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May 15, 2017
Division of Diversity honors students, alumnus
The Division of Diversity & Inclusion hosted A Celebration of Excellence on May 3 and presented Beacon Awards to three students—Maria Smith, Rashik Sikder and Brendan John—as well as alumnus Orlando Ortiz ’04, ’08. -
May 12, 2017
Lea Vacca Michel earns the 2017 Edwina Award
Lea Vacca Michel, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, received the 2017 Edwina Award at the Women’s Career Achievement Dinner on April 24 for her significant contributions to enhance gender diversity and inclusiveness at RIT. -
May 11, 2017
NASA astronaut photography gets big boost from RIT
Kevin Moser, an imaging science student, and alumnus Peter A. Blacksberg ’75 (photography) met with the heads of various NASA departments to present an algorithm that Moser developed to remove the effects of damaged pixels in photographs by astronauts on the International Space Station. -
April 25, 2017
RIT among hosts of NASA Space Apps Challenge
RIT is one of 200 host sites from around the world for the two-day hackathon. The 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge is designed to engage thousands of problem-solvers in working with NASA to create solutions to international and interdisciplinary problems using open-source data. -
April 25, 2017
Visualize greenhouse gases at Imagine RIT
Visitors to the Imagine RIT festival on May 6 can see first-hand the effects of car tailpipe emissions using infrared light at the EZ-GAS: Imaging for Car Emissions Characterization exhibit. -
April 24, 2017
Drone gives archeologist a cool tool
An off-the-shelf drone customized for archeological surveys by RIT students will be on exhibit at the 10th annual Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 6. -
April 11, 2017
RIT scientist measures brightness of the universe
Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said RIT researcher Michael Zemcov in a paper published this week in Nature Communications. -
March 29, 2017
Researchers study carbon nanotubes as water filters
Enhanced single-walled carbon nanotubes offer a more effective and sustainable approach to water treatment and remediation than the standard industry materials—silicon gels and activated carbon—according to a paper by RIT researchers John-David Rocha and Reginald Rogers. -
March 28, 2017
Chemist turns hobby into full-time business
Despite having earned a Ph.D. in chemistry, Amanda Preske ’09 has put her career as a researcher on hold to commit herself full time to her jewelry business, Circuit Breaker Labs, through which she crafts and sells pieces made from recycled circuit boards and resin. -
March 27, 2017
Researchers publish paper on dark matter, Milky Way
Research conducted by scientists at RIT rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a problematic structure. -
March 27, 2017
Researchers win grant to improve Landsat 8 data
Two RIT researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public data from the Earth-sensing satellite to measure surface changes over time. -
March 27, 2017
Machine learning guru to talk at RIT March 31
Robert Schapire, senior research scientist at Microsoft Research, will present “The Contextual Bandits Problem: A Fast, Simple and Optimal Algorithm” as part of the RIT Data Science Research Group Seminar Series.