Rochester Institute of Technology News

Scientific American features work by Ted Kinsman, associate professor in the photographic sciences program.

WHAM-TV talks to Luane Davis Haggerty, Dan Roache, Thomas Warfield about NTID's production of Spoon River Anthologies.

Fox Rochester reports on NTID's production of Spoon River Anthologies.

Keegan Evans will take his place this summer among a group of young Air Force officers from around the globe who have been selected for the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program. The RIT Air Force ROTC cadet was selected from among hundreds of ROTC students for one of the U.S. Air Force’s most elite flight training programs.

New York Times bestselling author Bakari Sellers will deliver a talk titled “Education, Civil Rights and Equality: Cornerstones for Our Future” at the 39th Expressions of King’s Legacy. The virtual event is free and open to the public, taking place on Zoom from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28.

The Rochester Business Journal talks to Justin Pelletier, director of the Cyber Range and Training Center, about RIT's 15-week cybersecurity boot camp.

Rose Catherine Khan '06 (Illustration), '09 MST (Visual Arts-All Grades) is a fantasy illustrator whose work has been licensed into a range of products — including puzzles that have been flying off the shelves. 

Ke Du, assistant professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, research Illustration created by Wenrong He '20 MFA Medical Illustration, will be featured on the January 2021 Electrophoresis journal cover.  

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) awarded Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)  a $779,982 Seeding Solutions grant to develop a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to plastic mulch.

The New York Times talks to Michael Zemcov, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about a new study on light outside of known galaxies.

CIO Magazine mentions Manuela Campanelli, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, and her work with the TACC Frontera supercomputer.

Ke Du, assistant professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, awarded 15K to develop a CRISPR assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2. The detection scheme based on a recent paper from Du’s lab appeared in the journal of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces titled Magnetic Bead-Quantum Dot (MB-Qdot) Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat Assay for Simple Viral DNA Detection.