News

June 7, 2017

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.
June 1, 2017

Black hole computer simulations help ID third gravitational wave

RIT researchers continue to make significant contributions to gravitational wave astronomy, with the third detection of gravitational waves and a new black hole 49 times the size of our sun.
May 16, 2017

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.
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.