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12/22/2011	Rensselaer Professors Gilbert and Hendler Selected as 2011 AAAS Fellows
12/22/2011	Looking Back at 2011 at Rensselaer
12/22/2011	Rensselaer Engineering Students To Visit South Africa and Help Innovate New Solutions to Unique Medical Challenges
12/16/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Faculty Adopts New Faculty Senate Constitution
12/15/2011	My Life: An Enduring Passion for Boxing, and a Desire To Raise Funds for and Awareness About Liver Disease
12/13/2011	“Virtual Operating Room” To Sharpen Surgeons’ Smarts and Skills
12/12/2011	Helping the Maghreb: A Look at How Entrepreneurship and Innovation Will Lead To Future Job Creation in North Africa
12/09/2011	Researchers Design Alzheimer’s Antibodies
12/08/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Time Warner Cable Set to Host FIRST LEGO® League Robotics Tournament for Local Middle Schools
12/06/2011	Rensselaer Board Endorses Jackson’s Leadership ‘Unanimously and Unequivocally’
12/05/2011	Think Big: Ten Rensselaer Polytechnic Students Recognized for Innovative Ideas to “Change the World”
12/01/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Business School Names 2011 Recipient of the Herman Family Fellowship
12/01/2011	Rensselaer Professor Deepak Vashishth Named Fellow of AIMBE
11/30/2011	Setting the Stage for Life: Scientists Make Key Discovery About the Atmosphere of Early Earth
11/29/2011	Innovating New Ways To Share and Preserve Scientific Data on Sustainability
11/23/2011	Nov. 29 Lecture Draws Links Between Familiar Art and Contemporary Electronic Art
11/23/2011	Graphene Foam Detects Explosives, Emissions Better Than Today’s Gas Sensors
11/18/2011	Latin American Student Luminaire Design Competition Announced
11/16/2011	Non-Governmental Organizations and Globalization – Shaping Our Knowledge of the Developing World
11/10/2011	The Baruch ’60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research Conference at Rensselaer Draws Solar Experts from Around the World
11/10/2011	Researching Graphene Nanoelectronics for a Post-Silicon World
11/09/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Joins Nationwide Effort To Honor American Service Men and Women
11/09/2011	Getting on Your Nerves: $1.4 Million NIH Grant To Study the Regeneration of Nerves
11/08/2011	Innovating Tomorrow’s Energy Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
11/07/2011	Upcoming “MONO” Concert at Rensselaer Draws on Fragility of Sensory Perception
11/02/2011	Astrobiologists Discover “Sweet Spots” for the Formation of Complex Organic Molecules in the Galaxy
11/01/2011	Studies in “Choice Moms” – Single Mothers (and Mums) by Choice
10/28/2011	The College Life Series From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: For the Love of the Dance
10/27/2011	Discovery Announced in Journal Science Represents “New Paradigm” in the Way Drugs Can Be Manufactured
10/26/2011	Nov. 9 Piano Waves Concert To Feature Works for up to Four Pianos
10/24/2011	Columbia Development Companies To Acquire Proctor’s Theater and Chasan Building in Troy and Launch Restoration
10/21/2011	The College Life Series From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: A Unique Place To Call Home
10/18/2011	Nobel Prize Laureate To Examine Science, Society, and Space at Rensselaer
10/11/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Appoints Veteran Government and Technology Policy Director as Assistant Vice President for Research
10/10/2011	Uncharted Territory: Scientists Sequence the First Carbohydrate Biopolymer
10/05/2011	A Band of Helpers
09/30/2011	White House To Honor Rensselaer Alumnus With National Medal of Technology and Innovation
09/30/2011	Providing Competitive Advantage to Industry Through High-Performance Computing
09/28/2011	Rensselaer 2011 Safety Report
