II
telescope, SPIE, 4008, 1048

(d) Synergistic Activities

Donald Figer was most recently awarded a New York State NYSTAR Faculty Development award
(2006) and was appointed the director of the Rochester Imaging Detector Lab in the Center for Imaging
Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which employs and mentors a variety of students. Figer
was also awarded the NASA Space Act Award (2004) for contributions to the “4 Megapixel, High-
Sensitivity Infrared Detector Array for Space Astronomy.” He received the AURA/STScI Technology and
Innovation Award (2004) for his leadership role as Director of the Independent Detector Testing
Laboratory. He also received the UCLA Distinction in Teaching Award (1995). In his previous positions,
he has served as Director of the Independent Detector Testing Laboratory. He was Principal Investigator
of FLITECAM, the first light instrument for SOFIA. He was Principle Optical Designer of NIRSPEC, the
high-resolution near-infrared facility spectrograph for the Keck Telescope. He was Electronics Designer of
GEMINI, a dual-beam infrared camera for the Lick Observatory.
He led the joint STScI/JHU Infrared Detector Testing Laboratory (IDTL) and served as JWST
Detector Scientist for STScI and NIRCam instrument scientist for the JWST Project. He has 12 years of
experience with near-infrared detectors (NICMOS-2, NICMOS-3, 2562 InSb, PICNIC3, ALADDIN, H1RG,
H2RG, SB290, SB304, HyViSi) and infrared instrumentation. He has also designed, built, and tested
automated detector characterization systems, motion-control systems, cryogenic thermometry systems,
warm and cryogenic optics, high-speed/low-noise detector readout electronics, data analysis software,
and instrument user-interface software.

(e) Collaborators & Other Affiliations

Member of American Astronomical Society and Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.

• Collaborators.
B. Rauscher, NASA/GSFC K. Gilmore, SLAC Pat Knezek, WIYN
M. Regan, STScI C. Stubbs, Harvard University P. O’Connor, BNL
Ernie Morse, STScI P. Takacs, BNL J. Geary, CfA
Margaret Meixner, STScI T. Tyson, UC Davis R. Kudritzki
Ryan Doering, STScI A. Sivaramakrishnan, AMNH H. Moseley, NASA/GSFC
Robert Barkhauser, JHU P. Strada, ESA T. Boeker, ESA
Steve Smee, JHU P. Jakobsen, ESA P. Atcheson, Ball
R. Makidon, STScI P. Najarro, CSIC M. Robberto, STScI
J. MacKenty, STScI R. Kimble, NASA/GSFC B. Hill, SAIC
A. Herrero, IAC G. Delo, NASA/GSFC S. Reed, NASA/GSFC
Y. Wen, NASA/GSFC R. Foltz, NASA/GSFC A.M. Russell, NASA/GSFC
E.M. Malumuth, NASA/GSFC A. Waczynski, NASA/GSFC M. G. Brown, U. Michigan
K. Smith, STScI M. G. Lee M. Schubnell, U. Michigan
J. Larkin, UCLA H. Teplitz, NASA G. Tarle, U. Michigan
N. Levenson, WKU J. Graham, UCB A. Tanner, NASA/JPL
D. Gilmore, STScI M. Morris, UCLA E. Becklin, UCLA
I. McLean, UCLA A. Gilbert, ESO S. S. Kim, KHU
B. Mott, NASA/GSFC R. Blum, CTIO T. Geballe, Gemini
S. Manthripragada,
NASA/GSFC K. Shakoorzadeh, NASA/GSFC C. Brambora, NASA/GSFC
S. Baggett STScI R. Boucarut GSFC R. Telfer OSC/GSFC,
J. Kim-Quijano STScI M. Quijada, P. Arsenovic GSFC T. Brown STScI
R. Foltz NASA's GSFC S. Reed NASA's GSFC A. Waczynski NASA's GSFC
Y. Wen NASA's GSFC G. Delo NASA's GSFC P. Arsenovic, SLAC
G. Allen, SLAC B. Hilbert, STScI O.L. Lupie, SLAC
J.M. Townsend, GSFC J. Radeka, BNL M. Nordby, SLAC
L. Simms Stanford, SLAC D. Kerr RIT B. Hanold RIT
S. Kahn SLAC
• Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor

o Ian S. McLean, Thesis Advisor, UCLA

o Advised PhD student, Utkarsh Sharma, JHU
o Advised PhD student, Stella Jang, JHU
 Richard K. Hailstone
Rochester Institute of Technology
Center for Imaging Science
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 475-6306
FAX (585) 475-5988
hailstone@cis.rit.edu
Education
B.S. 1970 Northern Illinois University
M.S. 1972 Indiana University, Physical Chemistry
Professional Experience
2002-
Associate Professor, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technol-
ogy. Perform teaching and research in the area of imaging science, especially at the
graduate level. Carry out research in nanoimaging — imaging at the nanolevel;
fabricating imaging devices using nanomaterials.
1990-2001
Associate Professor, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technol-
ogy. Perform teaching and research in the area of imaging science, especially silver
halide imaging Develop new methods for understanding the fundamentals of image
recording in silver halide materials. Increase the application of computer simulation to
problems in silver halide imaging. Supervise staff scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and
graduate students doing research in silver halide materials.
1982-1990 Senior Scientist, Photographic Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Co.
Evaluate the efficiency of photon usage by potentially commercial photographic emul-
sions having tabular microcrystals. Experimentally test the predictions of a computer
model for latent-image formation. Enhance the power and the level of sophistication of a
computer simulation program for understanding latent-image formation by use of parallel
processing techniques. During an 18-year career, over 50 internal technical reports were
issued.
1981-1982 Scientist, Harrow Research Laboratories, Kodak Ltd., London, England. Conduct
studies of the mechanism of latent-image formation in tabular photographic
microcrystals. Develop technique for evaluating the efficiency of latent-image formation
1972-1981 Scientist, Photographic Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Co. Design and
sensitometer to help elucidate the mechanism of spectral sensitization. Mechanistic st
silver bromide crystals for instant photography applications. Development and applicatio
electron microscopical technique for determining the rate of silver development in AgBr gr

Selected Refereed Publications

1. R. K. Hailstone, J. French, and R. De Keyzer (2003). Sulphide Centers on AgIBr (100) Surfaces:
Characterization and Energy Levels, The Imaging Science Journal 51, 21.
2. R. K. Hailstone, J. French, and R. De Keyzer (2003). Selenide vs Sulphide Centers on AgIBr (100)
Surfaces: Characterization and Energy Levels, The Imaging Science Journal 51, 33.
3. R. K. Hailstone, J. French, and R. De Keyzer (2003). Sulphide Centers on (111) AgBr Surfaces:
 Energy Levels and Computer-Simulated Sensitometry, The Imaging Science Journal 51, 125.
4. R. K. Hailstone, J. French, J. Tan, and R. De Keyzer (2003). Sulphide Centers on (111) AgBr
Surfaces: Effect of Thiocyanate on Electronic Properties, The Imaging Science Journal 51, 141.
5. J. Tan, R. K. Hailstone, J. French, and R. De Keyzer (2003). Gold-Sulfide vs Sulphide Centers on
(100) AgIBr Surfaces: Characterization and Mechanism, The Imaging Science Journal 51, 255.
6. R. K. Hailstone, J. French, and R. De Keyzer (2004). Latent-Image Formation in AgBr Tabular Grain
Emulsions: Experimental Studies, The Imaging Science Journal 52 151.
7. R. K. Hailstone and R. De Keyzer (2004). Latent-Image Formation in AgBr Tabular Grain
Emulsions: Computer Simulation Studies, The Imaging Science Journal 52, 164.
8. R. K. Hailstone, A. G. DiFrancesco, M. Tyne, and R. De Keyzer (2004). Sulphide Centers on AgIBr
(100) Surfaces: Effect of Tetraazaindene on Electronic Properties, The Imaging Science Journal 52,
27.
9. J. Tan and R. K. Hailstone (2004). Gold-Sulfide vs Sulphide Centers on (111) AgIBr Surfaces:
Characterization and Mechanism, The Imaging Science Journal, in press 52, 202.

