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  • October 24, 2018

    Two students and two faculty members working on this project pose for a photo in front of their lab bench, which is covered in different tools and models.

    Researchers improve upon stethoscope design

    Researchers at RIT and URMC developed a new digital stethoscope that combines precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology and machine learning applications into one piece of equipment to better detect heart ailments and problems that might occur with an implanted heart pump.

  • September 7, 2018

    Male student with glasses dressed in suit.

    Student leaders work to grow graduate culture
    Yashar Seyed Vahedein, an engineering Ph.D. candidate, established the Doctoral Student Association (DSA) as a social and professional connection for RIT’s doctoral and prospective Ph.D. students.

  • August 9, 2018

    Ana Sorensen sits in a wheelchair and demonstrates how the LEV lift works for individuals to lift themselves up. She shows this to another woman who is engaged in the demonstration and reaches out to touch the assistive device.

    Students create assistive products for community
    The Studio 930 Design Consultancy program, a 10-week long multidisciplinary studio experience focused on the design and production of access and health technologies products, wrapped up with an exhibition Aug. 7.

  • August 7, 2018

    A 3D printer at work, printing 10 blue, flat, circular objects.

    RIT students learn value of entrepreneurship
    Saunders Summer Startup Program encourages multidisciplinary student teams to jumpstart their ventures in hopes of kick starting real companies. It culminates with Investor Demo Night on Wednesday.

  • August 6, 2018

    A headshot of Iris Rivero.

    Iris Rivero named department head in KGCOE
    Iris Rivero, a faculty-researcher at Iowa State University and expert in additive and hybrid manufacturing, was recently named department head of industrial and systems engineering at RIT.

  • August 6, 2018

    Michael Oshetski sits with a student in front of a laptop smiling.

    CEO of optics company senses bright future
    Michael Oshetski ’03 was watching the sun rise from an airport in Hong Kong when he turned to his good friend and coworker, Atul Pradhan, and asked if he wanted to start a company. Eight years later, the company is a multimillion dollar business changing the way the world senses with light.

  • June 22, 2018

    Bruce Smith poses for a photo with four other people at the Inventor of the Year award ceremony.

    Engineering professor named Inventor of the Year
    For his innovative work impacting advanced microelectronics, Bruce Smith, a professor and director of the microsystems engineering doctoral program at RIT, was honored as the 2018 Inventor of the Year by the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association.

  • June 18, 2018

    student and professor talking.

    Mapping artificial intelligence at RIT
    Researchers in RIT’s Center for Human-Aware Intelligence believe their work could lead to breakthroughs in everything from health care to energy management to cybersecurity.

  • June 14, 2018

    Santosh Kurinec and other honorees excitedly pose for a photo, all of them smiling wide and holding their arms out in triumph.

    Professor inducted into international hall of fame
    Santosh Kurinec, a microelectronic engineering professor, was one of six influential women from around the world honored for their work as visionaries in technology, engineering and science and inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.