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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 2005-2006 News Releases
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12/15/2006Rensselaer Professor Featured in Mechatronics Videocast
12/13/2006Rensselaer Licenses Microscope Technology To Thorlabs
12/12/2006Rensselaer Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award To Support Development of Open Source Calendar Program
12/09/2006GE and Rensselaer Sponsor “Nano Quest Challenge” Robotics Tournament for Local Middle Schools
12/07/2006Supercomputing Equipment To Advance the Frontiers of Computational Biology
11/29/2006Rensselaer Announces New VP for Strategic Communications and External Relations
11/29/2006Lally School Creates Executive Education Program in “Leadership for Innovation and Growth in the Energy Industry”
11/23/2006President Shirley Ann Jackson and Physics Professor Gwo-Ching Wang Elected as 2006 AAAS Fellows
11/22/2006President Shirley Ann Jackson Joins Delegation to Asia To Promote U.S. Higher Education
11/21/2006Rensselaer Incubator Company Receives 2006 “Best of What’s New” Award from Popular Science
11/17/2006IDG’s InfoWorld Names Rensselaer’s Data Warehouse Among the 100 Most Innovative Corporate IT Solutions
11/13/2006Rensselaer Scientist Honored for Carbon Nanotube Research
11/09/2006Portable, Solar-Powered Tag Readers Could Improve Traffic Management
11/08/2006Examining the Impact of Renewable Energy on the Electric Power Grid
11/06/2006New Techniques Pave Way for Carbon Nanotubes in Electronic Devices
11/03/2006Rensselaer Researchers Developing Model To Predict Organizational Response to Extreme Events
11/01/2006Using Mathematics and Computers To Understand the World
10/31/2006The Power Behind Insect Flight: Researchers Reveal Key Kinetic Component
10/30/2006Rensselaer Announces Appointment of Dean of Science
10/26/2006Rensselaer’s Severino Center Names 2006 Recipients of the Rensselaer Paul and Kathleen Severino Future Leader Award
10/23/2006Rensselaer’s Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship Hosts Women of Diversity — Entrepreneurship Symposium
10/19/2006Sean O’Sullivan Donates $2 Million To Create Center for Open Software
10/13/2006Co-Founder of Agencourt Bioscience Corporation Named 2006 William F. Glaser ’53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year
10/11/2006Business Intelligence Perspectives Honors Rensselaer’s Data Warehouse for the Best Practices in Business Intelligence
10/06/2006Researchers To Develop Active Nanoscale Surfaces for Biological Separations
09/27/2006Alliance Aims To Rethink Network Computing and Communications
09/18/2006Darrin Fresh Water Institute Earns $1.5 Million Gift for Research Professorship
09/11/2006Rensselaer Increases Campaign Goal to $1.4 Billion
09/08/2006$514 Million PACE Contribution to Rensselaer Provides Comprehensive Design Tools
08/30/2006Nanotube Ink: Desktop Printing of Carbon Nanotube Patterns
08/28/2006New Anthrax Inhibitor Could Combat Antibiotic-resistant Strains
08/28/2006Princeton Review Ranks Rensselaer Number Two College With “More to do on Campus”
08/23/2006Rensselaer Researchers Aim To Close “Green Gap” in LED Technology
08/22/2006Rensselaer Welcomes First-Year Students: Class of 2010
08/18/2006Rensselaer Rises in Rankings of Nation’s Top 50 Universities
08/13/2006Rensselaer Named One of America’s “New Ivies” by Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide
08/13/2006Statement on the Passing of University at Albany President Kermit Hall
08/11/2006Digital Surgery With Touch Feedback Could Improve Medical Training
08/10/2006Computer Scientists Lay Out Vision for a “Science of the Web”
