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| “SPIRIT OF EXPLORATION” ROARS ON . . . President
Albert Simone and Jennifer Goodwin, third-year illustration major,
enjoy a moment with RIT’s entry in the community-wide “Animal
Scramble.” Named “SpiRIT of Exploration,” it represents
the various dimensions of RIT’s academic and co-curricular programs. “SpiRIT” will
be displayed on campus through Commencement weekend, first on the
seventh floor of the George Eastman Building, and later, outside
the commencement tent. His “home” for the summer will be
Frontier Field. Jennifer won a student competition to design RIT’s
Animal Scramble entry. |
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| A KODAK MOMENT . . . Daniel Carp, chairman and CEO of Eastman
Kodak Co., speaks to a packed house in Webb Auditorium. Carp’s
presentation, RIT and Kodak: Reflections on a Century of Partnership,
was among the featured events during the School of Photographic Arts
and Sciences centennial celebration. The three-day event marked 100
years since the first photography class was offered at RIT. |
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| PERSONAL BEST . . . The Undergraduate School Honors Exhibition
runs from May 24 through summer at Bevier Gallery, James E. Booth
Building, and features a showcase of undergraduate student works
selected by CIAS faculty from School of Art, School of Design and
School for American Crafts. |
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| TAKING OUR DAUGHTERS AND SONS TO WORK . . . Jackie Ramirez,
above, joined her mom, Angie Martinez, at RIT for the annual Take
Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day in April. Here, Jackie sharpens
her engineering and design skills while working on a wooden car. |
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| A FACE ONLY A MOTHERBOARD COULD LOVE . . . Brandon Philips,
a student at Newberg/Sherwood High School in Oregon demonstrates “Bob” at
the 17th annual national Robotic Technology and Engineering Challenge
hosted by RIT May 3-4. The creation earned a gold award for robot
construction in the high school division and the event’s top
prize, the Judge’s Choice Award. RIT engineering technology
students captured two silvers in the college division. The event
featured hundreds of robots and other automated creations. It was
sponsored by RIT’s College of Applied Science and Technology
and Robotics International of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. |
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| RIT FOCUSES ON FUEL-CELL TECHNOLOGY . . . Jian Yu, RIT research
associate professor of mechanical engineering, right, confers with
Stephan Alraun of the University of Hannover in Germany, left, and
Jens Schroder of the Institute for Thermodynamics in Hannover at
the International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels at
RIT April 24-25. The conference and a companion conference, the International
Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, hosted
by RIT April 21-23, drew 400 researchers from 22 countries. Both
gatherings were sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. |
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| RIT WEB SITE WINS IN NATIONAL COMPETITION . . . The Council
for Advancement and Support of Education recently awarded RIT’s
University Publications Office a silver medal in a national competition
for college Web sites. The site, Student Life @ RIT (www.rit.edu/upub/studentlife),
was created and produced by Mary Bistrovich, Brenda Monahan, Jared
Lyon and Deron Berkhof, along with Bob French, assistant vice president,
Enrollment Management and Career Services. “We developed the
site for our accepted applicants to give them a closer look at the
tremendous variety of student organizations and activities available
at RIT, as well as the diverse group of students they would have
the opportunity to meet on our campus,” says French. The site
was selected from 154 entries. |
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| INFLUENCING OUR YOUNG WOMEN . . . On April 26, high school
women from across the country, including 10th-grader Paige Jablonski,
at left, attended RIT’s Faces of Change conference, a one-day
program designed specifically for teenage women interested in learning
about a wide range of careers from female professionals. Participants
listened to keynote speaker Mary-Frances Winters, attended sessions
to dentify career interests and used hands-on demonstrations to grasp
some of the possibilities of working in fields like medicine, engineering
and science. The program was made possible by a state grant provided
by Sen. Jim Alesi. |
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| DEVELOPING IMAGING SKILLS . . . Two dozen high-school and
junior-college instructors from across the country recently took
part in RIT’s annual Basic Photography and Imaging Workshop
for Educators. The three-day event provides insights on technical
and practical photographic topics such as studio photography and
lighting, effective use of electronic flash and special-effects photography.
