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DAY OF LOVE AT RIT . . . |
 Nearly
80 students from Rochester City Schools Nos. 4 and 37 visited
RIT Feb. 13 for the 20th anniversary celebration of Love Day.
The youngsters spent the afternoon mingling with RIT student
organizations and participating in science experiments, computer
design, face painting, cookie baking, and arts and crafts. The
group gathered in the Fireside Lounge to listen to a storyteller
and take a juggling lesson from RIT's Juggling Club. Anthony
Rogers from School No. 4, shown here, concentrates on developing
his newly discovered talent. The annual event is sponsored by
RIT's Center for Campus Life.
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| CELEBRATING
V-DAY . . . |
The RIT and Rochester community celebrated V-Day with performances of Eve Ensler's
award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, Feb. 14, 16 and 17. Faculty,
staff and student actors, pictured here, performed 17 monologues in English and
American Sign Language in front of packed audiences in Ingle Auditorium. Proceeds
from the show benefited local agencies working to prevent violence and serving
victims of violence.
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| GIVING
THE GIFT OF MUSIC . . . |
Members of RIT's Student Music Association serenaded nearly 50 faculty/staff
members during their annual Singing Valentines fundraiser, Feb. 13 and 14. For
a nominal fee, chorus members sang selections like Lean on Me, The
Book of Love, I Just Called to Say I Love You, Stand by Me,
and many more. Pictured here, Bob Weeks from ITS Support Services, far left,
listens to Billy Joel's For The Longest Time, one of five Singing Valentines
he received over the two-day event. Sara Gould, a RITSMA member, says, "We don't
perform Singing Valentines for the money. We really just do it for fun and to
see people smile or cry sometimes, and to spread the joy of music around campus."
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| INNOVATION
RULES THE DAY . . . |
 RIT
celebrated its growth in innovators and grant proposals during
the annual Principal Investigators celebration on Feb. 8. "We
saw an increase of 43 percent from 1999's 426 proposals to a
year-2000 total of 610 proposals for external funding. And our
award receipts are 30 percent over last year," said Provost Stanley
McKenzie at the event. Shown with a slideshow of RIT innovators
behind her, Marjorie Zack, director of grants, contracts and
intellectual property, notes, "We grew to 149 proposals in 2000--from
105 in 1998 and 114 in 1999." Across RIT, projects ranged in
value, the largest being $7,000,000. The highest number of proposals,
14, came from John Schott and the Chester F. Carlson Center for
Imaging Science team; Nabil Nasr and his group in the National
Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery followed with
12. (Visit the grants' office Web site for a complete list of
people and projects: www.rit.edu/~629www.)
A new club will launch in June for those with accumulated funding
for sponsored projects valued at $1 million or more.
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| CAREER
ADVICE AND A CAMERA, TOO. . . |
 That's
what students received at the first annual National Technical
Institute for the Deaf/Kodak Career Day, held recently at NTID.
Hosted by the NTID Center on Employment, 12 Kodak career professionals
spent the day collecting resumes, discussing career and co-op
opportunities, presenting demonstrations of equipment and giving
away Kodak's popular one-time-use cameras. Shown here, fourth-year
NTID Digital Imaging & Publishing Technology student Kevin
MacFarland meets Allen Vaala, director of university relations
and college recruiting for Eastman Kodak Co. Patricia Gates,
of RIT's interpreting services department, voices for MacFarland.
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| THINKING
(ABOUT GOOD PACKAGING JOBS) OUT OF THE BOX . . . |
The field of packaging science, with an estimated 5,000 job openings worldwide
annually, has some of the most in-demand graduates. RIT packaging science students
explored some of those potential job opportunities at the 11th annual Packaging
Science Career Fair on Feb. 7. One of RIT's largest student-organized career
fairs, the event drew 100 students and representatives from 21 companies. Shown
above, Nica Crowley, second-year packaging science major, far right, speaks with
Kraft Foods Inc. representatives. Crowley says she received co-op offers from
several companies as a result of the career fair. She accepted a summer and fall
co-op with Catalytica Pharmaceuticals of Greenville, N.C. "The career fair was
an incredible opportunity to see what a variety of employers had to offer," she
says.
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| YOUTHFUL
ARTISTRY . . . |
 Area
high school students tour the Bevier Gallery to check out winning
entries from this year's Scholastic Art Awards. More than 1,200
works of art were submitted by middle- and high-school students
from across the Rochester region. This is the second consecutive
year that RIT has hosted the awards and exhibition.
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