Office of Faculty Recruitment News

  • January 16, 2018

    Headshot of Rebecca Scales

    Historian studies polio consequences in France
    Rebecca Scales, an associate professor of history, has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support 12 months of full-time study about the effects of polio in France, from 1920 to 1980.

  • January 2, 2018

    Students and faculty involved in the Character Mosaic project.

    RIT project addresses dearth of minority characters in 3D animations

    Discouraged by an underrepresentation of minority characters in 3D-animated works, two School of Film and Animation faculty launched the Character Mosaic Project. The initiative aims to build a library of ethnically diverse, well-built characters that are free of charge to independent animators/filmmakers and students around the globe.

     

  • December 11, 2017

    graphic for board game called Lost and Found.

    Professor launches games about religious legal systems
    A team of interdisciplinary researchers, designers and developers led by Owen Gottlieb, an assistant professor of interactive games and media at RIT, has produced two first-of-their-kind table-top games that aim to promote and enhance the public understanding of religion and law.

  • December 6, 2017

    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in space.

    Professor among first to use Webb Space Telescope
    RIT astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb telescope is regarded by many as the powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

  • October 30, 2017

    outer gas disk of spiral galaxies in space.

    Hunting for massive black-hole mergers

    The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions and a prime location for scientists hunting the sources of gravitational waves, according to RIT researchers.

  • October 23, 2017

    People gathered for picture at event

    RIT receives $2.8M to support diversity programs
    RIT received three grants to help underrepresented minority students receive access and support in their education. The grants will support the Upward Bound Classic program, the RIT McNair Scholars program and the LSAMP program.

  • October 22, 2017

    James Winebrake posing for camera

    Research in humanities and social sciences grows
    Humanities and social sciences research at RIT represents a diverse array of scholarship that includes work in traditional disciplines as well as cybersecurity, personal health care, sustainability, cognition among individuals who are deaf, ethics within engineering, and studies to prevent crime.

  • October 22, 2017

    Matthew Wright sits and works on a computer, a bunch of wires bound together framing the photo.

    A new approach to securing networks
    RIT’s cybersecurity experts are studying the past, present and future of cybersecurity to gain a better understanding of the role that humans—and their behavior—play in keeping our technology secure.

  • October 22, 2017

    Kelly Norris Martin posing for camera

    Interdisciplinary team studying skills gap
    Amid the national discussion about skills gaps in filling STEM jobs, a trio of RIT researchers is diving into whether that gap exists in the optics and photonics industry in Rochester.
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