Photo Spotlights

On a visit to RIT on April 9, Troy McClain (left) demonstrates the charisma that won him recognition on the first season of the TV reality show, The Apprentice. Following his engaging presentation, McClain signed autographs, posed for photos and chatted with dozens of fans including first-year bioinformatics major Schuyler Poukish (center) and first-year information technology major Dayne Thompson (with camera). His visit was part of the first “Connectology” Leadership and Mentoring Advancement Conference.

RIT students connected with recruiters from 85 companies and agencies at the Spring 2005 Career Fair on April 6. This was RIT's largest-ever career fair, featuring companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Bausch & Lomb, Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, ESPN, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and Paychex. Nearly 1,700 students seeking full-time and co-op positions took part in the event.

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield announced a multiyear grant totaling $2 million in support of RIT's Center for Bioscience Education and Technology, April 8. The announcement was made at a groundbreaking ceremony for the $12 million, 35,000-square-foot facility—$8 million of which was provided by the state of New York through the Gen*NY*sis and RESTORE NY program. Here Douglas Merrill, associate dean of the College of Science, RIT President Albert Simone, Assemblyman Joe Morelle and Scott Ellsworth, regional president of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield take the first dig with golden shovels.

A panel of RIT professional and technical communication students prepares a senior thesis presentation at the second annual Conference for Undergraduate Research in Communication held in the Student Alumni Union April 6. More than 40 students from nine regional colleges and universities participated in the RIT-hosted event.

Kayce Baker, center, special accounts manager for Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc., views the winning portfolios from this year’s Fuji Scholarship competition. Sean McGlincy, right, from Atlanta, Ga., earned $2,000 as the first-prize winner, and Sarah Weeden from Canandaigua, N.Y., was awarded $1,000 for second prize. Both students are third-year advertising photography majors in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. Judging for the scholarship was based on visual quality, craft, presentation and creativity.

New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman has talked with and written about some of the world's most famous artists, painters and photographers. Kimmelman gave a free lecture at RIT on March 31. He shared his firsthand experiences with renowned artists and also talked about his role as an art critic. Kimmelman has worked for the New York Times since 1990.

Sheena Liseno, third-year food management major, serves lunch to patrons on spring-quarter opening day for Henry’s restaurant on March 29. Named after Bausch & Lomb Inc. founding partner Henry Lomb, the eatery is operated by School of Hospitality and Service Management students. Located on the fourth floor of the George Eastman Building, Henry’s serves lunch 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through May 5. Reservations, credit cards and RIT debit cards are accepted and take-out service is available. For more information, call 475-2351 or visit www.rit.edu/~henrys.

Aristide Economopoulos '94 (photojournalism) shot this photograph during the men's road cycling event at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Economopoulos, a photographer at The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, will give a free lecture at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 31, in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science auditorium. Economopoulos and his colleagues at The Star-Ledger were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for their photographs of the Sept.11 attacks at the World Trade Center.

John Hill ’30 (electrical engineering) was among 24 RIT Distinguished Alumni in the inaugural class inducted to the Kate Gleason College of Engineering’s Wall of Fame on March 18. Hill was a member of a team that created, in the late 1940s, one of the earliest high-speed computers for Engineering Research Associates in St. Paul, Minn. His visit was his first to Rochester in nearly 50 years.

RIT President Albert Simone, far left, congratulates several honorees at the Inventors Recognition Ceremony on March 23. Sixty RIT researchers received awards for their focus on the creation of intellectual property including, from left to right, Roy Berns, Mitchel Rosen and Bruce Smith. Ryne Raffelle, director of RIT's NanoPower Research Laboratories, received special recognition with the Creator's Award for outstanding creativity and contribution to RIT's intellectual property portfolio.

A variety of activities kept children of RIT faculty and staff "hopping" during the Bunny Breakfast. The event was held at Margaret's House, the university's on-campus child care facility, in celebration of Easter. The youngsters created bunnies out of english muffins, read stories about rabbits and, of course, hunted and ate Easter eggs.

Sixty-two junior high school girls “shadowed” RIT engineering and engineering technology majors during the fifth annual Shadow Day, hosted by RIT’s Society of Women Engineers, March 17-18. Among the girls' activities was studying soil samples in a civil engineering technology/environmental management and safety laboratory. Participants also toured campus, attended classes, spent a night in an RIT residence hall and competed in hands-on engineering activities.