| Tending to the Earth |
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| RIT students Lindsay Tendler, second-year photo major, and Jim Harding, second-year biology major, pick up trash and debris along RIT’s nature trail during the Earth Day campus cleanup on April 22. Sponsored by the Student Environmental Action League, the event was among several activities celebrating Earth Day, including a sapling sale and photo contest. |
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| You get to do this in college? Cool—I’m going to RIT! |
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Some of the hundreds of Rochester-area middle school students who attended the 15th annual E3 Engineering and Technology Fair on April 28 at RIT check out RoboSapien, a toy robot created by members of RIT’s Multidisciplinary Robotics Club. The fair, sponsored by the Rochester Engineering Society, featured more than two-dozen hands-on exhibits emphasizing engineering, exploration and experimentation. Club members Steve Pomeroy, top right, and Iheanyi Umez-Eronini explain their group’s project. For more information about the RIT
student robotics club, visit http://mdrc.rit.edu. |
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| ‘Jamming’ |
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| In an effort to fight hunger in Rochester, the RIT community made 2,000 peanut butter and jelly bagels that were delivered to local food kitchens and community centers on May 3. Food donations for the fifth annual PB Jam were provided by Genesee Valley Foodlink and Wegmans. Originally a program sponsored by the Hillel Jewish student organization, all members of the Interfaith Center joined in PB Jam along with faculty, staff and alumni. In addition, special interest groups, fraternities, sororities and other clubs took turns making and delivering sandwiches. |
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| Documenting the birth of a university |
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David Parish, second from right, president of the Livingston County Historical Society, presents a copy of the 1830 published proceedings of the New York State Assembly to RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection. The book, which documents
the charter of one of RIT’s forerunners, the Rochester Athenaeum, has been donated to the collection in recognition of the university’s 175th anniversary. Among those attending the presentation were, from left, Scott Canaan, information and technology services senior database administrator and a member of the Livingston County Historical Society, David Pankow, Cary Collection curator, and Dane Gordon, College of Liberal Arts professor emeritus. |
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| Homecoming for publishing patriarch |
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| RIT’s School of Print Media honored Thomas Curley, president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press, April 26, with the Isaiah Thomas Award, which recognizes an individual for outstanding contributions to the publishing industry. Curley, left, and Karen Magnuson, editor of the Democrat and Chronicle, were also part of a panel discussion about freedom of information. Curley, a vice chairman of RIT’s Board of Trustees, began his career in Rochester more than 30 years ago at The Times-Union. Before joining The Associated Press in 2003, Curley was publisher and president of USA Today. |
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| Taking the road less traveled |
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| Philip Saunders became a driving force in the highway transportation industry by offering something no one else thought of—or could match: a one-stop rest area called Truckstops of America, now called TravelCenters of America. In recognition of his contributions, RIT’s College of Business named Saunders as recipient of the 2005 Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award. |
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Scoring another one for Hunter’s team
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| Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, far left, is bringing the Hunter’s Hope Candlelight Ball back to RIT for a second consecutive year. At a recent news conference, RIT President Albert Simone, far right, who served as last year’s honorary event chair, introduced Tom Richards, RIT trustee and former CEO of Rochester Gas & Electric, as this year’s event chair. The gala, a fundraiser to fight leukodystrophies, takes place on July 29 at the RIT Inn & Conference Center. The Hunter’s Hope Foundation was established in 1997 after Kelly’s son, Hunter, was diagnosed with Krabbe Leukodystrophy. |
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