News
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February 1, 2023
Understanding how elastins in the human body assemble and transition
RIT assistant professor coauthors recent paper, “Liquid to solid transition of elastin condensates”.
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February 1, 2023
Fashioning an engineering career
There are talented women in tools—and undergraduate Tianna Seitz found her place among them during her co-op at Apex Tool Group in Lexington, S.C.
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February 1, 2023
Expanding RIT’s research footprint
RIT has been expanding its research footprint to accommodate the university’s growing research portfolio. The Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED), which opens this fall, is enabling the university to convert 10 existing classrooms, totaling more than 23,000 square feet, into new research space. Another 14,700 square feet of research space opened in January in Brown Hall.
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February 1, 2023
Upcoming changes will advance semiconductor research
RIT is building upon its successful history of semiconductor development and research through an expansion to its cleanroom facility with help from New York state.
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January 24, 2023
‘U.S. News & World Report’ ranks RIT online degree programs among nation’s best
RIT has been recognized for offering some of the best online programs in the nation, including Saunders College of Business Executive MBA program, which held strong at No. 9 in the latest rankings.
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January 17, 2023
RIT researchers working on potential solution for back pain
WHAM-TV talks to Karin Wuertz-Kozak, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, about her research on disc degeneration.
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January 11, 2023
Engineering professor co-authors new book on “Joint Source-Channel Coding”
Andres Kwasinski, professor in the department of computer engineering and program director of the electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. program has co-authored a new book on “Joint Source-Channel Coding” published by Wiley, IEEE Press Series.
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January 11, 2023
Department of computer engineering looking for tenure track faculty
The department of computer engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level starting in the 2024-2025 academic year.
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January 9, 2023
Building an esports community
Hundreds of millions of people around the globe are engaging in electronic sports, called esports. It’s a billion dollar industry, where fans watch as their favorite professional and amateur players take each other on in some of the most popular video games. Since starting an esports club in 2016, RIT has become one of the nation’s largest and best collegiate esports programs.
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January 9, 2023
Pursuing the promise of Title IX
Fifty years ago, Title IX set the stage for change. But the reason why RIT now has more women faculty, administrators, coaches, and exemplary students is that women acted. Prior generations of women invested their careers to make RIT a better version of itself, including winning two transformative grants from the National Science Foundation focused on gender equity.
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January 6, 2023
Amputee Assistance
Diversity in Action features Jade Myers, research development specialist in RIT's AMPrint Center (page 34).
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January 4, 2023
Schumer, Gillibrand and Morelle secure $2 million in Omnibus Bill for RIT to upgrade its Semiconductor Fabrication Lab
RIT will receive $2 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce to update and expand its Semiconductor Fabrication Lab to accommodate research in semiconductor technologies and prepare the workforce for the growing domestic microelectronics manufacturing industry. The funding was included as part of the fiscal year 2023 omnibus funding package.