Photo Spotlights

  • 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.

  • June 20, 2003

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    Robert Panara, right, is honored on June 18 as the RITiree of 2003 at the 5th annual retirees picnic. After receiving the award, Panara, professor emeritus and the first deaf educator at RIT, presented President Albert Simone with an autographed Boston Red Sox baseball. More than 500 RIT retirees, joined by 28 Class of 2003 RITirees, attended the picnic at Liberty Hill.

  • June 14, 2003

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    Pansies adorn the walkway alongside Wallace Library on the RIT campus.

  • June 12, 2003

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    RIT Food Service student workers scoop ice cream during the United Way final recognition reception, June 11 in Fireside Lounge. The 2003 campaign exceeded its fundraising goal, raising just over $320,000, a 7 percent increase over last year.

  • June 4, 2003

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    RITchie, RIT's Tiger Mascot, helps a runner prepare for the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge with a little yoga, May 29. More than 200 RIT staff and faculty participated in the run/walk around Highland Park this year.

  • May 30, 2003

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    RIT staff engage in a friendly game of volleyball during the seventh annual Staff Appreciation Day and Community Picnic, May 28.

  • May 27, 2003

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    The Advanced Digital Photography class in RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences produced this 1950s drive-in theater production shot at the Vintage Drive-In Theater in East Avon, NY, at sunset on May 6. This "Norman Rockwell-type" event featured more than 75 vintage cars accompanied by their drivers and several dozen people in period clothing.

  • May 22, 2003

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    Fifth-year electrical engineering major David Rea, standing beside a Honeoye Falls-Mendon Ambulance, holds an ambulance driver-training device he invented for an independent study project. The device, demonstrated aboard the rig on May 21 to students in the course Biomedical Instrumentation, alerts drivers when they brake or turn too hard or accelerate too fast. Rea is a crew chief, driver and medic with the ambulance corps.

  • May 19, 2003

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    A duckling rejoins his flock after a brief dip in the pool outside the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies on the RIT campus, May 19.

  • May 16, 2003

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    David Fantauzzi, foreground, and Greg Buttram, seniors at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School, participate in the first "Cisco Battleship Live" at RIT on May 16. The event pitted teams of high school students from Greece Olympia and Rush-Henrietta high schools in competition involving telecommunications network configuration and troubleshooting.

  • May 14, 2003

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    Teams of students attack and defend computer networks during the Information Security Talent Search, May 9, in Clark Gym. The contest was sponsored by the RIT Security Practices and Research Student Association.