News by Topic: Research

September 27, 2016

RIT named in $4.2 million NSF grant

The Upstate New York Alliance for Entrepreneurial Innovation—a partnership of Cornell University, RIT and University of Rochester—has been awarded $4.2 million from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Program.
September 26, 2016

Venture Creations manager wins award

Bill Jones, manager of business development at RIT’s Venture Creations business incubator, won the Magical Mentor award presented by Upstate Venture Connect. Jones was honored during the 2016 Upstate Unleashed Conference Sept. 16.
September 23, 2016

Ebony Miller selected for ‘Forty Under 40’ award

Ebony Miller, interim director of RIT's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship, has been selected for a Rochester Business Journal “Forty Under 40” award.
September 23, 2016

RIT student team, alumna win big at Digital Rochester GREAT Awards

A team of RIT students and an RIT alumna won top awards for their innovative creations and technology leadership at the 2016 Greater Rochester Excellence and Achievements in Technology Awards, presented by Digital Rochester Inc.
September 21, 2016

Center for Urban Entrepreneurship named finalist for award

RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship is a finalist for the Reshaping Rochester 2016 Robert Macon Award for Urban Innovation, given in recognition for a building, development, or planning effort that has contributed in a unique way to the community.
September 16, 2016

Professor to study K-12 computing education

Adrienne Decker, assistant professor of interactive games and media, received a $1.19 million grant to study the long-term effects of pre-college computing activities.
September 8, 2016

Sponsored Research garners $73 million in funding

RIT’s sponsored research portfolio grew by almost 18 percent in fiscal year 2016, reaching a record $73 million in funding.
September 7, 2016

RIT, RRH working to improve cancer screening

Researchers at RIT and physicians at Rochester Regional Health received a National Science Foundation grant to advance thermal imaging techniques to detect breast cancer.
September 1, 2016

RIT wins grant to help develop new antibiotics

Andre Hudson has received a federal award for research that could help in the battle to develop new drugs to combat the rise in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
August 10, 2016

Students build star-tracking instrument for NASA

Undergraduates are making a “compass” for rockets using a new kind of detector technology. The instrument will fly on a NASA technology demonstration mission later this year.
August 9, 2016

NTID to launch mobile app development program

The new academic program is made possible by a collaboration with Xamarin Inc. and a grant from the National Science Foundation.
August 9, 2016

Undergraduates unveil research projects

More than 250 student projects were on display at the 25th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 5.

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