Research
$20.8M
Sponsored research awards in 2025 fiscal year
9
Faculty members who have received prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation since 2018
16
Current researchers who have achieved $1 million or more in funding since 2016
Latest News
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July 25, 2026
Montpelier High School student becomes Vermont's first-ever Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipient
VermontBiz Magazine reports on an incoming RIT electrical engineering student who became Vermont's first-ever Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipient, receiving $40,000 and an internship offer.
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July 23, 2026
Vermonter makes history receiving scholarship from Amazon
WCAX-Vermont interviews an incoming electrical engineering RIT student who has become the first Vermont student to win the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship.
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July 22, 2026
This $46 Million Toilet Startup Is Betting Smart Seats Can Be A Billion-Dollar Business
RIT alumni Nicholas Conn '11 '13 MS (electrical engineering) and Austin McChord '09 are featured inForbes for the launch of Casana's home-health monitoring Smart Seat.
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July 22, 2026
From RIT research to retail: Casana launches Rochester-made Smart Seat
Rochester Business Journal highlights the launch of Smart Seat, a toilet that monitors vital signs, created by RIT alumni Nicholas Conn '11 '13 MS (electrical engineering) and Austin McChord '09.
Featured Work
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Biomedical Engineering Master's Capstone: VentriloFlex
John Lewandowski, Isaac Liu, and Caleb Nuss Spasticity is a debilitating condition involving involuntary muscle flexion affecting over 12 million people worldwide. The most common and effective treatment for this condition currently requires...
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Biomedical Engineering Master's Capstone: FloWrap
Ethan Berger, Kaitlyn Lockhart, Veronica Nosov RIT Master's students designed the FloWrap device, a wearable compressive leg wrap designed to help reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in post-surgical patients with limited mobility.
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Biomedical Engineering Master's Capstone: DexFlex
Hannah Henczel, Kelly Andersen, Gabby Wagner, Madison Dziulko Patient compliance for stroke patients is a concern to health professionals and safety at-home recovery. RIT Master's students addressed the concern via the DexFlex System.
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Biomedical Engineering Master's Capstone: AquaSpore
Haley Johnson, Cassidy Potter, Janessa Terry, and Will Wax Coral bleaching is a major environmental issue caused by stressors that lead symbiotic zooxanthellae algae to leave coral tissue, resulting in loss of pigmentation, reduced coral strength, higher...
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Biomedical Engineering Master's Capstone: AbsolElute Beads
Aly Castiglie, Leanna Frasch, and Oliver Zimmerman Downstream purification of recombinant therapeutic proteins currently accounts for nearly 80% of total biopharmaceutical production costs, contributing to the high cost and limited accessibility to...
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Biomedical Engineering Master's Capstone: ABO
Amber Flynn, Gabrielle Mitchell, Praneeta Sambaraju There is a clear need for a fast, reliable, and easy-to-use method to determine a patient’s blood type when severe blood loss occurs. A device that enables first responders to identify blood type...
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