Book Chapter

R. K. Hailstone (2002). Silver Halide Detector Technology, Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and
Technology, J. P. Hornak, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Synergistic Activities

Co-leader in expanding the Center for Imaging Science’s teaching and research portfolio to include
nanoimaging – imaging at the nano-level and building imaging devices using nanomaterials. Won $200k
in startup funds from RIT for this endeavor, as well as using more than $30k of my discretionary funds.
Developed both a graduate and an undergraduate course in microscopy that heavily use the Microscopy
Facility of the NanoImaging Lab. Enhanced the nanoparticle synthesis activity of the NanoImaging Lab.

Collaborators Advisor Advisee

Name Affiliation Name Affiliation Name Affiliation

A. G. DiFrancesco RIT A. Allerhand Dept of Chem J. Tan Eastman Kodak

Indiania Univ China

R. De Keyzer Agfa Gevaert

Belgium

J. French RIT
 Biographical Sketch – María Helguera
CFC Center for Imaging Science
College of Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5603
(585) 475-7053 helguera@cis.rit.edu

A. Professional Preparation.
1999 Ph.D. Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
1989 M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester
1984 B.S. Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

B. Appointments.
04/05 – Present Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
• Teach imaging science courses related to Digital Image Processing, Digital
Image Mathematics, Imaging Systems Analysis II: MTF, Ultrasound Imaging,
Research Practices and Senior Project, and Physics and Engineering of
Medical Imaging Systems.
• Head of the Biomedical Imaging Lab. Research areas: ultrasound tissue
characterization, NDE of materials, medical image processing.
• Academic coordinator of the Online M.S. in Imaging Science program
04/02 – 04/05 Visiting Assistant Professor, CIS, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Taught imaging science courses in Linear Image Mathematics I and II,
Digital Image Processing.
04/00–04/02 Electronic Curriculum Developer, CIS, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY.
• Developed class material for online courses Linear Image Mathematics I
and II and Digital Image Processing.
05/99-04/00 Adjunct Professor, CIS, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
• Taught undergraduate Digital Image Processing courses.
09/95-05/99 Research Assistant, CIS, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
• Developed statistical model and analysis software for ultrasonic
characterization of breast tissue.
04/91-05/95 Professor/Researcher, Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
Tecnológico, CENIDET, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
• Taught Signals and Systems.
• Head of the Electronics Department
• Founding Member of the IEEE Morelos Section.
• Member of the National Researcher System, Mexico.
09/88-09/90 Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering Department, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY.
• Developed experimental ultrasound protocol to study Duchenne’s muscular
dystrophy.
05/80-05/84 Academic Technician, Institute of Astronomy, National Autnomous University of
Mexico, Mexico, DF.
• Responsible for the design of electronic read out circuitry for a CCD
camera.
 • Responsible for the design and implementation of an electronic console for
the 1m. telescope in Tonantzintla, Puebla.
03/79-05/80 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, National
Autonomous University of Mexico.

C. Publications –current and most relevant (*indicates undergraduate author)

1. Fetzer, D.*, Helguera, M., “Test Target Design, Fabrication, and Analysis for C-Scan
Ultrasonic System Characterization”, 4th International Conference on Ultrasonic Biomedical
Microscanning, 2004
2. Helguera, M., Arney, J., Tallapally, N., Zollo, D.**, “Non-Contact Ultrasound Characterization
of Paper Substrates”, 9th. European NDT conference Proceedings, Berlin, September 2006
3. Helguera, M. “Medical Imaging and what lies ahead”, Advanced Imaging, September 2006.
4. Baum, K. G., Schmidt, E. **, Rafferty, K.*, D.H. Feiglin, A. Krol, Helguera, M, “Preliminary
Study of PET/MRI Image Fusion Schemes for Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis”, 2007 IEEE
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference..
5. Baum, K. G., Helguera, M., Schmidt, E. **, Rafferty, K. *, Krol, A. ,“Evaluation of Genetic
Algorithm-Generated Multivariate Color Tables for Visualization of Multimodal Fused Data Sets”,
submitted to IEEE/NIH Workshop on Lifescience Systems and Applications, November 2007.
6. Baum, K. G. , Helguera, M., Krol, A. ,“A New Application for Displaying and Fusing Multimodal
Data Sets” , 2007 SPIE Symposium on Biomedical Optics.
7. Baum, K. G. , Helguera, M., “Distributed Wrapper for SimSet Monte-Carlo PET/SPECT
Simulator”, Journal of Digital Imaging, June 2007
8. Baum, K.G., Helguera, M., Krol, A., “Development of a Tool for Multimodality Fusion
Visualization and Dynamic Range Adjustment”, Journal of Digital Imaging, in press.

D. Synergistic Activities.
• Member of the CIS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and academic coordinator on MS
Online program
• Vice-chair executive committee IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Rochester
chapter
• Member of the Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
• Co-PI in successful 2004 CCLI “Imaging in the Physical Sciences” to write material for a text
book. A pilot edition published by Kendall/Hunt has been used at Rochester Institute of
Technology since fall 2006.
• Co-PI in successful 2005 NSF Senior Projects to Aid People with Disabilities.

E. Collaborators and Other Affiliations:

• Collaborators.
In addition to those noted in publication list above,
Dr. Joel Kastner, CIS, RIT, co-Editor “ Imaging in the Physical
Sciences”
Dr. Kubilay Pakin, VirtualScopics
Dr. Daniel Phillips, RIT
Dr. Benjamín Varela, RIT
Dr. José Taméz Peña, VirtualScopics

• Graduate Advisors: Dr. Jack Mottley, University of Rochester (MS)

Dr. Navalgund Rao, Rochester Institute of Technology (PhD)
• Student Supervision: Robert Rose (MS), Michelle Brennan (MS), Stephanie Shubert
(MS NSF Graduate Research Fellow), Karl Baum (PhD), Kimberly Rafferty (BS).
• PHD committee member: Derek Walvrood, Raj Pai Panandiker, Di Lai, Andrew Michael
Joseph P. Hornak, Ph.D.

Magnetic Resonance Laboratory

Department of Chemistry Office: 585 475-2904
Rochester Institute of Technology Fax: 585 475-5988
Rochester, NY 14623-5604 E-mail:jphsch@rit.edu

Education
Utica College, Utica, NY Chemistry B.S. (Honors) 1975
Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN Physical Chemistry M.S. 1978
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Chemistry Ph.D. 1982
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY ESR Post Doc 1982-1984

Professional Appointments
Professor of Chemistry, Imaging Science, and Material Science, RIT, Rochester, NY
Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, NJ
Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology, U. of Rochester Medical School, Rochester, NY

Research Projects
1. Establishing MRI system specifications for performing hard tissue Quantitative MRI, with
VirtualScopics, Rochester, NY.
2. Development of MRI Phantom Filler Materials by controlling the ionic conductivity in low
dielectric constant materials, with INVIVO Corp., Gainesville, FL.
3. MRI Contrast agents.
4. The 1H NMR Spin Lattice Relaxation Rate of Hydrated Sands.

Recent Publications (*=undergraduate student)

1. J.P. Hornak, Labels Printed with Magnetic Toner, Accepted Magn. Reson. Imaging, 2007.
2. J.P. Hornak, Fundamentals of MRI, Part VIII: Advanced Imaging Techniques, CE Source,
Enterprises for Continuing Education, 7(1): 8-19, Spring 2007. (1 CEU)
3. C.L. Bray, J.P. Hornak, Unilateral MRI using a Rastered Projection. Accepted J. Magn.
Reson., 2007.
4. C.L. Bray, N.C. Schaller, S.L. Ianapolo*, M.D. Bostick*, G. Ferranti, A. Fleming, J.P.
Hornak, A Study of the 1H NMR Signal from Hydrated Synthetic Sands. J. Env. & Eng.
Geophys. 11:1-8 (2006).
5. C.L. Bray and J.P. Hornak, Near-Surface MRI: Feasibility Simulations. Submitted and
under review Near-Surface Geophysics, 2006.
6. The Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and Technology, J.P. Hornak, Editor-in-Chief, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY, 2002.
7. D.H. Chang*, J.P. Hornak, Fingerprint Recognition through Circular Sampling. Imaging
Science and Technology, 44:560-564 (2000).

