News

  • October 22, 2017

    Kelly Norris Martin posing for camera

    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.

  • October 22, 2017

    Eric Hittinger and Eric Williams post for a photo together in front of powerlines, both of their arms crossed.

    Optimizing the U.S. electrical grid
    RIT researchers are developing a system of algorithmic computer modeling that will help policymakers produce and use electricity more efficiently.

  • October 22, 2017

    Cover of "Designed for Hi-FI Living"

    Faculty Research Yields Several Books

    Research doesn’t always involve a cleanroom, white coats, or bubbling beakers. In many cases, research is done by digging through dusty documents, interviewing people, or gathering information about historical events. A culmination of such research is putting the findings in a book.

  • October 18, 2017

    Scientists cleaning equipment

    Four companies graduate from business incubator
    Venture Creations, the business incubator at RIT, celebrated the launch of four new businesses: Token, Impact Earth, Optel and Turbett Surgical, which makes a surgical container, shown here, designed to save time in preparing and delivering surgical instruments to the sterile field.

  • August 17, 2017

    Picture of garden

    Students help determine options for vacant city lots
    RIT students are working with Rochester high school students to see if some of the 300 city-owned vacant lots in the Marketview Heights neighborhood can be turned into assets such as community gardens, playscapes or exercise stations.

  • July 14, 2017

    Scientist working in laboratory

    NTID gets $1M for deaf scientists-in-training program
    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a grant to RIT that is expected to provide $1.025 million in funding over five years to develop a Scientists-In-Training Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Undergraduates.

  • June 8, 2017

    People discussing display poster

    Digital humanities research gains national attention
    In the two years since RIT began offering a bachelor’s degree in digital humanities and social sciences, the first two graduates of the program received their degrees, and projects involving students, faculty and alumni connected to the new major are already garnering national attention.