As part of his "Extreme National Chemistry Week Tour," the president of the American Chemical Society joined local scientists, educators, and a group of area elementary school students Oct. 19 to view the Molecularium(tm) show, Riding Snowflakes, at the Children's Museum of Science and Technology in Troy, N.Y.
Ning Xiang, chair of the graduate program in architectural acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new technique to streamline and expedite the process of measuring acoustics, which can be used to calculate previously unattainable measurements of sound propagation.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been selected as one of six universities nationwide to be awarded a two-year, nearly $1 million planning grant from the National Institutes of Health that will provide a foundation for the development of a center for cheminformatics research.
RPI has been named one of 10 partner institutions on a national environmental engineering research project "“ the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research.
A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute engineer is headed to New Orleans as part of an expert team investigating levee failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The researchers plan to take lessons from the disaster and apply them to the design of levee systems across the country.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are exploring the potential of nanomechanical systems by making and testing springs, rods, and beams on the nanoscale.
Diamonds have always been alluring, but now a team of scientists has made them truly magnetic "” on the nanoscale.
A new solar-powered underwater robot technology developed for undersea observation and water monitoring will be showcased at a Sept. 16 workshop on leading-edge robotics to be held at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Va.
In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, RPI officials announced that the university will open its doors to 100 students from Tulane University and Xavier University, along with students who are from the New York State capital region and who also have been displaced from their academic pursuits by this tragedy.
Rensselaer President Jackson urged members of the ACS to join in bringing national focus to the "quiet crisis," in the U.S. science and engineering workforce.
A versatile technology that can spot cracks in space shuttle foam, while also offering the potential to see biological agents through a sealed envelope and detect tumors without harmful radiation, will be the focus of a full-day symposium at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Applying math and computers to the drug-discovery process, researchers have developed a method to predict protein separation behavior directly from protein structure. This new multi-scale protein modeling approach may reduce the time it takes to bring pharmaceuticals to market.
RPI is leading a team of researchers awarded a three-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop 3-D virtual patient models that will more accurately compute radiation doses for CT imaging, nuclear medicine, and radiation treatment of cancer patients.
Researchers are developing a tiny, highly efficient heat spreader to be used in a new device to be implanted in the brain of patients who suffer from severe epileptic seizures.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as part of its continued expansion of energy research, today announced a $4.8 million novel interdisciplinary program to train doctoral students in fuel cell science and engineering.
Richard T. Lahey Jr., a pioneer in the field of nuclear reactor technology and safety who is now exploring sonofusion, a new form of nuclear fusion, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Fellowship.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today marked the opening of the Center for Future Energy Systems, a New York State Center for Advanced Technology.
"Smart" solid-state light sources now being developed not only have the potential to provide significant energy savings, but also offer new opportunities for applications that go well beyond the lighting provided by conventional incandescent and fluorescent sources.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) encouraged the Class of 2005 to "always stand true to yourselves" and to "stand up for research and for open inquiry" in her address today to approximately 1,100 graduates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 199th Commencement.
Each year Rensselaer's Lally School of Management and Technology graduates push the envelope of entrepreneurship and innovation. This year's graduating MBA students are no different.
Many graduating students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have carved out time to communicate across cultural boundaries and lead in the global community at Rensselaer and beyond.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 2005 Commencement honorees, the Honorable Paul Volcker, Robert Coonrod, and Joé Juneau, will join President Shirley Ann Jackson in a colloquy on "Personal Achievement "“ Public Lives "“ Public Responsibility," on Friday, May 20, 2005.
While most 18-year-olds were making final decisions this spring about where to attend college, Ryan Trinkle was in the midst of completing final projects for a dual bachelor's degree in computer and systems engineering and computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Undergraduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Class of 2005 are already making their mark to help shape the future in cancer research, nanotechnology, astronomy, and environmental science.
"Our data support recent theories that Earth began a pattern of crust formation, erosion, and sediment recycling as early in its evolution as 4.35 billion years ago, which contrasts with the hot, violent environment envisioned for our young planet by most researchers and opens up the possibility that life got a very early foothold," said E. Bruce Watson.
United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) will speak at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 199th Commencement, on Saturday, May 21, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. at the Harkness Field.
President Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have announced the largest capital campaign in the university's history. The goal is to raise $1 billion to support the Rensselaer endowment, faculty, students, and campus infrastructure by the campaign's end in 2008.
World-renowned biotechnology experts and science policymakers will join the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute community at a series of events Sept. 9-11 to mark the opening of the Institute's Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.
A research team has created a new type of reflector that has dramatically improved LED (light-emitting diodes) luminance. The NSF recently awarded the research team a three-year, $210,000 grant to move the patented omni-directional reflector to market.
Astrophysicist Heidi Newberg at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her colleagues suggest that a "highway" of dark matter from another galaxy may be showering down on Earth. The findings may change the way astronomers look for mysterious cosmic particles, long suspected to outweigh known atomic matter.
Physical Review E has announced the publication of an article by a team of researchers, stating that they have replicated and extended previous experimental results that indicated the occurrence of nuclear fusion using a novel approach for plasma confinement.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has become a prominent test bed to prove how the latest technological advances, such as the super-fast Internet2 (I2), can serve as a platform for new artistic expression.
In spite of today's uncertain economic climate and less-than-stellar job market, many Rensselaer graduates -- particularly the ones with degrees in engineering, computer science, information technology, and management -- are already landing high-profile positions and commanding top dollar for their services.
One hallmark of Rensselaer's graduating class this year is service -- service to communities locally and globally, service to government, and service to others.
College graduates with technical degrees are entering into what is being called a "just-in-time" employment market -- meaning high-tech companies are waiting until the last possible minute to hire grads.
World-renowned neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 197th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 17. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Harkness Field on campus followed by a festive celebration picnic held on the '86 Field.
Across America, high school seniors this month are preparing to put their college enrollment deposits in the mail. The looming question for parents, however, is "how to pay?"
With acceptance letters in the mail and due dates for enrollment deposits rapidly approaching, high school students across the nation this month face a tough decision: Where to go to college?
A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute physics researcher has found that "small-world networking"-- which links a computer to its nearest neighbor and also a few other random computers in a group-- could lead to faster, more accurate parallel-computing techniques for simulation.
This edition of News & Ideas is devoted to two Rensselaer materials science and engineering researchers who have recently made back-to-back breakthroughs in the areas of nanotechnology.
A previously unseen band of stars beyond the edge of the Milky Way galaxy has been discovered by a team of scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
After suffering the first of seven heartbreaking miscarriages in 1986, Rensselaer anthropology professor Linda Layne vowed to bring the subject of pregnancy loss to light.
More than 20 elementary-school students from the Susan Odell Taylor School visited the country's only 'Molecularium' today. Housed in the Lally Digistar II Planetarium in Troy's Junior Museum, the "Molecularium" is designed to introduce students in grades K-3 to simple material science concepts.
Two Rensselaer architecture students have received awards in an international juried competition for their original design of a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic to be used in sub-Saharan Africa. The competition was sponsored by Architecture for Humanity to design a fully equipped, mobile medical unit and treatment center that could be used for testing, prevention, and treatment of the disease, and to disseminate information and provide basic health care services.
Rensselaer researchers have developed an automated system, called RPI-Trace3D, that can swiftly map capillaries in a live tumor. What used to take days of manually tracing the vessels, now takes two minutes. The diagnostic tool, in use at Harvard Medical School and at Northeastern University, is a boon to oncologists who aim to understand how blood vessels form in tumors.
Attendees at a major conference in the Capital Region convened to hammer out recommendations for solving the looming shortage of a qualified nuclear workforce and to strengthen collaborations between universities, industry, and government.
The future of education in nuclear sciences and engineering brings a large contingent of experts to New York's Capital Region Monday, Oct. 28, for a major conference at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center.
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide has donated two U.S. patents to Rensselaer. The technology is key in the manufacture of microbial cellulose, which holds great promise in the tissue engineering industry. Rensselaer will own the patents outright, as well as any foreign equivalents that result.
Two researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are creating a faster, more efficient data-mining technique to determine basic rules of how proteins form. The researchers are Mohammed Zaki, assistant professor of computer science, and Chris Bystroff, assistant professor of biology.
Researchers have discovered how to weld together single-walled carbon nanotubes, pure carbon cylinders with remarkable electronic properties. The discovery could pave the way for controlled fabrication of molecular circuits and nanotube networks.
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