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August 27, 2015

Sponsored Research garners $62 million in funding

RIT’s sponsored research portfolio grew by 18 percent in fiscal year 2015, reaching a record $62 million in funding.
August 14, 2015

Project SEED cultivates young scientists

The American Chemical Society Project SEED Program is a 10-week summer research program for economically disadvantaged high school students.
August 13, 2015

Researchers at RIT seek to solve looping problem

A team of computing security faculty and graduate students is creating Meshed Tree Protocol to make computer networks more reliable, faster and more secure.
August 6, 2015

Professor co-chairs international conference

Jie Qiao is the general co-chair of the international conference on Ultrafast Optics UFO X in Beijing. The biennial event is expected to draw 200 scientists from 20 countries.
August 3, 2015

Symposium showcases achievements in research

The 24th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 7 and features the work of more than 200 undergraduate researchers.
July 27, 2015

Consortium wins bid for national photonics center

A New York-based consortium, led by SUNY Polytechnic, RIT and UR, has been awarded a multimillion-dollar federal investment to create a national photonics center.
July 22, 2015

Professor explores extended galactic disks

Astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti is refining her technique to uncover dwarf galaxies and understand dark matter by simulating the evolutionary histories of galactic disks.
July 2, 2015

RIT and University of Tokyo form partnership

RIT signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Tokyo to facilitate the exchange of students and faculty and to increase collaborative research activities.
June 22, 2015

Students win Geospatial Intelligence Hackathon

Briana Neuberger and Dan Simon developed a model for the transmission of Ebola in West Africa that could extend to other scenarios and geographies.
June 22, 2015

Turning up the volume on prostate cancer

Professor Hans Schmitthenner is designing molecular imaging compounds that will target prostate cancer cells and light them up with contrast dyes.
June 18, 2015

Student’s interview makes Reddit front page

Kevin Sacca made social networking website Reddit’s front page on June 16 with his “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA, about multispectral imaging of historical documents.
May 26, 2015

Pistol Star gets a stamp of approval

A set of British postal stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope includes a star detected by RIT Professor Don Figer nearly 20 years ago.

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