News Stories

Michael Murdoch, an assistant professor of color science, received a prestigious National Science Foundation award to research how the human visual system perceives a mix of augmented reality and real-world content.

As the majority of students moved out of residence housing because of CV-19, several remained behind in quarantine. To ease their temporary stay and to provide better access to services needed, most were moved to different campus accommodations by an FMS van refitted by members of the RIT Ambulance group and Facilities Management Services.

In early March, RIT alumnus Corey Mack ’11 (mechanical engineering technology) received an email from the U.S. Department of Defense asking start-ups and entrepreneurs to build emergency ventilators for under $300. Within a few days, his idea became a design that complied closely with the required pieces of emergency ventilators.

Dr. Christopher Tanski, who graduated from RIT in 2000, is overseeing every medical professional treating coronavirus patients on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort and at the Javits Convention Center field hospital in New York City. Tanski, who started on April 9, is an attending physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Legislation recently passed by the U.S. Congress, and signed into law by the President, will provide important relief to RIT and other higher education institutions in New York State impacted by the educational and economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rochester Business Journal talks to Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, about a prototype for an emergency portable ventilator.

During a 45-minute question and answer radio show, President Munson discussed the current climate and campus as well as the future, including the 2020 commencement.

People needing food may still turn to RIT’s FoodShare, which is now offering request and pickup service from 3 to 7 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday through May 7.

With fewer people eating on campus due to alternative delivery of coursework, RIT Dining has decided to serve a different customer. They’re sending packaged meals to Rochester Regional Health, the university’s affiliated partner, to serve its workers who are helping our community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

NTID is one of four international innovators selected to create cost-effective packages of high-quality accessible children’s books in languages children use and understand to serve regions of the world where children have few or no books for preschool or kindergarten.
 

Spectrum News talks to Miles Hood, fourth-year communication major, about how he's making the best of the situation.

Rochester Beacon features Nicholas Conn '11, '13 MS (electrical engineering), research scientist and founder and CEO of Heart Health Intelligence.