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RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholars were celebrated April 7 in Gordon Field House. Each student honored achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.85 out of a possible 4.0.

RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholars were celebrated April 7 in Gordon Field House and Activities Center. Each student honored achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.85 out of a possible 4.0.

Maggie Castle, far right, will lead a team of fellow first-year imaging science students on an imaging expedition to Boston Public Library the week after graduation. Castle won funding from the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science to image historic materials and artifacts at the library using the polynomial texture mapping system the students designed and built in the center’s yearlong Freshman Imaging Project. The imaging device illuminates a subject from different directions and angles. Computer software compiles the multiple shots into one interactive image to examine subtle surface textures and features. Castle’s team includes Kevin Dickey, far left, Scarlett Montanaro and Dan Goldberg.

Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie visited campus April 4 as part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s “Visionaries in Motion IV” speaker series. Adichie’s presentation “Shifting Spaces: Identity, Literature and the Emergence of Stories” explored the ideas of identity and literature and how both have influenced her life as a fiction writer.

Collette Shaw, an instructor in RIT’s First-Year Enrichment program, is the author of Won’t Get Fooled Again, a novel about a workaholic executive who longs for something beyond her career and gets involved in a web of blackmail and betrayal.

Shear Global, a full-service salon, is a focal point of the university’s new residential and retail complex Global Village. While offering many traditional services, Shear Global operates under a mission consistent with the university’s growing focus on international outreach. Many ethnic styles are available for the growing number of international students.

The Spring Career Fair, which took place March 30, is one of two major employment events held at RIT every year that’s open to RIT students and alumni. Employers are recruiting for co-op and full-time openings. Typically over 200 companies and more than 2,800 students and alumni attend the fairs. Companies that participate range from small technology firms to Fortune 500 companies.

Cheyanne Olson, center, a student at Fort Gibson (Okla.) High School, discusses her project on salmon population with Angela Foreman, right, an instructor in the RIT/NTID science and mathematics department, and interpreter Lola Johnston during the RIT National Science Fair for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students on Saturday. Olson won $500 for first place for individual high school students.

RIT’s 2011 Eat Well Live Well Challenge runs through May 9. Increasing exercise and eating more fruits and vegetables are the major incentives of the program.

Carole Counihan, professor of sociology and anthropology at Millersville University and editor of Food and Foodways, gave the keynote address at RIT’s inaugural Conable Conference in International Studies: Cuisine, Technology and Development March 24-26.

The School of International Hospitality and Service Innovation at RIT hosted its 26th Puttin’ on the RITz dinner on March 26. Alojz Paver, left, and Ana Buhin, both from Croatia, helped with food preparation for the black-tie event. Proceeds benefit the RIT Hospitality Education Fund, which provides scholarships, undergraduate and graduate awards and stipends for student travel related to the college’s international hospitality program.

RIT student Julianna Johnson, a fourth-year graphic design major, received the Bruce R. James ’64 Distinguished Public Service Award on March 23. Johnson thanked RIT, family and friends for their support. Johnson is the co-founder of the student club KEEP Rochester, which collects and distributes toiletries, clothes and other items to local men’s and women’s shelters. As part of her award, Johnson donated $500 to Bethany House and $500 to The Women’s Place.