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Seniors from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering presented their completed design projects to RIT faculty, staff and students on Feb.22. A 10-student team created a smoking simulation device that demonstrates what happens when a cigarette is smoked.

Students from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering present their completed design projects to RIT faculty, staff and students. The projects were created as part of the college’s multidisciplinary senior design program. Jackie Sergi and Jim Cezo explain their team’s machine for testing a magnetically levitated axial flow from a Left Ventricular Assist Device. They named it “CARNA” after the Roman goddess of the heart.

RIT student Josh Allmann inputs poetry into a computer program which composes new poetry. His project will be used at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 3.

The computer science department in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences raised more than $700 and collected books for the library at Fyle Elementary School. Members of the computer science department’s SOAR Committee, which stands for Student Scholarship, Outreach, Retention and Recruitment, presented the check and books to the school librarian on Feb. 15.

For Valentine’s Day, Grace Watson Dining Hall offered a special menu, candlelight dining and strolling musicians. To top it all off, there was an array of decadent desserts, including red velvet cake, kiss cupcakes and tiramisu.

The RIT Student Glass Guild held a fundraising sale of handblown, multicolored glass flowers on Valentine’s Day. The money will help fund a trip to the Glass Art Society Conference in Portland, Ore.

Love Day, sponsored by The Center for Campus Life, was filled with activities for students from Rochester schools. Antoine Brown, 11, from School #2, joined RIT students from Delta Phi Epsilon and the Public Relations Student Society of America—RIT Chapter to create press releases. After being photographed in an outrageous monster costume, Antoine wrote his own copy about his experience. “This is the day I had so much fun” was the beginning sentence.

RIT’s Bevier Gallery hosts the Rochester-Finger Lakes Regional Exhibition Feb.1-27. The invitational exhibit features work from students in middle and high school art programs in this area of New York. Bevier Gallery, located in the James E. Booth Building, is handicapped-accessible. Regular gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday; 7 p.m., Monday to Thursday; 1 to 4:30 p.m., Saturday; and 2 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday. All exhibits are free. For more information, call the Bevier Gallery at 475-2646.

Up ’Till Dawn organizers have been trying to increase awareness about their campaign to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Feb. 5, organizers walked around in a giant box in an effort to gain attention on campus.

Kenny Lerner and Peter Cook presented Poetry in Motion: The Flying Words Project Feb. 2 as part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Lecture Series.

Public policy students hosted a mock debate Jan. 31, featuring representatives of the 2008 presidential candidates. John Pellito, a University of Rochester student, participated on behalf of Sen. Barak Obama’s campaign and Brighton Supervisor Sandra Frankel represented Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Members of the RIT Debate Team took the roles of the major Republican candidates.

First-year students taking a 3-D design course are designing and building nest houses for the recovery, rehabilitation and reintroduction of squirrels into the wild. Students will be building the houses this week. All of the nest houses will be donated to animal rehabilitators in New York state.