Imagine RIT
Exhibit Highlight
Introducing Research at RIT
For the past decade RIT has worked to expand its research capabilities, enhancing opportunities for students and faculty while also advancing technology development in a number of disciplines. During this 10-year period, externally sponsored research funding has grown from $14 million to $40 million and participating principal investigators have increased from 120 to over 300. In addition, RIT now features four doctoral programs, up from one a decade ago, and plans on introducing two more this year, in sustainability and astrophysics.
In an effort to further promote faculty and student work in this area, RIT’s Office of Research Relations will be unveiling Research @ RIT, a new biennial magazine, at the Imagine Festival on May 3rd.
The debut issue will feature stories on RIT’s efforts in digital printing, microelectronics, remote sensing and education and technology for the deaf and hard of hearing. It will also showcase student entrepreneurs working in the recently opened Albert J. Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a number of startup companies currently housed in the RIT high technology incubator, Venture Creations. A second edition of the magazine is planned for January of 2009.
As part of the of the Imagine festivities, Research @ RIT will be unveiled and available for festival attendees at the Research Relations booth in the Gordon Field House. In addition, a number of faculty and students featured in the magazine will be presenting their projects as part of a research open house at the IT Collaboratory facility in Building 17.
This event will include a discussion of imaging work being conducted by the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory in the Carlson Center for Imaging Science as well as a presentation of global partnerships in deaf education directed by PEN-International, an outreach program of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
For more information about research related activities occurring on May 3rd please visit RIT’s research Web site at www.rit.edu/research.