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Research
When Natural Disasters and Pandemics Strike Together, Expect a Slow Recovery
February 24, 2021
Simulations demonstrate vulnerability of critical personnel during joint natural disaster and pandemic events
Arts
National Endowment for the Arts to Support EMPAC for Fifth Consecutive Year
February 19, 2021
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center to receive Grants for Arts Projects award
Community
Rensselaer Astrobiologists To Host NASA Mars Rover Landing Virtual Watch Party
February 16, 2021
Experts to share their insights on the search for life in the solar system with the community
In the Media
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Eat This, Not That!February 19, 2021
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Times UnionFebruary 18, 2021
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CIO DiveFebruary 5, 2021
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VoxFebruary 4, 2021
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The Daily GazetteJanuary 22, 2021
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CIOJanuary 19, 2021
The Approach
Rensselaer blog about the innovative ideas, creative endeavors, and research discoveries of students and faculty.
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Jude Abu Zaineh, an electronic arts doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was offered a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship for her research project, “Home Is Where the Maqlouba Is: Understanding Palestinian diaspora through art, food, and technology.”
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In research recently published in Nature Physics, a team led by Sufei Shi, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, demonstrated surprising and promising properties in heterobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD), created by stacking monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) and tungsten disulfide (WS2) on top of one another, with precise control. TMD materials have been eyed for their atomically thin semiconductor properties.
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Pingkun Yan, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is among 63 inventors named by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) to the 2021 class of NAI Senior Members.