News

January 17, 2017

Professor seeks to improve Ph.D. completion rates

Casey Miller, associate professor and director of RIT’s materials science and engineering graduate program, won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop an inclusive approach to physics graduate education admission and retention of traditionally underrepresented U.S. citizens.
January 6, 2017

RIT seeks partnership with Moscow State University

A contingent from the College of Science is meeting this week with their counterparts at Lomonosov Moscow State University, while five RIT students attend a short course on winter ecology at the Zvenigorod Biological Station outside of Moscow.
December 19, 2016

Researchers study plastic pollution in Great Lakes

A new study by Matthew Hoffman of RIT’s College of Science and Eric Hittinger of the College of Liberal Arts inventories and tracks high concentrations of plastic in the Great Lakes and could help inform cleanup efforts and target pollution prevention.
November 23, 2016

Professor wins grants to study mitochondrial DNA

Moumita Das, assistant professor in RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy, won seed funding for two research projects on mitochondrial DNA and intercellular cargo transport.
November 22, 2016

Professor wins grant to study the eye

Biophysicist Moumita Das is leading a National Science Foundation-funded study to explore properties critical to the function of the vitreous humor, or gel, that fills the eye, which could lead to advances in the treatment of vision disorders, drug delivery and eye surgery.
November 21, 2016

Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences and technology—Grant Tremblay

Tremblay is an astronomer and a NASA Einstein Fellow at Yale University whose research appeals to the popular press with exotic discoveries like a cold “rain” of gaseous clouds falling toward a supermassive black hole.
November 21, 2016

Ph.D. in imaging science—Siddharth Khullar

Khullar, now a senior researcher and product innovator at Apple Inc., integrates algorithms and sensing devices in products that advance human-machine interaction and wellness computing.
November 21, 2016

Ph.D. in color science—Yuta Asano ’15

Asano’s work as a camera image algorithm engineer at Motorola Mobility in Chicago has improved the color image quality of Motorola’s smartphones: the Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus, Moto Z Droid and the premium Moto Z Force Droid.
November 16, 2016

Researchers fix Landsat 8 imagery, measurements

Software developed by Aaron Gerace and Matt Montanaro, senior scientists at RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, improves the accuracy of NASA’s Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite, which was giving inaccurate readings due to defective optics in the thermal infrared sensor.
November 14, 2016

Precision Optical Transceivers joins RIT initiative

Precision Optical Transceivers Inc. has become the first member of RIT’s Future Photon Initiative Industry Partnerships Program. The initiative develops collaborations with commercial entities to advance photonic technology and innovations.
November 9, 2016

Professor images diaries of 19th-century explorer

Multispectral imaging technology continues to recover new insights from the field diaries of 19th-century explorer David Livingstone. A team of scholars and scientists, including RIT Professor Roger Easton, will present their research in the United Kingdom in November.
November 9, 2016

Professor collaborates on new astronomical camera

RIT professor Michael Richmond is a visiting professor for the fall term at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for the Early Universe and is working on a new type of astronomical camera for the 105-centimeter Kiso Schmidt Telescope at the Kiso Observatory in Japan.