Research News
Stories related to "research"
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March 28, 2019
Student Spotlight: Student receives COLA Kearse Writing Award
Meet Jen VanStrander, a fourth-year international and global studies student from Rochester, N.Y., who will be honored as one of this year’s recipients of the College of Liberal Arts Kearse Undergraduate Writing Awards.
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March 28, 2019
Scientists develop way to perform supercomputer simulations of the heart on cellphones
A team of scientists from RIT and Georgia Tech developed a new approach that can not only help diagnose heart conditions and test new treatments, but pushes the boundaries of cardiac science by opening up a floodgate of new cardiac research and education.
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March 27, 2019
RIT and Seneca Park Zoo researchers capturing the sights, sounds and insects of Madagascar
Researchers from RIT and Seneca Park Zoo are developing a virtual reality gaming environment that will let zoogoers experience a Madagascar rainforest ecosystem.
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March 26, 2019
RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume hunt for ripples in space and time
The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves— ripples in space and time—is about to begin the longest and most sensitive observational run to date. And several RIT researchers are preparing to pore over the new data to help uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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March 26, 2019
RIT faculty earns federal award to study how to help more students become scientists and engineers
Assistant Professor Ben Zwickl has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to explore how lab-based, project-based and work-based learning environments can teach sophisticated problem-solving skills not attainable in lecture courses.
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March 21, 2019
Saunders College professorship facilitates ‘unlikely’ interdisciplinary research relationships
As The Benjamin Forman Collaborative Research Professorship, Victor Perotti acts as a facilitator for research alliances that benefit students and faculty that find value in building a portfolio around unique interdisciplinary partnerships.
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March 21, 2019
Podcast: Using AI to Save the Seneca Language
Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 11: Artificial intelligence and deep learning have many research applications. Ray Ptucha, assistant professor of computer engineering in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, talks with computing doctoral student Robert Jimerson from the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences about a project using deep learning systems to help preserve the Native American Seneca language.
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March 21, 2019
This High-Tech Toilet Seat Can Detect Heart Failure
Futurism reports on a toilet-seat based cardiovascular monitoring system created by a team of RIT researchers, led by postdoctoral fellow Nicholas Conn.
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March 18, 2019
RIT heads to Game Developers Conference 2019
More than 100 RIT students, faculty, alumni and staff are visiting San Francisco this week to attend Game Developers Conference 2019, the world’s largest professional gaming industry event of the year. The RIT MAGIC Spell Studios booth is displaying four games created at RIT.
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March 13, 2019
New research unlocking the secrets of how languages change
New research is helping scientists around the world understand what drives language change, especially when languages are in their infancy. The results will shed light on how the limitations of the human brain change language and provide an understanding of the complex interaction between languages and the human beings who use them.
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March 13, 2019
Team receives grant to recreate the ‘sound signature’ of cultural heritage sites
Advanced audio technologies being developed are helping to preserve the unique sounds of historic sites from recording studios in Nashville, Tenn., to a pre-Columbian archeological site in Peru. Sungyoung Kim, an associate professor of audio engineering technology at RIT, is leading a team of researchers to develop a set of tools using advanced augmented and virtual reality technology to preserve and replicate the acoustics of historical venues.
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March 8, 2019
RIT Venture Creations technology business incubator launches four new companies
From eye tracking to thermal cooling to all things mushrooms, RIT’s Venture Creations technology business incubator celebrated the launch of four new startups.