Online Textbooks
1. J.P. Hornak, The Basics of MRI, Interactive Learning Software, Henrietta, NY, 1996-2007.
http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/
2. J.P. Hornak, The Basics of NMR, Interactive Learning Software, Henrietta, NY, 1997-
2007. http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/
 Jacob Noel-Storr
Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 957 3125
jake@cis.rit.edu

Professional Preparation
Univ. Birmingham, UK Physics with Astrophysics MSci (Hons) 1998
Columbia University Astronomy MA 2000
Columbia University Astronomy MPhil 2001
Columbia University Astronomy PhD 2004

Appointments
Effective 09/06 Assistant Research Scientist – Rochester Institute of
Technology
09/04 – 08/06 Assistant Staff Scientist – University of Arizona

Publications
Most closely related publications
1. J. Noel-Storr, et al. “Graduate Students as Professional Educators in
Undergraduate Astronomy Laboratories”, Amer. Astron. Soc. 199th Meeting:
Abstract #23.04, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (American
Astronomical Society: Washington, DC), (2001)
2. J. Noel-Storr and D. Wacker, “Summer Camp and the role of immersive informal
science programs”, VincentCurtis Educational Register vol. 64, arXiv preprint
physics/0403144, (2004)
3. J. Noel-Storr, “School children as inquiring astronomers in the information age”,
Amer. Astron. Soc. 202nd Meeting: Abstract #12.04, Bulletin of the American
Astronomical Society (American Astronomical Society: Washington, DC), (2003)
4. J. Noel-Storr, “Teaching Science to Young People”, Columbia Science Literacy
Seminar Series, (Columbia University Libraries: New York), (2003)
5. J. Noel-Storr, “The Generation Gap: Experiences of Various Age Groups at
Outreach Events”, Amer. Astron. Soc. 201st Meeting: Abstract #28.04, Bulletin of the
American Astronomical Society (American Astronomical Society: Washington, DC),
(2003)

Other Significant Publications (* - Undergraduate)

1. J. Noel-Storr, S. A. Baum, & C. P. O’Dea, “Emission-line-gas kinematics in the
vicinity of the supermassive black holes in nearby radio galaxies”, Astrophysical
Journal Submitted (2007)
2. G. R. Tremblay*, A. C. Quillen, D. E. Floyd, J. Noel-Storr, S. A. Baum, D. Axon,
C. P. O’Dea, M. Chiaberge, F. D. Machetto, W. B. Sparks, G. K. Miley, A. Capetti, J.
P. Madrid, & E. Perlman. “The Warped Nuclear Disk of Radio Galaxy 3C 449”,
Astrophysical Journal, 643, 101 - 111 (2006)
3. G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, R. P. van der Marel, & J. Noel-Storr, “Understanding the
Nuclear Gas Dispersion in Early-Type Galaxies in the Context of Black Hole
Demographics”, Astronomical Journal, 131, 1961 - 1973 (2006)
4. J. Noel-Storr, S. A. Baum, G. Verdoes Kleijn, R. P. van der Marel, C. P. O'Dea,
P. T. de Zeeuw, J. H. van Gorkom, & C. M. Carollo, “STIS Spectroscopy of the
Emission Line Gas in the Nuclei of Nearby FR-I Radio Galaxies,” Astrophysical
Journal Supplements, 148, 419 - 472 (2003)
5. G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, R. P. van der Marel, P. T. de Zeeuw, J. Noel-Storr, S. A.
Baum, “Gas Kinematics and the Black Hole Mass at the Center of the Radio Galaxy
NGC 4335”, Astronomical Journal, 124, 2524 - 2542 (2003)

Synergistic Activities
(i) [2006 - present] Director of the Insight Lab for Science Outreach and Learning
Research in the RIT Center for Imaging Science.
(ii) [2005 - present] Editor of “Spark: The Education Newsletter of the American
Astronomical Society”, produced bi-annually for the membership of the society,
and member of the AAS Astronomy Education Board
(iii) [2004 - 2006] Developing curricula and pedagogies with teachers in school
districts in southern Arizona combining input from the College of Science, the
Flandrau Science Center, school districts and teachers.
(iv) [2004 - 2006] Camp Director for University of Arizona SummerFusion science
adventure camps and TREK learning expeditions.
(v) [2004 - present] Supported the work of 5 PhD Students in Astronomy Education
and 2 Masters Degrees students in Astronomy (Imaging Science)

Collaborators and Co-Editors

David Axon (Rochester Institute of Technology), Stefi Baum (Rochester Institute of
Technology), Gina Brissenden (University of Arizona), Alessandro Capetti (Torino
Observatory), Marcella Carollo (ETH-Zurich), Marco Chiaberge (Space Telescope
Science Institute), Debra Colodner (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum), Neil Corbett
(Camp Watonka), Timothy de Zeeuw (Leiden University), David Floyd (Space
Telescope Science Institute), Jack Gallimore (Bucknell University), Suvi Gezari
(Caltech), F. Duccio Machetto (Space Telescope Science Institute), Juan Madrid
(Space Telescope Science Institute), Katrina Mangin (University of Arizona), George
Miley (Leiden University), Christopher O’Dea (Rochester Institute of Technology),
Eric Perlman (University of Maryland), Alice Quillen (University of Rochester),
Timothy Slater (University of Arizona), William Sparks (Space Telescope Science
Institute), David Spiegel (Columbia University), Grant Tremblay (University of
Rochester), Roeland van der Marel (Space Telescope Science Institute), Jacqueline
van Gorkom (Columbia University), Gijs Verdoes Kleijn (Groenigen University),
Donald Wacker (Camp Watonka), Melissa Williams (SHEDD Aquarium)

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

Stefi Baum (Rochester Institute of Technology), Jacqueline van Gorkom (Columbia
University)

Thesis advisor and Postdoctoral-Scholar Sponsor

None
 Jeff B. Pelz
Rochester Institute of Technology
Center for Imaging Science
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 475-2783
(585) 475-5988
pelz@cis.rit.edu

Professional Preparation
Rochester Institute of Technology B.F.A. 1980 Photography
Rochester Institute of Technology M.S. 1986 Imaging Science
Brain and Cognitive
University of Rochester Ph.D. 1995
Science

Appointments
Rochester Institute of Technology
Professor of Imaging Science, 2007 - present
Associate Professor of Imaging Science, 1999 - 2007
Assistant Professor of Imaging Science, 1995 - 1998
Instructor of Imaging Science, 1986-1995

University of Rochester
Adjunct Research Professor, Computer Science, 1998-2004
Research Associate, Center for Visual Science, 1996-2005

Selected peer-reviewed publications (*student coauthors)

(i) Babcock, J.* & Pelz, J.B. (2004) "The RIT Wearable eyetracker" ACM SIGCHI Eye
Tracking Research & Applications Symposium 2004

Rothkopf, C*. & Pelz, J.B.,. (2004) "Head motion estimation for wearable
eyetrackers," ACM SIGCHI Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium
2004.

Pelz, J.B. & Canosa, R*., (2001) "Oculomotor Behavior and Perceptual Strategies in
Complex Tasks," Vision Research, 41:3587-3596.

Pelz, J.B., Hayhoe, M.M. & Loeber, R.* (2001) " The coordination of eye, head, and
hand movements in a natural task," Exp Brain Research, 139:266-277.

Pelz, J.B., Canosa, R.*, Babcock, J.*, Kucharczyk, D.*, Silver, A.*, and Konno, D.*,
(2000) "Portable Eyetracking: A Study of Natural Eye Movements" Proceedings of
the SPIE, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging , San Jose, CA: SPIE 2000.

