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March 17, 2017

RIT to hold math program for eighth-grade girls

The RIT Summer Math Applications in Science with Hands-on experience for girls, or SMASH, will show rising eighth graders the power of mathematical modeling. Teams of girls will use math to decode mysteries in science and other real-world puzzles.
March 16, 2017

RIT holds regional DataFest hackathon March 24-26

RIT will hold its first DataFest hackathon this spring, joining a growing list of colleges and universities participating in the American Statistical Association-sponsored event.
March 7, 2017

Alumnus wins national award for physics research

Ryan Scott ’16 (physics) has been recognized by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Advanced Laboratory Physics Association for his contributions as an undergraduate student researcher to RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy.
March 7, 2017

NTID professor first U.S. scientist in EACH program

Todd Pagano, professor of chemistry and associate dean for Teaching and Scholarship Excellence at NTID, was the first faculty member from RIT—and the first U.S. scientist—to participate in the Excellence in Analytical CHemistry (EACH) program.
March 6, 2017

RIT helps advance space camera being tested on ISS

Imaging technology advanced by researchers at RIT and Florida Institute of Technology is being tested on the International Space Station and could someday be used on future space telescopes.
February 27, 2017

Students study habitable zone of alien planets

First-year students in RIT’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered in another solar system.
February 17, 2017

Expert discusses digital restoration of antiquities

Computer scientist Brent Seales, a leading expert on digital restoration of historical documents, will talk about his research and new methods for digitally preserving manuscripts, scrolls and other cultural artifacts for the John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture on March 6.
February 2, 2017

Associate professor wins early career award

Nathan Cahill, associate dean for industrial partnerships in the College of Science and an associate professor, was named a Rising Researcher by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his contributions to defense and security research.
January 17, 2017

Professor seeks to improve Ph.D. completion rates

Casey Miller, associate professor and director of RIT’s materials science and engineering graduate program, won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop an inclusive approach to physics graduate education admission and retention of traditionally underrepresented U.S. citizens.
January 6, 2017

RIT seeks partnership with Moscow State University

A contingent from the College of Science is meeting this week with their counterparts at Lomonosov Moscow State University, while five RIT students attend a short course on winter ecology at the Zvenigorod Biological Station outside of Moscow.
December 19, 2016

Researchers study plastic pollution in Great Lakes

A new study by Matthew Hoffman of RIT’s College of Science and Eric Hittinger of the College of Liberal Arts inventories and tracks high concentrations of plastic in the Great Lakes and could help inform cleanup efforts and target pollution prevention.
November 23, 2016

Professor wins grants to study mitochondrial DNA

Moumita Das, assistant professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, won seed funding for two research projects on mitochondrial DNA and intercellular cargo transport.