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August 28, 2024
RIT astrophysicist named one of world's most influential female scientists
Democrat and Chronicle highlights the accomplishments of Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. (This content will require a subscription to view.)
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February 19, 2024
Researchers exploring black hole mergers with $1.8 million NASA award
KIFI-TV talks to Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics and founding director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about being part of a team that will explore the physics of supermassive black hole mergers and galaxy collisions.
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February 9, 2024
Campanelli named to John Vouros Endowed Professorship
Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics and founding director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, has been appointed the John Vouros Endowed Professor.
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January 24, 2024
RIT leading NASA-funded supermassive black hole research
RIT scientists will be the lead researchers on a $1.8 million NASA grant to study electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes.
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November 27, 2023
RIT’s new Sklarsky Glass Box Theater welcomes first audiences this weekend
The inaugural production in the newest building on the RIT campus, AstroDance II: Across the Universe, premieres Dec. 1 to 3, featuring a variety of dance, aerial and circus arts, and augmented reality, which will be presented in the new state-of-the-art Sklarsky Glass Box Theater.
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November 13, 2023
Astrophysicist uses NSF funding to grow the number of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and Hispanic researchers
Astrophysicist Jason Nordhaus is breaking cultural and disciplinary boundaries by helping to grow the number of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and Hispanic researchers. And, in doing so, he is enabling these future scientists to drive discoveries in one of his areas of expertise—neutron star astrophysics.
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October 24, 2023
RIT’s Campanelli receives award for work in gravitational wave science
Distinguished Professor Manuela Campanelli has been honored with the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2024 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science for her extraordinary contributions to and leadership in the understanding and simulation of merging binaries of compact objects in strong-field gravity.
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June 30, 2023
An experiment that reaches across the galaxy has 'heard' an invisible sea of ripples in space-time for the first time. It's surprisingly loud.
Business Insider talks to Manuela Campanelli, professor in the College of Science and director of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about the latest gravitational-wave signal observations.
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June 29, 2023
RIT astrophysicist comments on supermassive binary black hole discovery
Astrophysicists using large radio telescopes to observe a collection of cosmic clocks in our galaxy have found evidence for gravitational waves that oscillate with periods of years to decades, according to a set of papers published Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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March 9, 2023
NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake
Business Insider talks to Manuela Campanelli, professor and director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about a new study on black holes.
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November 21, 2022
Dozens of RIT researchers included on Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists
Numerous Rochester Institute of Technology faculty, professors emeriti, and postdoctoral researchers were recognized as top-cited scientists in their fields, according to a Stanford University study published by Elsevier.
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April 25, 2022
Gravitational waves gave a new black hole a high-speed ‘kick’
ScienceNews talks to Manuela Campanelli, professor and director of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about interpreting gravitational waves.