Photo Spotlights

RIT President Albert Simone accepts, on Aug. 8, the gift of the Rochester Marriott Thruway hotel on West Henrietta Road from E.J. Del Monte Corp. The facility will be renamed the RIT Inn and Conference Center when RIT assumes ownership Sept. 1 and will provide housing for more than 300 RIT students this fall. The gift, valued at $14 million, is the third contribution in that amount that RIT has received since February. Shown, left to right, are James Breese, Henrietta supervisor; John Del Monte, company president; Simone; and Ernest J. Del Monte, company chairman and CEO.

Participants in the RIT/East House Enrichment Program learn some fancy footwork as part of the annual 2-week program held on the RIT campus July 23-Aug. 2. Residents of the East House facility, a Rochester-based, non-profit mental health agency, took courses taught by RIT facutly and staff ranging from stress management to computer skills to ceramics.

High school juniors participate in the Explore Your Future program at RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, July 30. Explore Your Future is a one-week transition educational program for deaf and hard-of-hearing high school students entering their senior year. The second of the program's two one-week sessions ends Aug. 3.

Scott Draina of Columbia High School in East Greenbush, N.Y., left, and Pam Perdue of Hodgson Vocational Technical High School in Newark, Del., a master teacher, take part in a Project Lead the Way workshop on July 26. Throughout July, nearly 400 math, science and technology middle and high school teachers from across the nation studied in Project Lead the Way workshops at the National Technology Training Center at RIT and affiliated sites. This fall, the teachers will implement pre-engineering curricula in their home schools.

Students (from left) Srdana Pace, Danjiela Glamuzina, Sandra Sankovic and Dubravka Dejanovic from RIT's American College of Management and Technology in Croatia gather outside Wallace Library. The four Croatian students are in Rochester for a summer co-op with RIT's food services department.

Laurie Maynard (right), director of RIT's University News Services, takes her turn feeding News & Events editor Vienna Carvalho-McGrain's 5-week-old son, Cameron, on July 18 during a visit to the University News office.

RIT students walk past new markers featuring quotations by prominent people outside the James E. Gleason Building.

Megan Suflita, left, and Melissa Zaczek, piece together a computer during the first IBM@RIT computer-building workshop for 20 incoming first-year women engineering majors, July 11-13. Students built computers that they could keep, learned about RIT engineering programs and labs, and stayed in RIT residence halls. Workshops were supported by IBM Corp., the Gleason Foundation and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering Dean's Office.

Sculptor Albert Paley stands in the George Eastman building lobby with a 40-inch replica of the custom sculpture proposed to grace the Administration Circle at RIT. The piece would be the largest ever designed by Paley, at 65 feet tall and 90 tons. Proposed plans call for Paley to erect the fabricated Corten steel, stainless steel and bronze components "in place" with his team of artisans.

Site work begins on the new IT Lab between the College of Applied Science and Technolgoy (CAST) and the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS) buildings at RIT June 28.

RIT students Thi Nguyen (left), a senior electrical engineering technology student, and Hector Sanchez, an advertising photo senior, start the morning studying and soaking up a little summer sun outside RIT's Java Wally's at Wallace Library on June 26.

Roses lap up the summer sun in the administration circle at RIT June 15.