Photo Spotlights

RIT honored Steven Morse, assistant vice president of institute audit, compliance and advisement, as this year’s recipient of the Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award. David Kelbe, an imaging science doctoral candidate, received this year’s Bruce R. James ’64 Distinguished Service Award. RIT Vice President Emeritus Alfred Davis started a $50,000 endowment to fund the awards program. Each recipient will have the privilege of designating the endowment income to a beneficiary of his choice. From left, Associate Director for Student and Recent Alumni Programs James Macchiano, RIT President Bill Destler, Kelbe, Morse and Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Mary-Beth Cooper gathered before the March 20 ceremony.

RIT’s women’s hockey team is applying to move to Division I. The team plans to join the College Hockey America conference next season. Women’s hockey would join the men’s hockey team as the only DI college teams in the Rochester area. Here, College Hockey America Commissioner Robert DeGregorio shares the news with RIT Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Mary-Beth Cooper.

RIT women’s hockey team claimed its first NCAA Division III National Championship on March 17. RIT defeated Norwich University 4-1 at the Frank Ritter Ice Arena. RIT goalie Laura Chamberlain, named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, made 27 saves during the final game.

RIT/NTID information technology student Samuel Sandoval was one of 60 men and women who got their heads shaved March 17 in the Fireside Lounge during St. Baldrick’s Day, a fundraiser sponsored by Sigma Nu fraternity. The fundraiser netted more than $9,000 for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which supports research for childhood cancers.

RIT women’s hockey claimed its first NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey National Championship on March 17. RIT defeated Norwich University 4-1 at the Frank Ritter Ice Arena. RIT goalie Laura Chamberlain, named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, made 27 saves during the final game.

RIT’s 2012 United Way campaign kicked off on March 15 with a carnival and prize auction. Here, Adel Henen, facilities management, plays Shake, Rattle and Roll to win a ticket for the auction.

RIT’s 2012 United Way campaign kicked off on March 15 with a carnival and prize auction. Here, Rick Lagiewski handed Phyllis Walker a ticket for the auction after she played Spin It to Win It.

Brandon Edquist, left, and Matthew Pituk created the three winning poster designs that will soon be seen around campus during RIT’s 2012 United Way campaign. Katherine Olsen, associate professor in NTID’s arts and imaging studies program, says her graphic design course project on “United Way Posters” was initiated 10 years ago. “It’s competitive but collaborative and the students all help one another to create a persuasive design for the purpose of fundraising. Brandon and Matthew are immensely talented, work closely together in class and really do influence each other’s designs, so it’s no surprise they both won.”

The Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics competition roared into the Gordon Field House for “Rebound Rumble” March 9-10. More than 3,000 students, teachers, mentors and guests cheered on 41 teams, from across the Northeast and Canada, vying for positions at the national competition in April. Here, a student group, The Buzz, from World of Inquiry School 58, sang the national anthem before the competition.

James Salzano, president of Clark Companies Inc., was a guest speaker at the 8th annual Executive MBA alumni event, “Sharpen the Saw,” on March 9. Salzano is an Irondequoit native and an accounting major alumnus who graduated from RIT’s E. Philip Saunders College of Business in 1987. Salzano says Clarks, a privately owned shoe wear company with 14,000 employees worldwide, remains focused on customer loyalty and innovative styles combined with comfort technology.

The Finger Lakes Regional FIRST Robotics competition roared into the Gordon Field House for “Rebound Rumble” March 9-10. More than 3,000 students, teachers, mentors and guests cheered on 41 teams, from across the Northeast and Canada, vying for positions at the national competition in April. Here, students cheer for their team.

Stephen Bosworth, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea (1997-2001), spoke at Sharpen the Saw, the 8th annual Executive MBA alumni event sponsored by the E. Philip Saunders College of Business. Bosworth, currently dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, also delivered the keynote address for the Executive Leadership Network luncheon March 9 at the Genesee Valley Club.