Photo Spotlights

  • May 27, 2003

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    The Advanced Digital Photography class in RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences produced this 1950s drive-in theater production shot at the Vintage Drive-In Theater in East Avon, NY, at sunset on May 6. This "Norman Rockwell-type" event featured more than 75 vintage cars accompanied by their drivers and several dozen people in period clothing.

  • May 22, 2003

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    Fifth-year electrical engineering major David Rea, standing beside a Honeoye Falls-Mendon Ambulance, holds an ambulance driver-training device he invented for an independent study project. The device, demonstrated aboard the rig on May 21 to students in the course Biomedical Instrumentation, alerts drivers when they brake or turn too hard or accelerate too fast. Rea is a crew chief, driver and medic with the ambulance corps.

  • May 19, 2003

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    A duckling rejoins his flock after a brief dip in the pool outside the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies on the RIT campus, May 19.

  • May 16, 2003

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    David Fantauzzi, foreground, and Greg Buttram, seniors at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School, participate in the first "Cisco Battleship Live" at RIT on May 16. The event pitted teams of high school students from Greece Olympia and Rush-Henrietta high schools in competition involving telecommunications network configuration and troubleshooting.

  • May 14, 2003

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    Teams of students attack and defend computer networks during the Information Security Talent Search, May 9, in Clark Gym. The contest was sponsored by the RIT Security Practices and Research Student Association.

  • May 13, 2003

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    RIT Provost Stanley McKenzie stands near a plaque in his honor at the Phi Kappa Tau patio dedication, May 9. McKenzie has been the Phi Kappa Tau adviser for the past 32 years.

  • May 12, 2003

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    Hundreds of youngsters attended the 13th annual E3 Engineering and Technology Fair at RIT on May 8. The event featured interactive projects emphasizing engineering, experimentation and exploration created by and for area middle-school students. The fair was sponsored by the Rochester Engineering Society.

  • May 9, 2003

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    RIT’s Center for Religious Life fed the hungry during the third annual PB Jam, May 6 and 7, in the Student Alumni Union. Campus volunteers made around 3,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, assembly-line style, which were delivered to local food pantries and soup kitchens. Pictured here, are Brittany Soracco (right), second-year computer engineering, and Anna Murray, first-year mechanical engineering.

  • May 7, 2003

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    Daffodils adorn the RIT campus, May 7.

  • May 5, 2003

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    Brandon Philips, a student at Newberg/Sherwood High School in Oregon, demonstrates "Bob" at the 17th annual national Robotic Technology and Engineering Challenge, May 3-4, hosted by RIT. The event, one of the largest robotics competitions in North America, featured hundreds of robots and other automated creations in 17 contests.

  • May 1, 2003

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    Children of RIT employees make rubber band powered cars during Take Your Daughter to Work Day, April 24.

  • April 29, 2003

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    Guests enjoy a look at RIT's new Heidelberg Sunday 2000 web press, April 25. A demonstration of this state-of-the-art system followed the dedication of the Heidelberg Web Press Laboratory. The lab was constructed within the past year to house the new press, which will be used for educational purposes within RIT's School of Print Media and various industry research projects.