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December 4, 2025
RIT opens research hub to power growth in high-tech innovation
Rochester Business Journal features RIT's new Research Building, speaking to RIT President Bill Sanders and Ryne Raffaelle, vice president for Research, about the opportunities it presents.
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December 3, 2025
RIT unveils new research facility
WHAM-TV speaks to RIT President Bill Sanders about the opening of the new research building.
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December 3, 2025
RIT opens new facility for studying AI, neuroscience, health, and more
WHEC-TV highlights the opening of RIT's new research building, speaking to Ryne Raffaelle, vice president for Research, about the opportunities it presents to the campus community.
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December 1, 2025
India’s Anaemia Crisis Demands Policy Convergence, Not Parallel Efforts
An essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Sustainability, published by Basis Point Insight.
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November 24, 2025
RIT partners with Gallaudet University to launch research traineeship program in Universal AI
RIT is teaming up with Gallaudet University to prepare the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers and practitioners who will develop AI for everyone. -
November 24, 2025
Software Engineering faculty and students celebrate newly renovated ‘Classroom of the Future’
Unconventional classroom with modern tech made possible by new gift from Palmers Family of Companies and Corning
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November 21, 2025
Engineering researcher appointed new director of RIT’s NanoPower Research Laboratory
Engineering researcher Stephen Polly was recently appointed director of the RIT NanoPower Research Laboratory and will lead one of the university’s major research groups.
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November 20, 2025
Cross-disciplinary collaborations lead to growth for double-major students
From satellite debris to artificial intelligence, double major students find research success by combining expertise in computer science and economics.
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November 19, 2025
RIT innovation helps illuminate lost history
The goal of libraries, museums, and archives around the world is to safeguard historical documents, but some objects can deteriorate with time. RIT’s Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) lab is using funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a relatively low-cost system that makes cultural heritage imaging methods more accessible.
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November 19, 2025
Manifesting quantum: How RIT researchers are navigating the next frontier of physics
RIT researchers are zeroing in on quantum photonics, the creation, control, and detection of light. Photonics has long been a specialty of the university. RIT led the team that developed the first quantum photonic wafer, which is key to the future of mass-produced quantum communication systems.
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November 18, 2025
Psychology professor creates big team science network for otter research
Professor Caroline DeLong established the ManyOtters project in collaboration with several other universities to share research, knowledge, and to explore the cognitive abilities of otters. -
November 17, 2025
Early impressions: WITR hosts President Sanders
Learn what RIT President Bill Sanders’s early impressions are of the university when he visits WITR-FM (89.7) this week.