| Forman Scholar is China bound |
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| The new Forman Scholarship is the gateway for Steven Davis to study in the People’s Republic of China. The fourth-year computer engineering student, left, was the first recipient of the scholarship, sponsored by David Reid, Benjamin Forman Chair of International Business in the College of Business. Davis received $1,500 and is spending the summer in Beijing, studying Bagua Zhang, a Chinese martial art, Chen-style Tai Chi Chuan and traditional Chinese medicine under Grand Master Xu Shi Xi. He will also participate in Taoist meditation and philosophy at the White Cloud Monastery. |
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| Galloping toward diversity awareness |
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| RIT’s annual Expressions of Diversity conference, held in a variety of locations on and off campus, allowed participants, such as Tiffany Panko, a first-year psychology major, above, to experience diversity in a number of ways, including learning about equine programs. |
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| Mini Baja East rolls into western New York |
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| RIT captured seventh and 15th places overall among 71 challengers in the 30th annual Mini Baja East competition May 5-7. The collegiate design and off-road driving contest drew hundreds of spectators to RIT’s Gordon Field House and Activities Center and Hogback Hill Motocross track in Palmyra, Wayne County. A team from Ecole De Technologie Superieure in Montreal took first place overall. Above, RIT’s Ryan Lindauere, a second-year mechanical engineering major, competes in the land maneuverability challenge on May 6. The event, last hosted by RIT in 1982, was the largest-ever Mini Baja East competition. In other mini-Baja competitions earlier this month, RIT earned 13th place overall among more than 120 competitors, along with top-10 finishes in the acceleration, endurance and presentation events, in the Mini Baja 100 in Tinaja Hills, Ariz.; and the team captured 10th place among more than 120 challengers in the Midwest Mini Baja in Troy, Ohio. |
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| Symposium looks at ‘The China Factor’ |
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| The North American Free Trade Agreement, signed by the United States, Canada and Mexico in 1994, was the topic of a two-day symposium, NAFTA: The China Factor. David Reid, Benjamin Forman Chair and director of the Center for International Business in the College of Business, far left, organized the event, which included panelists Bruno Glavitch, president and CEO of Applied Image Group, center, and Ron Jones, Xerox Professor of Economics at the University
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| Remembering a friend |
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| Rochester resident C. Joyce Collins looks at an exhibit of photos of her friend Yasuji Tojo at a May reception marking the 30th anniversary of the Tojo Memorial Garden, created in his honor. Tojo, an RIT photography student from Japan, was killed in an auto accident in 1964. Collins presented Tojo’s kimono and other traditional Japanese garments to the RIT Archives and Special Collections. |
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Courting a challenge
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| Spray from a water hose helped to cool runners as they reached the 1-mile mark near S-Lot at the 15th JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge held
June 2 on the RIT campus. A total of 8,663 runners and walkers took on
the 3.5-mile course around campus on a stellar sunny evening. |
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