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September 19, 2025
RIT, partners named finalist for funding to bolster region’s laser expertise
A Rochester and Finger Lakes region coalition that includes researchers from RIT has been named a finalist for the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program.
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September 18, 2025
RIT hosts community remote sensing experiment
Satellites, planes, drones, canoes, and more were deployed at RIT’s Tait Preserve for ROCX 2025, an open-community, major data-collection experiment.
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September 16, 2025
New field station to boost research at Tait Preserve
The field station will be open and available to all departments across the RIT community and allow for researchers to remain on-site instead of having to always move research materials between the preserve and the main campus.
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September 8, 2025
RIT sets record for sponsored research funding
RIT is celebrating a record year for sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2025, receiving $105 million.
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September 3, 2025
Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth
A NASA-sponsored team at RIT is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor detector technology that will enable future NASA astrophysics space missions to search for life on other planets. -
August 20, 2025
Student-led NASA project takes flight on balloon mission
A years-long student-led NASA project that develops technology to help guide rockets will near its final destination this month on board the Balloon Optimization Opportunity Platform!, or BOOP!
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August 8, 2025
Ph.D. student’s NASA-funded research leads to new insight on exoplanets
Attila Varga, an astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. candidate at RIT, is proud of his research that has led to new understanding about a newborn exoplanet that is shrinking due to the harsh X-rays of its nearby host star.
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August 5, 2025
Two students win competitive NASA awards for graduate research
Two RIT astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. students had proposals accepted for the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Science Space and Technology program, which provides funding for graduate student designed and performed research projects for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
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August 1, 2025
RIT undergraduates share the impacts of their research
At the Undergraduate Research Symposium, RIT students share research in artificial intelligence, sustainability, health sciences, and other areas that is helping to solve global challenges.
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July 22, 2025
NASA is watching an exoplanet shrink under a tremendous force
Mashable spotlights research from astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. student Attila Varga. The discoveries, published in the Astrophysical Journal, offer a rare window into what planets look like in their infancy.
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July 22, 2025
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory spots young exoplanet rapidly shrinking in rare cosmic meltdown 330 light-years away
The Times of India highlights a discovery led by astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. student Attila Varga. The astronomers observed a dramatic event on exoplanet TOI 1227 b.
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July 17, 2025
A Star is Dissolving its Baby Planet
Universe Today highlights research led by astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. student Attila Varga.