News by Topic: Creativity And Innovation

Breaking barriers is a specialty at RIT. Our students, staff, and faculty are always at the forefront, developing innovative technical solutions to today’s problems.

  • April 13, 2017

    Engineer posing in sound booth

    RIT hosts Grammy-winning recording engineer

    Richard King, professor of music research at McGill University, will discuss how science influences the art of recording for the 2017 CAST Dean’s Lecture Series on April 19.

  • April 13, 2017

    Person speaking to classroom of people

    Entrepreneurs compete in business plan competition

    Thirty-five teams of student entrepreneurs will pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges at the fifth annual Finger Lakes Regional Semi-Finalist Presentation Round of the New York Business Plan Competition today at RIT.

  • April 12, 2017

    Students gathered for picture in classroom

    RIT team heads to cyber defense championship

    A group of RIT students will take on teams from the country’s top cybersecurity colleges in the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held April 13–15 in San Antonio.

  • April 11, 2017

    Jasmine Phan presses buttons on the OVI meteorology equipment, preparing to demonstrate how it works.

    RIT hosts Plastics Night today

    Current research in new plastic and polymer-based materials for applications such as photonics, construction and mechanical systems will be featured during Plastics Night at RIT.

  • April 11, 2017

    Picture of Satellite

    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 31, 2017

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    IdeaLab teams proposed healthcare solutions

    Twenty-one RIT students from multiple disciplines participated in the spring IdeaLab@RIT, held March 25-26, and developed possible solutions to challenges provided to them by Rochester Regional Health patients and healthcare personnel.

  • March 29, 2017

    RIT President Bill Destler posing on couch with his wife

    End of presidential era

    Under Bill Destler’s leadership, RIT’s enrollment has reached record levels, selectivity and diversity have improved, the value of research awards has skyrocketed and geographic draw continues to widen. But his strong relationship with students is the key piece of his legacy.

  • March 27, 2017

    Picture of Satellite

    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 23, 2017

    Professor posing for camera

    Computing, data-sharing expert to speak April 11

    Ann Quiroz Gates, department chair and professor of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso, will be the guest speaker at the sixth annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking Signature Lecture.

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