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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.

Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Mary-Beth Cooper was presented with the Four Presidents Distinguished Public Service Award on March 23. Cooper was honored for her leadership, service and dedication to the community.

Award-winning composer David Liptak discussed his creative process as part of the presentation “Composing New Music” on March 22. The event, part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project’s “Visionaries in Motion IV” speaker series, included performances of several of Liptak’s compositions by noted classical pianist Zuzanna Szewczyk (left).

Rochester television anchors are among local luminaries taking a stand against racism. As part of a national campaign, “Stand Against Racism,” involving YWCAs around the country, the YWCA of Rochester is producing a series of public service announcements and is collaborating with RIT School of Film and Animation students. WHAM-TV anchor Ginny Ryan, left, WROC-TV’s Maureen McGuire and WHEC-TV’s Janet Lomax came to RIT’s film studios March 21 to record PSAs that will air next month to time with “Stand Against Racism” Day, April 29. There will be events going on throughout Rochester that weekend.

Members of the campus community gathered March 22 for a rally of hope in support of missing student George Delany. The third-year political science major was last seen March 12 along a roadside in Steuben County. Members of Students Finding George Delany used the event to encourage others to help spread information related to the ongoing search.