(ii) Marschark, M., Pelz, J., Convertino, C., Sapere, P., Arndt, M.E*., and Seewagen,
R.,(2005) “Classroom Interpreting and Visual Information Processing in Mainstream
Education for Deaf Students:”, American Educational Research Journal 42(4), 727-
761, 2005
 Hayhoe, M. M., Shrivastava, A.*, Mruczek, R.*, & Pelz, J. B. (2003). "Visual memory
and motor planning in a natural task," Visual memory and motor planning in a natural
task. Journal of Vision, 3(1), 49-63

Pelz, J.B., Canosa, R.*, & Babcock, J.* (2000) "Extended Tasks Elicit Complex Eye
Movement Patterns," ACM SIGCHI Eye Tracking Research & Applications
Symposium 2000.

Ballard, D.H., M.M. Hayhoe, and J.B. Pelz, "Working Memory Limitations in Sensory-
motor Tasks," Proceedings of the Woods Hole Workshop on the Basal Ganglia,
(1994)

Ballard, D.H., M.M. Hayhoe, and J.B. Pelz, "Memory Representations in Natural
Tasks," Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1994 7(1) 68-82.

Synergistic Activities

Dr. Pelz is co-founder, along with Dr Stavri Nikolov, University of Bristol (UK), of
scanpaths.org, an online archinve os scanpath data. Its mission is to provide the
research community with a central online repository of scanpath (eye-movement) data
gathered by different laboratories and companies around the world in various
experiments and applications. This data, especially when well documented and
available in a common eye-tracker independent format, could be used by researchers to
develop new gaze-tracking and visual information analysis algorithms and systems,
without having to recreate the experiments carried out to collect the data.

Collaborators and Other Affiliations

Jason Babcock, New York University
Mary Hayhoe, University of Texas, Austin
Andrew Herbert, Rochester Institute of Technology
Marc Marschark, Rochester Institute of Technology
Constantin Rothkopf, University of Rochester

Graduate Advisors
Dana Ballard, University of Texas, Austin
Mary Hayhoe, University of Texas, Austin
Michael Tanenhaus, University of Rochester

Thesis Advisor (5) and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor (0)

Mary Ellen Arndt, Xerox Corporation
Jason Babcock, Wearable Computing, LLC
Roxanne Canosa, Rochester Institute of Technology
Zaira Cattaneo, University of Pavia, Italy (visiting student)
Justin Laird, Philips Research
Marianne Lipps, Lincoln Laboratories, MIT
Biographical Sketch
Name of Principal Investigator: Dr. Ryne P. Raffaelle

(a) Professional Preparation

Southern Illinois University Physics B.S., 1984
Southern Illinois University Physics M.S., 1986
University of Missouri, Rolla Physics Ph.D., 1990

(b) Appointments
2003 - Present Professor of Microsystems Engineering, RIT
2002 - Present Professor of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2000 - Present Director, NanoPower Research Labs, RIT, Rochester, NY
1999 - 2001 Visiting Scientist, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
1999 - Present Assc. Prof. of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1998 - 1999 Assc. Prof. of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Tech., Melbourne, FL
1997, 1998 (summer) Visiting Scientist, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH
1992 - 1997 Asst. Prof. of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Tech., Melbourne, FL
1994, 1995 (summer) Visiting Scientist, SURA/Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
1990 - 1992 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Nanoscale Materials Program, UMR.

(c) Publications (An * denotes an undergraduate student author)

I. Most Closely Related to Project
1. Landi, B.J.; Ruf, H.J.; Evans, C.M.*; Cress, C.D.; Raffaelle, R.P., “Purity Assessment of
Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Using Optical Absorption Spectroscopy.” J. Phys. Chem.
B. 2005, 109, 9952-9965.
2. Landi, B. J.; Castro, S. L.; Ruf, H.J.; Evans, C.M.*; Bailey, S. G.; Raffaelle, R. P., “CdSe
Quantum Dot-Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Complexes for Polymeric Solar Cells.” Sol.
Energy Mater. Sol. Cells. 2005, 87, 733.
3. Landi, B.J.; Cress, C.D.*; Evans, C.M.*; Raffaelle, R.P., “Thermal Oxidation Profiling of
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.” Chem. Mater. 2005, 17, 6819-6834.
4. Landi, B.J.; Evans, C.M.*; Worman, J.J.; Castro, S.L.; Bailey, S.G.; Raffaelle, R.P.,
“Noncovalent Attachment of CdSe Quantum Dots to Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.”
Mater Lett. 2006, 60, 3502-3506.
5. DiLeo, R.A.*; Landi, B.J.; Raffaelle, R.P., “Purity assessment of multiwalled carbon
nanotubes by Raman spectroscopy.” J. Appl. Phys. 2007, 101, 064307.

II. Significant Publications

1. Raffaelle, R.P.; Castro, S.L.; Hepp, A.F.; Bailey, S.G., “Quantum Dot Solar Cells,” Prog.
Photovolt: Res. Appl. 2002, 10, 433-439.
2. Neupane, P.P.; Manasreh, M.O.; Weaver, B.D.; Raffaelle, R.P.; Landi, B.J., “Proton
irradiation effect on single-wall carbon nanotubes in a poly(3-octylthiophene) matrix.”
Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 86, 221908.
3. Raffaelle, R.P.; Landi, B.J.; Harris, J.D.; Bailey, S.G.; Hepp, A.F., “Carbon Nanotubes for
Power Applications.” Mater. Sci. Eng. B. 2005, 116, 233-243.
4. Cress, C.D.; Landi, B.J.; Raffaelle, R.P. Wilt, D.M., “InGaP alpha voltaic batteries:
Synthesis, modeling, and radiation tolerance.” J. Appl. Phys. 2006, 100, 114519.
5. Fagan, J. A.; Simpson, J. R.; Landi, B. J.; Richter, L. J.; Mandelbaum, I.; Bajpai, V.; Ho,
D. L.; Raffaelle, R.; Hight Walker, A. R.; Bauer, B. J.; Hobbie, E. K., ” Dielectric Response
of Aligned Semiconducting Single-wall Nanotubes.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 147402.

(d) Synergistic Activities

1. Co-PI on RIT New York State Star Center Grant (14.7 M$)
2. Core Faculty Member of the Microsystems Ph.D. program at RIT
3. Visiting Scientist at the NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
4. Founder of First-In-Class NanoPower Research Labs (NPRL) at RIT
5. Conference Organizer for the AIAA International Energy Conversion and Engineering Conf.

(e) Collaborators & Other Affiliations

Collaborators and Co-Editors:
Dr. Sheila G. Bailey, Power and On-Board Propulsion, NASA Glenn Research Center
Dr. David M. Wilt, Power and On-Board Propulsion, NASA Glenn Research Center
Dr. Stephanie Castro, Nanofilm, Inc.
Prof. Jerry D. Harris, Northwest Nazarene University
Dr. Aloysius Hepp, Power and On-Board Propulsion, NASA Glenn Research Center.
Dr. William Grande, Ohmcraft Inc.
Dr. Les Fritzemeier, Wakonda, Inc.
Prof. Prashant Kumta, Materials Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
Prof. Steve Ringel, Ohio State University
Prof. Pradeep Haldar, SUNY-Albany
Prof. Paras Prasad, SUNY-Buffalo
Prof. Alex Cartwright, SUNY- Buffalo
Dr. Robert Walters, Naval Research Labs, Washington, DC
Dr. Brent Segal, Nantero, Inc.
Dr. Ronald A. DiFelice, Alpha V, Inc.

Graduate and Postdoctoral Sponsors:

M.S. - Dr. George Henderson (S.I.U.E.)
Ph.D. - Dr. Don Sparlin (U.M.R.)
Post Doc - Dr. Jay Switzer (U.M.R.)

