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RIT faculty and student researchers will present research on a variety of topics including advanced composites, 3D printing, self-healing polymers, bioplastics and nanotechnology during Plastics Night on April 19.

Technology development for “smart” forklifts and trucks that communicate with each other is underway at RIT where a team of engineers is building a next-generation intelligent materials handling system.

A new simulation of supermassive black holes, the behemoths at the centers of galaxies, uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, said RIT researchers in a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

James Winebrake, dean of RIT's College of Liberal Arts and an expert on the environmental impact of transportation, is among a team of experts who are applauding the shipping industry's decision to burn cleaner oil beginning in 2020.

RIT's Image Permanence Institute has received $544,198 in grants from the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities to support two major education and research initiatives.

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.

NTID will digitize and make publicly accessible more than 60 videotapes held in the RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive that document the ASL poetry and literature movement in Rochester from 1970 through 2011.

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.

 

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.

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.