Research at RIT
The world needs collaborative, original thinkers and doers who seek out the globe’s most pressing problems. Research fuels creativity and ingenuity. At RIT, we create the tools, processes, and systems that will make things better than they are—bringing goodness to the world.
$82M
Sponsored research awards in 2020 fiscal year
723
Research proposals submitted in 2020 fiscal year
94
Current researchers who have achieved $1 million or more in funding since 2000
Key Research Centers and Institutes
- AMPrint (Center for Additive Manufacturing and Multifunctional Printing)
- Battery Prototyping Center
- Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation (CASTLE)
- Center for Bioscience Education and Technology
- Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation
- Center for Detectors
- Center for Human-aware AI (CHAI)
- Center for Imaging Science
- Center for Public Safety Initiatives
- The Future Photon Initiative
- Image Permanence Institute
- Golisano Institute for Sustainability
- Global Cybersecurity Institute
- Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics (LAMA)
- MAGIC Center (Media, Arts, Games, Innovation and Creativity)
- New York State Pollution Prevention Institute
- Personalized Healthcare Technology