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.
$78M
Sponsored research awards in 2018 fiscal year
(up from $54 million in 2014)
740
Research proposals submitted in 2018 fiscal year
(up from 664 in 2014)
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
- MAGIC Center (Media, Arts, Games, Innovation and Creativity)
- New York State Pollution Prevention Institute
- Personalized Healthcare Technology
Latest Research News
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August 5, 2020
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RIT student Justin Gallagher helps lead NASA-funded project to build single photon detectors
An RIT student is on a mission to help build detectors that could identify individual photons from distant, inhabitable planets. Justin Gallagher, a fifth-year student from Rochester, N.Y., pursuing his BS in physics and MS in astrophysical sciences and technology, is serving as project manager for a nearly $1 million grant funded by NASA to create a single photon sensing and number resolving detector for NASA missions.
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August 3, 2020
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RIT faculty gearing up to apply spring learnings to fall classes
The unexpected transition to remote learning during the spring semester challenged faculty across RIT to experiment, create, and deploy new methods of instruction to ensure student success. As the university gears up for in-person and online classes—or a combination of both—faculty members are applying a wide range of lessons learned from the spring to keep academic momentum moving forward in the fall.
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July 23, 2020
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Working together, but safely distant, in RIT’s research labs
Several RIT research labs are ramping up work after several months of down time due to COVID-19. With the approval to reopen and prepare for fall classes, faculty-researchers have put in place some of the recommended guidelines for lab usage—from occupancy to cleaning protocols.
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July 22, 2020
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Groundbreaking study of binary star evolution is focus of new NSF grant
A new grant will help researchers at NTID learn more about “one of the most challenging phases in stellar astrophysics,” according to the National Science Foundation.
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July 17, 2020
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How one environmentalist set out to detect microplastics in his own body
CTV News talks to Nathan Eddingsaas, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, about the presence of microplastics in the human body.
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July 16, 2020
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The advantages of working differently
RIT Ph.D. candidate Mehdi (Aslan) Dehghani secured an internship at bio-device company after his team's research paper was published nationally.
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July 16, 2020
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Researchers develop new method to filter extracellular vesicles to improve diagnostics options
Researchers at RIT and the University of Rochester discovered an alternative to successfully purify biological particles to better understand how cells communicate with one another.
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July 16, 2020
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Searching for microplastics within the human body
The Globe and Mail features work by Christy Tyler, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, and Nathan Eddingsaas, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science.
