Office of Faculty Recruitment News

WHAM-TV speaks to RIT President Bill Sanders about the opening of the new research building.

WHEC-TV highlights the opening of RIT's new research building, speaking to Ryne Raffaelle, vice president for Research, about the opportunities it presents to the campus community.

RIT’s new Research Building officially opened its doors Dec. 2, and inside, faculty and students are gearing up to usher in a new era of discovery on campus.

Researchers at RIT have improved the electronics used in communication and radar systems to better process signals using electromagnetic radio waves. This breakthrough could advance computing processes for technologies that need to handle signals quickly and efficiently.

Across the country, millions struggle to find timely or affordable mental health support. This imbalance was an inspiration for Ali Tosyali, who researched a potential assistive technology that could help practitioners identify potential disorders in a faster and efficient manner.

ZME Science references the study “The Age of Misinformation: Older People Exhibit Greater Partisan Bias in Sharing and Evaluating (Mis)Information Accuracy” co-authored by Guilherme Ramos, assistant professor in the Department of MIS, Marketing, and Analytics.

Over the next three years, the Research Experience for Undergraduates Site in Computational Sensing for Human-centered AI will welcome nine undergraduate students each summer to RIT’s campus. The site is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

RIT’s College of Science will receive funding from the Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship program for four new tenure-track faculty members.

Emily Bernal and her colleagues at RIT’s Image Permanence Institute are dedicated to helping museums, libraries, and archives adopt more eco-friendly methods for managing climate control systems.

A new project funded by the National Institutes of Health is using artificial intelligence to map the full journey of illnesses and discover entirely new disease pathways.

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 2026 ranked 1,503 top universities around the globe. 

WHEC-TV explores the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings, in which RIT ranks highly in several categories.