08/07/2006Rensselaer Students Demonstrate Human Transporter Vehicle at NIWeek
08/04/2006Rensselaer To Host North American Computing and Philosophy Conference
07/20/2006Examining How Headlight Glare May Affect Driver Behavior and Roadway Safety
07/14/2006Rensselaer Announces New Vice President for Institute Advancement
07/12/2006Researchers Discover Communication Signal for Tissue Development
07/10/2006Linda B. McGown Appointed Walker Chair of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
06/29/2006Middle States Commission on Higher Education Reaffirms Rensselaer Accreditation
06/29/2006Rensselaer Incubator Program Welcomes Six New High-Tech Companies
06/28/2006Researchers Create New Organic Gel Nanomaterials
06/27/2006Lally School of Management and Technology Professor Receives Bosch Berlin Prize
06/23/2006Math Lessons Get a Makeover: New Tools Spark Student Interest, Achievement in Mathematics
06/23/2006Blueprint for Improvement: Rensselaer Students Distribute Alley Revitalization Guidebooks
06/21/2006Rensselaer Doctoral Candidate Jeanette Simmonds Wins Fulbright Award
06/21/2006Groundbreaking Inventiveness To Be Rewarded at Rensselaer
06/20/2006Seismic Shock Absorbers for Woodframe Houses
06/19/2006Sticky Surfaces Turn Slippery With the Flip of a Molecular Light Switch
06/16/2006New Book Reveals Player Psychology Paramount To Designing Better Game Characters
06/15/2006Lecture Series To Honor Legacy of Rensselaer Chemical Engineering Professor
06/14/2006Web Visionary James A. Hendler Will Lead Tetherless World Research Constellation
06/08/2006Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson Receives Honorary Degree from Harvard University
06/08/2006Rensselaer Receives $1 Million Gift To Support Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
06/07/2006Rensselaer Announces New Vice President for Enrollment
06/01/2006RNA Found in the Cellular Centrosome of Surf Clams
05/25/2006Researchers Explore Using Nanotubes as Minuscule Metalworking Tools
05/20/2006General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army Retired, Addresses More Than 1,300 Rensselaer Graduates
05/19/2006An Overview of Rensselaer’s 200th Commencement
05/17/2006Commencement 2006: Honorees To Participate in Colloquy on May 19
05/16/2006Commencement 2006: Rensselaer To Recognize Its Future Military Officers
05/15/2006Commencement 2006: Rensselaer's School of Architecture Celebrates 75 Years of Graduates
05/11/2006Commencement 2006: A Family Affair
05/10/2006New Supercomputing Center To Advance the Science of Nanotechnology
05/08/2006Nanotube Sandwiches Could Lead To Better Composite Materials
05/05/2006Rensselaer Lally School of Management Graduate Student Team Wins Rensselaer’s Tech Valley Collegiate Business Plan Competition for Area College Students
05/05/2006Rensselaer Students Help Give Local Landmark a High-Tech Facelift
05/04/2006Blood-Compatible Nanoscale Materials Possible Using Heparin
05/03/2006Rensselaer Board of Trustees Enthusiastically Endorses Leadership and Presidency of Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
05/03/2006Commencement 2006: Rensselaer Students Accelerate Their Education, Pursue Research Opportunities in Energy and Biotech
05/02/2006Rensselaer Students Invite Neighbors To Wander “Up Their Alley”
05/01/2006Commencement 2006: For Nuclear Engineering, the Future Is Now
04/28/2006President Jackson’s Remarks at Meeting with Rensselaer Faculty
04/25/2006Rensselaer and Cleveland Clinic Establish Biomedical Research Collaboration
04/25/2006Rensselaer To Host Third-Annual Game Festival and Symposium April 28 - 29
04/25/2006School Daze: With So Many Choices, How Do You Pick the Right College?
