Rochester Institute of Technology’s MAGIC Spell Studios facility opened this week. The Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity studio, a Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council priority project, will allow RIT to bring together the academic programs and high-tech experimental facilities needed for technology development and commercially viable startup activity. The facility is the university’s […]
Rochester-Based EkoStinger has won the $1 million grand prize in the 76West Clean Energy Competition. Also on the list is Connexus Controls, a startup housed at RIT Venture Creations, which received $250,000. Connexus, which provides an internet-connected platform that enables heating and cooling contractors to increase energy efficiency by managing customer systems, and EkoStinger are among six companies who […]
Brandon Hudson, CEO of Connexus, has been selected as the first student for the Gap Year Entrepreneurship Fellows Program at Rochester Institute of Technology. The fellowship is part of a historic $50 million donation made by Austin McChord, CEO of Datto, to RIT last year. The fellowship allows students like Hudson, with an ongoing enterprise, […]
Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Art and Design is moving its gallery space to the Sibley building in downtown Rochester. The new RIT City Art Space, opening in the fall, will be located on the first floor of the Sibley building. It will add a new art, educational and event spot to the Midtown/East End district […]
Rochester Institute of Technology’s sponsored research portfolio reached $78 million in funding in fiscal year 2018, with 340 new awards and a record 333 principal investigators associated with active research awards. Among the funding sources, New York State provided $30.6 million, up from $17 million the previous fiscal year, and $11.2 million came from corporate […]
Rochester Institute of Technology is set to mark its highest enrollment in history at more than 19,000, with its most academically qualified class of freshmen. Although official enrollment figures won’t be determined until mid-September, about 2,900 new students are expected, from 48 states and Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 43 countries, […]
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers will use photonic integrated circuit technology to improve the processing speed and energy consumption of brain-inspired computing techniques. The university has received $422,733 from the National Science Foundation for “PIC: Hybrid Silicon Electronic Photonic Integrated Neuromorphic Networks,” a multiyear project to advance neuromorphic computing using photonic circuits. Neuromorphic computing, sometimes […]
RIT Venture Creations’ graduate Token is gearing up to begin shipping to customers in the fall. The company has sold out its initial pre-production run . Token is an identity technology company that manufactures a biometric, encrypted ring with a fingerprint sensor with two-factor authentication. The Token ring can be integrated into computer logins, mobile […]
A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher is taking solar sailing to the next level with advanced photonic materials. Metamaterials—a new class of manmade structures with unconventional properties—could represent the next technological leap forward for solar sails, according to Grover Swartzlander, professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. He proposes replacing reflective metallic […]
A Rochester Institute of Technology-led consortium has won a $19.5 million, five-year award from the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation to operate the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute. The win allows RIT to continue to lead important environmental projects and initiatives that have a significant impact on businesses and residents statewide. The contract award for the Pollution […]