News Stories

November 21, 2013

RIT gets grant for extreme black hole research

RIT scientists are on the hunt for clues about the early universe—with support from the National Science Foundation—to someday verify Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
November 20, 2013

Student named national astronomy ambassador

Graduate student Valerie Rapson was invited to join the American Astronomical Society Astronomy Ambassador program.
November 20, 2013

Professor ‘Becoming Visible’ in RIT Press book

Jessica Lieberman, assistant professor of visual culture, shares her two-year medical journey with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a new book, Becoming Visible.
November 20, 2013

RIT hosts image processing workshop Friday

Scientists from around the region will share their image-processing research at the Western New York Image Processing Workshop in Louise M. Slaughter Hall on Nov. 22.
November 20, 2013

Professor passes fundraising goal for video game

Joe Pietruch, a lecturer in the School of Interactive Games and Media, raised more than $11,000 on Kickstarter to fund the Chain Gang Chase video game.
November 20, 2013

New award to recognize best invention

RIT’s Intellectual Property Management Office will give the “Disclosure Excellence Award,” a $1,000 prize, to an RIT researcher for excellence and innovation in research.
November 19, 2013

RIT48 contest searches for the next big app idea

RIT48 returns Nov. 22–24 with 40 students competing for $3,000. They will create a business plan, produce a prototype and launch a Web or mobile startup in 48 hours.
November 19, 2013

Students take second in engineering competition

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers honored Tyler Sherwood and Jared Benton-Smith for their work on improving the use of carbon nanotubes to filter wastewater.
November 18, 2013

Book explores wine anthropology

Anthropology Professor Robert Ulin is co-editor of Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass and will sign copies of the book Dec. 3 at Pittsford Wine and Spirits.
November 18, 2013

M&T donates $50,000 to entrepreneurship center

M&T Bank is making a two-year commitment and donating $50,000 to the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship’s Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs program for city students.
November 18, 2013

Colleges vie for top computer programming honors

The RIT computer science team placed seventh in the regional level of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest this weekend.
November 18, 2013

Sign the Polisseni Center’s ceiling beams

The Rochester and RIT communities are invited to sign the last ceiling beams Tuesday before they are they are installed into the Gene Polisseni Center.