09/27/2011	Rensselaer Engineers “Cook” Promising New Heat-Harvesting Nanomaterials in Microwave Oven
09/27/2011	Rensselaer Professor Steven Cramer Named Fellow of AIChE
09/26/2011	Rensselaer Engineering Students Researched Thermoelectric Materials and Ran with the Bulls in Spain
09/23/2011	Rensselaer Inducts Five New Individuals Into Alumni Hall of Fame
09/21/2011	Digital Camera Pioneer Steven Sasson To Receive Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2011 Davies Medal
09/16/2011	Co-founder and Managing Director of Avego Corporation Named 2011 William F. Glaser ’53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year
09/15/2011	Researchers Create Nanoscale Gold Coating With Largest-Ever Superlattice
09/14/2011	Rensselaer Professor Wins U.S. State Department William C. Foster Fellowship
09/13/2011	Energy@Rensselaer: Researchers Begin Testing of Promising New Nanomaterial for Hydrogen Storage
09/12/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Appoints Veteran Student Life Leader Joseph Cassidy as Director of the Rensselaer Union
09/12/2011	Rensselaer Receives NSF Grant To Install Balanced, Green Supercomputer
09/08/2011	Engineering Improvisation: Insights From the Cleanup at Ground Zero
09/07/2011	Rensselaer Associate Professor Featured in New Book Published by Sally Ride Science™ Designed To Engage Young People in Science
09/07/2011	From 9/11 to Fukushima: The Science of Donated Stuff
09/06/2011	Ten Years After 9/11, Infrastructure Interdependence Still a Challenge in United States
08/25/2011	Hurricane Irene Preparations
08/19/2011	Rensselaer Welcomes Members of the Class of 2015
08/18/2011	Energy@Rensselaer: Researchers Secure $2 Million Award To Boost Reliability, Sustainability of Power Grids
08/17/2011	Capital Region Economic Development Council to hold first Open Meeting at Rensselaer
08/16/2011	Rensselaer To Collaborate on Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment That Will Help Unlock the Secrets of Neutrino Particles
08/16/2011	Rensselaer To Host International “Diffusion Fundamentals IV” Conference
07/28/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Appoints NYU Official as Vice President for Student Life
07/27/2011	Rensselaer Appoints NASA Research Leader as Associate Vice President for Research
07/27/2011	Appointment of Associate Vice President for Research/Physical and Engineering Sciences
07/26/2011	Senior NASA Scientist Joins Rensselaer as New Dean of the School of Science
07/25/2011	Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
07/24/2011	Area Youth Set To Conquer Summer Brain Drain With Science Adventure at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
07/18/2011	Graphene Discovery Boosts Oil Exploration Efforts, Could Enable Self-Powered Microsensors
07/14/2011	Rensselaer Ph.D. Candidate Philip W. Robinson Awarded Fulbright Grant
07/13/2011	Rensselaer Professors Breneman, Crivello, and Moore Named ACS Fellows
07/12/2011	Rensselaer Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Receives Significant IT Support From NetApp
07/06/2011	Rensselaer Professor Wayne Gray Receives Humboldt Research Award
07/05/2011	Energy@Rensselaer: Institute Launches Center for Flow Physics and Control
06/30/2011	Xi-Cheng Zhang of Rensselaer Receives Distinguished IEEE Award for Influential Terahertz Research
06/29/2011	"Best of Sleep Medicine 2011" Textbook Includes Rensselaer Lighting Research Center Field Study Results on Impact of Light on Teens Sleeping Habits
06/23/2011	Engineer To Launch Bacteria Into Space Aboard the Final Mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis
06/22/2011	New Technique Yields Troves of Information From Nanoscale Bone Samples
06/21/2011	Energy@Rensselaer: Providing Light to Individuals Who Do Not Have Access to a Power Grid
