Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., have created large symmetrical crystals that rarely occur in nature. These crystals could be harder than conventional engineering materials. The accidental discovery was made during attempts to make superconducting nanostructures with a simple technique used to create carbon nanotubes.
Shanghai, a city of commercialism and consumerism, is a place where any Westerner would feel at home. Yet underneath this facade of coffee houses and fast food restaurants lies the regimented order of Communism.
In 1996, marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman published a scientifically popular hypothesis, titled Noah's Flood Hypothesis. The researchers presented evidence of a bursting flood about 7,500 years ago in what is now the Black Sea. This, some say, supports the biblical story of Noah and the flood. But, such a forceful flood could not have taken place, says Jun Abrajano, professor of earth and environmental sciences at Rensselaer.
Denis Fred Simon has been named Dean of the Kenneth T. and Thelma P. Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
For the first time, researchers have created a simplified method for making long, continuous, hair-like strands of carbon nanotubes that are as much as eight inches in length. This breakthrough is a first step toward creating such products as microcables for electrical devices or mechanically robust electrochemical actuators for artificial muscles.
Civilian space traveler and Rensselaer alumnus Dennis Tito will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 196th Commencement ceremonies on May 18.
Researchers at Rensselaer have discovered a surprising new property of single-walled carbon nanotubes. When exposed to a conventional photographic flash, the nanotubes emit a loud pop and then ignite.
Anne Marie Lisuzzo '04, a 19-year-old sophomore from Albany, has been appointed by Governor George Pataki and the New York State Senate as a student member of the board of trustees of the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation, the state agency that helps people pay for college. On the board, which handles more than $2.2 billion in student loans each year, Lisuzzo will represent needs at private colleges and universities.
Daniel Freedman, 30, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. Freedman, assistant professor of computer science, will use his $350,000 five-year grant to develop a new automated visual tracking system that could improve surveillance and MRI technology.
Next-generation computer chips, integrated circuits, and the microelectromechanical devices that power them depend upon carbon nanotubes that can be grown up, down, sideways, and in all three dimensions. Researchers at Rensselaer are the first to achieve this unprecedented, specific, and controlled nanotube growth.
The cause of Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) has remained elusive since it brought down one of baseball's greatest players 60 years ago. A Rensselaer biochemist's vital research in ALS has recently earned a $1M, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Mike Savic can't recapture the 18 missing minutes of the Watergate tapes, but he can teach computers to deliver sounds that have been damaged in transmission. His research will aid military communications, improve hearing aids, and possibly find music's lost chords.
A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has reported the observation of phenomena that could point to the possibility of nuclear fusion using a novel technique for plasma confinement.
From turbine engines to toilet tissue, the time to market of manufactured products could be accelerated through improved high-tech design. To perfect the design process and decrease costs, Rensselaer researchers are working with Simmetrix Inc. of Clifton Park, N.Y., inventors of a virtual simulation model used extensively to automate the design of interior air handling systems in automobiles.
Pawel Keblinski has been awarded a five-year, $300,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER Award is the NSF's most prestigious honor for faculty members who are at the beginning of their academic careers.
Over the years acid deposition, commonly referred to as "acid rain," has rendered dozens of lakes in the Adirondacks uninhabitable for fish and other wildlife. Now, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers at the Darrin Fresh Water Institute have indicated that some of the most severely affected lakes in that region are showing signs of recovery.
A new computation technique, developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, could lead to more effective Internet traffic management and congestion control.
Rensselaer has received a $400,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to organize a Community Outreach Partnership Center in the City of Troy. The goal of the Center, in partnership with the City of Troy, is to revitalize Troy's neighborhoods and infrastructure, promote the use of technology in math and science education, and to bridge the "digital divide" through job and technology training.
The J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a team of researchers are the first to image biological tissue using single pulses of terahertz (THz or T-ray) radiation. This single-pulse approach will improve diagnostic time from hours or days, down to minutes or seconds. The technique could one day lead to computerized medical diagnoses right in the physician's office.
An Associate professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and An astrophysicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who are leading a team of researchers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, announced they have identified new star structures in the halo of the Milky Way that could alter the standard model of the galaxy. The research also has implications for how the Milky Way was formed.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., was selected by the National Science Foundation to receive $10M to develop one of six Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers.
