June 14, 2013 10:00 AM - A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light. "We're accurately representing the real object and calculating the light an astronomer would actually see," says Scott Noble, associate research scientist in RIT's Center for...

June 13, 2013 10:00 AM - Organizers of this week's Effective Access Technology Conference at RIT say the success of the event has convinced them to do it again next year. Nearly 250 people registered for Tuesday's event at the RIT Inn & Conference Center, which featured workshops, keynote speakers, expert panel discussions and dozens of displays of...

June 3, 2013 12:00 PM - Gaming technology that mental-health care providers can employ with patients dealing with autism, substance abuse or violent behavior. A cane that uses directional force vibrations so that people who are both deaf and blind can more easily navigate. A see-through, life-sized interactive monitor that allows teachers to face the classroom while writing on...

May 16, 2013 10:00 AM - John Schott likes to take on big projects. During his 33 years at RIT, Schott helped form the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and built the university's first Ph.D. program. He won initial research funding in 1981 in support of NASA's Landsat program of Earth-orbiting satellites that monitor global...

May 16, 2013 10:00 AM - Teraisa Chloros made faces at her laptop computer. Her mock expressions appeared on the overhead screen with labels identifying her emotions-happy, sad, surprised, angry, disgusted or scared-based on the position of her facial muscles. 
 Chloros '11 (medical informatics) illustrated the FaceReader software by Noldus Information Technology to mental health professionals in...

May 16, 2013 8:00 AM - John Schott likes to take on big projects at work and at home. During his 33 years at RIT, Schott helped form the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and built the first Ph.D. program. He won the university's initial research funding in 1981 in support of NASA's Landsat program of...

May 4, 2013 5:00 PM - The crowds cheered, the music blared and an eclectic group of child-sized cars raced around Simone Circle Saturday morning as the E-Durance Challenge launched the 2013 Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. At stake: the chance to win $1,000 or one of President Bill Destler's prized antique banjos. Perhaps even more importantly,...

May 1, 2013 2:00 PM - The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) at Rochester Institute of Technology has announced the winners of its second-annual R&D student competition. Open to colleges and universities throughout the state, the event recognized both graduate- and undergraduate-level sustainability projects. Teams from The City University of New York College of Staten Island...

April 25, 2013 10:00 AM - The recently passed state budget includes a significant increase in state funding for Rochester Institute of Technology's Center of Excellence in Sustainable Manufacturing, which was initially established last year. The center will receive $500,000 as part of the 2013-2014 New York state budget agreement reached last month between the governor and...

April 22, 2013 9:00 AM - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $1.1 million to advance a new family of large format infrared detectors grown on silicon wafer substrates- Raytheon Visions Systems' breakthrough technology in detector development. The RIT-Raytheon detectors someday could support future NASA missions to understand the nature of...

April 16, 2013 10:00 AM - For the third consecutive year, Rochester Institute of Technology has been named one of North America's greenest universities by The Princeton Review. The publication's Guide to 322 Green Colleges, released this morning, evaluates colleges and universities on environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings. In partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council...

April 12, 2013 8:00 AM - Hundreds of visitors, including industry and political leaders, received a firsthand look at the new Sustainability Institute Hall during a dedication event Friday at the Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS), "a living lab" that represents RIT's commitment to the environment. Cutting-edge "green" technology has been incorporated into every inch of the 84,000-square-foot...

April 2, 2013 3:00 PM - Uncloaking the secrets of dark matter in the universe is a cosmological conundrum puzzling some of the brightest astrophysicists. An upcoming conference, sponsored by the American Astronomical Society and organized by Rochester Institute of Technology professor Sukanya Chakrabarti, will probe the mass that does not absorb or emit light, and which is...

April 1, 2013 3:00 PM - H comes before I in the alphabet-and when referring to bridges. A new study by researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that a 180-degree shift in the direction of the H-steel pile foundations in bridges could add new life to the structure and increase load resistance and capacity-even in the event...

April 1, 2013 3:00 PM - Vicki Hanson, a former IBM researcher and chair of Inclusive Technologies of the School of Computing at the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, will join Rochester Institute of Technology in Fall 2013. She will serve as a faculty member of the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies in RIT's B....

March 21, 2013 1:00 PM - The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute has awarded approximately $419,000 to fund research and development projects focused on applied research designed to stimulate solutions that will help New York state companies remain competitive while reducing their environmental footprint. NYSP2I, as part of its ongoing research and development program, annually solicits proposals...

March 13, 2013 1:00 PM - Can a person erase traces of his original language and dialect? Or is a voice as unique as a fingerprint? Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, looking to answer those questions, have started to analyze audio and speech signals that will enable better voice recognition technology. Applications for the new research can...

March 8, 2013 10:00 AM - As the new building for Golisano Institute for Sustainability nears next month's dedication, the world-class building likened to "a living lab" reached two more important milestones March 7 with the connection of the fuel-cell power unit and the installation of the nearly 40-foot-tall green wall. While the fuel cell plays a vital...

March 5, 2013 3:00 PM - Substance abuse and family violence are a combustible combination and a global health issue. Rochester Institute of Technology professor Caroline Easton, a forensic clinical psychologist in the College of Health Sciences and Technology, supports a new approach that integrates addiction and aggression issues and treats the individual, not a generic group. Easton's...

March 4, 2013 1:00 PM - What is the role of liberal arts in business? How does research in traditional liberal arts fields intersect with the concerns of business disciplines? How does a liberal arts education prepare graduates, many of whom end up getting jobs in business? Answers to these questions will be uncovered at the "Kern Symposium...