| Closing the achievement gap |
 | Roland Fryer Jr., assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, discussed race and inequality during RIT’s Presidential Colloquium on May 1. His lecture, “Towards a Unified Theory of Black America: The Racial Achievement Gap and What to do About It,” described economic reasoning intended to dispel misconceptions in the affirmative action debate. Fryer’s appearance coincided with RIT’s annual Expressions of Diversity Conference. |
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| Volunteers ‘paint on’ light at art gallery |
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The Memorial Art Gallery was the subject of RIT’s 22nd “Big Shot” photo project. Led by professors from RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences and NTID, close to 800 volunteers armed with flashlights, helped make this nighttime photograph on May 1. Volunteers were strategically placed around the gallery grounds to illuminate aspects of the edifice while RIT photographers took an extended exposure.
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| Student researchers are in focus |
 | Four RIT undergraduate researchers were featured on the cover of the March edition of Focus, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America. Shown from left are Rachell Ashley, Aisosa Ayela-Uwangue, Carol Callesano and Frances Cabrera, who won a coveted MAA poster prize at the Undergraduate Poster Session held during the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Texas, in January. The students participated in an MAA National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program at RIT last summer under the guidance of professor Darren Narayan. |
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| Animal or mineral? |
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Rebecca Stade, 9, carefully examines an artifact in an archeology class during Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, April 27. Stade was accompanied by her mother, Mary Beth Russo-Stade, who works at the Hub.
Nearly 130 youngsters came to campus for the annual event, which featured activities such as facility tours, bookmaking in Wallace Library, toy design, swimming and film and animation projects, among others. The day was hosted by RIT’s Women’s Center.
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| Doonesbury comic strip features RIT |
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RIT has been featured three times since October in newspapers across the nation in the comic strip Doonesbury. Alex Doonesbury is narrowing her list of top colleges down to a select few. In the first two comic strips, shown here, she considers and was accepted by RIT, as well as Cal Tech, Cornell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MIT and Harvard. Alex is a technology whiz and the daughter of the comic strip’s title character. RIT would be an excellent choice for Alex, who received a perfect score on her SAT exams, holds five patents and is planning a career in engineering. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has said he is using RIT in the comic strip “because it’s one of the premier institutes of technology.”
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Not just a day at the beach
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Greg Francis | photographer RIT's concrete canoe, center, paddled by Jennifer Hill, front, and Jasmine Vasquez, civil engineering technology majors, pulls ahead of the University of Buffalo, foreground, and Clarkson University in a women's race during the Upstate New York Regional Concrete Canoe Competition hosted by RIT on April 29 in Mendon Ponds Park. RIT earned first place in the men's, women's and co-ed sprint events and third place in the men's endurance contest. Clarkson University captured first place overall to advance to the national competition next month. In a companion event, also hosted by RIT, SUNY Canton took first place in a regional steel-bridge design contest. More than 200 students from a dozen colleges in New York state and Canada participated in the two competitions.
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