Photo Spotlights

The Brick City Singers perform at RIT May 3. The all-male a cappella group is made up of RIT students and has been performing for five years.

Gov. George Pataki announces RIT will receive $14 million to create a new Strategically Targeted Academic Research (STAR) Center which will be known as the Information Technology Collaboratory. Pictured left to right are Pataki, State Assemblyman Joe Robach, Sen. James Alesi, RIT President Al Simone, Executive Director of the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) Dr. Russell Bessette, and State Assemblyman Joe Morelle. The STAR Center, announced during a press conference at RIT on May 3, includes partners University of Buffalo and Alfred University.

Photographer Jason Rearick snaps a picture of RIT student Rebecca May among the trees May 2 for an upcoming edition of the RIT student magazine.

Nancy Donatucci of Neighborhood HOPE teaches Rochester-area elementary school students strategies for resolving conflict on April 26 at the 12th annual Education for Peace Conference at RIT.

Ralph Barnes of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Rochester chapter, makes injection-molded stars and screwdrivers for Rochester middle school students at the 10th annual E Engineering and Technology Fair held at the George H. Clark gymnasium at RIT April 27. More than 800 students participated.

Valerie Sirianni (back) and Korrie Kamp, both RIT Civil Engineering Technology students, practice with the RIT concrete canoe in preparation for competition sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, April 28, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Also at the event, another group of RIT civil engineering technology students will compete in a steel bridge assembly competition.

Students from Rochester city school #19, Dr. Charles T. Lunsford Elementary School, pass the time while waiting for their bus back to school after visiting RIT April 26 as part of the 12th Annual Education For Peace Conference. More than a dozen elementary schools visited RIT April 26, participating in the first day of the two-day conference.

RIT student Martin Fischer sprays environmentally-friendly dyes on a T-shirt for children from Margaret's House as part of RIT's Earth Day events, April 23. Events were held at the Student Alumni Union and the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies, Louise M. Slaughter building.

RIT faculty and staff get into growing mode April 20, cleaning up and preparing the RIT divisional garden beds for planting in mid-May. The divisional gardens are located in the quad bordered by the Gleason and Booth buildings.

"Water wars" served as the finale for the annual College of Business Survivor Olympics. Using Dixie cups and an old-fashioned fire brigade, students pulled water from a children’s swimming pool to fill a gallon jug. Members of the Lowenthal Group won this contest, but the American Marketing Association claimed the most overall points to successfully defend last year's championship.

Following his keynote address on April 18, RIT alumnus Christopher DiFrancesco (second from left) meets with Jessica Hager, Wilfredo Alvarez, Dean Andrew Moore and Cylinda Whitted. DiFrancesco's presentation served as a kick-off for Voices of a New Generation: The Third Annual Research Conference in the Liberal Arts.

RIT students test drive two of three mini-Baja cars to be raced in this year's competitions. RIT's mini-Baja team is in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the Mini Baja Brazil April 19-22 -- the first of four 2001 competitions.