Georges Belfort, an Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Marlene Belfort, an adjunct professor of biology and chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, recently received honorary doctorates from the University of Cape Town in South Africa — the latest in a long list of honors and accomplishments for the couple.
X. George Xu, the Edward E. Hood Endowed Chair Professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been selected by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) to receive the Edith H. Quimby Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medical Physics.
Ge Wang, an endowed chair professor of biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently published a first book on the foundation of deep neural networks and specific applications in tomographic imaging, in collaboration with his three co-authors.
As the year comes to a close, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute congratulates all of the members of the faculty and staff who retired this year and thanks them for all they did for the Rensselaer community!
The online master’s degree in mechanical engineering offered by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was recently ranked among the country’s best by Intelligent.com, an independent website specializing in higher education information.
In Nano Letters, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently demonstrated how they could harness promising characteristics of one such material — vanadium dioxide (VO2) — in order to lay the groundwork for practical application in future technologies.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students Justin Hubbard ’22, Mark Muscara ’22, Ronak Patel ’22, and Emmanuel Sylvester ’21 have been named University Innovation Fellows by the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University.
In a special episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast, two prominent inventors — who also happen to be Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni — look to the future and offer their advice on how to prepare for it.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been working diligently to find and harness a quasiparticle that has a quantum degree of freedom, an essential property needed to advance quantum computing and quantum information storage.
Tong Zhang, a professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2020.