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars Supervised (Total of 18):

Min Chen – M.S. in Phyiscs (1994), Ph.D. student at University of North Texas.
Robert Antolick – M.S. student (1994), working for F.A.A. Commission
Robert Melucci – M.S. in Physics (1995), Physics Instructor at Rhode Island Community College
Ziquiang Wu – M.S. in Physics (1995), Ph.D. student at University of Texas
Mehmet Agirtmis – M.S. in Physics (1995), Ph.D. student at Univ. of South Carolina.
Hans Forsell – M.S. in Physics (1997), working for Raytheon.
Titaina Potdevin – M.S. in Physics (1998), Ph.D. student at Univ. of Michigan.
Robert Friedfeld – Ph.D. in Physics (1999), Assistant Prof. at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Brian Landi- Ph.D. in Microsystem Enginnering (2006)
Chris Evans - M.S. in Materials Science (2006)
John Defranks - M.S. in Materials Science (2006)
Danielle Merritt - M.S. in Imaging Science (2006)
James McCarty – M.S. in Materials Science (2007)
Daniel Byrnes- current M.S. student
Cory Cress - current Ph.D. student
Ross Robinson - current Ph.D. Student
Annick Anctil - current Ph.D. Student
Roberta DiLeo - current M.S. Student
Christopher Bailey – current M.S. Student
Matthew Ganter – current M.S. Student

Postdoctoral Scholars (Total of 4):

Dr. Herb Ruf
Dr. Ronald DiFelice
Dr. Jo Roe
Dr. Janice Lau
Anthony Vodacek, Associate Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology voice: 585-475-7816
54 Lomb Memorial Dr email: vodacek@cis.rit.edu
Rochester NY 14623 Web: www.cis.rit.edu

Professional Preparation
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry B.S. 1981
Cornell University Environmental Engineering M.S. 1985
Cornell University Environmental Engineering Ph.D. 1990
Joint Research Centre, Ispra Remote Sensing 1990-1991
NASA Goddard Remote Sensing 1991-1994

Appointments
2004-current, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
1998-2004, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
1995-1998, Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UMaryland, College Park.
1994-1995, Research Associate, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMaryland,
College Park.

Publications (Five Pertinent Refereed, * indicates undergraduate author)

Li, Y, A Vodacek, N Raqueno, R Kremens, A Garrett, S Bosch, JC Makarewicz, and TW
Lewis. 2007. Seasonal circulation and stream plume modeling in Conesus Lake.
Environmental Modeling and Assessment. Published online 21 April 2007.
doi:10.1007/s10666-007-9090-x.
Ononye, A, A Vodacek, and E Saber. 2007. Automated extraction of fire line parameters
from multispectral infrared images. Remote Sens. Environ. 108:179-188.
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.029
Li, Y, A Vodacek, R Kremens, and A Ononye. 2005. A hybrid contextual approach to
wildland fire detection using multispectral imagery. IEEE Trans. GeoSci. Remote
Sensing. 43:2115-2126. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.853935.
Kremens, R, J Faulring, A Gallagher*, A Seema*, and A Vodacek. 2003. Auto-nomous
field-deployable wildland fire sensors. Int. J. Wildland Fire. 12:237-244.
doi:10.1071/WF02055.
Vodacek, A, R Kremens, A Fordham, S VanGorden, D Luisi, J Schott, and D Latham.
2002. Remote optical detection of biomass burning using a potassium emission
signature. Int. J. Remote Sens. 23:2721-2726. doi:10.1080/01431160110109633.

Publications (Five Other Related, * indicates undergraduate author)

Douglas, C, J Beezley, J Coen, D Li, W Li, A Mandel, J Mandel, G Qin, and A Vodacek.
2006. Demonstrating the validity of a wildfire DDDAS. LNCS, Springer, Vol. 3993, p.
522-529. doi:10.1007/11758532_69
Ononye, A., A Vodacek, R Kremens, Y Li, and D Merritt*. 2003. Empirical testing of
subpixel detection of fire. In: Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral ,
Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery IX, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5093, p. 343-352.
Li, Y, A Vodacek, R Kremens, and A Ononye. 2003. A new algorithm for global forest fire
detection using multispectral images. In: Targets and Backgrounds IX, Proc. SPIE Vol.
5075, p. 367-377.
Vodacek, A, M DeGrandpre, E Peltzer, R Nelson, and N Blough. 1997. Seasonal
variation of CDOM and DOC in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Terrestrial inputs and
photooxidation. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42:674-686.
DeGrandpre, M, A Vodacek, R Nelson, E Bruce*, and N Blough, 1996. Seasonal
seawater optical properties of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Bight. J. Geophys. Res.
101:22727-22736.

Synergistic Activities
With NSF funding I’ve supported two undergraduate computer engineering students in
co-op and NSF REU positions where they performed much of the basic development of
hardware and software for our ground based fire sensor systems. I’ve applied my
experience from my current NSF DDDAS wildfire project in a NOAA funded project
regarding integrated modeling with remote sensing feedback for predicting beach
closures in Lake Ontario. While at RIT I have involved at least 8 undergraduate students
in my various research projects. I use our remote sensing instrumentation for
demonstrations at the undergraduate level so students are exposed to imaging
technology. At the graduate level, students in my spectral instrumentation course
perform spectral and radiometric calibration of one of our airborne remote sensing
systems, complementing their traditional classroom learning. Of my 10 graduate
students, 7 are women and 1 is African-American.

Collaborators (Last 48 months)

Joe Atkinson, UBuffalo; Jonathan Beezley, CU-Denver; Lynn Bennethum, CU-Denver;
Sid Bosch, SUNY Geneseo; Janice Coen, NCAR; Craig Douglas, UKY; Leo Franca, CU-
Denver; Al Garrett, DOE; Craig Johns, CU-Denver; Minjeong Kim, CU-Denver; Bob
Kremens, RIT; Ted Lewis, SUNY Brockport; CU-Denver; Joe Makarewicz, SUNY
Brockport; Jan Mandel, CU-Denver; Nina Raqueno, RIT; Rolando Raqueno, RIT; Eli
Saber, RIT; John Schott, RIT; Guan Qin, TAMU; Wei Zhao, RPI.

Graduate Advisor: Bill Philpot, Cornell U. Postdoctoral Advisors: Giancarlo Bertolini,

Joint Research Centre; Frank Hoge, NASA Goddard; Neil Blough, Univ. Maryland
College Park.

Thesis Advisor for: Niki Wilson (MS, veterinarian); Kirk Knobelspiesse (MS, Columbia
University PhD student); Andy Fordham (MS, Lockheed Martin); Gretchen Sprehe (MS,
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency); Ying Li (PhD, Rapiscan Systems); Zhen Wang
(PhD student); Yan Li (PhD, none); Yushan Zhu (PhD student); Alvin Spivey (PhD
student); Shari McNamara (MS student). Postgraduate–Scholar Sponsor: Ambrose
Ononye (Lickenbrock Engineering). I have been the advisor for a total of 10 graduate
students and one postgraduate scholar.
 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Stefi Baum
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 448,841 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/08 - 02/29/12
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: MIND Institute Fellowship - Andrew Michael

Source of Support: The MIND Institute

Total Award Amount: $ 55,000 Total Award Period Covered: 04/15/07 - 04/15/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Towards a Complete Sample: 3CR Extragalactic Radio Sources
with z<0.3

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 35,000 Total Award Period Covered: 10/01/07 - 09/30/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Stepping Stones to Research

Source of Support: American Honda Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 82,767 Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/08 - 06/30/10
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: "The Journey of a Photon": High School Student Involvement
in Developing their Community’s Understanding of Detector
Science for the Internatinal Year of Science (2009) and
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $ 44,986 Total Award Period Covered: 08/01/07 - 07/31/10
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Summ: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Stefi Baum
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: HST FUV Observations of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: The Role
of Star Formation in Cooling Flows and BCG Evolution

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 36,053 Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/07 - 06/30/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Integrated Remote Sensing Systems Center for Advanced
Technology

Source of Support: NYS Office of Science, Technology & Academic Research

Total Award Amount: $ 4,999,860 Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/07 - 06/30/12
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: AstroTrek: Astronomical Expeditions

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 194,022 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/07 - 08/31/10
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: JWST/NIRCAM Project - Girl Scout Activities
(supplemental)

