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For their senior project, computer engineering majors Nick Kuzmicki, second from left, and Ted Green, third from left, built a missile launcher capable of tracking a moving source of infrared radiation (the lighted box shown above). They successfully demonstrated the device for freshman computer engineering students and department head Roy Czernikowski, far left. Kuzmicki and Green worked for two quarters to meet the project requirement of creating an electromechanical, computer-controlled device with an analytical component.
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| IN LOVING MEMORY |
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A little over a year ago, RIT experienced a great tragedy with the loss of students Susan Willoughby, Cheryl Bulls and Lanette Moore. However, their memories and inspiration live on through the RIT Endowed Memorial Scholarship presented to three students at this year's Black Awareness Coordinating Committee Kwanzaa Celebration Dec. 17. This year's recipients are (left to right) Brenda Moye, Terrelle Carswell and Leigh-Anne Francis.
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| CELEBRATING HERITAGE |
Young Spirit Dancers perform as part of the Native American Cultural Heritage Celebration, sponsored by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Dec. 11. "Watching them gave all of us a feeling that there is a future for all cultures of the world co-existing and growing together," says William Olubodon, coordinator, Multicultural Student Programs. "Those children represent the future of RIT and having them here as part of the cultural understanding can only have positive impacts on the entire community."
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| REVISING THE STATE BUDGET PROCESS |
RIT President Albert Simone was the lead-off speaker for a December hearing held at RIT on the process involved in developing the state's annual budget. Chaired by Sheldon Silver (seated at table, right) Speaker of the New York State Assembly, the hearing also featured presentations by Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey Ross, Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson and County Executive Jack Doyle. Seated at the table, from the left, are: State Assembly members David Koon, Susan John, Joseph Robach, Herman D. Farrell Jr., chairman of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, and Speaker Silver. Silver is hosting a series of hearings around the state.
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Martin Luther King Day at RIT
RIT students chat with lecture duo Lawrence Otis Graham and Betsy Hart prior to the "racial healing" seminar, Jan. 16, in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. The presenters, sponsored by RIT's Commission for Promoting Pluralism, discussed the elimination of "passive bias" in our society, affirmative action, interracial dating, campus bigotry and the difference between diversity, which focuses on differences, and "proversity," a term coined by Graham which focuses on characteristics that people have in common. Graham and Hart have appeared on Oprah, Geraldo, Politically Incorrect and the Today show speaking on similar topics.
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