06/21/2011	Rensselaer Professor Offers Educational Lessons Taken From Game Design
06/20/2011	Rensselaer Researchers Secure $2.7 Million NIH Grant To Advance "Scarless" Surgery
06/16/2011	Rensselaer Professor of Architecture Awarded "Rome Prize" Fellowship
06/13/2011	University of Michigan Associate Dean Named Dean of Rensselaer School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
06/09/2011	Energy@Rensselaer: Moving Smarter LEDs From the Laboratory to the Marketplace
06/08/2011	Rensselaer Scholar Receives NSF Research Fellowship
06/07/2011	Regional Group of Emergency Planners and Responders To Conduct Emergency Exercise at Rensselaer June 14
06/06/2011	Engineering New Weapons in the Fight Against Juvenile Diabetes
05/31/2011	Rensselaer Professor Catalin Picu Named Fellow of ASME
05/28/2011	U.S. Surgeon General and Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin Emphasizes the Importance of Service at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 205th Commencement
05/26/2011	New Research Published in Science Points to the Significant Role of Oceans in the Onset of Ancient Global Cooling
05/24/2011	Patient Safety: Reducing the Risks of Radiation Exposure From CT Scans and X-Rays
05/23/2011	Energy@Rensselaer: Rensselaer Illuminates the Future of Lighting
05/20/2011	Rensselaer Commencement Speaker and Honorands Join President Shirley Ann Jackson to Discuss 'The Architecture of Change' May 27
05/18/2011	Meet the Class of 2011: An Overview of Rensselaer’s 205th Commencement
05/16/2011	Rensselaer Supercomputer Director Named to National Initiative on High Performance Computing
05/13/2011	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Business School Earns Top Spot in Financial Management and Corporate Strategy in Bloomberg BusinessWeek Undergraduate Rankings
05/12/2011	Rensselaer Biomedical Engineering Students Win Prestigious Fellowships
05/09/2011	New Site Highlights “Better World Engineering” at Rensselaer
05/04/2011	Rensselaer Civil Engineering Students Take First Prize at National GeoChallenge Competition
05/03/2011	Think Big: Rensselaer Polytechnic Students Recognized for Innovative Ideas to “Change the World”
05/03/2011	“The Ascent” Art Installation/Ride at Rensselaer Links EEG Headset and Theatrical Flying Rig
05/02/2011	Rensselaer Professor Michael O'Rourke Honored for Influential Snow Loading Research
05/02/2011	Four Student Teams From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Win Cash Prizes In New York State Business Plan Competition
04/28/2011	Rensselaer Set To Celebrate Cancer Superheroes
04/27/2011	GameFest 2011 at Rensselaer Expands the Boundaries of Games and Simulation
04/27/2011	Rensselaer Driving Innovation and Economic Growth With Advanced Manufacturing
04/25/2011	Energy@Rensselaer: Zeroing in on the Elusive Green LED
04/22/2011	University College Dublin Business Dean Named Dean of Rensselaer Business School
04/21/2011	Rensselaer Professor Cynthia Collins Receives NSF CAREER Award
04/20/2011	Leading Worldwide Health and Wellness Expert and U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin Will Speak at 205th Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Commencement May 28
04/20/2011	Rensselaer Secures $1.5 Million From the National Nuclear Security Administration To Launch New Nuclear Safety Research Program and Lab
04/18/2011	The New Cultural Form: Perfection versus Mortality in Games and Simulation at Rensselaer
04/14/2011	It’s Not Just for Boys: Girls Are Into Math and Science Too
04/14/2011	Rensselaer Microbiologist Receives NSF Grant to Study Potential New Target to Kill Disease-Causing Bacteria
04/11/2011	Rensselaer Professor Xuegang (Jeff) Ban Receives NSF CAREER Award
04/06/2011	Nano Fit-ness: Helping Enzymes Stay Active and Keep in Shape
04/05/2011	Students and Administration Come Together at Rensselaer To Create New Student Scheduler Software