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 4,000 Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/06 - 06/30/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: A Census of Start Formation in the Brightest Cluster
Galaxies: Is Star Formation the Ultimate Fate of Cooling
Gas?
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $ 86,055 Total Award Period Covered: 08/14/06 - 09/30/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Summ: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Stefi Baum
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: JWST/NIRCAM Project - Mod 2

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 42,976 Total Award Period Covered: 10/01/04 - 09/30/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Black Hole and Gas Disks in a Complete Sample of Radio-Loud
Ellipticals - II: Kinematics

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 10,068 Total Award Period Covered: 11/01/05 - 10/31/07
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: IRS Spectroscopy of 3CR Radio Galaxies

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 61,463 Total Award Period Covered: 08/22/05 - 05/31/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Faculty Development Program: Recruitment of Donald Figer

Source of Support: NYS Office of Science, Technology & Academic Research

Total Award Amount: $ 727,900 Total Award Period Covered: 05/01/06 - 06/30/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Ultraviolet Snapshots of 3CR Radio Galaxies HST

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 17,904 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/06 - 02/29/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Summ: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Stefi Baum
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: JWST/NIRCAM University of Arizona Project

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 50,008 Total Award Period Covered: 10/01/04 - 09/30/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Infrared Snapshots of 3CR Radio Galaxies

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 80,000 Total Award Period Covered: 12/01/04 - 11/30/07
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: A Photon Counting Imaging Detector for NASA Missions

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 1,074,177 Total Award Period Covered: 10/01/07 - 09/30/10
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: AGN Feedback at the Current Epoch: Constraints on Galaxy
Formation and Evolution

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 331,136 Total Award Period Covered: 06/01/07 - 05/31/10
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: A LIDAR Imaging Detector for NASA Planetary Missions

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 550,696 Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/08 - 12/31/10
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.60 Acad: 0.00 Summ: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Stefi Baum
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Resolving the Critical Ambiguities of the M-Sigma Relation

Source of Support: NASA

Total Award Amount: $ 201,495 Total Award Period Covered: 10/01/06 - 09/30/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Summ:
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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Current and Pending Support

CARL SALVAGGIO

Status: Pending
Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences
Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount Requested: $448,841 (4 years)
Site: Rochester Institute of Technology
Start Date: March 1, 2008
End Date: February 29, 2012
Commitment: 0.0 Months

Status: Pending
Title: Accurate radiometric temperature measurements using thermal
infrared imagery of small targets, physics-based modeling, and
companion high-resolution optical image data sets
Agency: US Department of Energy
Amount Requested: $633,761 (3 years)
Site: Rochester Institute of Technology
Start Date: March 1, 2008
End Date: February 28, 2011
Commitment: 12.0 Months CY

Status: Pending
Title: Power estimates from partially frozen cooling lake imagery
Agency: US Department of Energy
Amount Requested: $850,000 (3 years)
Site: Rochester Institute of Technology
Start Date: October 1, 2007
End Date: September 30, 2010
Commitment: 0.0 Months

Status: Current
Title: IC Post Doctorate Research Fellowship Program: Effects of
humidity on atmospheric transmission
Agency: Department of Defense/CIA
Amount Funded: $239,926 (2 years)
Site: Rochester Institute of Technology
Start Date: August 17, 2006
End Date: August 16, 2008
Commitment: 0.0 Months

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Title: Exploitation Tool for Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower
Agency: US Department of Energy
Amount Funded: $457,820 (3 years)
Site: Rochester Institute of Technology
Start Date: February 1, 2006
End Date: January 31, 2009
Commitment: 0.0 Months

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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Marcos Esterman
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: CAREER: Modeling and Assessment of Innovation for
Sustainable Engineered Systems

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 400,000 Total Award Period Covered: 06/01/08 - 05/30/13
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 2.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Estimation and Reduction of the Carbon Footprint of the
Rochester Institute of Technology

Source of Support: Environmental Protection Agency

Total Award Amount: $ 10,000 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/07 - 05/30/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.50 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research Laboratory on
Mechanical and Acoustical Properties of Microstructures and
Thin Films
Source of Support: National Science Foundation
Total Award Amount: $ 149,843 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/07 - 08/31/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.50

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Substrate-Toner Interactions in the EP Fusing Process

Source of Support: Hewlett-Packard Company

Total Award Amount: $ 120,000 Total Award Period Covered: 08/01/06 - 07/31/07
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 1.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Summ:
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Mark D. Fairchild
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $448,841 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/2008 – 02/29/2012
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: The Effects of Display Properties and Viewing Conditions on Perceived
Color Gamut Volume
Source of Support: Sony Corp.
Total Award Amount: $290,000 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2006 – 08/31/2009
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 1.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Evaluation of the Color Image and Video Processing Chain and Visual
Quality Management for Consumer Systems
Source of Support: Intel Corp.
Total Award Amount: $65,000 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2006 – 11/30/07
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 1.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Doctoral Dissertation Research: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Scene
Perception and Imaging
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $12,000 Total Award Period Covered: 03/15/2006 – 03/15/2008
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Digital Photography Research
Source of Support: Apple, Inc
Total Award Amount: $80,000 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2006 – 8/31/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 1.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Dr. Donald F. Figer
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $468,915 Total Award Period Covered: 3/1/2008 – 2/29/2012
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: N.A. Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: A LIDAR Imaging Detector for NASA Planetary Missions
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $1,140,647 Total Award Period Covered: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 1.50
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Very Low Noise CMOS Detector Design for NASA
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $847,000 Total Award Period Covered: 02/08/2007 – 02/07/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 1.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: A Radiation Tolerant Detector for NASA Planetary Missions
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $592,000 Total Award Period Covered: 06/25/2007 – 06/24/2009
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: The Most Massive Stars
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $1,108,968 Total Award Period Covered: 02/15/2006 – 02/14/2009
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.50 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Dr. Donald F. Figer
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Mid-Infrared Spectrometry of the Most Massive Stars
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $21,812 Total Award Period Covered: 06/29/2006 – 5/31/2008
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.10 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Massive Star Clusters
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $30,000 Total Award Period Covered: 08/14/2006 - 09/30/2008
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.10 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: The pre-supernova mass-loss of RSGs
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $80,885 Total Award Period Covered: 9/1/2007 – 08/30/2009
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: NA Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Development of a Novel Detector for Mars Missions
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $299,615 Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/2008 – 12/31/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.50 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: –
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:

*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Richard Hailstone NSF
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Program Imaging in the Physical Sciences
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $448,000 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/2008 – 02/27/2013
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 1.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 1.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Nanoparticle Synthesis and Characterization
Source of Support: Cerion Energy
Total Award Amount: $32,000 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2007 – 11/30/2007
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.72 Acad: 0.54 Sumr: 0.18
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Maria Helguera
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 448,841 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/08 - 02/29/12
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: CAREER: Processing, fusion, and visualization of
multimodality medical images

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 410,400 Total Award Period Covered: 06/01/08 - 05/31/13
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 2.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research Laboratory on
Mechanical and Acoustical Properties of Microstructures and
Thin Films
Source of Support: National Science Foundation
Total Award Amount: $ 149,843 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/07 - 08/31/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.50

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Stephanie Shubert: Skin
Characterization with high frequency ultrasound

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 40,500 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/06 - 08/31/09
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title: Multidisciplinary Senior Design Projects: Devices to Aid
People with Disabilities