04/23/2006Anthrax Inhibitor Counteracts Toxin, May Lead to New Therapeutics
04/21/2006Two Rensselaer Students Selected as 2006 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars
04/19/2006Seth Appert Slated To Become Head Men’s Hockey Coach
04/19/2006Scientists Develop Simple Alternative for Harvesting Daylight and Saving Energy
04/04/2006Imagining the Future of Energy: Rensselaer Hosts Alumni Panel Discussion on the Need for Energy Innovation
04/01/2006Rensselaer Graduate Programs Ranked Among the Nation’s Best by U.S. News & World Report
03/31/2006Statement from President Shirley Ann Jackson on the Death of Reverend Thomas Phelan
03/31/2006Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Entrepreneur From India To Endow Quarter-Million Dollar Fellowship
03/22/2006Rensselaer Professor Petros Drineas Receives NSF Career Award
03/22/2006Researchers Examine the Impact of Architectural Lighting on Breast Cancer
03/22/2006Student Conference To Explore the Future of Nuclear Power
03/21/2006President Shirley Ann Jackson Leads Institute Delegation to India To Discuss Cooperative Research and Education Initiatives To Foster Technological Innovation
03/18/2006President Shirley Ann Jackson's Statement Regarding U.S. Representative Sherwood Boehlert
03/17/2006Rensselaer Names New Director of the Center for Future Energy Systems
03/15/2006Video of New Orleans Levee Model Illustrates IPET Preliminary Findings
03/13/2006Rensselaer Unveils Powerful Biotechnology Research Tool
03/07/2006General Wesley K. Clark To Speak at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2006 Commencement
03/06/2006Rensselaer Inducts New Members Into Phalanx Honor Society for 2006
03/01/2006“Nano Skins” Show Promise as Flexible Electronic Devices
03/01/2006Rensselaer Researcher Awarded NSF Grant To Study Proteins Under Pressure
02/27/2006Rensselaer Hosts “Exploring Engineering Day” for Local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
02/24/2006Rensselaer Technological Entrepreneurship Experts Traveling to China
02/24/2006Rensselaer Lally School of Management and Technology Students To Participate in International Trading Competition
02/22/2006Rensselaer Announces $1 Million Scholarship Gift To Fuel the Next Generation of Innovators
02/21/2006Levee Modeling Study To Provide Technical Data for Rebuilding New Orleans
02/15/2006Rensselaer Professor Alhussein Abouzeid Receives NSF CAREER Award
02/13/2006“Double Crystal Fusion” Could Pave the Way for Portable Device
02/11/2006Rensselaer Hosts Eighth Annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day
02/08/2006Adding Nanotubes Makes Ordinary Materials Absorb Vibration
02/08/2006University Presidents: NY Must Act on Stem Cell Research
02/06/2006Heparin Prepared Synthetically Could Replace Animal-Derived Drug
02/02/2006Rensselaer President Urges Quick Action on Innovation Agenda
01/30/2006Rensselaer President Calls for State of the Union Focus on Nation’s Capacity to Innovate
01/27/2006New Sonofusion Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source
01/27/2006Rensselaer Kicks Off 2006 Business Plan Competition
01/23/2006New Math: Two Plus Two Equals Three
01/20/2006Rensselaer Ranked Among the Most Connected Campuses in the Nation
01/17/2006Rensselaer To Host 5th Annual “Embrace the Dream” Celebration in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr
01/11/2006Governor George E. Pataki Budgets $25 Million in New Funds for Rivers and Estuaries Center
01/11/2006Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Appoints Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship
12/14/2005Electronic Walls and Ceilings Make it Easy to Change Lighting and Room Design
12/13/2005Rensselaer Architecture Students Awarded Two of the Top Three Prizes in International Design Competition
12/13/2005Fostering Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation in the Maghreb
12/12/2005Toxicology-on-a-Chip Tool Readies for Market
12/06/2005Harnessing the Heating – and Cooling – Powers of the Sun
12/03/2005GE and Rensselaer Sponsor “FIRST of Its Kind” Robotics Tournament for Local Schools
11/28/2005Rensselaer Earth Research Featured at AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco
11/24/2005Nanotube Foams Flex and Rebound With “Super Compressibility”
11/22/2005Rensselaer Materials Research Highlighted at MRS Fall Meeting in Boston
11/17/2005Senate Hearing Focuses on Repairing Levees in New Orleans
11/16/2005Rensselaer Receives NYSTAR Biotechnology Research Award
11/16/2005Om Nalamasu Chosen for “Pride of India” Award
11/09/2005Rensselaer Researchers Test Polymer Membrane for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Applications
11/08/2005Robotic Assembly of Fuel Cells Could Hasten Hydrogen Economy
11/03/2005Levee Assessment Team Releases Preliminary Report at Senate Hearing
10/31/2005Rensselaer Researcher Awarded DARPA Funding To Improve Terrain Maps
10/28/2005Rensselaer Professor Michael Shur Elected as 2005 AAAS Fellow
10/27/2005Rensselaer Announces Appointment of Incubator Director
10/20/2005Nanoscale Study Gives New Insight Into Heat Transfer in Biological Systems
10/19/2005ACS President Views Molecularium™ as Part of National Chemistry Week
10/18/2005Framework Developed for Testing How Lighting Can Affect Human Health
10/14/2005Rensselaer Researcher Develops Method To Streamline and Accelerate the Process of Measuring Acoustics
10/13/2005Rensselaer Awarded NIH Grant To Support Cheminformatics Research
10/11/2005Rensselaer Named Partner Institution in National Environmental Engineering Research Project
10/10/2005Rensselaer Engineer Joins Team To Study Levee Failures in New Orleans
10/07/2005Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson To Serve as Honorary Chair for the National Women’s Hall of Fame 2005 Induction Ceremony
10/04/2005Rensselaer Researcher Awarded NIH Grant To Improve Prediction of Bone Fracture Risk
10/03/2005Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hosts ACE Fellow Stacey Franklin Jones, Ph.D.
