RIT Researcher News

VentureWell’s E-Teams program provides funds for faculty-led multidisciplinary student teams to bring inventions to market.  E-teams must​ contain a minimum of two active undergraduate or graduate RIT students as key members, and a faculty mentor who will serve as Principal Investigator (PI). 

Applicants for the October program cycle must submit project abstracts (described below) to Charles Bush at cebsrs@rit.edu by September 25, 2019 at 5:00 pm.   Proposals are due to VentureWell by October 2, 2019.

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Sciences recently announced the creation of the Security and Preparedness (SAP) Program.  SAP supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to global and national security. Research proposals are evaluated on the criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts; the proposed projects are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented.

The Microsoft Faculty Fellowship recognizes innovative, promising new faculty members, whose exceptional talent for research and innovation identifies them as emerging leaders in their fields. The 2020 award include $100,000 USD awarded annually for two years.  Full program details are available at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/faculty-fellowship/.