In a first of its kind class at RPI, 44 undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering students watched surgery being done at the Bone and Joint Center in Albany.

With a $2 million grant from the NIH, researchers from Rensselaer are developing a physics-based virtual model that can simulate a patient’s breathing in real time.

When it comes to identifying, planning for, and achieving career goals, undergraduate students are getting a head start from the Career Development Center at Rensselaer.

The new supercomputer at Rensselaer has been ranked seventh in the world, and it is the most powerful of any system based at a university, according to the 29th edition of the closely watched Top500 list.

José González is fluent in the international language of science. Born the son of a medical doctor in Puerto Rico, he has been speaking this language since he was a child. On May 19, González will take the next step in a long journey as he crosses the platform at Rensselaer’s 201st Commencement.

Abigail Eldridge ’07 has conducted cutting-edge bioengineering and nanotechnology research, served in Rensselaer’s student government, played on three varsity sports teams, and has interned at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.

Rensselaer’s Lally School is one of nine new schools to be named to BusinessWeek magazine’s list of top 50 undergraduate business programs.

A delegation from Rensselaer will travel to Europe March 15-22 to meet with leading representatives from government, industry, science, and higher education.

Rensselaer’s Lally School and Albany Law School today announced plans to offer two innovative master’s degree programs in the fields of technology transfer and commercialization.

In a lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, President Shirley Ann Jackson called for a renewed focus on science in key public policy deliberations.

Rensselaer’s annual series of welcoming events called Navigating Rensselaer and Beyond has been awarded the 2006 NASPA Excellence Gold Award.

Brian Schulkin, winner of the first-ever $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize, has invented an ultralight, handheld terahertz spectrometer.

Four entries were recognized today as the winning ideas of Rensselaer’s “Change the World Challenge” competition.

On Sept. 8, Rensselaer announced an in-kind contribution commercially valued at almost $514 million from the Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE). PACE is a joint philanthropic initiative of General Motors, EDS, Sun Microsystems, and UGS Corp. to support key academic institutions worldwide with computer-based design tools to prepare students to compete in the future.

Deanna Thompson, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Rensselaer, has received one of six New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR) James D. Watson Investigator Program Awards. The $200,000 grant will support Thompson’s research, which focuses on the repair mechanisms of the nervous system.

Rensselaer officials have announced a $250,000 fellowship gift commitment from Ajit Prabhu ’98 in support of the $1 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer Campaign. The Ajit Prabhu ’98 Fellowship will be added to the Rensselaer endowment, and income from the gift will be used to provide fellowship support directly to master’s or doctoral degree students, with first preference to those enrolled in the biomedical engineering program.

A team of researchers led by Rensselaer has been awarded a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to work on improving the prediction of bone fracture risk by developing a new way to measure bone quality.

More than 30 students and faculty from Rensselaer presented research and received awards at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Fall Meeting, Sept. 28-Oct. 1, in Baltimore, Md.

Everyone knows that bones break more easily as you get older. Almost everyone blames loss of bone density. Deepak Vashishth has another idea altogether — and his award-winning research may someday make treatment of fractures more effective.

Research with VIP-Man (VIsible Photographic Man) will greatly augment our understanding of how electrons, neutrons, and protons pass through human tissues.

Rensselaer is leading a team of researchers awarded a three-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 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. The grant is funded by the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH.

Jan Stegemann, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is combining nanotechnology and tissue engineering to develop new cellular tissue that can bridge and support damaged regions of the cardiovascular system.

Orthopedic, dental, and other bone implants are becoming commonplace, but they are not yet trouble free. Rensselaer scientists are studying such implants to discover how weight loading influences blood supply, cell differentiation, and bone healing around these increasingly common devices.

Researchers on a Rensselaer-led team believe bone mass should not be the only factor used when predicting an elderly person's risk for bone fractures.

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, a critical cardiac patient will receive a bioengineered blood vessel that saves her life - and she won't know whom to thank. Jan Stegemann would be a good start.

Jan Stegemann is a biological architect of sorts. The Rensselaer assistant professor of biomedical engineering is building better three-dimensional scaffolds of naturally derived polymers. The goal is to create bioengineered tissues capable of replacing damaged body parts, such as blood vessels, or eventually entire organs, such as the pancreas and liver.

Mammogram results are ambiguous for about half the women who undergo the procedure, but Rensselaer researchers are working to reduce that number with a new tool intended to complement a mammogram.

Consider the myriad areas of expertise wrapped under the umbrella of biomedical engineering: biophysics, system physiology, molecular biology, modeling and simulation, instrumentation and sensing, and the list goes on.

Using experimental and mathematical models, Natacha DePaola and a team of biomedical engineering researchers are examining how blood flow causes changes in the circulatory system. Her research could lead to a better understanding of how atherosclerosis develops.