Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that zebra mussel larvae die in water from New York's scenic Lake George, and they suspect low calcium levels.
A scientific breakthrough that could eventually become as important as X-ray and radar technologies may soon make it possible to see images of diseased tissue, electric fields, plastic explosives hidden in a suitcase, and much more that is undetected by other imaging systems. Called real-time electro-optic terahertz sensing, the technology was invented under the leadership of Xi-Cheng Zhang, associate professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
To come up with new product ideas, researchers at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seed consumer imaginations with tantalizing triggers such as blow-dry dog, fold clothes, or shrink car.
Rensselaer researcher Michael Savic has developed an electronic device that acts as an early warning system for leaks and explosions in pipelines and storage tanks. Savic's patented system extends his earlier work to detect problems in underground pipelines.
A $20 million crystal growth experiment on board the current flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia is making Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a testbed for the remote telescience that will be the paradigm for research on the planned International Space Station.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are creating and studying aerogels, substances so porous they are more air than solid material. When used as insulators on computer chips, these porous materials could more than double computing speeds.
ìUsers can achieve more intimacy on-line than they commonly do face-to-face,î according to research by Joseph Walther, assistant professor of communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
A synthetic author the likes of Proust, Joyce, or Kafka may not be in the future, but Brutus.1--an artificial agent capable of story generation--just wrote its first story about betrayal.
China's future energy import needs will dramatically affect the global environment and energy security, says Jon Erickson, assistant professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rensselaer has patented a device that listens to blood flowing in a patientÃs carotid artery and tells a doctor immediately if the artery is blocked by dangerous cholesterol deposits. The device provides an inexpensive, non- invasive screening system that doctors can use in their offices during routine checkups
Research by a social scientist at Rensselaer confirms that online relationships can lead to face-to-face romance as in the scenario in You've Got Mail, the hit movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Women with cancer want increased control and better information about their treatment options, concludes new research by a professor of anthropology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A Rensselaer Incubator company has commercialized a technology that may take the animal out of animal testing. A Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and a senior research scientist at RPI have developed the Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing-ECIS 100(tm) --which uses electricity to study complex cell behavior.
The effective treatment of cancer requires a comprehensive approach by the medical community to a patient's total life situation, says new research by a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and medical policy needs to be reformed to incorporate evaluation of alternative and complementary cancer therapies.
An engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created a 3-D virtual man called "Visible Photographic Man" (VIP-Man) that is so sophisticated it can model the effects of radiation on the skin, lens of the eye, optic nerve, GI-tract mucous membranes, and bone marrow--areas previously too minute to accurately model, but which are highly susceptible to radiation.
Brutus.1, a computer that can write short stories of up to 500 words, has been invited to participate in the world's first computer vs. human writing contest on America Online's popular site, the Amazing Instant Novelist. The contest begins Sept. 23.
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.
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."
Rensselaer's March Tipsheet is dedicated to women's research and education, as the nation celebrates Women's History Month.
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.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Commencement 2000, May 13.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has obtained a gift of $360 million, the largest gift ever to any public or private university in the United States.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
A new computation technique, developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, could lead to more effective Internet traffic management and congestion control.
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