Rochester Institute of Technology’s Breakthrough Prediction of Gravitational...
Rochester Institute of Technology scientists' research was integral to the breakthrough detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes that was announced today by the Laser Interferometer...
View ArticleAfter the discovery: RIT researchers study implications of gravitational waves
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers continue exploring gravitational waves in a series of upcoming papers. Their reports follow the first direct detection of these waves, predicted by Albert...
View ArticleRIT Takes Third Place in Best Visual Quality in 2016 Intel University Games...
A class of Rochester Institute of Technology students won third place in the Best Visual Quality category of the 2016 Intel University Games Showcase for the video game Hack, Slash & Backstab on...
View ArticleRIT’s President Destler announces 2017 retirement
William W. Destler, Rochester Institute of Technology’s ninth president, announced today (May 9, 2016) that he will retire at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year.(PRWeb May 09, 2016)Read the full...
View ArticleRIT Team Wins Global U.S. State Department Challenge Aimed at Combating...
“It’s Time: ExOut Extremism,” a social media campaign created by Rochester Institute of Technology students, took top prize in a global challenge conducted by the U.S. State Department aimed at...
View ArticleRIT Awarded Grant to Study a Globally Coordinated Vaccine Market
Rochester Institute of Technology received a three-year, $374,949 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for faculty-researcher Rubén Proaño to study and help design a coordinated...
View ArticleRIT Professor Says High-end Chefs’ Success Starts at Home
Success as a master chef of haute cuisine depends less on going to culinary school than having an innovative support team along the way, according to a new study by John Ettlie, professor and Rosett...
View ArticleRIT Named by U.S. Dept. of Energy to Lead New Manufacturing USA Institute on...
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability was selected today by the U.S. Department of Energy, as part of its Manufacturing USA initiative, to lead its new Reducing...
View ArticleRIT Receives U.S. Department of State Grant to Expand Student Anti-Terrorism...
It’s Time: ExOut Extremism, an online initiative to combat violent extremism that started as a classroom assignment, has been awarded $149,000 from the U.S. Department of State.(PRWeb January 14,...
View ArticleRIT named a core academic partner of new federal robotics institute
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) is a core academic partner in a new advanced robotics manufacturing institute announced by the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleFormer U-M Dean David C. Munson Jr. Named Rochester Institute of Technology’s...
David C. Munson Jr. has been named Rochester Institute of Technology’s 10th president. The RIT Board of Trustees made the decision at a special session, selecting the former dean of the University of...
View ArticleNational Endowment for the Humanities Announces $91,000 Grant to RIT
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a $91,000 grant to Rochester Institute of Technology to help students focus on the historical, economic and cultural meanings of community...
View Article2017 Imagine RIT Set for Saturday, May 6
More than 30,000 people are expected to flock to the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Henrietta campus on Saturday, May 6, to participate in the 10th annual Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity...
View ArticleRIT Study Suggests Dying Stars Give Newborn Black Holes a Swift Kick
Rochester Institute of Technology researcher Richard O’Shaughnessy and collaborators reanalyzed the merging black holes detected by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) on Dec....
View ArticleIllustrated Biography and Companion Exhibition to Explore Work of Wildlife...
Rochester Institute of Technology is publishing a new book and hosting a companion exhibition documenting the life and work of one of the world’s finest painters of birds, Arthur Singer.(PRWeb July...
View ArticleSeeing the Light: Researchers Seek to Improve Solar Cell Technology Using New...
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are expanding solar cell technology using nanowires to capture more of the sun’s energy and transform it into usable electricity.(PRWeb July 27,...
View ArticleRIT joins national arts research consortium a2ru
Rochester Institute of Technology has joined the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, known as a2ru, an exclusive consortium of research universities committed to advancing...
View ArticleSensing Technology Takes a Quantum Leap with RIT Photonics Research
Research underway at Rochester Institute of Technology advances a new kind of sensing technology that captures data with better precision than currently possible and promises cheaper, smaller and...
View ArticleUniversity Researchers Awarded Grant for Non-invasive System to Detect Atrial...
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester Medical Center are developing a health app to incorporate into familiar technology such as a tablet or smartphone that...
View ArticleMapping Black Holes Collisions Gives Astronomers (And Hitchhikers) A New Guide
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers helped pinpoint the precise location of a gravitational wave signal—and the black hole merger that produced it—detected by gravitational wave...
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