News

  • August 14, 2017

    Two portraits of Larry Buckley and Nathan Cahill side by side

    College of Science makes leadership changes

    RIT’s College of Science is expanding its focus on interdisciplinary education and industry partnerships through new leadership roles and assignments designed to enrich current curricula.

  • August 9, 2017

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    RIT physicist studies quantum sensing solutions

    Research conducted by Mishkat Bhattacharya, a theoretical physicist, is advancing a new kind of sensing technology that captures data with better precision than currently possible and promises cheaper, smaller and lighter sensor designs.

  • August 3, 2017

    Liliya Becktell performing vet work on a dog

    Pre-vet program targets small, dedicated group

    RIT students interested in veterinary school face a rigorous application process akin to the requirements of medical school. These students rely upon the Pre-Veterinary Advisory Program to help them pursue graduate education in animal medicine.

  • July 14, 2017

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    NTID gets $1M for deaf scientists-in-training program

    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a grant to RIT that is expected to provide $1.025 million in funding over five years to develop a Scientists-In-Training Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Undergraduates.

  • July 3, 2017

    Portrait of Sophia Maggelakis

    RIT launches Integrated Sciences Academy

    The Integrated Sciences Academy in RIT’s College of Science will bring together researchers with different expertise to invent new ways to approach challenges facing a global society.

  • June 26, 2017

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    RIT hosts summer undergraduate research programs

    RIT leads universities in New York with seven federally funded summer research programs for undergraduate students. Eight to 10 students per program work with RIT researchers for 10 weeks. The newest Research Experience for Undergraduates program focuses on multimessenger astrophysics.

  • June 9, 2017

    Student and Professor working in lab

    Student honored for 4.0 GPA

    Kimberlee Keithley, who is pursuing bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and applied mathematics, is the 2017 winner of the Norman A. Miles Scholarship, given to a student entering their last year of undergraduate study with the highest GPA across the university.

  • June 7, 2017

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    RIT receives $1M to promote diversity

    RIT has been awarded $1 million as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Initiative to increase diversity and inclusivity among undergraduate science majors and develop a strategy for supporting their success.

  • June 5, 2017

    Drawing new insights from gravitational waves

    Richard O’Shaughnessy and collaborators reanalyzed the merging black holes detected by LIGO last year, linking the black hole’s misalignment to when it formed from the death of a massive star. The force expelled the newborn black hole with a “natal kick,” causing the misalignment.

  • May 16, 2017

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    Scott Franklin receives faculty pluralism Award

    Professor Scott Franklin, director of the Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning and Evaluation (CASTLE), won the 2017 Isaac L. Jordan Sr. Faculty Pluralism Award for his commitment to diversity and inclusion at RIT and within the Rochester community.