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  • May 11, 2017

    People gathered in conference room

    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

    Logo for "NASA's Space Apps Challenge 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

    People gathered by "Emissions Monitor Ahead"

    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

    Person working on Drone

    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

    Picture of Satellite

    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

    Two carbon chain diagrams under water

    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

    Person holding rings made of circuits

    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

    Picture of Satellite

    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

    Professor posing for camera

    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.