Research News

  • October 22, 2017

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    Interdisciplinary team studying skills gap

    Amid the national discussion about skills gaps in filling STEM jobs, a trio of RIT researchers is diving into whether that gap exists in the optics and photonics industry in Rochester.
  • July 27, 2017

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    Researchers seek to improve solar cell technology

    Researchers at RIT, led by Assistant Professor Parsian Mohseni, are expanding solar cell technology using nanowires to capture more of the sun’s energy and transform it into usable electricity.
  • July 18, 2017

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    RIT researchers working on ‘wire revolution’

    Researchers in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering won a Department of Energy award to develop more efficient, durable and cost-effective carbon nanotube technology in electronic components and systems that now use copper wiring.
  • March 29, 2017

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    Researchers study carbon nanotubes as water filters

    Enhanced single-walled carbon nanotubes offer a more effective and sustainable approach to water treatment and remediation than the standard industry materials—silicon gels and activated carbon—according to a paper by RIT researchers John-David Rocha and Reginald Rogers.
  • March 3, 2017

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    AMPrint, imaging science centers receive grants

    RIT’s AMPrint Center and Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science received grants from FuzeHub, the statewide New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program center, to purchase equipment for use in center laboratories focused on advanced manufacturing research and new product development.
  • February 9, 2017

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    Researcher studying medical device cybersecurity

    Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, recently received a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to design security measures for computing systems that will protect wearable and implanted medical devices from cyberattacks.
  • January 17, 2017

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    Engineer researches stress on cell circulation

    Jiandi Wan, an assistant professor of microsystems engineering, received a $476,505 award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to better understand blood flow and how cells moving through blood vessels are affected by pressure and friction.
  • October 31, 2016

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    Research awarded grant for ultrathin membrane work

    Thomas Gaborski, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop ultrathin membranes for tissue engineering.
  • October 6, 2016

    RIT gets grant for nanofabrication equipment

    Assistant Professor Jing Zhang received a $305,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire a new etching system for photonic, electronic and bio-device fabrication.
  • September 27, 2016

    RIT named in $4.2 million NSF grant

    The Upstate New York Alliance for Entrepreneurial Innovation—a partnership of Cornell University, RIT and University of Rochester—has been awarded $4.2 million from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Program.
  • September 7, 2016

    RIT, RRH working to improve cancer screening

    Researchers at RIT and physicians at Rochester Regional Health received a National Science Foundation grant to advance thermal imaging techniques to detect breast cancer.