Photo Spotlights

Sen. James Alesi and RIT President Albert Simone announce $4 million in state funding to help RIT create the Center for Biotechnology Education and Training, Sept 24. Sitting, from left to right, are Thomas Mooney, president of the Greater Rochester Metro Chamber of Commerce, Alesi, Simone and Douglas Merrill, head of biological sciences at RIT.

Tracey Karl of the Student Volunteer Center points out some volunteering options at the Fall Community Service Fair in the Student alumni Union, Sept. 18.

A snapping turtle rests after being rescued from an attempt to cross Andrews Drive at the back of the RIT campus by Don Farnsworth in facilities management.

RIT President Albert Simone (left) and Sean Bratches, ESPN executive vice president of affiliate sales and marketing and an RIT College of Business alumnus, try out the ESPN SportsCenter desk in the newly remodelled Ritskeller Sports Zone during its grand opening, Sept. 13.

RIT students participate in a candlelight vigil, Sept. 11, in the Infinity quad.

Members of RIT's Army ROTC prepare to lower the flags in the center of the Andrews Drive traffic rotary to half-staff in honor of Sept. 11. The flags will remain lowered for 24 hours. RIT joins other schools across the state who are lowering their flags in esponse to a request from New York Gov. George Pataki through the State Education Department.

Randy Schneiderman, a second-year software-engineering student and member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, sits atop a 40-foot utility pole for Pole Sit 2002 while Reporter photographer Edmund Fountain takes a shot. The fraternity kicked off the school year with its eighth annual Pole Sit fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish foundation, Sept. 3.

In what may turn out to be their only chance to throw paper airplanes while being addressed by the dean and other professors, more than 500 first-year engineering majors did just that during Engineering Day 2002, Sept. 3. Jonathan Forst, microelectronic engineering major, releases his plane in the Hale-Andrews Student Life Center gymnasium.

Incoming first-year student, Caitlin Glegg, a third-generation RIT student, talks with her father, Raymond Glegg during move-in, Aug. 29. Caitlin Glegg is one of six first-year students taking part in a six-week video project documenting the RIT freshmen experience.

Victoria Lezama, one of a dozen students and faculty from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, participated in a three-week summer manufacturing course, July 29-Aug. 16, sponsored by the industrial and systems engineering department at RIT.

RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering hosted the second annual "I Built My Computer @ RIT" workshops for incoming female engineering majors, July 30-Aug. 2. Jordan MacIntyre, left, and Christina Ermie were among 21 students who built computers that became theirs to keep.

From left, Lou Spiotti, director of the Center for Human Performance; Janet Jones, associate director; Ann Nealon, head tennis coach; and Frank Lamas, associate vice president of Student Affairs, cut the ribbon officially opening the new RIT tennis courts, July 30.