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September 18, 2017

New app could help detect atrial fibrillation

A team of engineers and clinicians at RIT and the University of Rochester Medical Center received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a non-contact, video recording technology to detect the presence of atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder.
August 9, 2017

RIT physicist studies quantum sensing solutions

Research conducted by Mishkat Bhattacharya, a theoretical physicist, is advancing a new kind of sensing technology that captures data with better precision than currently possible and promises cheaper, smaller and lighter sensor designs.
July 18, 2017

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.
July 14, 2017

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 26, 2017

RIT hosts summer undergraduate research programs

RIT leads universities in New York with seven federally funded summer research programs for undergraduate students. Eight to 10 students per program work with RIT researchers for 10 weeks. The newest Research Experience for Undergraduates program focuses on multimessenger astrophysics.
May 18, 2017

Business alumnus receives Fulbright fellowship

Brian Williams ’16 (finance) has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship and plans to enroll in a finance master’s program at Dublin City University.
March 31, 2017

RIT to get Humanities Connections grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a $91,000 grant to RIT to help students focus on the historical, economic and cultural meanings of community in and beyond Rochester.
March 27, 2017

Researchers win grant to improve Landsat 8 data

Two RIT researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public data from the Earth-sensing satellite to measure surface changes over time.
March 3, 2017

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.
January 30, 2017

Image Permanence Institute awarded major grant

RIT’s Image Permanence Institute has received a $182,730 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Education and Training program in support of “Teaching a Methodology for Photographic Process Identification.”
January 17, 2017

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.
November 30, 2016

RIT awarded grant to develop curriculum modules

RIT was awarded nearly $75,000 from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards educational modules for the university’s College of Applied Science and Technology.

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