Photo Spotlights

  • September 2, 2003

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    Members of Business Leaders of Tomorrow paint RIT's newest special interest housing option on the first floor of Eugene Colby Hall. Up to 33 BLT members will take up residence on the floor this fall. From left to right are Katie Cole, house manager, Audrey Lallier, BLT president, and Christian Davies, BLT co-president.

  • August 28, 2003

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    RIT's Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program (WASP) will see national exposure on an upcoming episode of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Computer engineer Jason Faulring operates the infrared sensors that can detect fire from 10,000 feet. Project leaders are Donald McKeown and Michael Richardson. The story will run on ABC News some time before the end of the fire season in October.

  • August 20, 2003

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    The final assembly of Albert Paley's The Sentinel sculpture at RIT is completed as five bronze pieces, each weighing 1,000 pounds, are bolted to the top of the towering structure, Aug. 19.

  • August 8, 2003

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    Jessica Oakes of Gasport, left, and Erin Race of Knoxboro have their hands full “dissecting” computer keyboards. They were among 13 first-year, women engineering majors at RIT for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering’s third annual “I Built My Computer @ RIT" workshops, Aug. 5-8. Students built computers that became theirs to keep and stayed in residence halls. Workshops were supported by Microsoft Corp.

  • July 31, 2003

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    Kevin Kochersberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was named a "Pilot of the Century" by the Experimental Aircraft Association on July 29. He will be one of two pilots to fly a reproduction 1903 Wright Flyer on Dec. 17, the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight, near Kitty Hawk, N.C., as part of "Countdown to Kitty Hawk."

  • July 28, 2003

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    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a news conference on the economic potential of fuel cell research and development in upstate New York at RIT, July 28. The news conference followed a roundtable discussion on fuel cells hosted by RIT and Greater Rochester Enterprise.

  • July 24, 2003

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    RIT Army ROTC held a Change of Command ceremony on July 23 in the Student Alumni Union Fireside Lounge. Lt. Col. Donald Beattie Jr., professor of military science, far right, assumed command of Tiger Battalion, 1st Brigade, from Lt. Col. Daniel Stafford, standing to his right. Stafford is remaining at RIT as assistant dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.

  • July 17, 2003

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    James S. Gleason, chairman of Gleason Corp., announces a $6 million gift from The Gleason Foundation to RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering, July 17.

  • July 10, 2003

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    Anthony Pigis, a teacher at William E. Grady High School in Brooklyn, left, and Emily Bennett, from Fitzgerald High School in Warren, Mich., practice machine modeling in a Project Lead the Way teacher-training workshop on July 8 at RIT. Around 300 middle and high school teachers from across the nation will visit RIT this month for sessions on instruction of pre-engineering curricula that prepares students for college studies.

  • July 8, 2003

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    The last major component of Albert Paley's sculpture in front of the RIT Student Alumni Union is installed, July 7. The "cage" weighs almost 10 tons and sits diagonally to the arched base of the structure. According to Paley, "The Sentinel" will be the largest sculpture located on any campus across the U.S.

  • July 2, 2003

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    World-famous Japanese Taiko drummers gave two free concerts this month at NTID; one offering hands-on participation. The troupe’s three groups—Koshu Roa Taiko, Amanojaku, and San Francisco Taiko Dojo—total 22, with six deaf members, and range from pre-school to senior citizen. Performances were courtesy of The Nippon Taiko Foundation, The Nippon Foundation of Japan, and the Postsecondary Education Network-International.

  • June 27, 2003

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    On June 24, RIT hosted the National Commission for Cooperative Education symposium: The Talent Search—Acquiring and Developing Talent in a Changing Economy. RIT President Albert Simone moderated a corporate panel with Ford Greene, former president, Frontier; Michael Morley, chief administrative officer and executive vice president, Eastman Kodak Co.; and Sandra Parker, president and chief operating officer, Rochester Business Alliance.