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Hao Zhao, an associate professor in the Lally School of Management, has been appointed as an associate editor of Human Relations, a prestigious academic journal.

X. George Xu, the Edward E. Hood Endowed Chair Professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been chosen to receive the 2020 Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education from the American Nuclear Society.

In the latest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast, an architect and a systems engineer explore how new approaches to building materials and supply chains will shape the future of society.

Airin Dutta, a doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has received the Zonta International Foundation Amelia Earhart Fellowship.

Two graduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received Vertical Flight Foundation scholarships for 2020.

The Operations and Systems Engineering Extreme Event Research (OSEEER) network, supported by the National Science Foundation, is looking for pre-tenure, tenure-track faculty in operations engineering who would like to participate in an Early Career Mentoring (ECM) program.

In a typical year, the students graduating with bachelor’s degrees from the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences would give public presentations of their thesis projects at the end of the spring semester. Of course, 2020 has been anything but a typical year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such a gathering was not possible.

A group of researchers with diverse expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) recently joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of the Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration (AIRC), a joint initiative of Rensselaer and IBM Research. Two of those experts sat down to discuss their exploration of artificial intelligence in the context of social media for the latest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast.

As part of the inaugural class participating in The Arch at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Alex Christoforides ’21, a computer science major, completed his fall semester away internship opportunity at MathWorks in the Natick, Massachusetts, Lakeside Campus.

Many students choose to pursue an internship or co-op at one of the leading companies partnered with CCPD. One notable partnership Rensselaer cultivated is with MathWorks, a private company specializing in mathematical computing software.