Photo Spotlights

Members of RIT's Army ROTC prepare to lower the flags in the center of the Andrews Drive traffic rotary to half-staff in honor of Sept. 11. The flags will remain lowered for 24 hours. RIT joins other schools across the state who are lowering their flags in esponse to a request from New York Gov. George Pataki through the State Education Department.

Randy Schneiderman, a second-year software-engineering student and member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, sits atop a 40-foot utility pole for Pole Sit 2002 while Reporter photographer Edmund Fountain takes a shot. The fraternity kicked off the school year with its eighth annual Pole Sit fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish foundation, Sept. 3.

In what may turn out to be their only chance to throw paper airplanes while being addressed by the dean and other professors, more than 500 first-year engineering majors did just that during Engineering Day 2002, Sept. 3. Jonathan Forst, microelectronic engineering major, releases his plane in the Hale-Andrews Student Life Center gymnasium.

Incoming first-year student, Caitlin Glegg, a third-generation RIT student, talks with her father, Raymond Glegg during move-in, Aug. 29. Caitlin Glegg is one of six first-year students taking part in a six-week video project documenting the RIT freshmen experience.

Victoria Lezama, one of a dozen students and faculty from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, participated in a three-week summer manufacturing course, July 29-Aug. 16, sponsored by the industrial and systems engineering department at RIT.

RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering hosted the second annual "I Built My Computer @ RIT" workshops for incoming female engineering majors, July 30-Aug. 2. Jordan MacIntyre, left, and Christina Ermie were among 21 students who built computers that became theirs to keep.

From left, Lou Spiotti, director of the Center for Human Performance; Janet Jones, associate director; Ann Nealon, head tennis coach; and Frank Lamas, associate vice president of Student Affairs, cut the ribbon officially opening the new RIT tennis courts, July 30.

Pastor Charlie Piscitello, from the Office of the Disabled at Genesee Community College in Batavia, plays piano during a celebration of the life of Justing Dart Jr. in RIT's Interfaith Chapel, July 26. Dart was a leader in the disability rights movement and a human rights activist. He died last month.

Construction continues on the Infinity quad at RIT. The quad is undergoing a complete redesign that will include new lighting fixures, benches and brick-paved walkways.

Two students at RIT's Kids on Campus summer camp enjoy an impromptu game of tennis while waiting for their rides home, July 19.

A seventh grade student from Frederick Douglass Middle School, and other students from Rochester City middle and high schools learned about DNA during a June workshop on biotechnology. The class, taught by RIT professor Irene Evans, was one of several sessions held throughout the day exposing students to career opportunities in the sciences. The program was co-sponsored by RIT and the Educational Talent Search, a local organization.

State Sen. James Alesi, fourth from left, cuts a ribbon dedicating RIT's Laboratory for Applied Computing on June 26. With Alesi are, from left, Ford Greene, regional vice president of Frontier Corp.; Walter Wolf, interim dean of RIT's B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences; Albert Simone, RIT president; Wiley McKinzie, dean of RIT's College of Applied Science and Technology; Jeff Lasky, lab director; Susan Puglia, RIT trustee and vice president of e-server design for IBM; and Richard Ottalagana, executive vice president of PaeTec Communications.