News by Topic: Faculty

Three researchers, including RIT Associate Professor Ben Zwickl, suggested steps that need to be taken in a new paper in Physical Review Physics Education Research after interviewing managers at more than 20 quantum technology companies across the U.S.

Three new engineering doctoral degree programs at RIT were approved by the New York State Department of Education and are focused on using multidisciplinary approaches to solving today’s global challenges.

WROC-TV talks to Don Figer, professor and director of RIT’s Future Photon Initiative and the Center for Detectors, about black holes.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Mike Johansson, principal lecturer in the School of Communication.

WHAM-TV talks to Steven Carnovale, assistant professor in the Department of Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, about the effect of the pandemic on the appliance industry.

A cybersecurity research team was awarded $200,000 from the Knight Foundation to develop tools that help journalists detect deepfakes.

A new module of the Lost & Found religious legal systems game series, created by an interdisciplinary RIT team, is now available. The new game, called Lost & Found: New Harvest, has also been added to a collection at The Strong National Museum of Play.

Scientists have developed new simulations of black holes with widely varying masses merging that could help power the next generation of gravitational wave detectors. RIT Professor Carlos Lousto and Research Associate James Healy from RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences outline these record-breaking simulations in a new Physical Review Letters paper.

The RIT student-designers on Team Frears placed second in the 2020 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge for their packaging designs of a toolkit for educators to be distributed by the national program Trees into Cartons, Cartons into Trees, (TICCIT).

New research is evaluating how wearable technology companies can better engage with their customers and humanize relationships in machine-mediated environments built to promote healthy behavior.

The Rochester Business Journal talks to Caroline Easton, professor in the biomedical sciences program, about telehealth programs for addiction treatment and mental health treatment.

Forbes talks to Elena Fedorovskaya, research faculty in the College of Science's Integrated Sciences Academy, about the effects of certain colors on people with seasonal affective disorder.