News by Topic: Research
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October 22, 2017
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Team studies crime trends for prevention
The Center for Public Safety Initiatives is a unique collaboration among RIT, the city of Rochester and criminal justice agencies in New York. -
October 22, 2017
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Interdisciplinary team studying skills gap
Amid the national discussion about skills gaps in filling STEM jobs, a trio of RIT researchers is diving into whether that gap exists in the optics and photonics industry in Rochester. -
October 22, 2017
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Researchers study how deaf people learn, grow
The Center on Cognition and Language, created in 2016, is the only center of its kind in the world led by a deaf director and staffed primarily by deaf researchers. -
October 22, 2017
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Finding ways to enhance learning for deaf students
NTID researchers are working to improve education and provide more support for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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October 22, 2017
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Optimizing the U.S. electrical grid
RIT researchers are developing a system of algorithmic computer modeling that will help policymakers produce and use electricity more efficiently. -
October 22, 2017
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Undergraduates Team up with RIT Faculty on Computational Sensing Research
Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant, undergraduate students worked with RIT faculty to gain valuable experience in research projects.
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October 22, 2017
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Faculty Research Yields Several Books
Research doesn’t always involve a cleanroom, white coats, or bubbling beakers. In many cases, research is done by digging through dusty documents, interviewing people, or gathering information about historical events. A culmination of such research is putting the findings in a book. -
October 16, 2017
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RIT researchers part of breakthrough discovery
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. -
October 12, 2017
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RIT hosts Hockey Analytics Conference Oct. 21
The latest research in analytics for college and professional hockey—and for sports in general—will be explored at the third annual RIT Hockey Analytics Conference on Oct. 21. -
October 12, 2017
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RIT researchers developing image manipulation detector
RIT is part of a select group of world-class researchers studying the fact and fiction of imagery in today’s digital culture by developing an algorithmic-based platform that can detect image manipulation.
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October 9, 2017
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RIT to develop hybrid biological cell separations technology
Research being done at RIT to refine lab-on-chip devices—highly sophisticated laboratories on microchips—will provide more detailed and timely information to detect diseases such as cancer. -
September 27, 2017
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Mapping black holes collisions gives astronomers a new guide
RIT researchers helped pinpoint the precise location of a gravitational wave signal—and the black hole merger that produced it—detected by gravitational wave observatories in the United States and in Europe.
