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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Teaching and Learning Collaboratory has awarded seed grants to teams developing innovative initiatives in Gameful Learning and Immersive and Embodied Learning.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Fudong Han, Priti and Mukesh Chatter ’82 Career Development Chair in Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, has been named one of the most highly cited researchers of 2022 in the area of cross-field by Clarivate. The distinction applies to only one in 1,000 researchers. According to Clarivate, “Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over the last decade.” Han joins Humberto Terrones Maldonado, Rayleigh Endowed Chair Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, who was also given the distinction.
The Rensselaer Astrophysical Society is inviting the public for a viewing of Mars at opposition at 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. on December 8, 2022.
Rensselaer students in the Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS) program had great success in the recent National Cyber League (NCL) cybersecurity competition. The NCL “enables students to prepare and test themselves against practical cybersecurity challenges that they will likely face in the workforce, such as identifying hackers from forensic data, pentesting and auditing vulnerable websites, recovering from ransomware attacks, and much more!”
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Dr. Gaetano Montelione, Constellation Endowed Chair in Structural Bioinformatics and professor of chemistry and chemical biology, along with co-investigators Drs. Namita Dube, Swapna Gurla, Yuanpeng Huang, and Ben Shurina, have been awarded a grant of access to the state-of-the-art Anton-2 supercomputer by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
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