News by Topic: Creativity And Innovation

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March 27, 2017

Researchers win grant to improve Landsat 8 data

Two RIT researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public data from the Earth-sensing satellite to measure surface changes over time.
March 23, 2017

Computing, data-sharing expert to speak April 11

Ann Quiroz Gates, department chair and professor of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso, will be the guest speaker at the sixth annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking Signature Lecture.
March 22, 2017

Researcher wins IEEE grant to host drone conference

RIT researcher Emmett Ientilucci won a grant from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society to host a workshop on unmanned aerial systems at RIT in fall 2017.
March 21, 2017

New seminar series on artificial intelligence

RIT has a growing artificial intelligence (AI) community, and a new seminar series has been developed to strengthen interactions among researchers from across campus involved in the growing technology field.
March 21, 2017

Video game design programs jump in 2017 rankings

RIT is one of the top schools in the world to study game design and launch games for 2017, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development program was ranked second at the undergraduate level and fourth at the graduate level.
March 20, 2017

RIT wins regional cyber defense competition

A team of RIT cybersecurity students is heading to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition after taking first place at the regional competition March 17–19.
March 10, 2017

Companies with RIT ties get $1M from state

Four early-stage companies launched at RIT have received more than $1 million through New York state’s Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise Investment Fund.
March 9, 2017

RIT to host statewide Game Dev Challenge kickoff

RIT’s MAGIC Center will host the kickoff for its first-ever New York State Game Dev Challenge on Friday. The challenge is an opportunity for students and indie developers to bring their game ideas to production.
March 7, 2017

NTID professor first U.S. scientist in EACH program

Todd Pagano, professor of chemistry and associate dean for Teaching and Scholarship Excellence at NTID, was the first faculty member from RIT—and the first U.S. scientist—to participate in the Excellence in Analytical CHemistry (EACH) program.
March 6, 2017

RIT helps advance space camera being tested on ISS

Imaging technology advanced by researchers at RIT and Florida Institute of Technology is being tested on the International Space Station and could someday be used on future space telescopes.
March 6, 2017

NTID to offer degree in 3-D graphics technology

NTID has been granted approval by the New York State Education Department to establish a new degree program in 3-D graphics technology. Beginning this fall, RIT/NTID will become the first college to offer this kind of associate degree program to deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
March 3, 2017

AMPrint, imaging science centers receive grants

RIT’s AMPrint Center and Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science received grants from FuzeHub, the statewide New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program center, to purchase equipment for use in center laboratories focused on advanced manufacturing research and new product development.

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