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Randy McFadden is a serious fellow—serious about academics, his career aspirations in new media marketing and his future. McFadden graduated from the Saunders College of Business this past May.

The university held its 16th annual RITirees Picnic in the Gordon Field House on June 11. The picnic honored all RIT retirees and welcomed a new class of retirees from 2014. The 2014 “RITirees Award” honored retired faculty member Eugene Fram, center, from Saunders College of Business. Also honored were James Bingham, right, and Gary Gaspar, both retired staff members from RIT Dining Services.

Several layers of various materials, including close to 11 miles of lines that contain cooling for ice, were covered by 300 cubic yards of concrete on June 6. The Gene Polisseni Center is taking shape inside and out. The arena will be the home of the men’s and women’s hockey teams and is expected to be open for play this fall.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Wednesday that Datto Inc., launched by RIT graduate Austin McChord, will open this summer on the fourth floor of RIT-owned 40 Franklin St. in downtown Rochester. The company, a leading global vendor of award-winning hybrid cloud-based intelligent business continuity and backup, disaster and recovery solutions, has said it will initially create more than 70 new jobs in exchange for the incentives offered under the START-UP NY economic development program.

Rob Stevens, center, an associate professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, and Tim Landschoot, right, a lecturer in the College of Engineering, were among thousands of runners and walkers competing in the 2014 J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge on the RIT campus May 29.

Professor Nathan Cahill, standing, and imaging science Ph.D. student Kfir Ben Zikri are developing algorithms for a longitudinal study of lung nodules in CT scans. To read more, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50844.

Barbara Pitts and Griffin Kettler, both fourth-year photographic and imaging technologies majors, are headed to Apple after graduation.

Allen Luccitti, an engineer in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, gets a hole-in-one during Staff Appreciation Day on May 28. Activities included a buffet lunch, ice cream treats, mini golf, Segway rides, a photo booth and the Bob Howie Memorial Classic Car Show.

Massimo Vignelli, arguably the greatest designer in modern history and whose Vignelli Center for Design Studies has placed RIT onto the international forefront of design studies, died today in New York City. Mr. Vignelli, whose influence spanned from package design to houseware design and from furniture design to public signage, was 83. For the latest information, go to www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50823. Here, Massimo Vignelli visited RIT on Sept. 16, 2010, for the official launch of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies.

Nobel laureate William Daniel Phillips gave the 2014 convocation address on May 23. Phillips employed balloons, liquid nitrogen, carnations, rubber bands and a racquetball to demonstrate not only some principles of physics, but also the importance of finding fun in your life’s work.

President Destler conferred degrees on some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students during convocation this morning. In an entertaining presentation, Nobel laureate William Phillips encouraged graduating students to find fun in their life’s work. The audience also heard from RIT President Bill Destler and Student Government President Paul Darragh.

President Destler conferred degrees on some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students during convocation this morning. In an entertaining presentation, Nobel laureate William Phillips encouraged graduating students to find fun in their life’s work. The audience also heard from RIT President Bill Destler and Student Government President Paul Darragh.