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 72,357 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/05 - 08/31/08
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Summ: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Joseph Hornak
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Total Award Amount: $ 448,841 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/08 - 02/29/12
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal:0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:
Location of Project:
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Summ:
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.
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(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Jacob Noel-Storr
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Galactic Portals: Immersing K-12 Students in HST Science
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $59,876 Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/2008 – 01/31/2009
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 2.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: The Journey of a Photon: High School Student Involvement in Developing
their Community's Understanding of Detector Science for the International
Year of Astronomy/Year of Science (2009) and Beyond
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $44,986 Total Award Period Covered: 08/01/2007 – 07/31/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 1.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: SGER: Collaboratorium for Interdisciplinary Creativity
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $119,737 Total Award Period Covered: 08/01/2007 – 07/31/2008
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 2.40 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: GSE/RES - Factors Influencing the Persistence to Graduate Study by
Female Astronomy - REU Participants
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $322,596 Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/2008 – 05/31/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 3.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: NASA Family Science Nights: Changing Perceptions One Family at a Time
(Evaluation)
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $34,276 Total Award Period Covered: 08/01/2007 – 07/31/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 1.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Jacob Noel-Storr
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: AstroTrek: Astronomical Expeditions
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $194,022 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2007 – 08/31/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 3.60 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences
Source of Support: National Science Foundation
Total Award Amount: $448,841 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/2008 – 02/29/2012
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 3.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Jeff B Pelz
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Eye Tracking Image Use in a Clinical Decision Support System
Source of Support: New York State Office of Science, Technology & Academic Research
Total Award Amount: $50,000 Total Award Period Covered: 04/01/2007 – 03/31/2008
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.50
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $468,915 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/2008 - 02/29/2012
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title:
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: Total Award Period Covered: -
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

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Ryne Raffaelle - Current and Pending Support

Requested Combined Combined Effort in

Status Title Sponsor
Amount Start Date End Date months

Carbon Nanotube National

3.00 AY,
Pending Spacecraft Reconnaissanc $ 399,829 01/14/2008 10/14/2008
1.00 S
Harnesses e Office (NRO)
BP Solar
Nanomaterials for 0.0 AY,
Pending International $ 42,000 06/14/2007 12/14/2007
Poly PV 0.0 S
LLC
Air Force Office
RIT - Quantum
of Scientific
Pending Wire III-V Solar $ 49,385 07/01/2007 12/31/2008 .10 S
Research
Cell
(AFOSR)
High Efficiency
Nanostructured III-
US Department
Pending V Photovoltaics for $ 843,697 10/01/2007 09/30/2010 1.50 S
of Energy (DoE)
Solar
Concentrators

High Temperature
0.0 AY,
Current Li Batteries using Greatbatch, Inc. $ 46,797 08/01/2007 07/31/2008
0.0 S
Carbon Nanotubes

SBIR Phase II -
US Department 0.0 AY,
Pending Thin Film $ 150,001 06/01/2007 12/01/2008
of Energy (DoE) 0.0 S
Semiconductors

Radiation Tolerant National

High Intensity/High Aeronautics
0.0 AY,
Current Temperature and Space $ 30,000 09/01/2007 08/31/2008
0.0 S
Photovoltaic Administration
Devices (NASA)

High Areal Specific

Power Thin Film III-
V Multijunction US Missile
0.0 AY,
Pending Solar Cells on Defence $ 598,624 06/01/2007 05/30/2008
0.0 S
Virtual Single Agency (MDA)
Crystal Flexible
Substrates

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NIRT: Photo-
Carrier Generation,
Escape, Trapping, National
Recombination, Science
Pending $ 374,999 06/01/2007 05/31/2011 1.5 S
and Collection Foundation
Processes in (NSF)
Quantum Confined
Solar Cells
High Efficiency
Solar Cells Based
US Department
Pending on Stacked, $ 348,000 06/01/2007 05/30/2009 1.0 S
of Energy (DoE)
Engineered QD
Active Region
Metalorganic Vapor
Air Force Office
Phase Epitaxy
of Scientific 0.0 AY,
Pending System for $ 886,135 04/01/2007 03/31/2008
Research 0.0 S
NanoPower
(AFOSR)
Research
National
Aeronautics
Poly III-V High 0.0 AY,
Pending and Space $ 33,001 06/01/2007 05/30/2008
Specific Power PV 0.0 S
Administration
(NASA)
National
Aeronautics
Nanostructured 0.0 AY,
Current and Space $ 75,001 02/01/2007 01/31/2008
Photovoltaics 0.0 S
Administration
(NASA)
Poly III-V
Wakonda Tech 0.0 AY,
Current Photovoltaics $ 12,897 09/01/2006 08/31/2007
Inc. 0.0 S
Development

Transparent
Conducting Films
0.0 AY,
Pending Using Carbon Spectrolab, Inc. $ 100,000 08/01/2006 03/31/2009
0.0 S
Nanotubes for
HEMJ Solar Cells
CNT Material National
0.0 AY,
Current Characterization Reconnaissanc $ 239,999 08/01/2006 07/31/2009
0.0 S
and Development e Office (NRO)

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Ryne Raffaelle - Current and Pending Support (continued)

Defense
Quantum Dot Advanced
0.0 AY,
Pending Isotope Power Research $ 1,540,371 10/01/2006 09/30/2007
0.0 S
Conversion Projects
Agency
Quantum Dot-
Air Force Office
Carbon Nanotube
of Scientific 0.0 AY,
Current Composites for $ 75,000 06/01/2006 11/30/2007
Research 0.0 S
Thin Film
(AFOSR)
Photovoltaics

Understanding and
Modeling the Air Force Office
Thermal and of Scientific 0.0 AY,
Current $ 105,600 06/01/2005 11/30/2007
Radiation Benefits Research 0.0 S
of Quantum Dot (AFOSR)
Solar Cells
High Efficiency National
Quantum Dot III-V Aeronautics
0.0 AY,
Pending Thermophotovoltai and Space $ 65,918 11/01/2005 10/31/2007
0.0 S
c Cell for Space Administration
Power (NASA)

Advanced
Substrate
The Boeing 0.0 AY,
Pending Development for $ 120,512 08/01/2006 07/31/2009
Company 0.0 S
Thin-Film III-V MJ
Solar Cells

Nanostructured National
0.0 AY,
Current Space Reconnaissanc $ 2,735,703 08/01/2005 01/31/2009
0.0 S
Photovoltaics e Office (NRO)
National
Aeronautics
Nano-Photovoltaics 0.0 AY,
Current and Space $ 1,027,522 07/15/2005 07/14/2009
- NASA Code T 0.0 S
Administration
(NASA)
Carbon Nanotube 0.0 AY,
Current SUNY Albany $ 150,000 02/15/2005 11/30/2007
Solar Cells 0.0 S

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Ryne Raffaelle - Current and Pending Support (continued)

NUE: Development
and Dissemination
National
of a Sophomore
Science 0.0 AY,
Current Course in Nano- $ 99,876 07/01/2004 06/30/2008
Foundation 0.0 S
Science,
(NSF)
Engineering, and
Technology

National
REU Site: Imaging
Science 0.0 AY,
Pending in the Physical $ 448,841 03/01/2008 02/29/2012
Foundation 0.0 S
Sciences
(NSF)

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 Current and Pending Support
(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)
The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.
Investigator: Anthony Vodacek
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: CSR-CSI: Collaborative Research: Dynamic Sensor/Computation Network
for Wildfire Management
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $99,979 Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2007 – 08/31/2009
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 1.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Integrating remote sensing with water quality modeling for prediction of
beach closures at Ontario Beach, Rochester NY
Source of Support: NOAA
Total Award Amount: $51,159 Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/2006 – 06/30/2008
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 1.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: ITR: Collaborative Research: DDDAS: Data Dynamic Simulation for
Disaster Management
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $299,991 Total Award Period Covered: 09/15/2003 – 08/31/2008
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.50
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences (This proposal)
Source of Support: NSF
Total Award Amount: $448,841 Total Award Period Covered: 03/01/2008 – 02/29/2012
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 0.00 Sumr: 0.00
Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support
Project/Proposal Title: Developemnt of Scale Independent Landscape Metrics from Global Image
Variance
Source of Support: NASA
Total Award Amount: $250,000 Total Award Period Covered: 01/01/2008 – 12/21/2010
Location of Project: Rochester Institute of Technology
Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: 0.00 Acad: 1.00 Sumr: 1.00
*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

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 FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT & OTHER RESOURCES
FACILITIES: Identify the facilities to be used at each performance site listed and, as appropriate, indicate their capacities, pertinent
capabilities, relative proximity, and extent of availability to the project. Use "Other" to describe the facilities at any other performance
sites listed and at sites for field studies. USE additional pages as necessary.

