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March 26, 2025
Center for Detectors reached milestone in NASA-funded project
The center is working to advance and characterize single-photon sensing CMOS image sensors to determine if they can survive the harsh radiation environments in NASA missions. A successful image was recently captured, providing a milestone in the project.
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March 21, 2025
RIT’s game design programs earn high scores nationally
Rochester Business Journal features RIT's game design program.
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March 19, 2025
RIT ranked a top-10 university for game designers and developers
RIT’s game design and development program was ranked sixth at the undergraduate level and 10th at the graduate level in new international rankings from The Princeton Review. -
March 18, 2025
Pollution Prevention Institute at RIT accepting Community Grants Program project applications
The program, founded in 2008, is part of the NYSP2I’s ongoing efforts to make the state more sustainable for workers, the public, the environment, and the economy through pollution prevention.
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March 18, 2025
Entrepreneur, scientist, engineer Astro Teller is RIT’s Academic Convocation keynote speaker
Teller, who is widely recognized for his leadership in technological innovation, oversees X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory designed to help tackle the world’s most difficult problems with bold solutions. Academic Convocation is on May 9.
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March 14, 2025
RIT recognizes faculty-researchers for innovative projects and funding milestones
Researchers who contributed to RIT receiving nearly $103 million in sponsored research awards during the past fiscal year, including 10 faculty members who reached or surpassed $1 million this past fiscal year, were inducted into the yearly classes of PI Millionaires.
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March 12, 2025
Trump’s Cuts Threaten Key NSF Undergrad Research Program
Inside Higher Ed speaks to Tony Wong, assistant professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, about the effects of cuts to research budgets on student researchers.
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March 7, 2025
Experts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’
Tech Crunch speaks to Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about the risks associated with using AI to create hypotheses and research plans.
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March 5, 2025
Students use AI to aid United Nations in Ukrainian refugee response
Natalie Crowell and Olivia Croteau, both third-year humanities, computing, and design majors, are developing an AI tool that analyzes publicly available social media data, specifically from chat groups where refugees discuss needs related to housing, food, and other resources.
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February 28, 2025
Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it
The Conversation published an article by Christine Keiner, chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, about the importance and impact of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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February 27, 2025
Saunders ranks among TFE Times’ top graduate programs
Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology received several rankings from TFE Times on their Top Graduate Programs lists for 2025:
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February 21, 2025
RIT joins statewide Empire AI consortium
RIT has joined New York state’s Empire AI consortium, a partnership of leading public and private universities to advance responsible artificial intelligence.