Photo Spotlights

The Rochester Institute of Technology community marks a milestone as the university celebrates its 122nd annual commencement May 25-26 and will surpass 100,000 as members of the Class of 2007 accept their diplomas. A new Kate Gleason College of Engineering graduate beams after the ceremony.

The Rochester Institute of Technology community marks a milestone as the university prepares to celebrate its 122nd annual commencement May 25-26 and will surpass 100,000 as members of the Class of 2007 accept their diplomas. President Bill Clinton is the keynote speaker at the event. Clinton and Yohei Sasakawa, chair of The Nippon Foundation of Japan, will each receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters during the ceremony. Sasakawa is acknowledged as the primary advocate for the foundation’s funding of the Postsecondary Education Network International (PEN-International) at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Here, President Clinton shares a laugh with friend, B. Thomas Golisano, during the event.

Richard Slynko, a fourth-year design major (center), presents his marketing plan for Freshwise Farms to representatives of Foodlink, a regional non-profit agency devoted to fighting hunger. Two RIT Design for Marketing classes worked on the project during spring quarter. The Foodlink representatives (seated, from left) are board member Carey Corea, CEO of Idea Connections, Rochester; Jim Ferrari, general manager, food and nutrition operations; and Frances Pesavento, director of programs and development. Jonathan Hopkins, associate American Sign Language interpreter (standing, left), participated.

A table adorned with ducks caught the attention of two viewers during the annual School for American Crafts Walkthrough on May 21. The event is a tradition based on \"walking through\" the school’s metals, wood, ceramics and glass studios to view work created throughout the school year by RIT’s talented student artists.

Students adjust their motorized kaleidescope, a project resulting from an Engineering-CIAS collaboration.

Construction of Collegetown began near the corner of Jefferson Road and John Street. The Collegetown concept envisions commercial, professional services, residential and entertainment space being housed in an architecturally distinctive setting with appeal to both RIT and to the greater Rochester community.

RIT’s microelectronic engineering department, in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, hosted its 25th annual conference May 14-16. T. K. Hatwar of Eastman Kodak Co. comments at one of the panel discussions, Workforce Needs of the Semiconductor Industry.

A celebration of art and technology took place on May 11 during the \"Creativity: Technology: Invention\" symposium hosted by the RIT Creativity and Invention Working Group. Steve Jacobs presented at the \"E-Poetries and Digital Poetics\" panel along with Linda Reinfeld, Bill Klingensmith and John Roche.

Timeline is a dedicated group of students that captures RIT’s identity by presenting the year’s events and people in an annual publication. Timeline lives up to the RIT technologically advanced standard by being the first on-demand school publication. Books are $20 for the first 1,000 purchases or until the end of June.

Michael Peres, center, is the editor of the fourth edition of Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. A reception on May 7 included various faculty and former photo faculty including Dick Zakia and Les Strobel (co-editors of the book’s third edition).

The Alexander Lawson Publishing Center will be the new offices of the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press and RIT Press. Among the speakers at the opening reception May 10 was world renowned typographer and former RIT professor Hermann Zapf, right. The center itself will feature a multimedia conference area, expanded production offices, exhibition gallery space and a sales area for Press titles. Part of the center will have a glass wall etched with quotes about typography and publishing. The typography of the wall is designed by Zapf and award-winning calligrapher and graphic designer Jerry Kelly.

To show appreciation to the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed overseas, Xerox Corp. has developed a nationwide program called Let’s Say Thanks. Xerox, along with students in the School of Print Media, printed out 2,000 postcards at the HUB. RIT ROTC students set up two tables at the Infinity Quad and along the quarter mile on May 10 for people in the RIT community to write out personal messages on the postcards to U.S. servicemen and servicewomen.