| Jewelry students win Goldsmith awards |
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For jewelry creations the likes of a "lily" necklace, a "grasshopper" pin and a gold and wood "branch" necklace, talented RIT metals and jewelry students won Goldsmith awards this May.
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| Gannett talks open with "Worldviews" and Love Canal |
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| Fulbright scholar heads for the "land down under" |
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New M.F.A. glass graduate Johnathon Schmuck has followed his dreams across the nation and Europe; now he's off to the "land down under," thanks to a rare win of a Fulbright Scholarship to study glass at theAustralian National University at Canberra.
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| Fiber optics link teens |
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It's real: a world where people can actually carry on fully interactive conversations with others in another building, city or country while seeing them at the same time.
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| DEATHS |
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Dr. Frank Lovejoy Jr., Rochester physician, professor and philanthropist best known at RIT for his donation of Liberty Hill, died July 31.
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| New season opens at Bevier Gallery |
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The 1997—98 season at Bevier Gallery kicks off with an exhibit by painter Betty LaDuke that explores African life, especially its women, expressed through imagery of mothers, cultural guardians and healers, mythical goddesses and sexual beings.
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| Warm Weather Wrap-up |
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Jewelry students win Goldsmith awards Printing students get published HOW STICKY CAN IT BE? . . . FUN IN THE SUN . . . Japanese computer students' summer study RIT Explorer Post a winner WRAP SESSION . . .
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| United Way campaign a great success |
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The 1997 RIT United Way Campaign went over the top, raising a record $191,486 (102% of the goal) and earning RIT the Award of Excellence for the third consecutive year.
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| World experts in thermal stresses visited RIT |
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Approximately 170 scientists from all over the world were on campus in June for Thermal Stresses '97, the second international symposium on this topic.
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| Multimedia "Microcosm/Macrocosm" exhibition opens SPAS gallery |
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From nature's small, unnoticed things and beings to the state of Earth's global physique --technology and art share the stage in a new exhibition this fall at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Gallery.
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| RIT Explorer Post a winner |
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RIT has won the National Quality Award from the Boy Scouts of America, recognizing its Newspaper Operations Management Explorer Post program designed for high school students.
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| Printing students get published |
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When four RIT graduate students began working on a project with one of their professors, they never imagined the finished product would be instrumental in deciphering the latest printing technology.
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| City youngsters came to PREP school at RIT |
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The Pre-freshman Engineering Program--a.k.a. PREP--brought 27 minority eighth- and ninth-graders who live in the Rochester City School District to RIT to explore careers in science, engineering and math. Since its inception a decade ago, 175 students have participated.
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| High school students really MESHed |
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A chance to build their own Web pages, explore the Internet, peak inside local industries and get a taste of college life brought 34 Monroe County high school students to RIT as part of the third annual MESH program.
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| Manufacturing technology attracts high school students |
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Eighteen Rochester-area high school juniors and seniors got some first-hand experience in modern manufacturing techniques at RIT this month.
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| Picnic at the home of the RIT Provost |
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Thirty computer graphics students from Kyoto Computer Gakuin (Kyoto School of Computer Science) picnicked at Provost Stan McKenzie's home at the end of their two-week workshop in the School of Art and Design this August.
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FUN IN THE SUN
Nearly 800 RIT faculty and staff broke their regular routines to participate in the first Staff Appreciation Day May 28. Sponsored by the RIT Staff Council, the event included a picnic lunch, music by Street-Wise, high-spirited softball and volleyball games and energetic horseshoe matches.
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