Research News

October 3, 2013

Imaging scientist to address Optical Society

Associate professor Jie Qiao will present “WiSTEE: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Entrepreneurship” at the Minorities and Women in OSA Networking Reception.
September 26, 2013

RIT scientist explores the centers of galaxies

Astrophysicist David Merritt summarizes his theoretical research on galactic nuclei in his textbook Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei.
September 9, 2013

RIT, URMC partner on cancer screening technology

RIT’s Navalgund Rao is working on photoacoustic imaging, a hybrid technique that combines light and ultrasound waves, to detect prostate and thyroid cancers.
July 26, 2013

Professor named to journal editorial board

David Messinger was invited to join the editorial board for Optical Engineering, the journal of the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
July 26, 2013

RIT professor named visiting professor at URMC

María Helguera, professor in RIT’s Carlson Center for Imaging Science, was appointed to the Wedd Visiting Professor Chair at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
July 24, 2013

RIT to grow math workshops into national model

With a $120,000 grant from the Toyota USA Foundation, RIT will expand its Summer Mathematics Institute Teachers’ Workshop into a national model.
July 23, 2013

RIT partners with green biotech company

Sweetwater Energy, which makes a concentrated plant-sugar mixture for production of biofuels, biochemicals and bioplastics, seeks to develop a pipeline of RIT students.
July 11, 2013

Professor co-authors astrophysics book

Brian Koberlein, senior lecturer at RIT, and David Meisel, distinguished professor at SUNY Geneseo, wrote Astrophysics through Computation.
June 14, 2013

Study explains decades of black hole observations

A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and RIT confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.
May 16, 2013

End of era for Center for Imaging Science

John Schott’s remote sensing research laid the cornerstone for RIT’s Ph.D. in imaging science. He retires from teaching this spring.
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.

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