Office of Faculty Recruitment News

A decade-long partnership between Rochester Colonial and RIT’s Center of Excellence in Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing helped transform a custom folding-window concept into the award-winning FoldUp™ product line through engineering innovation, testing, and continuous design support.

Tech Briefs highlights RIT researchers Mohammad-Ali Miri, associate professor of electrical and microelectronic engineering, and Kevin Zelaya Mendoza, post doctoral fellow, and their work on a programmable microwave-integrated circuit that uses analog computing to perform complex calculations at high speeds with potential applications in communications, radar, sensing, and space technologies.

Rochester Business Journal reports that Sujatha Ramanujan has been named CEO of the STELLAR Engine, which brings RIT together with regional partners to advance next-generation laser technology, workforce development, and economic growth.

The challenges of human-robot collaboration in hotel services. 

NASA has awarded RIT’s Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory (DIRS) a three-year grant to lead a remote sensing field campaign and share the resulting data with researchers, educators, and the public.

Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology is nationally and internationally ranked and recognized. Saunders received several high rankings from QS World, which in 2027 ranked 1,503 top universities around the globe. 

RIT is strengthening the computing infrastructure behind its growing research enterprise with a new high-performance computing cluster ranked among the world’s fastest and most energy-efficient supercomputers.

Poets & Quants for Undergrads highlights RIT’s Saunders College of Business as one of the biggest movers in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 undergraduate business rankings, rising 19 spots to No. 58.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) has announced selections for the inaugural year of its Community Impact Accelerator Grant Program, a new funding opportunity designed to advance scalable, community-led pollution prevention initiatives across New York State.

In the U.S. News & World Report 2027 Best Colleges ranking, Saunders College of Business made a remarkable one-year leap of 19 spots from No. 77 to No. 58 among the nation's Best Undergraduate Business Programs.

Jacqueline Mozrall, dean of the Saunders College of Business, argues that as AI transforms customer experience through chatbots, intelligent routing, and automated service, the human element remains irreplaceable

O&P Almanac highlights RIT research advancing 3D-bioprinted finger prostheses that combine flexible, biocompatible materials, smart sensors, and mechanical properties designed to enable more natural movement and a sense of touch.