News

May 3, 2013

Untying the secret of Celtic knots

Fourth-year math major Benjamin Liu wrote a computer program to produce Celtic knots, and visitors to Imagine RIT can try out his program.
April 26, 2013

Student makes strides in Ph.D. program

Christine Trombley will become the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in RIT’s astrophysical sciences and technology program in May.
April 22, 2013

NASA awards $1.1M to RIT

Grant will be used to advance a new family of large format infrared detectors grown on silicon wafer substrates.
April 2, 2013

Astrophysicists to probe dark matter in California

Probes of Dark Matter on Galaxy Scales 2013, organized by RIT professor Sukanya Chakrabarti, will be held July 14–19.
April 2, 2013

Student gives Center for Detectors welcoming look

Allison Conte, a third-year graphic design major, recently designed glass and metal signage for the Center for Detectors.
March 26, 2013

Researchers develop advanced image processing

Advanced in technology have increased the availability of high-res, remotely sensed images, so RIT researchers are developing processing technologies to handle that data.
March 21, 2013

RIT professor catches a comet by its tail

Scientist Grover Swartzlander recently captured a photo of comet Pan-STARRS on its journey away from the sun.
March 18, 2013

Students explore solar system at Harley School

Valerie Rapson and Billy Vazquez, doctoral students in RIT’s astrophysical sciences and technology program, presented to a class of kindergarteners and first graders.
March 5, 2013

Biologist Tyrone B. Hayes speaks at RIT March 22

Biologist Tyrone B. Hayes will present the John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture sponsored annually by Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Science.
February 15, 2013

RIT scientists comment on meteor explosion

RIT professors and students comment on meteor explosion over Russia’s Ural Mountains.
February 6, 2013

RIT offers research opportunity to high schoolers

For seven weeks, students in the imaging science summer internship program work on research topics varying from space weather to ultrasound imaging.
January 16, 2013

College of Science hosts speaker series Friday

Stefano Curtarolo, director of the Center for Materials Genomics at Duke University will discuss “Topological Insulators within the Materials Genome Initiative.”