COVID-19 Model Inspired by Gas-Phase Chemistry Predicts Disease Spread

A COVID-19 transmission model inspired by gas-phase chemistry is helping the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) forecast COVID-19 deaths across the country. Developed by Yunfeng Shi, an associate professor of materials science and...
21-Oct-2020 10:50 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Evidence of Broadside Collision With Dwarf Galaxy Discovered in Milky Way

Astrophysicists announced today that a 3-billion year old merger between a dwarf galaxy and the Milky Way produced a series of telltale shell-like formations of stars in the vicinity of the Virgo constellation, the first such “shell structures”...
20-Oct-2020 10:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Rensselaer, GE Research, Cleerly, and Cornell Partner With NIH To Improve Cardiac CT Diagnosis

With the support of a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, an academic-industrial collaboration between General Electric Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cleerly,...
13-Oct-2020 11:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Could Plastic-Eating, Silk-Producing Bacteria Be a New Ally in the Fight Against Waste?

With the support of a new National Science Foundation grant, a team of engineers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will explore a potentially transformative idea: genetically engineering a microorganism that “eats” petroleum-based plastic...
30-Sep-2020 11:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Urgent Need To Re-Examine Hazard Mitigation

With many people stuck inside for months on end, the built environment has played a significant role in the COVID-19 pandemic. With support from a new National Science Foundation grant, a team of engineers and social scientists will study the ways...
22-Sep-2020 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Consumers Value Difficult Decisions Over Easy Choices

In a paper co-authored by Gaurav Jain, an assistant professor of marketing in the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer, researchers found that disfluency, or the difficulty for an individual to process a message, increases people’s attitudes...
17-Sep-2020 12:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Biometric Data, Algorithms To Unlock Key Information About Circadian Clock

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute anticipate a future in which a combination of smart wearables and algorithms assess each person’s circadian rhythm and provide personalized feedback as to what light, sleep, and work schedule would...
16-Sep-2020 10:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

To Meet Future Wireless Needs, Spectrum Sharing Policies Need an Upgrade

With the support of a new National Science Foundation grant, Alhussein Abouzeid, a professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will develop a series of mathematical models that will help optimize...
8-Sep-2020 1:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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