Ten colleges and universities across the country will receive $2M in grants from The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign at the Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer. The grants were announced by the executive director of the Center.
Two Rensselaer graduate students, Dean Nieusma and Elizabeth Press, have been awarded prestigious Fulbright student grants to do research and to study abroad. They are the first Rensselaer students to receive the awards, which were recently announced by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Four researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to solve a range of problems--including using the elastic properties of tissue to detect tumors in the human body--with a branch of mathematics known as inverse problems.
While the debate rages over the future of the nation's energy resources, including the potential increase in the number of coal-burning power plants, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have linked coal plant emissions to toxic levels of mercury.
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, today announced that the innovative, London-based architecture firm of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners has been selected to design Rensselaer's new electronic media and performing arts center.
Srinivas Akella, assistant professor of computer science at Rensselaer, was awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation to develop software that will eventually allow industrial robots to do what they've never done before: manipulate flexible objects.
Governor George E. Pataki announced June 19 that Rensselaer received $300,000 in funding to evaluate a new microelectronics insulating material that has the potential to double the processing speed of microchips. The Polyset Company in Mechanicville, along with other resources, will provide an additional $300,000 in funding for a total of $600,000 for the two-year project.
Researchers at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute report that HID (high-intensity-discharge) headlights enable drivers to see more effectively at night than conventional tungsten-halogen lights.
The number of zebra mussels found in Lake George has declined dramatically since last year, when Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers and volunteers began manually pulling the troublesome mollusks from the water.
Joseph E. Flaherty, Amos Eaton Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named dean of the School of Science following an international search.
Bill Cosby today urged the 1,100 graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to change the world by being honest, remaining humble, and continuing to learn from others.
The Honorable Charles E. Schumer, the senior U.S. senator from New York, will join entertainer and educator Bill Cosby in speaking to graduates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 195th Commencement this Saturday, May 12, 9:30 a.m. at the Pepsi Arena in Albany.
Even with a slumping economy, students graduating with a high-tech degree can continue to expect to have the upper hand in the hiring process, says Tom Tarantelli, director of the Career Development Center (CDC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will bestow honorary doctoral degrees on Vinton G. Cerf, known as the "Father of the Internet," entertainer and educator Bill Cosby, and renowned sociologist William Julius Wilson.
Every graduate of a technological university should have a solid grounding in entrepreneurship, says Mike Herman, who has just invested $1 million to transform degree programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
ProductivityNet, Inc., a company run by a foursome of 20-somethings, received $250,000 in venture funding from iDeal Partners, an Albany-based investment group. In addition to the funding, iDeal has agreed to finance capital equipment, provide strategic corporate advice and management, and assist with identifying and facilitating potential partnerships.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has obtained a gift of $360 million, the largest gift ever to any public or private university in the United States.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President announced that the Institute has obtained a gift of $130M from an anonymous donor to construct two major new facilities: a biotechnology research building and an electronic media and performing arts center.
In their new book, Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts (Harvard Business School Press), six Rensselaer management professors lay out a manifesto for managing corporate innovation.
Ten colleges and universities across the country will receive $2 million in grants from The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign from the Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The grants were announced this week by the Center's Executive Director.
Curtis R. Priem, chief technology officer and co-founder of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) has been named the William F. Glaser '53 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
First-year college students are more stressed out than ever trying to balance the increasing pressures of academic competition, financial responsibilities, and extracurricular activities such as running their own business.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Commencement 2000, May 13.
deCODE Genetics, the company licensed to create a nationwide healthcare database in Iceland, recently filed for an IPO with the SEC earlier this week, making the genes of the people of Iceland a publicly traded commodity.
Rensselaer's March Tipsheet is dedicated to women's research and education, as the nation celebrates Women's History Month.
If Ben & Jerry's is acquired by a major multinational corporation, it spells "death for the company as it stands," according to an internationally known expert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Recent announcements of layoffs at Coca-Cola are a major management misstep that show a lack of leadership, according to an internationally known expert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
More and more companies are embracing "soulful" themes, e.g., Volkswagen uses the slogan "If you were really good in a past life, you come back as something better" to link its new Beetle to the traditional "Bug."
Louis V. Gerstner Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM, will be featured speaker and will receive an honorary degree at the 1999 Rensselaer Honors Convocation. The event will be held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Room 308 of the Darrin Communications Center.
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