04/04/2011	A Tale of Two Class Rings
03/25/2011	Expert on Computer Models of Human Emotion to Discuss “Hot Blooded Virtual Humans”
03/24/2011	Choral Parade From Hudson River to Rensselaer Campus Is a First
03/23/2011	Biologist Patrick Maxwell Joins the Faculty at Rensselaer
03/17/2011	Rensselaer Economist Calculates Degree to Which Government Borrowing Can Dampen Effects of Stimulus Spending in a Downturn
03/16/2011	Rensselaer Research Leader Francine Berman Named Chair-Elect of Key AAAS Committee
03/15/2011	Modern Magellans: New NSF Grant at Rensselaer Uses the Power of the Masses to Map Dark Matter in the Galaxy
03/14/2011	Renowned Architect Peter Bohlin to Speak at Rensselaer March 23
03/09/2011	Student Innovator at Rensselaer Uses Sound Waves, T-Rays for Safer Detection of Bombs and Other Dangerous Materials
03/08/2011	Rensselaer Professor Utilizing New York State Grant To Study Adult Stem Cells
03/08/2011	Princeton Review Honors Rensselaer Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program
03/07/2011	Noted Economist to Speak at Rensselaer as Part of Vollmer Fries Lecture Series
03/07/2011	Student Innovation at Rensselaer Transmits Data and Power Wirelessly Through Submarine Hulls
03/03/2011	Student Innovation at Rensselaer Could Lead to Better Breast Cancer Screening
03/02/2011	Freshman Applications Surge Past 14,500 at Rensselaer
03/01/2011	Rensselaer Opens Doors of Biotechnology Center With First Biotechnology Public Interest Forum March 10
02/28/2011	Student Innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Holds Key To Safer Remote Detection of Dangerous Materials
02/24/2011	Rensselaer Student Made Key Contributions to NASA's First Human-Like Robot
02/23/2011	A Semantic Sommelier: Wine Application Highlights the Power of Web 3.0
02/22/2011	Industry Leader, Innovator, and Rensselaer Graduate Hugo Ferguson, Ph.D., Makes $1 Million Gift to Rensselaer
02/16/2011	Rensselaer Professor James Lu Named IEEE Fellow
02/15/2011	Rensselaer Professor Daniel Lewis Receives NSF CAREER Award
02/14/2011	Web Experts Ask Scientists To Use the Web To Improve Understanding, Sharing of Their Data in Science Magazine
02/14/2011	Abby Kinchy of Rensselaer To Discuss Social Perspectives on Hydraulic Fracturing at AAAS Annual Meeting
02/11/2011	Alex, What’s the Future of Computing, Voice Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence?
02/11/2011	Bringing the Sound of Traditional Concert Halls to Modern Design
02/09/2011	Professor Jian Sun Named Director of Center for Future Energy Systems at Rensselaer
02/08/2011	Rensselaer Data Scientists Collaborate on $2 Million Grant to Study Oceans
02/07/2011	Rensselaer Launches New Business Incubation Program
02/04/2011	World Bank Group Selects Rensselaer Lighting Research Center To Test LED-based, Off-grid Lighting Products in Support of Lighting Africa Program
02/03/2011	Cognitive Scientist Discusses “Natural Born Cyborgs? Reflections on Bodies, Minds, and Human Enhancement”
02/01/2011	Robert Linhardt To Discuss Drug Safety and the Impacts of Globalization on Pharmaceutical Manufacturing at AAAS Annual Meeting
01/31/2011	Rensselaer Professor Daniel Walczyk Named Fellow of ASME
01/28/2011	Rensselaer Researcher Working To Make Smarter Wind Turbine Blades
01/26/2011	Rensselaer Lighting Research Center Steers Collaborative Initiative To Achieve Sustainable Lighting in South Asia with LED Technology
01/26/2011	Jose Holguín-Veras Named William Howard Hart Professor at Rensselaer
01/24/2011	Rensselaer Students Recognized for Innovative Ideas to “Change the World”
01/10/2011	“Liquid Pistons” Could Drive New Advances in Camera Lenses and Drug Delivery
01/04/2011	“Nanoscoops” Could Spark New Generation of Electric Automobile Batteries

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