Aparna Gupta, associate professor of quantitative finance and director of the Lally School of Management Center for Financial Studies at Rensselaer, won a 2018 “best paper” award from the Financial Management Association. The paper was recognized as the best paper of 2018 in the discipline of derivatives and options. Gupta’s paper was co-authored by Runzu […]
The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) has awarded Rensselaer a workforce development grant as part of a nearly $13 million round of recently announced funding, a value which includes cost sharing from participating organizations. The grant, in collaboration with Celegene and LumaCyte, LLC will, develop “characterization of cell therapy products by flow […]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute sits atop a hill overlooking Troy, NY. A massive granite staircase connects the campus and the riverside city below. It is known as The Approach. Initially completed in 1907, The Approach has served as a literal entry point to the university for more than a century. Its current splendor is the product […]
(Please enjoy this guest post, written by Kathleen Ruiz, Rensselaer associate professor of Integrated Arts, on the “World of Plankton” interactive touch-pool exhibit, now on exhibit at an aquarium in Burlington, VT.) What if there were mysterious creatures on earth responsible for all the freshwater on the planet? The World of Plankton is an interactive […]
[The Jefferson Project at Lake George is conducting ongoing research into how human activities may be affecting the lake. This guest blog by Kayla Coldsnow, a graduate student in the lab of Jefferson Project Director Rick Relyea, summarizes recent research published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The Jefferson Project is a collaboration between Rensselaer, IBM […]
[David Diehl, site manager and coordinator at the Rensselaer Darrin Fresh Water Institute (DFWI), recently organized a visit by students from Manhattan’s Harlem Academy to learn about the Jefferson Project at Lake George. In this guest post, he chronicles the three-day visit and the topics students learned about. The Jefferson Project is a collaboration between […]
[The Jefferson Project at Lake George is conducting ongoing research into how human activities may be affecting the lake. This guest blog by Devin Jones, a former postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Jefferson Project Director Rick Relyea, summarizes recent research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The Jefferson Project is a […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]