Research News

May 9, 2017

RIT wins big in statewide Game Dev Challenge

RIT’s Center for MAGIC announced the winners of the first-ever New York State Game Development Challenge, with Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and RIT President Bill Destler. Teams from RIT won first place in both the student and independent developer categories.
April 28, 2017

Two graduate students earn NSF fellowships

Larwan Berke and Brendan John, graduate students in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, each received a three-year, $34,000 annual stipend from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
December 12, 2016

Professor gets grant to help gaming scholars

Owen Gottlieb, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media and research affiliate in the MAGIC Center, received a National Science Foundation grant to design a capacity-building program tailored to early-career scholars.
September 16, 2016

Professor to study K-12 computing education

Adrienne Decker, assistant professor of interactive games and media, received a $1.19 million grant to study the long-term effects of pre-college computing activities.
August 9, 2016

NTID to launch mobile app development program

The new academic program is made possible by a collaboration with Xamarin Inc. and a grant from the National Science Foundation.
June 8, 2016

Hanson to lead Association of Computing Machinery

Distinguished Professor Vicki Hanson was elected president of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
June 7, 2016

RIT forms Center for Cybersecurity

Matthew Wright, a leading expert in internet security and privacy, will join RIT in August as director of the new Center for Cybersecurity.
June 2, 2016

Pengcheng Shi to lead GCCIS in research

Pengcheng Shi, director of the computing and information sciences Ph.D. program, has been named associate dean for Research and Scholarship of the B. Thomas Golisano College.
April 13, 2016

RIT joins research experience program

Undergraduate students from around the country will try their hand at research as part of an upcoming Research Experience for Undergraduates program at RIT.
February 8, 2016

RIT announces investments in four research areas

Teams focusing on cybersecurity, health care technology, photonics and unmanned aerial vehicle imaging will each receive up to $1 million over five years.
August 13, 2015

Researchers at RIT seek to solve looping problem

A team of computing security faculty and graduate students is creating Meshed Tree Protocol to make computer networks more reliable, faster and more secure.
March 5, 2015

Professor creates maps for refugee camp

Brian Tomaszewski traveled to Jordan to look at how geographic information systems and mapping could help in disaster situations at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp.

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