Celebrity photographer Kwaku Alston ’94, returned to RIT as the keynote speaker for the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences’ Point A to Point B Conference on March 31. Alston also spent time reviewing portfolios of advertising photography majors. Pari Dukovic, center, and Alexis Courtney, right, were among the students whose work Alston critiqued. He advised students to always be prepared and have a camera with you. “That’s the beautiful thing about photography.

You never know where it’s going to take you,” he says.

A. Sue Weisler | photographer

RIT’s College of Business presented Arunas Chesonis, standing, chairman and chief executive of PAETEC Corp., with the 2006 Herbert J. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award during a luncheon on April 6. During his address, Chesonis recalled watching his former boss at ACC Corp., Richard Aab, receive the award 13 years ago. “I remember thinking, ‘It would be really cool to get that one day,’” he said.

A. Sue Weisler | photographer

Foreign Language Week at RIT was marked by several events, including a lecture on Japanese affairs by Jiro Okuyama, director of the Japanese Information Center and deputy consul general at the Consulate General of Japan in New York. Okuyama gave his talk, “Japan: Economic Prospects, its Place in Asia and the Global Economy,” on March 30. The event was sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages in the College of Liberal Arts.

A. Sue Weisler | photographer

Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy ’93 (applied arts and sciences) was the guest of honor at a reception for alumni of RIT’s Center for Multidisciplinary Studies and the former College of Continuing Education held on April 5. Above, Duffy addresses about 80 alumni and other guests gathered in the Louise M. Slaughter Building; a rocking chair, engraved with the RIT seal (shown in the foreground), was presented to Duffy.

A. Sue Weisler | photographer

It was standing room only as an estimated 250 RIT students—including members of the Honors Program—squeezed into Xerox Auditorium for Boeing Night on March 28. Mark Lyden, recruiting relations manager for Boeing Co., above, presented “Secrets to Interviewing and Salary Negotiations.” In addition, four Boeing scholarship winners were acknowledged, and former Boeing co-op student Chris Corcimiglia, a fifth-year computer engineering technology/computer science B.S./M.S. major and CAST honors student, was recognized as a 2005 American Society for Engineering Education/Cooperative Education Division National Co-Op of the Year finalist. Corcimiglia completed three co-op blocks at Boeing in Southern California. “I feel Boeing has the best cooperative-education program in the country,” he says. Representatives of Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, participated in RIT’s annual Career Fair on March 29.

Mark Fleming | photographer

On Aylia’s Wings, created by RIT faculty member and professional artist Allen Douglas, is one of the submissions for this year’s Golisano College Digital Arts Competition and Exhibition. Hosted by the college’s Honors Program, the event aims to promote expression through digital media. Entries in various categories including conceptual art, wall-hung pieces, installations and monitor-based work will be on display May 12-14 throughout the entire Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences building. There will be an awards ceremony at 7 p.m. on May 12 in the Golisano College atrium.