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May
April
- 04/22/2013 NASA awards RIT $1.1 million to develop infrared detectors for space missions
- 04/02/2013 Astrophysicists to probe dark matter in sunny California
March
- 03/21/2013 RIT Professor Catches a Comet by its Tail
- 03/18/2013 RIT Astrophysics Students Explore the Solar System at the Harley School
- 03/05/2013 John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture at RIT March 22
February
January
December
- 12/10/2012 Supermassive Black Hole Powers ‘Beautiful’ Jets in ‘Hercules A’ Galaxy
- 12/07/2012 RIT Observatory Invites Stargazers to Geminid Meteor Shower, Dec. 13
- 12/04/2012 RIT Scientists Decode Three Bacterial Strains Common to Grapevines and Sugarcane
November
- 11/28/2012 RIT College of Science Distinguished Speaker at RIT Nov. 30
- 11/15/2012 RIT Professor Appointed to Landsat Science Team
- 11/13/2012 RIT Professor Recognized by the American Physical Society
- 11/12/2012 RIT Doctoral Student Wins Time with Two NASA Observatories
- 11/08/2012 RIT Professor Named Editor-in-Chief of ‘Journal of the Optical Society of America B.’
October
September
- 09/19/2012 RIT Observatory Holds Open House Sept. 28
- 09/10/2012 RIT/Nazareth Tech2Teach program receives $300,000 to develop future STEM teachers
- 09/05/2012 College of Science Distinguished Speaker Focuses on Scientific Collaboration Oct. 5
August
- 08/22/2012 Science TV Show Invites Middle-School Kids to Prove Their World
- 08/16/2012 RIT Graduate Student on Winning Team in ‘Prize for Primary Healthcare’ Competition
- 08/16/2012 Computer Vision Helps RIT Graduate Student See the World
- 08/06/2012 When Students Get Stumped—Changing Textbook Illustrations that Confound
July
- 07/26/2012 RIT Leads Development of Next-generation Infrared Detectors
- 07/03/2012 Oh, Baby! A Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots in McNeil’s Nebula
June
May
- 05/30/2012 View Rare Transit of Venus at RIT Observatory June 5
- 05/24/2012 RIT Professor Makes Clean Water in Chiapas, Mexico, a Priority
- 05/23/2012 RIT Doctoral Candidate Teaches ‘Computers to Understand Images’
- 05/22/2012 RIT Student Recognized in MIT IDEAS Global Challenge
- 05/15/2012 RIT Hosts Workshop on Disaster Response May 30–June 1
- 05/15/2012 Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship Program Recognizes RIT Students
- 05/02/2012 Gosnell Family Commits $5 Million to RIT in Support of Life-Sciences Education
April
- 04/18/2012 RIT students and faculty to present at defense and security sensing conference
- 04/10/2012 RIT Lecture Addresses Science and Religion in Today’s World April 17
- 04/03/2012 RIT Observatory Hosts Open House April 13
February
January
- 01/31/2012 RIT Observatory Hosts Open House Feb. 24
- 01/27/2012 ‘Science’ Magazine Awards Prize to RIT’s Explorations in Physics
- 01/26/2012 RIT Collaboration Rethinks Approach to Science Education
November
- 11/28/2011 Taking the Pulse of an Iceberg—Scientists Simulate Laser Imaging for NASA Missions
- 11/22/2011 RIT Professor Wins Scholarship for Biology Education Research
- 11/04/2011 Opening the Data Bank—Scientists Try to Match New Protein Structures
- 11/02/2011 Mysterious Absorption Lines Could Illuminate 90-year Puzzle
September
- 09/30/2011 RIT Observatory Holds Open House Oct. 8
- 09/16/2011 RIT’s Center for Detectors Launches Speaker Series Sept. 28
- 09/12/2011 Outsmarting Algae—RIT Scientist Finds the Turn-off Switch
- 09/01/2011 RIT Conducts Flood Mapping of New York’s Hard-Hit Schoharie County
August
July
- 07/20/2011 RIT Professor James Ferwerda Appointed Xerox Endowed Chair
- 07/15/2011 Quantum Optics Gives RIT’s Physics Program a Big Edge
June
- 06/27/2011 Benchmarking a Slice of Africa; Preserving Biodiversity Through Science
