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
722
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
Latest Research News
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October 23, 2020
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Research team wins Catalyst Award in first year of international challenge
David Borkholder, Linwei Wang, Caroline Easton, and Adam Smith, part of RIT's Personalized Healthcare Technology signature research initiative, recently won a Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine for their project, “Improving Health for the Aging through Daily Vital Signs Monitoring.”
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October 21, 2020
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Ph.D. student uses computing to help solve 90-year-old math problem
David Narváez, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, used his expertise in symmetry-breaking to help a cluster of computers solve a 90-year-old math problem called Keller’s conjecture in just 30 minutes. He also brought in techniques that make the proof verifiable, meaning that mathematical computer programs can confirm the answer is correct.
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October 21, 2020
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Professor Emeritus Linda Barton honored for laboratory instruction by American Physical Society
Professor Emeritus Linda Barton is the 2021 recipient of the Jonathan F. Reichert and Barbara Wolff-Reichert Award for Excellence in Advanced Laboratory Instruction.
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October 21, 2020
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RIT scientist receives NSF funding to explore cellular compartmentalization in bacteria
Moumita Das, an associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, received funding from the National Science Foundation to better understand the fundamental rules that allow bacteria to compartmentalize the functions within their cells.
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October 19, 2020
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Faculty-researcher sees COVID-19 unfold from global perspective while on sabbatical at UNICEF
While the pandemic touched RIT locally, Ruben Proano, associate professor of industrial engineering, saw it from a global perspective, as part of a year-long sabbatical at UNICEF in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work extended ongoing research on making the vaccine market more affordable and profitable.
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October 16, 2020
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RIT behavioral health researchers expand opioid addiction treatment to rural N.Y., N.H.
RIT’s Behavioral Health program is expanding in new directions with a clinic on campus and federal funding to deliver addiction treatment in rural communities in upstate New York and rural New Hampshire.
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October 14, 2020
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RIT, URMC receive grant to study benefits of AI-enabled toilet seat technology
Toilet seats with high-tech sensors might be the non-invasive technology of the future that could help reduce hospital return rates of individuals with heart disease. A joint project by researchers at RIT and the University of Rochester Medical Center will determine if in-home monitoring can successfully record vital signs and reduce risk and costly re-hospitalization rates for people with heart failure. The five-year, $2.9 million venture is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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October 14, 2020
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National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards $1 million grant to team
Matt Huenerfauth, professor and expert in computing accessibility research, is part of a team that has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to use artificial intelligence to better understand the role of facial expressions in signed and spoken languages.
