Photo Spotlights

Claude Steele, social sciences professor at Stanford University, meets with students after speaking at RIT’s third annual Expressions of Diversity Conference on March 31. The weeklong conference celebrated pluralism and the theme Expressions from Within.

More than 40 RIT students donated their hair to Locks of Love on March 28 after a team of dedicated resident advisors devised the campaign. Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children suffering from long-term medical hair loss. Pharaoh’s Hairum Salon and Spa on West Henrietta Road provided free styling and cutting.

Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly and his wife, Jill, present a replica football jersey to President Albert Simone during a press conference to announce plans for the Hunter’s Hope Candlelight Ball. The event will be July 23 at the RIT Inn & Conference Center. Simone will chair the event, which is expected to raise $100,000 to fight Krabbe disease and other leukodystrophies.

RIT faculty and staff participate in a book arts fair at Wallace Library on March 26. Participants had the opportunity to speak with visiting artists and try their hand at various crafts.

Ron Siem, ITS Student Affairs Liaison, plays the 13th hole in the United Way Mini Golf kick off on March 24. The event raised $532 by 196 golfers on 62 teams. The 13th hole was designed by Facilities Management Services, winner of the golfer's choice award for the second year in a row.

RIT's concrete canoe team applies a first layer of cement to a mold for this year's newly designed craft on March 19. The team of civil engineering technology majors travels to regional competition in Buffalo next month. Clockwise, starting in lower left, are students Korrie Kamp, fifth-year civil engineering technology, Jennifer Wozniak, third-year civil engineering technology, Tom Merriam, fifth-year mechanical engineering technology, and James Lindholm, fifth-year civil engineering technology.

Wayne LeChase, CEO of LeChase Construction Services LLC, shares insights on his success at the 2004 Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award luncheon at Oak Hill Country Club, March 25. LeChase was honored as this year's award recipient. The honor, sponsored by RIT's College of Business, is given to an individual who successfully developed a business that improved the local economy or whose innovative management skills changed the course of an existing business.

Scott Vosbury, fourth-year RIT student in the School of Film and Animation, will travel to North Carolina in early April for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the latest screening of his project, The Great Cheesesteak Debate.

Nearly 50 female high school students from across the northeast “shadowed” RIT students for a day—including spending a night in a residence hall—as part of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering’s fourth annual “Shadow Day,” March 18-19. The students participated in hands-on engineering-related activities with RIT student mentors, such as creating a “projectile system” and studying the behaviors of projectiles in motion (in this case, harmless Hostess Twinkies).

Members of the Asian Culture Society bravely offer up their faces in a pie-throwing fundraiser, held in the Student Alumni Union, March 18.

RIT’s School of Hospitality and Service Management welcomed back alumni employed by Renaissance Hotels and Resorts for an interactive workshop on March 10. Among the presenters was Michael Murphy ’84 (hotel and resort management), who discussed brand strategy with more than 150 current RIT students and alumni. The workshop was sponsored by the hospitality alumni society.

RIT's men's lacrosse team breaks in the new artificial turf field in early March. The team was the first to practice on the field and under a new set of lights that needed to burn brightly for 100 hours to test their durability and remove residue on the filters. The lacrosse team opened the 2004 season with a 14-10 win over Endicott College.