News by Topic: Research

RIT will begin offering two new Ph.D. programs beginning in the fall of 2023: business administration and cognitive science. Today, RIT enrolls 300 students in 11 Ph.D. programs.

The Conversation features Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability.

Inverse talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, about the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

WXXI’s “Connections” program talks to Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe and Professor Joel Kastner about the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The PBS program NOVA talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, about the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. (Her comments appear at the 8:50 mark).

The Bloomberg series Giant Leap talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, about the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Kamal Rana, an imaging science Ph.D. student from India, has been using his skills to help identify landslide triggers and develop models for forecasting landslides.

The public will soon get its first glimpse at images from the most powerful observational instrument ever made. NASA will reveal the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images and spectra on July 12. RIT faculty closely involved with JWST will make media appearances to explain the significance of this momentous scientific achievement.

WXXI talks to Grover Swartzlander, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, about the Diffractive Solar Sailing project.

Research at RIT into new energy-efficient materials for computing could improve the bottleneck that often occurs when retrieving large amounts of data, hindering processing throughput and energy efficiency.

New Scientist talks to Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, about the James Webb Space Telescope's first scientific images. (This content requires a subscription to view.)

NASA announced new funding for a project led by RIT alumni, faculty, and students that could power spacecraft to orbit the sun’s poles for the first time. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program will provide funding to the Diffractive Solar Sailing project led by Amber Dubill ’20, ’20 MS of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.