RIT faculty part of NASA’s $242 million SPHEREx mission
Assistant Professor Michael Zemcov is part of a small team of scientists contributing to NASA’s new mission to explore the origins of the universe by performing the first near-infrared all-sky...
View ArticleRIT and Autodesk Sign Agreement that Expands Collaboration across University
Rochester Institute of Technology and Autodesk, the international software company whose name is synonymous with computer-aided design (CAD) software, have signed a partnership agreement that will...
View ArticleScientists Use Multispectral Imaging to Uncover Lost Text From Manuscripts in...
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...
View ArticleHigh School Students Publish Paper with RIT Scientists Analyzing Rare Bacterium
Three high school students working in a science lab for the first time made a surprising discovery with a Rochester Institute of Technology professor. Now, the young women are co-authors on a...
View ArticleRIT Professor Develops Device to Better Detect Ebola Virus
A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology has developed a prototype micro device with bio-sensors that can detect the deadly Ebola virus. With this type of device, those infected can...
View ArticleInfrared Imaging Technology Being Developed to Better Detect Breast Cancer
Non-invasive technology developed through RIT and Rochester Regional Health partnership may provide complementary testing options to reveal tumors hidden behind dense tissues.(PRWeb June 26, 2019)Read...
View ArticleRIT researchers gain new insight about bacteria within grapevine-killing...
Scientists have mapped the DNA of bacteria found within a chronic disease affecting grapevines, a feat they hope will ultimately help protect the multibillion-dollar grape industry that produces...
View ArticleRIT leads regional response to ventilator shortage, creating prototype to aid...
Rochester Institute of Technology is leading an effort involving local companies and healthcare experts to produce a prototype ventilator designed to help meet the continuing surge of respiratory...
View ArticleRIT researchers build micro-device to detect bacteria, viruses
Ke Du and Blanca Lapizco-Encinas worked with an international team to collaborate on the design of a next-generation miniature lab device that uses magnetic nano-beads to isolate minute bacterial...
View ArticleRIT joins Public Interest Technology University Network
Rochester Institute of Technology is among 15 colleges and universities that have joined the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), a program of the think-tank New America.(PRWeb May...
View ArticleRIT Will No Longer Require SAT or ACT Scores From Applicants Beginning in...
Rochester Institute of Technology will make submitting ACT and SAT scores optional for prospective students applying for admission for fall 2021 and beyond, joining a growing number of colleges and...
View ArticleJosh Owen named director of RIT’s Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Josh Owen, an internationally renowned designer, author and faculty-researcher who has led Rochester Institute of Technology’s industrial design program to national prominence since coming to the...
View ArticleA new prescription for health care includes mind-body well-being
A health care approach centered on integrating mind-body well-being in all aspects of traditional medicine is the focus of a new book by a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher and...
View ArticleRIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection preserves Hebrew wood type
Rochester Institute of Technology is preserving a rare collection of Hebrew wood types used by the Jewish-American press at the turn of the 20th century. The collection will be made accessible online...
View ArticleRIT, URMC receive grant to study benefits of AI-enabled toilet seat technology
Toilet seats with high-tech sensors might be the non-invasive technology of the future that could help reduce hospital return rates of individuals with heart disease. A joint project by researchers at...
View ArticleRochester Institute of Technology announces three new engineering doctoral...
Three new engineering doctoral degree programs at Rochester Institute of Technology were approved by the New York State Department of Education and will be prepared for new students in fall 2021. The...
View ArticleRIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute receives gift from IBM to enhance...
IBM is making a more than $3.3 million in-kind donation to Rochester Institute of Technology to help enhance cybersecurity capabilities in the university’s new Global Cybersecurity Institute (GCI), as...
View ArticleD. Robert Frisina, founding director of RIT’s National Technical Institute...
The founding director of Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, D. Robert Frisina, died in Florida on Monday, March 29, at the age of 96.(PRWeb March 31,...
View ArticleJames Webb Space Telescope program aims to map the earliest structures of the...
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope—becomes operational in 2022, one of its first orders of business will be mapping the earliest...
View ArticleRIT Press publishes ‘Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster’
Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now,...
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