Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is welcoming 15 new professors to the faculty for the 2019-2020 academic year. Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson greeted returning and incoming faculty members during the annual Faculty Welcome Back reception, held this year at the President’s Residence on September 18.
The Center for Career and Professional Development at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been strategically building partnerships with companies throughout the United States and globally to create a wide array of opportunities for students to pursue as part of The Arch at Rensselaer.
TROY, N.Y. — If you’ve ever dropped your smartphone on a concrete floor, you know that dreaded feeling as you turn it over to see how badly the screen has cracked — but that stress may soon be a thing of the past. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a way to make glass less brittle and less likely to break. Their findings, led by Yunfeng Shi, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer, were recently published in Nano Lett.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor James Hendler has been named to the newly formed Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technology Policy Council, intended to coordinate the agenda for the association’s policy activities around the globe.
Award-winning journalist Peter Nowak, author of Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species, will speak at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Monday, Sept. 23. The lecture is part of the 2019-2020 Community Read program at Rensselaer, a common reading experience that brings students, faculty, and staff of all disciplines together each year to discuss issues of global concern.
TROY, N.Y. — If researchers could observe drug delivery and its effect on cancer cells in real time, they would be able to tailor treatment options with unprecedented specificity. An academic-industrial partnership between engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, molecular and cellular biologists at Albany Medical College, and engineers at MARS Bioimaging Ltd aims to make this a reality for the treatment of breast cancer through the combination of highly innovative X-ray and optical imaging technologies.
A team of current and graduated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students will present at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference in Washington, D.C., this November.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has awarded $200,000 in Far-reaching Nuclear Engineering Excellence Scholarships to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for 2019. Rensselaer is one of only 33 academic institutions to receive this type of funding from the NRC.
Richard Healy, a doctoral student in aerospace engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently chosen as the top graduate student intern within the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Vehicle Technology Directorate (VTD).
TROY, N.Y. — Biopharmaceuticals are necessary, life-saving tools. But the process for making them is time-consuming and costly, particularly when it comes to the process of purification — the removal of unwanted elements like proteins, viruses, and DNA.