Laboratory: Not Applicable

Clinical: Not Applicable

Animal: Not Applicable

Computer: Not Applicable

Office: Not Applicable

Other: Not Applicable

MAJOR EQUIPMENT: List the most important items available for this project and, as appropriate identifying the location and pertinent
capabilities of each.

Not Applicable

OTHER RESOURCES: Provide any information describing the other resources available for the project. Identify support services
such as consultant, secretarial, machine shop, and electronics shop, and the extent to which they will be available for the project.
Include an explanation of any consortium/contractual arrangements with other organizations.

Not Applicable
REU Site: Imaging in the Physical Sciences - Ethics Component
Instructor: Dr. Wade Robison, Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics, RIT

Workshop in Ethics in Science

This workshop will take place over a two day period as part of the classroom activities of
the REU students. The workshop time will be devoted to discussion, analysis and the
application of ethical concepts to past and current situations in the scientific community.

Among the ethical issues that ought to be considered by any scientist or researcher, we
shall focus on two:

1. Scientist and researcher as a professional -- A professional in any field of endeavor

has obligations that come from being a professional. We want lawyers who do not sleep
through their client’s trial; physicians who listen to our concerns rather than tell us about
their experiences; pharmacists who do not make mistakes in dispensing medicine;
researchers who record their results clearly and accurately, among other things.
As Aristotle notes, there are many ways to fail to do what we ought to do, and we
shall explore these while examining the obligations scientists and researchers have as
individuals regarding their work. The aim is to cast a light on how best to succeed. For
what we ought to want as individuals, and what we as a society ought to want for our
scientists and researchers, is that individuals strive to push the limits of their profession.
To explore these issues, we will make use of some readings (a brief section from
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, for instance) as well as a video that is designed to raise
questions about the role of individual scientists and researchers. The questions are
open-ended and will be used for discussion. The aim is to teach students how to identify
ethical problems and to explore the ways in which such problems can be avoided or, if
unavoidable, resolved or at least mitigated. A method of case analysis will be
presented, and the discussion will enable the students to learn it by using it in trying to
understand the questions in the video.

2. Scientist and researcher as a member of a community of scholars -- Every

professional in every field of enquiry owes to those who came before a debt for the
research they did to produce the knowledge that made the profession possible -- and
makes possible further research into the profession’s field of study. In entering into this
community, an individual takes on special obligations -- to maintain the integrity of the
community, for instance, and to further both the knowledge of the community and its
capacity for further study.
We shall explore these special obligations and also the harms both to individuals
and to society that may result from failing to fulfill these special obligations. Among the
issues we shall address are some relating to the presentations of research findings,
both in scientific meetings and in print. We shall make use of another video designed to
raise questions about the role of scientists and researchers in a community of scholars
as well as some readings about the nature of scientific communities and the role of
individual practitioners within those communities.
3. Evaluation -- The students will take a short examination at the end of the
presentation. It will present a case with several ethical issues that the students will
analyze. The aim is to determine how well they are able to discern ethical issues, and
then, once they have discerned them, what sorts of recommendations they make about
how to handle them.

The Independent Evaluator of the REU program (see section 5.2 of the main proposal)
will also incorporate evaluation of the Ethics program and its contributions to the overall
REU program as part of her overall evaluation. This information will be utilized to
improve the delivery of the ethics component and to track the impact of the inclusion of
the ethics components on the students' future pursuits.

Budget:
We request support to fund Dr. Robison’s time, the resultant fringe, and for materials
(videos, texts, etc.) to be used in the workshop. More detail is available in the budget
justification.

Total Request: Yr.1--$4,000, Yr.2--$4,000, Yr.3--$4000, Yr.4--$4,000

 Dr. Wade L. Robison
Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics
College of Liberal Arts
Department of Philosophy
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York 14623
(585) 475-6643 wlrgsh@rit.edu

Professional Preparation
University of Maryland -- B.A. 1962, major philosophy, minor English, with high
honors, Phi Kappa Phi
University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Ph.D. 1968, major philosophy, minor law

Appointments
- Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1962-63
- Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, teaching own courses in logic,
1963-64 and 1965-66, and assisting Professor Julius Weinberg in a graduate
course in Rationalism, Spring 1965
- Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1966-67
- Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, 1967-74
- Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, Fall 1968
- Associate Professor, Kalamazoo College, 1974-86
- Full Professor, Kalamazoo College, 1986-94, Chair, 1986-88
- Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Visiting, on leave from Kalamazoo College, 1990-94; Tenured in the Hale Chair,
1994-present

Relevant recently published articles in refereed journals and anthologies:

1. "Privacy and the Appropriation of Identity," in Goren Collste, Ethics in the Age of
Information Technology (Centre for Applied Ethics, Linkšping, 2000), pp. 70-86.
2. "The Changing Forms of Psychiatric Care," in Mental Illness and Public Health Care:
Biomedical Ethics Review, ed. James M. Humber & Robert F. Almeder (Totowa, NJ:
Humana Press, 2002), pp. 105-126
3. "Ethics in Computer Engineering," in The Social and Ethical Impacts of Information
and Communication Technologies, ed. T. W. Bynun, Henryk Krawczyk, Simon
Rogerson, Stanislaw Szejko, Bogdan Wiszniewski, Centre for Computing and Social
Responsibility: Monfort University, UK: 2001), Vol. I, 39-47
4. "Representation and Misrepresentation: Tufte and the Morton Thiokol Engineers on
the Challenger," with Roger Boisjoly, David Hoeker, and Stefan Young, Science and
Engineering Ethics, Vol. 8, Issue 1 (2002), 59-81
5. "Civility and Stability," in Civility and Its Discontents: Essays on Civil Virtue, Toleration
and Cultural Fragmentation, ed. Jonathan Schonsheck and Chris Sistare, University of
Nebraska, 2006
Books (related publications):
1. Medical Responsibility: Autonomy, Informed Consent, and Euthanasia, ed. with
Michael Pritchard, Clinton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1979
2. Profits and Professions: Essays in Business and Professional Ethics, ed. with J. Ellin
and M. Pritchard, Clinton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1983
3. Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy, recipient of the Nelson A.
Rockefeller Prize for Social Science and Public Policy, Hanover, New Hampshire:
University Press of New England, 1994
4. Ethical Decision Making in Social Work, with Linda Reeser (Social Work, Western
Michigan University), Allyn & Bacon, 2000
5. Health Care Reform: Ethics and Politics, ed. with Timothy Engstrom, University of
Rochester Press, 2006

Synergistic Activities -- I have taught ethics in the RIT College of Engineering. Two of
my engineering students, colleague Roger Boisjoly, and I published an article on the
Challenger tragedy and the moral responsibilities of the engineers at Morton-Thioko.
Our article, a counter to the view of Edward Tufte, discussed the moral responsibility of
the engineers for the deaths of the astronauts. The students presented drafts of the
paper at two conferences -- at Duke and at Case Western -- and were crucial to its
conception and its completion. I helped found and am the first President of the Society
for Ethics Across the Curriculum, now in its eighth year. My interest is in how ethical
issues arise within professions and thus with ethical issues that have traction for the
profession's practitioners. I have an interest in how ethical issues have arisen and will
arise in various disciplines and, in particular, in how those issues find, or ought to find,
traction for the discipline's practitioners so that they see them as real problems that need
resolution.
 Lauver Research and Evaluation
19 Mandalay Ridge
Pittsford, NY 14534
(585) 355-8506
SherriLauver@yahoo.com

Dr. Stefi Baum

Professor, Director of the Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Room 76-2264
54 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623

Re: Evaluation of the REU Program in Imaging in the Physical Sciences

Dear Stefi:

I am delighted to participate in the REU program as an expert on educational

program evaluation. I will work collaboratively with you and the project team to
develop and implement an evaluation plan that entails both formative and
summative components. I will work with you to interpret the results of the
evaluation and to make improvements to the program.

I am enthusiastic about the potential for the success of this program and look
forward to collaborating with you.

Sincerely,

Sherri C. Lauver