September 26, 2013 2:00 PM - Supermassive black holes don't appear out of thin air. They evolve deep within galaxies like the Milky Way. Understanding galactic nuclei-or the centers of galaxies-is the lifework of astrophysicist David Merritt, whose research investigates the evolution of galaxies and the energetic activity that arises from the center-quasars, stellar tidal disruptions and massive...

September 25, 2013 4:00 PM - The federal government is investing $1.5 million toward construction and renovation costs for the facility that will house Rochester Institute of Technology's new Center for Urban Entrepreneurship. The award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration will help refurbish an iconic Rochester landmark, the former Rochester Savings Bank building at 40 Franklin...

September 16, 2013 9:00 AM - U.S. Rep. Chris Collins (R-Amherst) visited RIT's Venture Creations Friday to talk about the TRANSFER Act of 2013, a bipartisan bill he proposed that will help colleges, universities, research institutes and national laboratories transfer their innovative ideas and research to startup companies. "One of the most effective ways we can spur economic...

September 9, 2013 9:00 AM - A medical imaging technology that holds promise for screening prostate and thyroid cancers begins with a pulse of light. Scientist Navalgund Rao, from Rochester Institute of Technology, has advanced the capability of photoacoustic imaging, a hybrid technique that combines light and ultrasound waves. His prototype imaging system focuses the waves through an...

August 22, 2013 1:00 PM - Satish Kandlikar noticed the difference 
this summer. 
 It was subtle, but still noticeable, that for the first time, more young women served 
as research assistants and co-ops in his 
laboratory than in the past. And four in particular- Preethi Gopalan, Valentina Mejia, Camila Gomez and Carmen Azzaretti-have connected in such a...

August 5, 2013 4:00 PM - Rochester Institute of Technology is again being recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the nation's best universities for undergraduate education. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2014 edition of its annual book The Best 378 Colleges. In its profile on RIT, The Princeton Review quotes extensively from students...

August 1, 2013 10:00 AM - Graduate students at Rochester Institute of Technology are known on campus for their research and innovation on topics spanning disciplines from math and science to engineering to the liberal arts. On July 23, a new group of graduate students were honored for excellence at RIT's 5th annual Graduate Student Research and...

July 30, 2013 10:00 AM - How coffee drops leave rings when they dry, blood vessel formation related to cancer treatment and mind gamers in school are just some of the diverse presentations scheduled at Rochester Institute of Technology's Undergraduate Research Symposium, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 2 at the RIT Inn & Conference Center,...

July 26, 2013 2:00 PM - Rochester Institute of Technology professor David Messinger was invited to join the editorial board for Optical Engineering, the journal of the International Society for Optics and Photonics, or SPIE, which publishes peer-reviewed papers reporting on research and development in optical science and engineering. Messinger is the director of the Digital Imaging and...

July 26, 2013 1:00 PM - Rochester Institute of Technology professor María Helguera was appointed to the Wedd Visiting Professor Chair at the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Pharmacology and Physiology while on a yearlong sabbatical from RIT's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. She began her new position on July 1. While at the...

July 24, 2013 2:00 PM - Rochester Institute of Technology has a winning formula for mathematics outreach and is poised to expand it into a national model with a $120,000 grant from the Toyota USA Foundation, a charitable endowment supporting K-12 math and science education. RIT's Summer Mathematics Institute Teachers' Workshop puts high school math in context for...

July 23, 2013 2:00 PM - A collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology's Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences and Sweetwater Energy Inc. will give students experience with the Rochester-based company that has a sweet and sustainable niche. Sweetwater Energy provides its industry partners with a concentrated plant-sugar mixture for production of biofuels, biochemicals and bioplastics. The...

July 17, 2013 11:00 AM - The fifth annual Graduate Research and Creativity Symposium at Rochester Institute of Technology has been described by organizers as a showcase displaying the work of RIT students who are achieving the top degrees in their fields of study. And organizers say that this year's theme, Picking Up S.T.E.A.M.-Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts,...

July 11, 2013 1:00 PM - Physics professors Brian Koberlein and David Meisel take a "back-of-the-envelope" approach to astrophysics and computation in a textbook designed for undergraduate students. Koberlein, senior lecturer at Rochester Institute of Technology, and Meisel, distinguished professor at State University of New York at Geneseo, co-wrote Astrophysics through Computation, published in June by Cambridge University...

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...