Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment News

Assistant Professor Yewande Abraham is part of a team developing a virtual reality-based learning environment to improve middle school students’ interest in STEM fields, specifically the evolving construction industry.

RIT is among a group of area higher-education and industry partners sharing a $1 million Regional Innovation Engines Development Award grant from the National Science Foundation to help boost the next generation of lasers.

RIT Professor Brian Tomaszewski received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct spatial data science research related to the forced displacement of Ukrainian refugees in and out of Poland.

RIT Professor Michael Barbosu will spend the fall in Romania exploring how mathematical modeling can be used to help with everything from predicting landslides to predicting the trajectory of satellites.

Researchers from RIT and the University of Rochester Medical Center are taking a closer look at nutritional factors during pregnancy and in infancy associated with severe tooth decay in young children.

Professor Joel Kastner from RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics and Astronomy is part of a team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to study how the changing patterns of shadows cast on the dusty disks orbiting young stars can reveal the presence of newly formed planets.

RIT graduate degree programs are among the best in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report annual statistical survey of graduate programs.

RIT is one of the top universities in the world for students who want to study and create games, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review.

RIT faculty members, who led research initiatives as principal investigators, were honored at a reception on March 21 to celebrate the individuals who helped the university reach record awards surpassing $92 million and place among the top private research universities in the country.

REMADE Institute, led in part by RIT, this week is hosting the inaugural REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit and Conference in Washington, D.C., showcasing promising strategies and technologies for accelerating the adoption of a circular economy.

RIT’s Principal Investigator Reception recognizes faculty and staff who have received external research funding, including the newest class of PI Millionaires, a group of faculty researchers that have surpassed $1 million in career funding at RIT.

The first images from the largest program in the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year show many types of galaxies. Scientists from the COSMOS-Web program released mosaic images taken in early January by the telescope. COSMOS-Web, co-led by principal investigator Jeyhan Kartaltepe, aims to map the earliest structures of the universe.