News by Topic: Faculty

R&D Magazine talks to Mishkat Bhattacharya, associate professor of physics, about his research to create a laser for sound.

Cleveland.com cites research by Matthew Hoffman, associate professor of applied and computational mathematics, and Eric Hittinger, associate professor of public policy. 

RIT honored researchers who served as principal investigators on active awards in fiscal year 2018 at an April 11 reception. Also recognized were the 20 recipients of Seed Funding Awards and 12 new inductees in RIT’s PI Millionaires. 

The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for work with pulsed lasers. Now an RIT researcher has teamed up with experts at the University of Rochester to create a different kind of laser – a laser for sound, using the optical tweezer technique invented by Ashkin.

Hao Zhang, an associate professor in Saunders College of Business, is being honored with a 2019 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.

WXXI talks to Nick Robertson, assistant professor of criminal justice, about cannabis regulation and prohibition in the 1930s.

RIT announced John Klofas, Bruce Smith and Josh Owen as its first class of Distinguished Faculty, leaders who have provided insights and solutions to today’s criminal justice issues, produced groundbreaking work in nanolithography and developed exciting industrial design innovations.

The RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection today will host a tribute to the artist who painted RIT’s iconic orange-and-yellow murals, paintings that hold historical significance to the art world and the campus.

Historically underrepresented minority scholars are invited to apply for an innovative career development program this fall to experience life as an RIT faculty member.

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Amit Batabyal, the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics.

Croatia has a treasure trove of historically significant manuscripts, but after 800 years of fading ink and worms eating their parchment, much of the text has become impossible to read. Scientists from RIT are using multispectral imaging to make the writing legible once again and preserve the important information the manuscripts hold.

Blog post by Ted Kinsman, an assistant professor of photographic technology, published in PetaPixel.