Rochester Institute of Technology Science and Mathematics News

A partnership between RIT and Rochester Regional Health is bringing students into the lab to help advance an ear infection vaccine and launch careers in science and medicine.

Daily Mail interviews RIT software engineering professor Ashique KhudaBukhsh about AI safety vulnerabilities and how image-generation models can reproduce stereotypes associated with sexual orientation, race, and criminality.

Tigers of Geographic Information and Research is more than a geography club, although its members do love maps. Geographic information systems technology is used to analyze and visualize location-based data, with applications varying from urban planning and environmental management to crime analysis. 

RIT Professor Christina Goudreau Collison has received an award for excellence in teaching from a branch of the American Chemical Society.

RIT will launch a new master's degree in biological sciences in fall 2027.

Hands-on educational experience is key to future innovation, and students in RIT’s Freshman Imaging Project receive it as soon as they step foot on campus.

Visitors attending this year’s ESL Rochester Fringe Festival may not realize they’re also experiencing an unofficial celebration of Rochester Institute of Technology’s creativity. More than 30 performances feature RIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni showcasing the university’s artistic talent.

RIT’s decades-long partnership with the federal Landsat program will continue with a $2.2 million grant from NASA.

RIT is offering a new class based on the Emmy-award winning HBO Max Original drama series. The class is helping future healthcare professionals explore the ethical, emotional, and practical challenges they may one day face themselves.

Scientific American interviewed Meridith Joyce, assistant professor of physics, about NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its role in dating stars in the Milky Way galaxy. 

WHEC-TV speaks with Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about privacy and security concerns surrounding automated license plate readers, and the need for greater oversight as surveillance technologies become more widely used.