Photo Spotlights

Workers erect the tent in parking lot U to be used for convocation and commencement ceremonies May 25 and 26.

Lily Fandel (left) and her father Mark blow bubbles at a Margaret's House party at Liberty Hill, May 18. The party included pony rides, cake, ice cream, kite flying, and bubble blowing.

RIT artist-in-residence Lucas Jones (left) and Benjamin Cobb, a fouth-year glass major, demonstrate the art of glass blowing during the School for American Crafts' walkthrough on May 21. RIT students, parents, faculty, and staff could view art students' work in the school's metals, wood, ceramics and glass studios.

Muferihat Abduljelil, an RIT first-year computer engineering technology student, digs a hole for planting as part of RIT's wetland restoration project. RIT students, faculty and staff planted wetland plants and shrubs May 16-18.

Mike Occhipinti, fifth-year mechanical engineering major and project manager for RIT's Formula car team, behind the wheel of a newly-built racer. RIT attends the annual Formula SAE competition in Pontiac, Mich., May 16-20.

Dr. Shirley Allen accepts a farewell gift after presenting a mini-cabaret May 17 during her retirement reception. Allen is the 1st African-American Deaf Woman to complete a Ph.D. in the United States.

RIT's resident Mama Duck takes her children for a walk near the George Eastman building May 14.

Christie Bielmeier, an RIT fifth-year mechanical engineering major, earned first runner-up at competition sponsored by Cognex Corp., May 11, in Natick, Mass. Christie's creation of a automated drink mixer also earned her the "People's Choice" award and a Kodak digital camera. Christie was one of three finalists among entrants from 10 universities, each challenged to use an Cognex In-Sight digital video camera in a unique application.

Jason Dederich, second-year glass and industrial design major, left, and Gabriela Ruiz, first-year graphic design major, try their hand (and legs) at rock climbing, May 12, during RIT's annual Springfest.

RIT students Gus Mancini (left) and Anatoly Shilman battle it out in a jousting match May 10 during a Phi Kappa Psi fundraiser to raise money for Habitat for Humanity.

At a groundbreaking ceremony at RIT May 10, RIT President Al Simone; Frontier CEO Marty Mucci; Senator Jim Alesi; Donald Boyd, director of the IT Collaboratory; Walter Wolf, acting dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences; and Jeffrey Lasky, head of the IT lab for which the groundbreaking ceremony took place, break ground for the IT lab, a cutting-edge facility for R&D in upstate New York.

In an effort to fight hunger in Rochester, RIT students prepare peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches on May 9 for about a half-dozen local sites including Friendship Nursery Center, Open Door Mission and St, Joseph’s House. Food donations for the project, dubbed PB Jam 2001, are being provided by Genesee Valley Foodlink and Wegmans. The program, which continues May 10, is sponsored by RIT Hillel.