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Many RIT students' experiences as undergraduates have helped them get into top graduate degree programs.

ScienceNews talks to Manuela Campanelli, professor and director of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about interpreting gravitational waves.

After going virtual for 2021, thousands of people came to the RIT campus on Saturday for an in-person Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival, which featured more than 250 exhibits throughout the campus from more than 1,800 students and faculty.

AAS NOVA reports on research conducted by Manuela Campanelli, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences and director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation.

ASBMBToday, a publication of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, features the RIT-RISE project.

The National Institutes of Health are funding RIT scientists to explore vesicular stomatitis virus’s (VSV) potential for treating prostate cancer. Associate Professor Maureen Ferran from the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences secured a three-year, $451,718 Research Enhancement Award (R15) grant from the NIH to investigate prostate cancer cells’ susceptibility to the virus.

Students and faculty from the exercise science program are using high-speed cameras, motion capture technology, and other sensors to analyze the motions of RIT baseball players as they swing the bat.

AAS NOVA features a Hubble Space Telescope image created by an RIT team led by Joel Kastner, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science.

RIT contributed to a massive study on a tiny roadside weed that shows urbanization is leading to adaptive evolution at a global scale. As part of the Global Urban Evolution Project (GLUE) project, scientists from 160 cities across six continents collected more than 110,000 samples of white clover plants in urban, suburban, and rural areas to study urbanization’s effects on the plants.

ScienceNews talks to Joel Kastner, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, about mass loss in stars.

Space.com features Jeyhan Kartaltepe, assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

Richard O’Shaughnessy, an associate professor in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences, was awarded a prestigious fellowship to spend the next year preparing for an “onslaught” of gravitational wave discoveries. He is one of 10 faculty worldwide named 2022 Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics and is the first RIT faculty member to receive the award.