February 14, 2019
Earth First Origins Project Seeks To Replicate the Cradle of Life
NASA grant establishes research community focused on pathways to life on Earth
NASA’s Astrobiology Program has awarded a $9 million grant to Earth First Origins project, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor Karyn Rogers, to uncover the conditions on early Earth that gave rise to life by identifying, replicating, and exploring how prebiotic molecules and chemical pathways could have formed under realistic early Earth conditions.
Mallory Gaspard, a dual major in physics and mathematics and a member of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), is one of five finalists in the Red Hat 2019 Open Source Woman of the Year Academic Award competition. The winner will be selected following a public voting process, which ends at on February 25. […]
The American Chemical Society has recognized Montwaun Young, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, for his outreach efforts with a 2019 Outreach Volunteers of the Year award for the Eastern New York Local Section. Department head Wilfredo Colón, noting that each local section may recognize only one individual annually for […]
The ALSETLab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received an award of $100,000 from Dominion Energy, a Virginia-based company, to support research on flexible alternating current transmission systems. ALSET stands for Analysis Laboratory for Synchrophasor and Electrical Energy Technology, but perhaps more importantly, it is “Tesla” – as in, Nikola Tesla – spelled backwards. The lab […]
