Photo Spotlights

Mark Clement, left, president and CEO of Rochester General Health System, joined Barry Culhane, executive assistant to RIT President Destler, to unveil this year’s official Imagine RIT poster. The winning design was created by Alex Moser, a fourth-year applied arts and science major. Moser’s design was selected from 15 student entries submitted. RIT President Bill Destler presided over the unveiling on April 14. Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival takes place from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 2.

The annual RIT egg hunt on April 11 challenged children to find over 2,000 toy- and candy-filled eggs hidden in the Eastman Kodak Quad.

Members of the 2009 RIT Baja team unveiled their newly designed and custom-built racer on April 4.

Shukria Amani is an Afghanistan woman who taught at Kabul University, was jailed by the Taliban and now is pursuing her MBA at the Saunders College where she also completed graduate studies on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2005.

Ken Weimar ’90 (B.S. professional and technical communication), the 2009 RIT Distinguished Alumnus from the College of Liberal Arts, offers contact information to advertising and public relations majors Becky Higgins (left) and Dawn DeWald after he spoke to the Senior Thesis in Communication class.

Cadets from Detachment 538 participated in military drill and physical fitness competitions March 20-22 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Special recognition goes to the four members of the Military Excellence Challenge team that won first place in the Ironman Competition. The event featured a three-mile run, pull-ups, sit-ups and a 500 meter swim. From left are Zachary Nelson, Nicholas Seaver, Daniel Bourgeois and Thomas Antonoff.

Vinton Cerf, who is widely regarded as a “father of the Internet,” spoke at RIT April 3 as part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Dean’s Lecture Series. Cerf delivered a presentation titled “Making the Internet More Accessible.”

Tim Wallenhorst, one of RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholars, celebrated his honor with Sister Bernadette Okulicz, FSSJ, a long-time mentor from St. Francis High School, Athol Springs, N.Y. Twenty-seven faculty mentors from various high schools and community colleges across the country attended the scholarship event April 2 in Gordon Field House and Activities Center.

Nicholas Schneider, one of RIT’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholars, celebrated his honor with Denis Coakley, a long-time mentor from St. Francis High School, Athol Springs, N.Y. Twenty-seven faculty mentors from various high schools and community colleges across the country attended the scholarship event April 2 in Gordon Field House and Activities Center.

The Isaac L. Jordan Diversity Award was presented to Thomas Warfield on March 30. The award is given to an RIT faculty or staff member who has made a significant contribution to diversity efforts on campus and within the Rochester community.

Johnnetta Cole, the first African-American woman to serve as president of Spelman College in Atlanta, was the keynote speaker for the fourth annual Diversity Day on April 1. The program, sponsored by the RIT Board of Trustees, focused on the diversity initiatives taking place on campus.

RIT announced a new research and academic collaboration with Singapore during a ceremony on March 26. The agreement between the Golisano Institute for Sustainability and the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology will include graduate student exchanges, joint research projects in sustainable production and additional academic partnerships.