- 06/16/2011 East Aurora Resident Images Artifacts at Boston Public Library
- 06/06/2011 RIT Professor Teaches Optics at Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Frontiers in Imaging Science in Colombia
April
- 04/29/2011 RIT Observatory Holds Open House May 13
- 04/26/2011 RIT Astrophysicist Wins Fellowship at Prestigious Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- 04/07/2011 Palmyra, Mo., Resident Wins National Imaging Award
- 04/06/2011 RIT Imaging Science Doctoral Students Win National Awards
March
- 03/24/2011 RIT Researchers Help Map Tsunami and Earthquake Damage in Japan
- 03/15/2011 RIT College of Science Distinguished Speaker Explores Slow Earthquakes March 24
February
- 02/17/2011 The Green Machine: Algae Clean Wastewater, Convert to Biodiesel
- 02/16/2011 RIT Center for Detectors Advances Detector Technology
January
December
- 12/22/2010 RIT Joins National Effort to Track Ecological Change
- 12/20/2010 RIT Offers Master’s in Environmental Forecasting, Disaster Preparedness and Response
- 12/16/2010 Logie Baird, Carruthers inducted into RIT’s Imaging Hall of Fame
- 12/14/2010 RIT’s Imaging Science Freshmen Get the Keys to the Lab—and a Mission
- 12/07/2010 RIT Researchers First to Prove Existence of Stable Optical Lift
- 12/01/2010 Heroes in Science, Engineering to be Inducted into RIT’s Imaging Hall of Fame
November
- 11/17/2010 Brighton Resident Named Head of RIT’s Department of Physics
- 11/17/2010 Pushing Black-Hole Mergers to the Extreme: RIT Scientists Achieve 100:1 Mass Ratio
- 11/11/2010 RIT’s College of Science Names Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
- 11/09/2010 RIT’s College of Science Names Laura Tubbs Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
- 11/08/2010 Scientists Use Light Signatures to Track Merging Supermassive Black Holes
- 11/04/2010 Douglas Meadows Named Head of RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences
October
September
- 09/14/2010 Enigmatic Star Devours Companion; Possibly Pregnant with Second-generation Planets
- 09/08/2010 RIT to Offer Combined Bachelor’s-Master’s Physician Assistant Degree
July
May
- 05/25/2010 Hubble Research Reveals ‘Wandering’ Black Hole
- 05/10/2010 The Eye Has It: How Student-Geologists Learn in the Field
April
- 04/29/2010 ‘Tangible’ Display Technology Makes Virtual Objects Appear Real
- 04/13/2010 RIT’s Rochester Science Café Welcomes Head of the International Astronomical Union
- 04/13/2010 John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture at RIT April 23
March
- 03/29/2010 Early Warning System Would Predict Space Storms on Mars
- 03/26/2010 RIT Names Sophia Maggelakis Dean of the College of Science
- 03/25/2010 RIT Distinguished Speaker Will Tell Story Behind Vaccine for Cervical Cancer
- 03/10/2010 Resident of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Finds a World of Research Opportunities
- 03/10/2010 Rescheduled: Scientist Mario Livio Asks, ‘Is God a Mathematician?’
February
January
- 01/27/2010 A Massive Star is Born: RIT astronomer peers into stellar nursery
- 01/22/2010 RIT Captures Haiti Disaster with High-tech Imaging System
- 01/11/2010 RIT Showcases Medical Tools from Rochester General Hospital’s Museum
December
- 12/08/2009 RIT Astronomer Mines Spitzer Space Telescope Data for Massive Starbursts
- 12/03/2009 RIT Professor Recognized by the American Physical Society
November
- 11/16/2009 Volatile Gas Could Turn Rwandan Lake into a Freshwater Time Bomb
- 11/11/2009 RIT Hosts News Conference on Economic Impact of Biopharmaceutical Sector Nov. 13
October
- 10/22/2009 RIT Scientist Shines Laser Light on Methane in Pursuit of Clean Fuel
- 10/20/2009 Brighton Resident Recognized at International Medical Imaging Conference
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