RIT College of Science

09/23/2026

🧡 Supporting women in science and strengthening our community.

Dean Hudson recently met with the leadership team of Women in Science (WISe) to discuss their plans and initiatives for the year ahead. WISe helps create opportunities for connection, mentorship, and support across the College of Science.

Thank you to Dr. Christy Tyler, Dr. Elena Lopez Peredo, Dr. Elle Barnes, and Dr. Diana Sachmpazidi for your leadership and dedication to our community.

Learn more about WISe: https://brnw.ch/21x5Uke

09/22/2026

📣 Get career fair ready!

The RIT University-Wide Career Fair is tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Gordon Field House. Build your confidence, review helpful resources, and make a plan before you go. More than 50 employers will be there specifically to recruit scholars with science and math backgrounds for internships, co-ops, and full-time opportunities.

Research employers, update your resume, prepare your elevator pitch, and have a plan before you arrive. A little preparation can make a big difference!

Check out the Career Fair Guide below. ⬇️

Confidence is key in conquering the career fair, and we're here to help. Use these resources to prepare for the big day and make an appointment with your career services coordinator if you have additional questions. 

09/18/2026

A big congratulations to Dr. Emmett Ientilucci on being named a Senior Member of Optica! 🎉

A well-deserved honor recognizing his contributions to optics, imaging science, and remote sensing, along with his professional involvement in all things imaging. We’re proud to celebrate this accomplishment and the expertise he brings to the RIT community.

09/17/2026

Congratulations to our RIT Imaging Science colleagues on receiving a $2.2 million NASA award to continue RIT’s longstanding collaboration with the Landsat program!

Led by Rehman Eon and Aaron Gerace, the team will use RIT-developed simulation and modeling capabilities to help prepare Landsat 10 for its planned 2031 deployment.

Landsat provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land, with data used to study water quality, agriculture, forests, climate, and more.

This work builds on an RIT-NASA partnership dating back to 1981 and continues to demonstrate the impact of our imaging science scholars, alumni, faculty, and researchers.

RIT receives a $2.2 million NASA award to extend its collaboration with the Landsat satellite program to prepare Landsat 10.

09/16/2026

A co-op helped Jessie Matteson ’22 discover a passion for protein science and shape the career she is building today.

Now an associate scientist II at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Jessie draws on experiences from her RIT biochemistry coursework, research, and co-op. “Without that co-op, I don’t know if I would have had the passion to get me where I am today,” she said.

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September 14, 2026 Hands-on experience helped Jessie Matteson ’22 discover the science she loved, leading to a career studying protein interactions at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Jessie Matteson ’22 went into her co-op looking for industry experience and came away with something more: a passion for...

09/15/2026

In this College of Science Distinguished Speaker Series talk, Dr. Timothy Gross '04 will discuss the evolution and improvements behind Corning's Gorilla Glass, and highlight emerging approaches to innovative, lower-waste manufacturing techniques.

🗓️ Friday, September 18
⏰ 1:00 - 1:50 pm
📍 A300 Gosnell Hall

09/11/2026

A class project in Joel Kastner’s Fundamentals of Astronomical Imaging course led to a novel way of visualizing data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Second-year electrical engineering student Tristan Liberace turned a 2-day Chandra observation of the Centaurus A galaxy into a 90-second time-lapse, showing the X-ray image build photon by photon.

Dr. Kastner shares the story behind Tristan’s innovative project in a new Chandra blog.

Read the blog and watch the time-lapse:

Chandra Wed, 09/02/2026 - 15:00 Joel Kastner(Credit: Joel Kastner, Rochester Institute of Technology) We welcome Joel Kastner, a professor at the Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics & Astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, as our guest blogger. In this post, he describes ho...

09/10/2026

Energy Innovation Review highlights research by Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics, using advanced simulations to show how magnetic fields and gas surrounding binary supermassive black holes can help astronomers identify these systems through electromagnetic and gravitational-wave observations.

Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x5BiH

09/03/2026

How old are the stars at the heart of our galaxy? That’s what Meridith Joyce, assistant professor of physics, is particularly excited to find out with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Scientific American spoke with Joyce and other astronomers about the telescope and what it could reveal about the Milky Way’s galactic bulge.

The Roman Space Telescope will spend more than a quarter of its time staring at the Milky Way’s bulge, a star-packed central region of our galaxy that may swarm with small, rocky exoplanets

09/02/2026

Joey Root ’25 has found a new way to put his RIT physics experience to work: precision optics.

As an optical manufacturing technician at Optimax Systems, Inc., Joey draws on skills developed through his coursework, labs, and undergraduate research.

“A lot of my previous experience with interferometers came from the lab courses at RIT, which was super helpful going into my career,” Joey said. Read more about how RIT helped prepare him for a career in optics.

September 1, 2026 From RIT physics labs to precision optics, Joey Root ’25 is using skills developed through coursework and research as he builds a career in optical manufacturing at Optimax Systems. For Joey Root ’25, studying physics at RIT provided more than a degree. It gave him the skills h...