News

March 27, 2017

Researchers win grant to improve Landsat 8 data

Two RIT researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers depend on public data from the Earth-sensing satellite to measure surface changes over time.
March 27, 2017

Machine learning guru to talk at RIT March 31

Robert Schapire, senior research scientist at Microsoft Research, will present “The Contextual Bandits Problem: A Fast, Simple and Optimal Algorithm” as part of the RIT Data Science Research Group Seminar Series.
March 23, 2017

RIT Observatory hosts open house March 31

An open house at the RIT Observatory this month will feature the crescent moon, the Pleiades star cluster, the Orion Nebula and Jupiter.
March 22, 2017

Researcher wins IEEE grant to host drone conference

RIT researcher Emmett Ientilucci won a grant from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society to host a workshop on unmanned aerial systems at RIT in fall 2017.
March 17, 2017

RIT to hold math program for eighth-grade girls

The RIT Summer Math Applications in Science with Hands-on experience for girls, or SMASH, will show rising eighth graders the power of mathematical modeling. Teams of girls will use math to decode mysteries in science and other real-world puzzles.
March 16, 2017

RIT holds regional DataFest hackathon March 24-26

RIT will hold its first DataFest hackathon this spring, joining a growing list of colleges and universities participating in the American Statistical Association-sponsored event.
March 7, 2017

Alumnus wins national award for physics research

Ryan Scott ’16 (physics) has been recognized by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Advanced Laboratory Physics Association for his contributions as an undergraduate student researcher to RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy.
March 7, 2017

NTID professor first U.S. scientist in EACH program

Todd Pagano, professor of chemistry and associate dean for Teaching and Scholarship Excellence at NTID, was the first faculty member from RIT—and the first U.S. scientist—to participate in the Excellence in Analytical CHemistry (EACH) program.
March 6, 2017

RIT helps advance space camera being tested on ISS

Imaging technology advanced by researchers at RIT and Florida Institute of Technology is being tested on the International Space Station and could someday be used on future space telescopes.
February 27, 2017

Students study habitable zone of alien planets

First-year students in RIT’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered in another solar system.
February 17, 2017

Expert discusses digital restoration of antiquities

Computer scientist Brent Seales, a leading expert on digital restoration of historical documents, will talk about his research and new methods for digitally preserving manuscripts, scrolls and other cultural artifacts for the John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture on March 6.
February 2, 2017

Associate professor wins early career award

Nathan Cahill, associate dean for industrial partnerships in the College of Science and an associate professor, was named a Rising Researcher by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his contributions to defense and security research.