09/29/2005Statement Regarding Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Policy on Electronic Citizenship
09/29/2005Lighting Research Center Selected to Join FAA Centers of Excellence Program
09/27/2005Severino Center Launches Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship Seminar Series
09/27/2005Rensselaer Names New Director of the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems
09/17/2005$1 Million Gift From Entrepreneur and Alumnus Sean O’Sullivan ’85 Launches “Change the World Challenge”
09/15/2005Rensselaer Researchers Awarded NSF Grant To Study Nano Springs, Rods, Beams 
09/12/2005Rensselaer Researchers Create Tiny Magnetic Diamonds on the Nanoscale
09/09/2005IBM Chairman and CEO To Deliver Presidential Lecture at RPI
09/08/2005City of Troy Names Street After Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumnus
09/06/2005RPI Researcher To Showcase New Solar Underwater Robot Technology
09/02/2005Rensselaer Opening Its Doors to 100 Tulane and Xavier Students
08/29/2005Researcher Develops New Tool To Study Elusive DNA Structure
08/29/2005Jackson Urges National Response to “Quiet Crisis” in U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce
08/29/2005Lighting Research Center Awarded Contract to Redefine National Roadway Lighting Guidelines
08/26/2005American Chemical Society Session To Focus on T-rays — the Next Wave in Imaging Technology
08/25/2005Rensselaer Partners With Polyset Company in Technology Transfer Award From New York State
08/23/2005New Director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at the Lally School Announced
08/22/2005Rensselaer Welcomes First-Year Students: Class of 2009
08/22/2005Rensselaer Professor Peter Kramer Selected To Receive NSF Career Award
08/19/2005Rensselaer Researchers Develop Approach That Predicts Protein Separation Behavior
08/19/2005Rensselaer Once Again Ranks Among Nation’s Top 50 Universities
08/17/2005Jack McDonnell ’61 Gives $1 Million Unrestricted Gift to Rensselaer
08/15/2005Rensselaer Announces Appointment of Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology
08/11/2005Thomas and Constance D’Ambra Endow $3 Million Chair in Chemistry at Rensselaer To Support Biotechnology Initiatives
08/11/2005Rensselaer Researchers Awarded NIH Grant To Develop Virtual Patient Models
08/08/2005Rensselaer MFA Student One of 22 in U.S. Selected for Media Arts Fellowship
08/04/2005Rensselaer Astrophysicist Chairs New Survey of Milky Way Galaxy
08/03/2005Rensselaer’s Lally School Names 2005 Recipient of the Herman Family Fellowship for Women in Entrepreneurship
07/26/2005Rensselaer Researchers Develop Heat Spreader for Epileptic Seizure Treatment Device
07/26/2005Rensselaer Lally School of Management and Technology Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
07/11/2005Rensselaer Professor Langdon Winner Appointed to the Thomas Phelan Chair
07/01/2005Rensselaer One of 25 Schools Selected for “HP Technology for Teaching Leadership” Grant
06/27/2005Researchers at Rensselaer Create Multifunctional Brushes From Carbon Nanotubes
06/22/2005Rensselaer Partners With Cornell To Test Effects of Earthquakes on Critical Pipeline Systems
06/21/2005NSF Awards Rensselaer First-of-Its-Kind Grant for Fuel Cell Research Education
06/13/2005Architecture Students Address Development Issues in the Middle East
06/10/2005Rensselaer Nuclear-Energy Pioneer Richard T. Lahey Jr. Receives Two Major Honors
06/09/2005Rensselaer Experiment Finds Water Molecules Are Always H2
06/07/2005Rensselaer Opens New $20 Million Center for Future Energy Systems
06/02/2005Rensselaer Professor Christopher Bystroff Receives NSF Career Award
