Research News

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  • May 26, 2015

    Pistol Star gets a stamp of approval

    A set of British postal stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope includes a star detected by RIT Professor Don Figer nearly 20 years ago.
  • May 26, 2015

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    Professors win awards for video vignettes

    College of Science professors Robert Teese, L. Kate Wright and Dina Newman were recognized in the National Science Foundation 2015 Teaching and Learning Video Showcase.
  • May 15, 2015

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    Professors present ideas at TEDxFlourCity

    Sustainability engineer Callie Babbitt will discuss the emergence of industrial ecology and astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti will talk about dark matter and dwarf galaxies.
  • May 15, 2015

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    RIT professor joins ‘Cyberheart’ team

    Elizabeth Cherry, associate professor in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences, is helping develop the “Cyberheart” platform for virtual, patient-specific human heart models.
  • April 23, 2015

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    RIT honors 386 researchers

    RIT honored 386 researchers who secured funding for fiscal year 2014, serving as either principal or co-principal investigators on active research.
  • April 9, 2015

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    RIT scientists study spinning black holes

    Carlos Lousto and James Healy numerically simulated equal-mass black holes and studied the alignment and direction of spin as the black holes approached merger.
  • March 6, 2015

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    RIT unveils Battery Prototyping Center

    The new Battery Prototyping Center is a $1.5 million state-of-the-art facility that will conduct research and work with companies in this rapidly growing local industry.