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September 27, 2016
Hundreds of employers seek students at annual fall Career Fair
Nearly 250 employing organizations and hundreds of recruiter representatives seeking RIT students and graduates are attending the Fall 2016 Career Fair Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Gordon Field House. -
September 1, 2016
RIT wins grant to help develop new antibiotics
Andre Hudson has received a federal award for research that could help in the battle to develop new drugs to combat the rise in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. -
August 10, 2016
Students build star-tracking instrument for NASA
Undergraduates are making a “compass” for rockets using a new kind of detector technology. The instrument will fly on a NASA technology demonstration mission later this year. -
August 2, 2016
Center grows into leader in space-time research
RIT’s contributions to the first direct detection of gravitational waves signifies its growing reputation for world-class astrophysics research. -
July 20, 2016
Professor discusses dark matter research
Assistant professor Sukanya Chakrabarti presents “The Mystery of Dark Matter” on Aug. 5 at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, Calif. -
July 18, 2016
Scientists attend general relativity conference
Papers related to the first detection of gravitational waves were presented by a team of RIT scientists at the International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation. -
July 14, 2016
RIT awarded $1M for gravitational-wave astronomy
Carlos Lousto and Manuela Campanelli won separate grants from the National Science Foundation to further their research. -
June 29, 2016
Professors create method to identify black holes
RIT professors have developed a faster, more accurate way to assess gravitational wave signals and infer the astronomical sources that made them. -
June 22, 2016
Professor predicts a universe full of black holes
A new study published in Nature and co-authored by RIT Assistant Professor Richard O’Shaughnessy presents one of the most complete models of matter in the universe. -
June 16, 2016
RIT and UW-Madison study high-tech workforce
A study exploring how high-tech employees learn to develop competencies relevant to the workplace is the focus of a collaboration between RIT and UW-Madison. -
June 15, 2016
Gravitational waves validate discovery
Gravitational waves from a second pair of colliding black holes has validated the landmark discovery from earlier this year. -
June 13, 2016
Small stars pack big punch for developing planets
Young stars less massive than the sun can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming disks surrounding these stars.