[6] The following January, they announced that $1.425 million had been raised by the Research Triangle Foundation to fund the park and that $500,000 of it had been set aside for RTI International.

[8] RTI provided funding assistance to help found the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 1980.

[11] Two years later, it was part of a joint venture to create Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), a non-profit whose computer network connected local K-12 schools.

[5] In 1986, RTI was awarded a $4 million contract with the National Cancer Institute to conduct an eight-year clinical trial on the effects of an anti-smoking campaign.

[19] Two years later, RTI began a $4.4 million program to co-ordinate AIDS drug trials for the National Institutes of Health.

[5] In 1978, RTI researched the possibility of improving solar cells for the US Department of Energy[21] and coal gasification for the Environmental Protection Agency in 1979.

[22] RTI trained Chinese government employees on using computer models to forecast pollution patterns before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

[26] In 1975, RTI recommended that the Bureau of the Mint halt expensive production of cents and replace half-dollars with a new dollar coin.

[28] A 2009 study by RTI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in Health Affairs estimated that obesity in the US caused $147 billion in increased medical care costs annually.

To inform and train Iraqis in local governance systems, RTI ultimately set up offices in Iraq’s 18 provinces.

[33] In October 2018, RTI published a study showing that heroin users who used fentanyl testing strips were more likely to adopt safer drug habits.