News

December 9, 2016

FIRST Robotics season kicks off Jan. 7

FIRST Robotics will reveal the 2017 game for its annual competition on Jan. 7. Teams have six weeks to build their robots for the Finger Lakes regional competition at RIT in March.
November 30, 2016

RIT hosts Silicon Europe Alliance

Members of the Silicon Europe Alliance, Europe’s leading micro- and nano-electronic business clusters, traveled to New York to meet with economic development organizations, high tech companies and universities to discuss advanced nanoelectronic technologies. Their final stop was at RIT.
November 21, 2016

Ph.D. in microsystems engineering—Archana Devasia

Devasia is a research associate with NASA’s Center for Research in Space Science and Technology (CREST) and is part of the team developing custom detectors that span the entire electromagnetic spectrum for astrophysics applications.
November 11, 2016

Engineering students take top honors at conference

Mario Saucedo-Espinosa, a microsystems engineering doctoral student, and Maria Romero-Creel, a fifth-year biomedical engineering student, took top honors at the annual 2016 SciX Conference for work in microscale separations and microfluidics.
November 2, 2016

Former Kodak scientist joins AMPrint Center

RIT has named former Kodak scientist Bruce Kahn as the new director of business development for the New York State Center for Advanced Technology for Additive Manufacturing and Multifunctional Printing, also referred to as the AMPrint Center.
October 31, 2016

Research awarded grant for ultrathin membrane work

Thomas Gaborski, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop ultrathin membranes for tissue engineering.
October 25, 2016

RIT to acquire first liquid metal 3D printing system

RIT will purchase the first liquid metal 3D-printing system from Vader Systems, a Buffalo-based company. It will be part of an array of high-tech equipment being used for research and product development through New York state’s AMPrint Center.
October 25, 2016

State opens AMPrint Center at RIT

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul joined state representatives, corporate partners and RIT leaders today in launching the Additive Manufacturing and Multifunctional Printing (AMPrint) Center, one of New York state’s newest Centers for Advanced Technology.
October 24, 2016

AMPrint Center opening ceremony to be live-streamed

The RIT community can watch a live stream of Tuesday’s dedication ceremony of the Additive Manufacturing and Multifunctional Printing (or AMPrint) Center. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m.
October 21, 2016

Researcher gets grant to study vaccine market

RIT received a three-year, $374,949 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for faculty-researcher Ruben Proaño to study and help design a coordinated decision-support system for the global procurement of vaccines.
October 18, 2016

RIT receives grant to support STEM transfer students

RIT received a five-year grant of nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to support low-income transfer students’ access to undergraduate degrees in engineering and engineering technology. Surendra Gupta, professor of mechanical engineering, is overseeing the program.
October 6, 2016

RIT gets grant for nanofabrication equipment

Assistant Professor Jing Zhang received a $305,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire a new etching system for photonic, electronic and bio-device fabrication.