The workshop got its start in 1996 and continues to be offered free
of charge to participants. Faculty from the School of Photographic
Arts and Sciences donate their time and talents to make it possible. |
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| VARIETY PACK . . . NTID interpreter Abie Abrams enjoyed
a “full”-filling luncheon at the 11th annual Taste of RIT
on May 1 in the SAU cafeteria. The sampler was sponsored by RIT Food
Service, with proceeds benefiting the 2003 United Way Campaign. |
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| WILDFIRE HUNTER . . . Donald McKeown, distinguished researcher
in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, was interviewed
about the Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program that he and fellow distinguished
researcher Michael Richardson are working on for the U.S. Forest
Service. Their research attracted the attention of ScienCentral News,
a National Science Foundation-funded project that provides news segments
to ABC-TV news affiliates. Also affiliated with PBS NOVA, ScienCentral
News tells RIT’s WASP story as a NOVA News Minute called Fire
Hunter. The New York Times featured the project May 8. The
research program was made possible through the support of Congressman
Jim Walsh. |
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| POTHOLES LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN . . . Think driving
on Rochester roads after a tough winter is a challenge? Try maneuvering
around craters and other obstacles like two teams of RIT mechanical
engineering students did at the 10th annual Great Moon Buggy Race,
April 11-12 in Huntsville, Ala. In competition, sponsored by NASA,
for quickest assembly and course completion times and best technical
design of human-powered, “all-terrain” buggies, RIT took
16th place among 68 high school and college teams from 20 states
and Puerto Rico. Above are Jeff Klingzahn and Krista Rivet on the
simulated lunar-terrain course. |
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| SPLISH, SPLASH . . . For the second straight year, RIT’s
concrete canoe team advanced to national competition by capturing
first place in regionals on April 26 on Snyders Lake in Troy. The
team earned first place in the co-ed, men’s and women’s
sprint events and the women’s endurance contest, earning the
top spot for the fourth time since 1997 and a berth at the 16th annual
National Concrete Canoe Competition June 20-22 in Philadelphia. Shown
above, Tung-To Lam, front, and Kyle Platek cross the finish line
in first place in the men’s sprint event. In another regional
competition, RIT’s steel-bridge team took third place to qualify
for nationals on May 24 in San Diego. Both contests were sponsored
by the American Society of Civil Engineers. |
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| HONORARY MEDIC . . . Students from the RIT Ambulance program
recently presented New York state Sen. Jim Alesi, center, with a
plaque designating him “honorary member” of the ambulance
corps. Alesi has been instrumental in securing state funding for
the RIT Ambulance, a student-run program, enabling them to purchase
equipment that they would not otherwise be able to acquire. Standing
with the new vehicle purchased with some of these funds are, left
to right, Tim Keady, associate director, Student Health Center; Alan
Cohen, outgoing chief of operations,RIT Ambulance; Alesi; Keith Tabakman,
outgoing president, RIT Ambulance; and Assemblyman Joe Errego. |
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| ARTIST APPRAISAL . . . Renowned painter and printmaker Terry
Winters met with fine arts graduate students in early May to lecture
and critique their work. Here, Paula Crawford engages the visiting
artist with a brief discussion of her thesis painting on display
at Bevier Gallery. |
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| RATHER AT LIBERTY HILL . . . Dan Rather, CBS Evening News
anchor and managing editor, center, paid a visit to Liberty Hill,
home of RIT President Albert Simone and his wife, Carolie, on April
23. In town courtesy of WROC-TV, Rather spoke on education, the military
and oil dependency, saying, “We must decrease our dependency
for oil . . . we need a leader who will make this a high priority
for the sake of our children.” Just 72 hours prior to his visit,
Rather was covering the war with Iraq in Baghdad. |
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