Clint Ballinger, Ph.D., professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is among 170 inventors elected by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) to its 2024 Class of Fellows.
TROY, N.Y. — Building on several ongoing collaborations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and GlobalFoundries (GF) are working together to further grow and strengthen the semiconductor workforce in the region.
TROY, N.Y. — Thomas R. Farino Jr. ’67 and his wife Patricia Farino have made a $5 million gift to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) School of Engineering to establish the university’s first endowed deanship. Their gift marks another milestone in RPI’s yearlong Bicentennial celebration of the Institute’s past, present, and future.
RPI President Marty Schmidt, Ph.D., has announced that Janelle Fayette, M.S., dean of the Office of the First-Year Experience, has been named a Pillar of Rensselaer.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researchers are part of a multi-institution team working to bring rubber production to the United States and better secure the supply chain for this critical material.
A team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Pennsylvania State University, Yale University, and Louisiana State University has revealed the structure of a modified and evolved version of Photosystem I (PS I), a key protein complex used by plants and cyanobacteria to convert sunlight into chemical energy. This discovery sheds light on the evolution and adaptation of photosynthetic organisms and could potentially lead to new, highly efficient systems for producing renewable solar fuels.
President Marty Schmidt ’81 and his wife, Lyn, invite the Capital Region to join them for the RPI Bicentennial Holiday Concert and Victorian Stroll Kick-Off, which will take place on Saturday, December 7, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on RPI’s campus.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will offer a joint Ph.D. program in health sciences engineering beginning in the fall semester of 2025. RPI is a world-renowned technological research university known for its engineering, technology, and science programs. Icahn Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which includes eight hospitals and a vast network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York City region. The Ph.D.
Wei Bao, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won the Early Career Program (ECP) Award and Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award from the Department of Defense to study superconductors and cavity quantum materials, respectively. The two awarded grants, which total nearly $700,000, will allow Bao to further his research into the unique properties of quantum materials and lay the foundation for practical innovations in the decades to come.
As a third grader, Tahira Reid Smith ’00, ’04, Ph.D., was already thinking like an inventor. So, when her school, PS 97 in the Bronx, New York, held a poster contest where students were asked to depict something each of them wished he or she had, she didn’t draw a typical childhood fantasy. She designed a machine.