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April 2, 2021
Researchers develop manufacturing training that will include AI and virtual reality technology
Researchers at RIT are using augmented and virtual reality as part of a modern training platform to help address the skilled labor shortage in manufacturing. Using artificial intelligence and augmented or virtual reality applications as a training strategy can support novice trainees and retain the knowledge of master machinists and manufacturing engineers.
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April 2, 2021
RIT researchers are making software secure by design
With more than $4 million in support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other organizations, Associate Professor Mehdi Mirakhorli and his student team are developing tools and techniques to help coders take an architectural approach to software design.
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April 1, 2021
Far out, but up close and personal with pot
City Newspaper highlights work by Ted Kinsman, associate professor from RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, photographing microscopic parts of the cannabis plant.
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April 1, 2021
RIT’s Saunders College of Business partners with Vellore Institute of Technology
RIT’s partnership with Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), in India, has expanded to allow VIT students to spend the latter two years of their undergraduate business studies in RIT’s Saunders College of Business.
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April 1, 2021
Student Government Women’s Senator to speak at Moving Forward symposium
Anika Griffiths, a fourth-year sociology and anthropology major and Student Government Women’s Senator, has been selected to give a spoken-word performance at RIT’s Moving Forward: Suffrage Past, Present and Future symposium on April 8.
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March 31, 2021
D. Robert Frisina, founding director of NTID, dies at age 96
The founding director of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, D. Robert Frisina, died in Florida on Monday, March 29. He was 96. An international author and lecturer, Frisina was a visionary and a pioneer in the field of deaf education.
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March 30, 2021
RIT/NTID researcher finds that sign-language exposure impacts infants as young as 5 months old
While it isn’t surprising that infants and children love to look at people’s movements and faces, recent research from NTID studies exactly where they look when they see someone using sign language. The research uses eye-tracking technology that offers a non-invasive and powerful tool to study cognition and language learning in pre-verbal infants.
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March 30, 2021
RIT incubator graduate Council Rock gets $7 million boost led by Golisano-founded investment firm
Council Rock, a graduate company from RIT’s Venture Creations business incubator, has received $7 million Series A funding, led by Grand Oaks Capital, the investment firm founded by businessman and philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano. Motorola Solutions, and other private investors, also participated in the investment round.
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March 30, 2021
‘U.S. News’ Best Graduate Schools highlight RIT graduate programs
RIT graduate programs are among the best in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report annual statistical survey of graduate programs.
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March 29, 2021
RIT supply chain expert on Suez Canal blockage: Economic impact in 2-6 weeks
WROC-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor of supply chain management, about what to expect following the Suez Canal blockage.
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March 29, 2021
If everyone on Earth sat in the ocean at once, how much would sea level rise?
Tony Wong, assistant professor of mathematical sciences, explains volume and displacement for the "Curious Kids" series published by The Conversation.
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March 28, 2021
RIT to develop new solar technology
WROC-TV talks to Seth Hubbard, professor of physics, about developing low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells.