Science and Math News

  • April 11, 2018

    Nicole Pannullo in a white lab coat standing in a lab.

    Nicole Pannullo named 2018 Goldwater Scholar

    Pannullo is the first hard-of-hearing student at RIT to be recognized as a Barry Goldwater Scholar. It is the highest undergraduate award of its kind for the fields of the natural sciences, math and engineering.
  • March 30, 2018

    Oren Cohn poses for a photo in his RIT Ambulance uniform in front of one of the ambulance vehicles.

    Student earns national recognition for EMS service

    Oren Cohn, RIT Ambulance chief of operations, was honored as EMS Provider of the Year by the National Collegiate EMS Foundation. Cohn was recognized for his leadership role with the all-volunteer campus ambulance team.
  • March 29, 2018

    A selfie of Luis Reyes-Umana in an office at a hospital in Chile.

    Student Spotlight: Studying abroad in Chile

    Meet Luis Reyes-Umana, a fourth-year biomedical science major who traveled to Chile for the fall semester. From July to December, Reyes-Umana took classes and worked in local hospitals to get a taste of what international medicine is like.
  • March 29, 2018

    Two people working on a astronomical imaging system.

    Using cinema technology for space missions

    RIT scientist Zoran Ninkov is developing and testing an astronomical imager inspired by an Oscar-award winning cinema projection system. The RIT astronomical imaging system is competing with other technologies for deployment on future NASA space missions for surveying star and galaxy clusters.
  • March 19, 2018

    A headshot of Chris Haltigin.

    Former hockey captain beats cancer twice and becomes physician

    Dr. Chris Haltigin ’12 (biomedical sciences) had finished his second year of medical school and was studying for his first set of board exams when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He beat the cancer--twice--and is now an obstetrics-gynecology resident at Beaumont-Royal Oak Health System.
  • February 14, 2018

    Magnetic field lines diagram.

    New study advances multimessenger astrophysics

    A new simulation of supermassive black holes, the behemoths at the centers of galaxies, uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, said RIT researchers in a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.