Photo Spotlights

The RIT Coast-to-Coast team runs underneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Mo., late on Thanksgiving night, Nov. 25, after crossing the Mississippi River. They then continued on the route through St. Louis. The runners expect to complete the run well ahead of schedule today, Nov. 29, around 7 p.m. at the Annapolis City Docks. For more, visit www.ritcoasttocoastrun.com.

Newly commissioned U.S. Army second lieutenants, from left, Brian Weiblinger, Randolph Naughton, Joleen Joles and Christopher Braunstein celebrate at a commissioning ceremony for RIT Army ROTC graduating seniors on Nov. 19.

RIT's cross-country relay team will cross the Mississippi River on Thanksgiving day. During the holiday weekend, the team will travel through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Runners expect to reach West Virginia on Sunday, Nov. 28. Shown here, members of the team pass the baton in Arizona. To track the progress of the event, commemorating RIT's 175th anniversary, visit the Web at www.ritcoasttocoastrun.com.

Ryan Pancoast crosses into New Mexico on Saturday, Nov. 20, as the RIT Coast-to-Coast Run enters its fourth day. The team is approximately six hours ahead of its scheduled pace. To track the progress of the event, commemorating RIT's 175th anniversary, visit the Web at www.ritcoasttocoastrun.com.

RIT cross country runner Sean "Okie" McVeigh enters both a new state and time zone during the RIT Coast-to-Coast run, on Oct. 18. The continuous relay run crosses the U.S. continent, ending in Anapolis, Md., at the end of the month and crossing 13 states and four time zones. For more, visit www.ritcoasttocoastrun.com.

Members of RIT's cross country relay run team get going at La Jolla, Calif. on Nov. 17. The run covers 13 states and varies in terrain from sea level in California, to over 6000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Arizona. To stay updated on their progress, visit www.ritcoasttocoastrun.com.

Members and alumni of RIT's cross country teams get ready to participate in the 2,730-mile Coast-to-Coast cross country relay run, Nov. 17-30. In commemoration of RIT's 175th anniversary, the run repeats a 1979 feat that at the time was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. It kicks off at noon PST in San Diego, Calif.

Erin Wengrovius was among 75 first year students in RIT's art, design and crafts programs who made “Automata,” or simple machines, as part of their 3-D Design class. The students used power tools and wood to tell a story through these creations. Wengrovius’ “Automata” model was about the Lochness Monster.

RIT's Leonard Urso is winner of the 2004 Visual Artist Award, presented by the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. Urso, Distinguished Professor and Ann Mowris Mulligan Endowed Chair in the School for American Crafts, was singled out for artistic achievements during his 20 years in Rochester. “I feel honored for receiving the award from the Rochester community as both an artist and educator,” he says. Urso's art is on exhibit nationally and internationally and represented in museums as well as corporate and private collections.

RIT computer engineering students James Ledwith (left) and Evan Clark demonstrate their senior design project, a minefield-traversing robot, Oct. 28 along with 15 other student projects. Robotic creations included an autonomous parallel-parking vehicle, a computerized firefighting vehicle, an obstacle-avoidance vehicle, an object-tracking camera system, a remote residential temperature-control system and “MailBot”—a computerized mail-delivery system.

Giovanni Principe, an engineer with DMG America Inc., far right, demonstrates a machine tool to Pat Derleth, far left, and Rohan Sicard, both of East Side Machine Inc., in RIT’s Brinkman Manufacturing Lab in the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies. DMG representatives visited RIT on Oct. 28 for an open house commemorating the company’s equipment consignment and new partnership with RIT.

Fourth-year film student Jesse Borkowski received a film honoraria from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA. This is the fifth year in a row that the foundation has recognized RIT’s film program. Borkowski’s film, Test Yy, is a non-narrative that critiques our ability to accurately translate the world into symbols (through the use of language, math, image) and the limitations that arise in creating and communicating through these systems.