The RIT Baja SAE team placed 21st overall among more than 70 teams at its first international competition last month in Brazil. Coming off this season opener, the team officially unveiled the Baja car April 4 among friends and family at the Slaughter Building. In individual events, RIT Baja placed second in the suspension and traction competition, third in the log pull and 13th in the design category. The team will compete in Wisconsin later this month.

Charles Neumann

Vinton Cerf, Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist who is widely regarded as a "father of the Internet," spoke April 3 at RIT about ways to make the Internet more accessible to a larger population. His talk was part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Dean's Lecture Series. His appearance drew an overwhelming response from the RIT community. Not only did the lecture in the Golisano College auditorium reach full capacity, but others filled nearby classrooms to watch on closed-circuit television. The talk was also streamed live on the college's Web site.

A. Sue Weisler

Jessica Peters, second-year management information systems major, discusses job prospects with John Adams from Pittsford-based Callfinity Inc. during RIT's Spring Career Fair. Representatives for 170 employing organizations gathered in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center on March 25. While the current economic slow-down affected overall employer attendance, small to mid-size companies, such as Callfinity, took on added prominence.

Allison Ellis

RIT presented Distinguished Alumni Awards to eight graduates at a celebration April 3 at Locust Hill Country Club. The annual awards honor a graduate from each college who has performed with distinction at the highest levels of their chosen professions or contributed significantly to the advancement and leadership of noteworthy civic, philanthropic or service organizations over the course of many years. From left are, standing, Christopher Wagner '94 (NTID), Philip Gelsomino '86 (Saunders College of Business), Kevin Belfield '81 (College of Science), Brian Cantwell '99 (College of Imaging Arts and Sciences), Kenneth Weimar '88, '90 (College of Liberal Arts). Seated, Gary Gay '73 (Kate Gleason College of Engineering), Amy Zettlemoyer-Lazar '98 (College of Applied Science and Technology) and Robert Schumann '85 (Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences). For more information, see the Alumni News Web page, www.rit.edu/news/alumni.

Ken Huth