Photo Spotlights

RIT students relax, study and stop to smell the coffee at Wallace Library's brand new cafe - Java Wally's - now open Monday, April 6. The coffee bar serves daily until midnight, and the cafe is open 24/7.

RIT students Phil Trifeletti, left, and Teresa Beer work on this year's RIT moon buggy. RIT's 10-member team will compete in the NASA-sponsored 8th-annual Great Moon Buggy Race, April 7-8, at the U.S. space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.

African American poet, essayist and lecturer Nikki Giovanni reads excerpts of her poetic verses and answers questions during an appearance at RIT on April 1. The presentation was the second part of the CURE spring speaker series (Building Community through Collaboration, Understanding, Respect, and Education) sponsored by the Residence Halls Association and the Black Awareness Coordinating Committee.

Jeff Clark, a third-year public policy student, takes a break from his rigorous schedule to get a free chair massage in the Student Life Center as part of Stress Buster Days, April 2-3. Faculty, staff and students who registered for the event were eligible for raffles and giveaways.The event was sponsored by the Center for Human Performance and the Student Affairs Marketing Committee.

Officials of Empire/EMCO, including the Amherst firm's president and vice president, visited RIT on April 2nd to present RIT's packaging science program with a packaging achievement award. Shown here, Karen Proctor, associate professor (foreground), shows an Autopad cushioning system, recently donated by Rampak Corp. of Painesville, Ohio.

Snowdrop blooms burst out of hiding to celebrate the first weeks of spring.

Former U.S. surgeon general Joycelyn Elders addresses the RIT community March 28, as part of the Horton Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by Student Government. Elders was dismissed from her post in 1994 due to her outspoken opinions on condom usage, legalization of drugs and other controversial topics.

Members of RIT's School of Art prepare for the climax to The Big Pour, a six-day workshop in sculpture casting held March 20-25. Students worked with a professional sculpture to construct the furnace and other tools needed for lead casting. Sculptures were also created from aluminum, bronze, glass -- even chocolate. Participants poured more than 140 individual casts using the various materials. Organizers of The Big Pour say this type of event has never happened anywhere else in the world.

Seventeen sophomore and junior high school girls from seven Rochester-area schools spent March 23 at RIT for "Shadow Day." After sleeping over in an RIT dormitory the previous night, the girls participated in a full day of hands-on engineering activities with RIT students, giving them an early taste of both college life and potential engineering studies. "Shadow Day" was sponsored by RIT's student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.

A student pours molten aluminum into a mold during the Big Pour. The Big Pour, sponsored by the School of Art and the School of American Crafts, featured pours of glass, bronze, iron and chocolate during the week of March 20-25.

Jamey Dungan of the North East Neighborhood Alliance (NENA) putts about in front of the Open Door Mission booth manned by Christopher Scribani (right) at the RIT Community Service Fair on March 22.

Clifford Janey, RIT's Minette Professor, talks to students and facutly at his welcome reception, March 20. Janey, who is also the superintendent of the Rochester city school district, is teaching a spring quarter leadership class.