College of Science News

RIT will launch a new master's degree in biological sciences in fall 2027.

Rochester Business Journal reports that Sujatha Ramanujan has been named CEO of the STELLAR Engine, which brings RIT together with regional partners to advance next-generation laser technology, workforce development, and economic growth.

NASA has awarded RIT’s Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory (DIRS) a three-year grant to lead a remote sensing field campaign and share the resulting data with researchers, educators, and the public.

The annual flu vaccine is like a software update for the immune system, an RIT expert in biochemistry and microbiology says.

Hands-on educational experience is key to future innovation, and students in RIT’s Freshman Imaging Project receive it as soon as they step foot on campus.

RIT’s decades-long partnership with the federal Landsat program will continue with a $2.2 million grant from NASA.

Energy Innovation Review highlights research by Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics, using advanced simulations to show how magnetic fields and gas surrounding binary supermassive black holes can help astronomers identify these systems through electromagnetic and gravitational-wave observations.

Scientific American interviewed Meridith Joyce, assistant professor of physics, about NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its role in dating stars in the Milky Way galaxy. 

PBS News published an article by RIT's Don Figer, professor in the College of Science and director of the Center for Detectors, about NASA's newly launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Figer's column, which explains that images captured by the telescope will help researchers trace how the universe evolved over time, was originally published in The Conversation.

WHEC-TV reports that more than 100 people gathered at RIT’s observatory to watch Thursday night’s partial lunar eclipse, using the observatory’s telescope to get a closer look as Earth’s shadow gave the moon a reddish tint.

The Conversation features an essay by Don Figer, professor in the College of Science and director of RIT's Center for Detectors, explaining how NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope combines repurposed spy technology with sophisticated infrared detectors to study dark matter, distant galaxies, supernovas and planets.

RIT is building its eminence in quantum research as part of a $37.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) award for large-scale interdisciplinary research projects known as Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes.