Science and Math News

Six RIT graduate programs are among the best in the nation, with several on the rise according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools.

Dr. Chris Haltigin ’12 (biomedical sciences) had finished his second year of medical school and was studying for his first set of board exams when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He beat the cancer--twice--and is now an obstetrics-gynecology resident at Beaumont-Royal Oak Health System.

She walks into the operating room and grips not a scalpel, but a camera. Lynne Tseng is one of the 100-plus RIT students to have taken the one-of-a-kind Surgical Photography class.

Steven Van Slyke ’88 (materials science) has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for co-inventing the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED.

A new simulation of supermassive black holes, the behemoths at the centers of galaxies, uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, said RIT researchers in a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The role of photography in the digital era has transformed medical photography and profoundly influenced medical education. RIT's Gallery r hosted an exhibition featuring photographs from the operating rooms at Rochester General Hospital (RGH) that were taken by students enrolled in RIT's Surgical Photography course throughout its existence.

 

RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences hosted a group of  Rochester Prep High School students. Fifteen students in the local charter school’s photography club learned about darkroom processes and producing high-quality photo prints. 

Professor Hamad Ghazle, director of the diagnostic medical sonography program, has been named to leadership positions within the national Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography.

Rochester Institute of Technology students and faculty from various disciplines put their creative problem-solving skills to good use earlier this month. Working collaboratively, they examined challenges faced by client organizations and then presented conceptual solutions to them during a two-day event.

The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions and a prime location for scientists hunting the sources of gravitational waves, according to RIT researchers.

RIT researchers played a significant role in an international announcement today that has changed the future of astrophysics. The breakthrough discovery of colliding neutron stars marks the first time both gravitational waves and light have been detected from the same cosmic collision.