News by Topic: Grants

Groundbreaking research is always happening at RIT. Thanks to grants from organizations such as the National Science Foundation, RIT can continue pushing the boundaries of all known sciences, from medicine to astrophysics.

February 18, 2015

Gabrielle Gaustad receives NSF CAREER award

Gabrielle Gaustad of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability received the award to study the implications of material scarcity and criticality on clean energy technologies.
January 7, 2015

Top stories and videos for December

News about RIT being ranked a best value university and an appearance in Google’s Year in Search 2014 video were among the most popular last month.
December 23, 2014

RIT to establish cybersecurity scholarship program

Responding to the national demand for workers highly trained in cybersecurity, RIT will use a National Science Foundation grant to establish the scholarship program.
December 1, 2014

New technology could reshape space telescopes

Scientists at RIT and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are exploring a new type of space telescope with an aperture made of swarms of particles released from a canister.
November 7, 2014

Image Permanence Institute gets $300,000 grant

The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is in support of Digital Print Preservation Education and Training.
November 6, 2014

College of Science seeks to launch $1M endowment

The Fred L. Emerson Foundation has offered a $250,000 challenge grant contingent upon RIT raising the remaining $750,000. The fund would support undergraduate research.
October 21, 2014

NTID to study how stereotypes affect deaf students

NTID and University of Rochester, with a National Science Foundation grant, will study whether stereotypes affect the way deaf and hard-of-hearing students perform in math.
October 16, 2014

Grant aims to help deaf students learn statistics

RIT’s College of Science and National Technical Institute for the Deaf received a grant to develop online tools to help deaf students better understand statistics concepts.
September 8, 2014

Community Grants Program accepting applications

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute is accepting applications for its Community Grants Program to improve the health and environmental quality of New York state.
August 29, 2014

Human brain inspires computing system designs

What if computing systems were able to adopt the human brain’s information processing capacity and energy efficiency? RIT researchers have begun to answer that question.
August 13, 2014

RIT to study environmental impact of nanomaterials

Golisano Institute for Sustainability and Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences are the recipients of a $300,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation.
July 14, 2014

Pollution Prevention Institute awards grants

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute awarded $455,000 to six projects to help New York companies remain competitive while reducing their environmental footprint.

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