Winners Announced for 2024 McKinney Writing Contest at RPI
In a ceremony that featured a reading by Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, winners for the 83rd annual McKinney Writing Contest at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were announced on April 19.
Rensselaer Researcher Publishes Groundbreaking Study on Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People
In 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Bostock vs. Clayton County that transgender people are legally protected from employment discrimination. This came at a time of increased visibility, but also of legal and social challenges to the rights of transgender individuals. Meanwhile, there has been very little study of labor market discrimination against them. Rensselaer researcher Billur Aksoy, Ph.D., has recently conducted an innovative survey of Americans’ attitudes toward transgender people in the workplace.
Rensselaer To Host GameFest 2024 on April 27
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host its annual GameFest on Saturday, April 27, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on RPI’s campus.
Rensselaer’s Science and Technology Studies Department Adds Three Faculty This Academic Year
For the 2023-2024 academic year, Rensselaer’s Science and Technology Studies Department experienced significant growth with the addition of three new faculty members. Tankut Atuk, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research is situated at the intersections of public/global health, medical sociology/anthropology, social epidemiology, and sexual health. Adam Biggs, Ph.D., focuses on race, civil rights, and the history of medicine. Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Ph.D. is an anthropologist and historian of science and medicine in the U.S.
Graduate Education Offers Fellowships to HASS, Architecture Students
The Office of Graduate Education, in cooperation with the schools of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Architecture, have presented the 2024-25 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Architecture Fellowship to the following students:
Rensselaer Faculty Presents Innovative World Premiere at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Chrysi Nanou, music fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and member of Spira Quartet, will present a program of classical and contemporary pieces, including a world premiere composition by Mary Simoni, Dean of the RPI School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Tuesday, April 9, at noon.
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith To Be Guest Speaker at RPI’s Bicentennial McKinney Award Ceremony
Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her book Life on Mars, will speak at the 83rd annual McKinney Writing Award ceremony on Friday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The event is free and open to the public.
Rensselaer Game Design Program Stands Out in National Rankings
The Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is among the top in the country, according to the Animation Career Review.
RPI Professor Publishes New Book
Raquel Velho, Ph.D., associate professor and undergraduate program director of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has recently published a new book, Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London’s Public Transport System.