Research News

August 9, 2017

RIT physicist studies quantum sensing solutions

Research conducted by Mishkat Bhattacharya, a theoretical physicist, is advancing a new kind of sensing technology that captures data with better precision than currently possible and promises cheaper, smaller and lighter sensor designs.
June 26, 2017

RIT hosts summer undergraduate research programs

RIT leads universities in New York with seven federally funded summer research programs for undergraduate students. Eight to 10 students per program work with RIT researchers for 10 weeks. The newest Research Experience for Undergraduates program focuses on multimessenger astrophysics.
June 5, 2017

Drawing new insights from gravitational waves

Richard O’Shaughnessy and collaborators reanalyzed the merging black holes detected by LIGO last year, linking the black hole’s misalignment to when it formed from the death of a massive star. The force expelled the newborn black hole with a “natal kick,” causing the misalignment.
June 1, 2017

Black hole computer simulations help ID third gravitational wave

RIT researchers continue to make significant contributions to gravitational wave astronomy, with the third detection of gravitational waves and a new black hole 49 times the size of our sun.
April 11, 2017

RIT scientist measures brightness of the universe

Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said RIT researcher Michael Zemcov in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.
March 29, 2017

Researchers study carbon nanotubes as water filters

Enhanced single-walled carbon nanotubes offer a more effective and sustainable approach to water treatment and remediation than the standard industry materials—silicon gels and activated carbon—according to a paper by RIT researchers John-David Rocha and Reginald Rogers.
March 27, 2017

Researchers publish paper on dark matter, Milky Way

Research conducted by scientists at RIT rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a problematic structure.
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 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 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 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.

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