News by Topic: Faculty
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December 28, 2021
How to increase the uptake of EVs: Subsidize price or charging stations?
Essay by Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, published by the Rochester Business Journal.
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December 27, 2021
14 tech luminaries we lost in 2021
Computerworld honors the late Paul Taylor, retired NTID professor, for his work adapting existing TTYs into telecommunications devices for deaf people in the 1960s.
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December 25, 2021
RIT scientists have a role in the James Webb Space Telescope research
WXXI features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the program she is leading to use the James Webb Space Telescope to study thousands of the earliest galaxies in the universe.
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December 24, 2021
Rochester researchers, engineers involved in launch of Webb telescope
WHAM-TV features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the program she is leading to use the James Webb Space Telescope to study thousands of the earliest galaxies in the universe.
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December 24, 2021
On a yacht off St. Barts, the future of covid testing is taking shape
The Washington Post talks to Jennifer Schneider, professor and Eugene H. Fram Chair of Applied Critical Thinking, and Maureen Ferran, associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, about technology advances and COVID-19 tests.
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December 23, 2021
Adam Interviews RIT professor to explore galaxies through new telescope
WROC-TV features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
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December 22, 2021
2021: a year physicists asked, ‘What lies beyond the Standard Model?’
Essay by Aaron McGowan, principal lecturer in physics and astronomy, published by The Conversation.
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December 20, 2021
We Have One Shot to See the Universe Like Never Before
The Atlantic talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about the program she is leading to use the James Webb Space Telescope to study thousands of the earliest galaxies in the universe.
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December 20, 2021
Op-ed: Advice to Jewish parents who send their kids to Catholic school this ‘J’Oy-ful’ time of year
Essay by Hinda Mandell, associate professor in the School of Communication, published in the Chicago Tribune.
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December 20, 2021
Genomic sequencing: Here’s how researchers identify omicron and other COVID-19 variants
Essay by Andre Hudson, professor and head, and Crista Wadsworth, assistant professor, Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, published by The Conversation.
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December 17, 2021
Research finds promoting your colleagues’ ideas can boost your influence at work
A recent study co-authored by Kristin Bain, assistant professor of management at Saunders College of Business, found that a simple technique can help boost your influence at work. That technique, called amplification, is the public endorsement of another person’s ideas with attribution.
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December 16, 2021
Multiple RIT scientists contribute to the newest space telescope
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches, it will mark the culmination of nearly 30 years of development on the most powerful observational instrument ever made. Numerous members of RIT’s College of Science have been involved in its creation or will work on projects once it becomes operational.