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Innovation News
- Hundreds share ways to become more accessible
- RIT will become home to new Albert Paley sculpture after prestigious New York City event
- Imagine RIT wins national award
- Baja Racecars Compete at SAE Rochester World Challenge June 7-9
- RIT professor R. Roger Remington to be inducted into Alliance Graphique Internationale
- RIT enhances the tourism experience with mobile innovations
RIT in the News
- Imagine RIT wins national award
- Access technology development also has strong economic potential
- Imagine RIT festival wins national honor
- Campus safety in Eric Irish’s future
- Rochester focuses on inventions for disabled
- Effective technologies put Rochester ahead
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Improving the lives of people with disabilities RIT is seeking to spur research that assists people with disabilities and the agencies that serve them through a new seed-funding effort offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
The Effective Access Technology Program is offering a total of $100,000 in funding to faculty-led student teams to address access issues for disabled persons in the Rochester community. Individual seed grants will range from $5,000 to $10,000. The program is open to tenure and tenure-track faculty; proposals are due Nov. 12. To submit a proposal, go to www.rit.edu/research/srs/news. To read more about the program, go to http://www.rit.edu/news/release.php?id=49493. The winners will be announced at the RIT Celebration of Research event from 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 16 in Louise M. Slaughter Hall, room 2240.
(A team led by Edward Brown, associate professor of electrical engineering, is developing orthotics and robotics that could improve mobility for persons with physical disabilities. Electrical engineering student Adey Begregioris, right, controls a robotic manipulator using sEMG signals obtained from her bicep muscles. Elizabeth Lamark, ETC Photo/The Wallace Center)
