Bringing computers to the technology have-nots of society is Maria Larracuente's mission.

When she's not on the job at RIT's ISC help desk, Larracuente is spearheading efforts to establish a bilingual Web site and community computer network in her southwest Rochester neighborhood.

RIT hockey players, with team captain Matt Thomas, enjoy Community Skate events. Here, Corner Crew friends join Tiger players and young skaters.

Hockey—perhaps one of the most physically challenging sports in all of athletics—requires great endurance, speed, quickness, power, balance and hand-eye coordination.

RIT's Division of Student Affairs presented a series of distinguished awards to faculty and staff members during a recognition brunch, Wednesday, Dec. 17.

In addition to awards presented for length of service, distinctions went to three members of the RIT community.

On Jan. 14, RIT students decked the hall—the big hall.

No, it wasn't a post-holiday celebration. It was the opening of an exhibit at Rochester's downtown Link Gallery, an exhibition space in City Hall's passageway linking old and new parts of the historic building at 30 Church St.

RIT upper division undergraduate students enrolled in all disciplines will have the opportunity to study abroad in Sheffield, England, this fall thanks to a program designed by the College of Business.

The one-quarter program allows students to study business and liberal arts courses at Sheffield Hallam University under the guidance of David Wickett, who teaches one of the business classes at Sheffield.

The year 1998 looks like a big one for Master Sgt. Lawrence Brown.

Brown, senior enlisted instructor with the Army ROTC program, has been selected by the Army for promotion to sergeant major, the highest rank for an enlisted soldier. He'll leave RIT this summer to attend the Sergeant Major's Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas.

When the doctor says, "You need an MRI," a lot of people head for the World Wide Web.

And there, in Joseph Hornak's online textbook, The Basics of MRI, they find everything they need to know about the magnetic resonance imaging exam.

What's a professor to do? He cares deeply for his students, past and present, and he knows that many of them face the very real possibility of being let go as Eastman Kodak Company moves forward with its plan to reorganize.

"I knew that at least one guy, a former student and assistant of mine, was let go after 15 years with Kodak. I want him and other RIT alumni to know that we didn't stop thinking of them."

A packaging industry leader is creating a $10,000 annual scholarship that will be awarded to an upper-level student in RIT's packaging science department.

Rock-Tenn Co. of Norcross, Ga., funds the scholarship, which will be awarded for the first time in 1998.

A gift of $25,000 from ECI Systems and Engineering will endow an annual scholarship for a computer science student.

Richard Cheng, CEO of ECI, of Virginia Beach, Va., founded RIT's computer science department and served as a professor, chairman and director from 1973 to 1979. His wife, Nancy, is a 1979 RIT computer science graduate.