| Wanted: Student
designs for program logo |
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Put
on your creative-thinking hat: RIT's Faculty in Residence program has
begun a logo-design contest, open to all RIT students. The logo should
reflect positive interaction among faculty, staff and students; should
be easily reproduced as a line drawing in black and white or color; and
should include a written description. A $100 prize goes to students with
the best original design. Contact Hamad Ghazle via e-mail, hhgscl@rit.edu.
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| New scholarship
named for Donald Zrebiec to help small nonprofit agencies' EMBA enrollment
at RIT |
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RIT's
College of Business has established the Donald A. Zrebiec EMBA Scholarship
Fund, in response to overwhelming enthusiasm from students and alumni
of the Executive M.B.A. program. Zrebiec retired this year as program
director. "When Don announced his retirement from RIT, representatives
from the fourth EMBA class initiated the move to recognize their mentor
and friend in a special way," says Mary Kay Bishop, development officer,
College of Business.
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| RIT's Remanufacturing
and Resource Recovery receives $1 million |
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Thanks
to the efforts of Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter,
RIT's National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery will
receive an additional $1 million to support its research activities.
The funds are included in the 1998-99 Defense Appropriations bill, which
awaits President Clinton's signature.
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| Nathaniel Rochester
Society honors Chester F. Carlson with annual award |
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It
seems most appropriate that as the RIT community celebrates its 30th
anniversary in Henrietta, Chester F. Carlson, who played a major role
in helping the current campus take shape so many years ago, be honored
with the 1998 Nathaniel Rochester Society Award. The society's highest
honor, given annually, recognizes individuals who have contributed to
the advancement of RIT in an outstanding and significant manner.
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| RIT professors develop
public school science programs for NASA |
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John
Glenn rides the shuttle into space in a few days. RIT's Thomas Zigon
rode the elevator with him this past summer. That sort of close encounter
was one of the perks of Zigon's summer job at NASA. Zigon, assistant
professor, biomedical photographic communications, and Clinton Wallington,
professor, instructional technology, spent 10 weeks working as SummerFaculty
Fellows assigned to the International Space Station project at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston. Their mission: to develop educational programs
for teaching science that NASA can offer to public schools.
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| ESPN vice president
to speak in COB alumni series |
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RIT's
College of Business welcomes Sean Bratches, vice president of affiliate
sales and marketing for ESPN, the 24-hour sports network, as keynote
speaker for the Alumni Executive Breakfast Briefing Series, 7:30 a.m.,
Oct. 29, Oak Hill Country Club. Bratches' presentation, "Building a Global
Brand," focuses on the
rise of ESPN as a world-wide entity and uses the ESPN corporate model
to help others develop their organizations globally by implementing
effective marketing strategies.
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| Professors complete
benchmark RIT student survey on alcohol use |
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In
the fall of 1997, RIT instituted a policy that bans all alcohol use in
RIT residence halls including Greek houses, and allows only drinking-age
students in RIT apartments to possess alcohol, limited to non-bulk containers.
President Albert Simone initiated the policy following repeated behavior
problems by students who had been drinking, and following recent alcohol-related
deaths at other universities.
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