Photo Spotlights

Sparks fly as the Steel Bridge team finishes up construction. The team travels to SUNY Buffalo on April 24 for regional competition. RIT hopes to best competitors using an innovative new cable-stay type design.

Does concrete float? Members of the Concrete Canoe team prove that it does, getting their hands dirty molding the aggregate mixture for this year's canoe. The team travels to SUNY Buffalo for regional trials of the National Concrete Canoe Competition on April 24. RIT has won the event four times since 1997.

Brandon Remler (right), sales manager for Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc., views the winning portfolios from this year’s Fuji Scholarship competition. Kris Kowal (left) from Canton, Mich., earned $2,000 as the first-prize winner, and Quincy Scott from Gary, Ind., was awarded $1,000 for second prize. Both students are advertising photography majors in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. Judging for the scholarships was based on visual quality, craft, presentation and creativity.

Jeff Broomhead, fifth-year mechanical engineering major and RIT mini-Baja team project manager, gets airborne on a test run on April 9. The CAST-supported team competes in the Mini Baja Brazil in São Paulo this weekend and three national contests this spring.

RIT alumna Kerstin Navik, ‘95, a graduate from the professional and technical communication program in the College of Liberal Arts, was the guest speaker at the Conference for Undergraduate Research in Communication held at RIT on April 8. Navik works at Paychex Inc. as a user-interface designer.

Barbara MacCameron, language and literature lecturer in the College of Liberal Arts, facilitates a book discussion on Leif Enger's Peace Like a River on April 8. The discussion, held in Wallace Library's Idea Factory, was the culmination of the If All of RIT Read the Same Book program during which hundreds of RIT faculty, staff and students read and discussed the book.

The RIT Brick City Singers perform during the fourth annual Night of A Cappella which they hosted on April 3 in Ingle Auditorium. Also performing at the near-capacity show were the MIT/Wellesley Collete Toons, The WPI Interstate 8 and the Cornell University Class Notes.

Richard Aab, right, president of RTA Associates and RIT trustee was the keynote speaker for the College of Business' inaugural Entrepreneurs Conference on March 26. He and Steven Sauer, left, chief executive of Business Methods Inc., spoke to nearly 160 attendees about risk taking and economic vision for our community.

Frank Romano, Roger K. Fawcett Distinguished Professor of Graphic Arts, oversees activities at the final Gamma Epsilon Tau book sale. Over the years, the event has raised thousands of dollars for the honorary printing fraternity. Romano donates books to the sale, but he retires this year after 12 years with RIT's School of Print Media. During his tenure, Romano developed more than 20 courses in digital printing, electronic publishing and multimedia. Previously, he served as SPM's administrative chair.

Stanley McKenzie, RIT provost and vice president of academic affairs, signs an agreement alongside Ahmet Serpil from Yeditepe University of Istanbul, Turkey. Beginning this summer, RIT will offer a joint engineering master's degree with the Turkish University.

Evon Black presents Mama Cares, a one-woman show about her experience growing up deaf in Arkansas, on April 1 at RIT’s third annual Expressions of Diversity Conference. The weeklong conference celebrated pluralism and the theme Expressions from Within.

Thomas Warfield, director of dance at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, presents a workshop at RIT’s third annual Expressions of Diversity Conference on March 30. The weeklong conference celebrated pluralism and the theme Expressions from Within.