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March 22, 2018

Rensselaer Introduces First in the Nation “Data Dexterity” Requirement for All Undergraduate Students

Requirement prepares students in all disciplines to use datasets to define and solve complex real-world problems

Data is a critical building block of a fast-approaching future, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is ensuring that all of its students are adept architects with the adoption of a new institute-wide requirement in data education.

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Better Tools for Supercomputer Research

April 13, 2018

U.S. Department of Energy supports doctoral research into on-site analysis of supercomputer simulations

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Professor Jennifer Pazour Receives Inaugural Women in STEM2D Award

April 12, 2018

Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program will help develop female leaders and support innovation in STEM fields

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Nanomaterials Expert Ganpati Ramanath Named Fellow of Materials Research Society

April 12, 2018

Fellowship program recognizes members who are notable for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research worldwide

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Professor Michael Amitay Receives Air Force Grant To Study Flow Separation on Wing Surfaces

April 10, 2018

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Rensselaer Graduate Student Awarded Lush Prize for Work To End Animal Research in Toxicology

April 6, 2018

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Rensselaer Professor Michael O’Rourke Receives 2017 NCSEA James M. Delahay Award

April 5, 2018

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Professor Meng Wang Receives Army Young Investigator Program Award

April 4, 2018

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Building Lithium-Sulfur Batteries With Paper Biomass

April 2, 2018

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The Heat Is On: Temperature Heals Lithium Dendrites

March 29, 2018

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RPI’s Shi Wins Air Force Young Investigator Award

April 11, 2018
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Smart Lake, Healthy Ecosystem: The Jefferson Project at Lake George

April 6, 2018
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How One University Wants to Teach Students to Use Data

April 5, 2018
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RPI Adds New 'Data Dexterity' Requirement

March 26, 2018
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RPI student club devoted to dominoes, for fun and more

March 9, 2018
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The Molecularium Project

March 2, 2018

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March 30, 2018

the approach blog

Jefferson Project: Road salt, organic additives, and mosquitoes

[The Jefferson Project at Lake George is conducting ongoing research into how human activities may be affecting the lake. This guest blog by Matt Schuler, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Jefferson Project Director Rick Relyea, summarizes recent research published in the journal Oikos. The Jefferson Project is a collaboration between Rensselaer, IBM [...]
March 8, 2018

the approach blog

CISL – Language Lab

Anyone who’s struggled to get their point across in a foreign language they haven’t mastered knows the benefit of enlisting the full contents of the human communication toolbox: waving your arms, imploring with your eyes, describing the word you lack with an assembly of the words you have, even throwing in a little English [...]
January 17, 2018

the approach blog

Jefferson Project – The Salty Landscape of Fear

[The Jefferson Project at Lake George is conducting ongoing research into how human activities may be affecting the lake. This guest blog by Bill Hintz, a post-doctoral research associate in the lab of Jefferson Project Director Rick Relyea, summarizes recent research published in the journal Oecologia. The Jefferson Project is a collaboration between Rensselaer, IBM [...]