News by Topic: Research

  • December 12, 2013

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    Professor speaks at astrophysics symposium

    RIT was represented at a symposium celebrating 50 years of relativistic astrophysics and research exploring quasars, black holes, exploding stars and colliding galaxies.
  • December 5, 2013

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    Two RIT research teams awarded EPA grants

    Faculty and students in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering and Golisano Institute for Sustainability were each awarded $15,000 for their environmental solutions.
  • November 21, 2013

    RIT gets grant for extreme black hole research

    RIT scientists are on the hunt for clues about the early universe—with support from the National Science Foundation—to someday verify Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
  • November 20, 2013

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    RIT hosts image processing workshop Friday

    Scientists from around the region will share their image-processing research at the Western New York Image Processing Workshop in Louise M. Slaughter Hall on Nov. 22.
  • November 20, 2013

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    New award to recognize best invention

    RIT’s Intellectual Property Management Office will give the “Disclosure Excellence Award,” a $1,000 prize, to an RIT researcher for excellence and innovation in research.
  • November 11, 2013

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    Researcher explores novel autism treatment

    Dr. Laurence Sugarman’s model teaches children with autism how to control their psychophysiology and behavior using computerized biofeedback and clinical hypnosis.
  • October 10, 2013

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    Imaging science student studies vast universe

    Kim Kolb, a graduate student in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, shared findings about an imaging system that could bring clearer vision to space missions.

  • October 3, 2013

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    Imaging scientist to address Optical Society

    Associate professor Jie Qiao will present “WiSTEE: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Entrepreneurship” at the Minorities and Women in OSA Networking Reception.