RIT College of Science Grant Awards
Faculty across the College of Science are leaders in receiving peer-reviewed federal and state grants to support our students and research laboratories.
Initial Awards: September - October
Radiation Resistant Solar and Laser Power Converter for Lunar Applications
Initial Award: 10/29/2025
PI: Seth Hubbard
Collaborative research: DMS/NIGMS 2: Multiscale modeling of stimuli responsive drug delivery systems
Initial Award: 10/16/2025
PI: Michael Cromer
ORbital Architectures for Cooperative Laser Energetics (ORACLE)
Initial Award: 09/18/2025
PI: Seth Hubbard
Historic Photographic Silver Mirroring Documentation and Quantification Utilizing Polarized Imaging
Initial Award: 09/12/2025
PI: David Messinger
Unraveling nickel delivery pathways in methanogenic archaea
Initial Award: 09/03/2025
PI: Stefan Schulze
Initial Awards: July - August
Elucidating the roles of protein glycosylation in prokaryotes through functional glycoproteomics
Initial Award: 08/29/2025
PI: Stefan Schulze
Biodiversity Characterization of Wetlands and Other Terrestrial Habitats from Hyperspectral and Multi-modal Remote Sensing
Initial Award: 08/28/2025
PI: Charles Bachmann
Leveraging Citizen Science Measurements to Efficiently Identify Galaxy Pairs
Initial Award: 08/22/2025
PI: Jeyhan Kartaltepe
Collaborative Research: Promoting Computational Literacy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
Initial Award: 08/21/2025
PI: Paul Craig
A Foundational Model for Extragalactic Spectroscopy: Combining Transformer-Based Deep Learning and Citizen Science
Initial Award: 08/20/2025
PI: Jeyhan Kartaltepe
Full Numerical Studies of Extreme and Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers
Initial Award: 08/14/2025
PI: Carlos Lousto
Collaborative Research: Developing a causal map assessment tool for undergraduate career interest formation and decision-making
Initial Award: 08/08/2025
PI: Benjamin Zwickl
LEAPS-MPS: Machine Learning the Variational Space for Efficient Quantum Embedding Simulations of Strongly Correlated Matter
Initial Award: 08/06/2025
PI: Nicola Lanata
NSF Convergence Accelerator Track M: BioShield CP: A microbial coating system for resilient corrosion protection
Initial Award: 07/30/2025
PI: Blessing Emerenini
LEAPS-MPS: Bridging Combinatorics and Eigenvalue Multiplicities: Advances in Spectral Graph Theory
Initial Award: 07/18/2025
PI: Shahla Nasserasr
A Phase II Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Whole- Cell Pneumococcal Vaccine (wSp) in Reducing Nasopharyngeal Colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Young Children
Initial Award: 07/08/2025
PI: Robert Parody
Collaborative research: Mechanical phase transitions organizing cartilage function
Initial Award: 07/07/2025
PI: Moumita Das
Holistic Study of Nearby Young Moving Groups
Initial Award: 07/02/2025
PI: Joel Kastner
Initial Awards: May - June
Phase boundaries and liquid structure of concentrated eye lens protein mixtures
Initial Award: 06/30/2025
PI: George Thurston
Freeform Direct Writing of Waveguide Lasers Integrated with Bragg Gratings
Initial Award: 05/30/2025
PI: Jie Qiao
Collaborative Research: Elucidating cycling and deactivation mechanisms of earth-abundant CO2 looping sorbents under precise temperature control
Initial Award: 05/30/2025
PI: Pratik Dholabhai
A new tool to monitor the resilience of mangroves to sea level rise
Initial Award: 05/19/2025
PI: Robert Chancia
CLUTCH: The COSMOS Legacy UV-Optical Treasury Campaign with Hubble
Initial Award: 05/13/2025
PI: Jeyhan Kartaltepe
NeXolve RCD Radiometry
Initial Award: 05/06/2025
PI: Charles Bachmann
Initial Awards: January - February
CAREER: Jamming and Phase Transition of a Suspension of Soft Particles in Porous Media
Initial Award: 02/24/2025
PI: Shima Parsa
Multiwavelength Studies of Nearby, Young Stars: the Early Evolution of Stellar Rotation and High-energy Emission
Initial Award: 02/12/2025
PI: Joel Kastner
Orthogonal Cavity Long-Range Laser Power Beaming Receiver (ORCA)
Initial Award: 01/20/2025
PI: Seth Hubbard