05/26/2005Solid-State Lighting Sources Getting More Energy Efficient and Smart
05/21/2005Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Addresses Rensselaer’s 199th Commencement
05/20/2005Commencement 2005: Rensselaer Students Honored for Making a Difference
05/19/2005An Overview of Rensselaer’s 199th Commencement
05/17/2005Commencement 2005: Learning and Working in a Global Community
05/17/2005Commencement 2005: Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer
05/16/2005Commencement 2005: Graduating at 18, Time To Start a Company
05/16/2005Commencement 2005: Undergraduate Research and Innovation Flourishes at Rensselaer
05/16/2005Commencement 2005: Honorees To Participate in Colloquy on May 20
05/05/2005New Thermometer Reveals Wet Conditions on Earliest Earth
05/04/2005Rensselaer Research Professor Awarded Fulbright Grant
05/02/2005Rensselaer To Award Honorary Degree to IBM Chairman and CEO Samuel Palmisano
04/19/2005Rensselaer Undergraduate Team Selected to Receive 2005 SIAM Award for Mathematical Modeling Contest
04/18/2005Statement From the Director of Media Relations Regarding Rensselaer's Policy on Electronic Citizenship
04/15/2005Sylvester James Gates Jr. to Deliver 15th Annual Garnet Baltimore Lecture April 18
04/15/2005Rensselaer Department of Public Safety Launches New Web Site
04/13/2005Rensselaer Receives NYSTAR Biotechnology Research Award
04/12/2005Nalamasu Appointed as Vice President for Research at Rensselaer
04/12/2005Rensselaer Appoints Time-Based Arts Curator for EMPAC
04/11/2005Breakthrough Technology Accelerates Solid-State Lighting
04/08/2005Rensselaer Biology Student Selected as 2005 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar
04/04/2005Rensselaer Announces 2005 Commencement Honorary Degree Recipients
04/04/2005Rensselaer Junior Selected as 2005 Harry S. Truman Scholar
04/01/2005Rensselaer Graduate Programs Ranked Among the Nation’s Best by U.S. News & World Report
03/28/2005New Book on Environmental Issues Published by Rensselaer Professor
03/25/2005President Shirley Ann Jackson To Lead Delegation to Asia To Discuss Research and Education Partnership
03/24/2005Statement of President Shirley Ann Jackson on the Death of Thelma P. Lally
03/24/2005Rensselaer Launches PolyBlogs Online Student Journal
03/18/2005Lally School Technological Entrepreneurship Program Ranked Sixth in Nation by Entrepreneur Magazine
03/18/2005Rensselaer To Celebrate 50 Years of Environmental Engineering at Colloquium
03/17/2005Rensselaer Inducts New Members Into Phalanx Honor Society
03/07/2005New Mathematical Model Predicts Ecological Invasion
03/03/2005U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton To Speak at Commencement 2005
02/22/2005Professor Koushik Kar Selected for NSF Career Award
02/11/2005Rensselaer Hosts Seventh Annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day
02/10/2005Rensselaer Professor Carlos Varela Selected for NSF Career Award
02/08/2005Ostrogorsky Named Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
02/07/2005Rensselaer Announces Appointment of Dean of Engineering
02/04/2005Rensselaer’s Molecularium™ Show Premieres at The Children’s Museum of Science and Technology
01/31/2005Chang Ryu to Receive NSF Career Award
01/26/2005Appointment of Vice President and Dean at Rensselaer at Hartford Announced
01/18/2005New Technique To Analyze Drug Compound Toxicity Developed
01/10/2005Rensselaer Responds to Earthquake and Tsunami Devastation in South Asia
01/10/2005New Nanostructured Materials Featured in Nature Materials
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