Photo Spotlights

Wallace Library staff, dressed in aprons and carrying cooking utensils, stir student interest in the library and its services, Sept. 4, by handing out flyers and free treat coupons around campus.

One of six newly built Greek-organization residences set to open fall quarter. The houses will provide accommodations for 96 students. Also opening this fall is the final phase of University Commons apartment complex, adding accommodations for 192 students. A five-year, $65 million residence-hall renovation project, upgrading RIT's 13 residence halls, is wrapping up.

Cortney Harris (left), a youth advocate with the Hillside Work Scholarship Connection, works with Christy Cage, a student from James Madison School of Excellence, who spent five weeks on campus with 21 of her classmates as part of a summer GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) at RIT.

Workers build a brick patio outside RIT's Crossroads building.

Michael Peres and Andrew Davidhazy, professors at RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, are spending more than a year preparing for a remarkable international exhibition. Images from Science will feature photographs submitted from various scientific disciplines including biology, engineering, geology, medicine, oceanography and physics. The exhibition is scheduled for fall of 2002.

RIT President Albert Simone accepts, on Aug. 8, the gift of the Rochester Marriott Thruway hotel on West Henrietta Road from E.J. Del Monte Corp. The facility will be renamed the RIT Inn and Conference Center when RIT assumes ownership Sept. 1 and will provide housing for more than 300 RIT students this fall. The gift, valued at $14 million, is the third contribution in that amount that RIT has received since February. Shown, left to right, are James Breese, Henrietta supervisor; John Del Monte, company president; Simone; and Ernest J. Del Monte, company chairman and CEO.

Participants in the RIT/East House Enrichment Program learn some fancy footwork as part of the annual 2-week program held on the RIT campus July 23-Aug. 2. Residents of the East House facility, a Rochester-based, non-profit mental health agency, took courses taught by RIT facutly and staff ranging from stress management to computer skills to ceramics.

High school juniors participate in the Explore Your Future program at RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, July 30. Explore Your Future is a one-week transition educational program for deaf and hard-of-hearing high school students entering their senior year. The second of the program's two one-week sessions ends Aug. 3.

Scott Draina of Columbia High School in East Greenbush, N.Y., left, and Pam Perdue of Hodgson Vocational Technical High School in Newark, Del., a master teacher, take part in a Project Lead the Way workshop on July 26. Throughout July, nearly 400 math, science and technology middle and high school teachers from across the nation studied in Project Lead the Way workshops at the National Technology Training Center at RIT and affiliated sites. This fall, the teachers will implement pre-engineering curricula in their home schools.

Students (from left) Srdana Pace, Danjiela Glamuzina, Sandra Sankovic and Dubravka Dejanovic from RIT's American College of Management and Technology in Croatia gather outside Wallace Library. The four Croatian students are in Rochester for a summer co-op with RIT's food services department.

Laurie Maynard (right), director of RIT's University News Services, takes her turn feeding News & Events editor Vienna Carvalho-McGrain's 5-week-old son, Cameron, on July 18 during a visit to the University News office.

RIT students walk past new markers featuring quotations by prominent people outside the James E. Gleason Building.