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: July - August
Collaborative Research: Tools for Teaching and Assessing Visual Literacy in Molecular Biology
Initial Award: 08/06/2026
PI: Leslie Kate Wright
Constraining the Star Forming Main Sequence Relation in the Early Universe through Archival Pure Parallel Observations
Initial Award: 08/05/2026
PI: Jeyhan Kartaltepe
Development of EO/IR Calibration Capabilities for Small Satellite Payloads
Initial Award: 07/13/26
PI: Zoran Ninkov
Initial Awards: May - June
REU Site: Extremal Graph Theory and Dynamical Systems
Initial Award: 06/30/2026
PI: Darren Narayan
Simulation and Modeling to Assess the Impact of LandIS Requirements on Image Quality and to Promote Better Landsat ScienceS
Initial Award: 06/23/2026
PI: Rehman Eon
Universal Fire Behavior Package
Initial Award: 06/15/2026
PI: Robert Kremens
Scientific Communication for SPHEREx
Initial Award: 06/08/2026
PI: Michael Zemcov
Collaborative Research: Elements: Portable Resistive GRMHD Cyberinfrastructure for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
Initial Award: 06/02/2026
PI: Manuela Campanelli
LRalph In-Flight Imaging Support
Initial Award: 05/13/2026
PI: Matthew Montanaro
Initial Awards: March - April
THE HIGH-ENERGY ENVIRONMENT OF A UNIQUE EXOPLANET- & DISK-HOSTING YOUNG STAR
Initial Award: 04/28/2026
PI: Joel Kastner
CAREER: Unifying Volatile and Non-Volatile In-Materia Computing with Ionically Gated Transistors for Energy-Efficient Edge AI
Initial Award: 04/16/2026
PI: Ke Xu
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in natural commensal Neisseria populations: Reservoirs of resistance for important human pathogens
Initial Award: 04/02/2026
PI: Crista Wadsworth
Perovskite Radvoltaics for Watts Power
Initial Award: 04/02/2026
PI: Ahmad Kirmani
CAREER: AdaptTrust: Adaptable, Trustworthy and Uncertainty-Aware Learning in Intelligent Sensing Technologies
Initial Award: 03/17/2026
PI: Dimah Dera
Physics-Guided Hyperspectral Temporal Imaging for Advanced Biological Sensing
Initial Award: 03/03/2026
PI: Emmett Ientilucci
Initial Awards: January - February
Machine Learning Model and Decision Support Enhancement for Rheumatoid Arthritis Care in Rural Healthcare Settings
Initial Award: 01/07/2026
PI: Christopher Collison
Dissecting the Arches cluster: An ideal test bed to study the metal-rich Universe
Initial Award: 01/05/2026
PI: Donald Figer