Jian Shi Receives Award for Significant Professional Contributions

Jian Shi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, is the 2019 winner of the Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award.   The award, given by the Eastern New York Chapter of ASM International, “recognizes an outstanding young materials scientist/engineer” from the chapter who has made significant contributions to the fields of education, research, or manufacturing, before the age of 40.  

Daniel Gall and Graduate Student Receive Awards for Research

Daniel Gall, professor of materials science and engineering, has received the 2019 IBM Faculty Award, part of a competitive worldwide program aimed at fostering collaboration in research and promoting curriculum innovation. With the award, Gall receives $40,000 to support his work in the area of post-Cu metallization. 

Rensselaer Ecologist Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

Steve Jane, a graduate student in biological sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. — Steve Jane, a graduate student in biological sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Improved Imaging for Prostate Cancer Could Lead to More Effective Treatment

TROY, N.Y. —Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to improve imaging methods in order to make medicine more precise and personalized. This work will be a critical component of a new interdisciplinary research project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that seeks to improve radiation therapy for high-risk prostate cancer patients.  “In order to do precision medicine, you need to see better,” said Pingkun Yan, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Rensselaer. “If you cannot see, you can’t do anything.” 

Miles A. Kimball Receives STC’s Ken Rainey Award

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) recently awarded Miles A. Kimball, professor of communication and media in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, the Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research. The award, given out annually, recognizes researchers who have made positive, significant contributions to the field of technical communication. It […]

More Than 1,900 Degrees To Be Awarded at 213th Commencement Ceremony

TROY, N.Y. — This spring, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological research university in the United States, will award a total of 1,926 degrees—154 doctoral degrees, 373 master’s degrees, and 1,399 bachelor’s degrees—to 1,888 students, some of whom have earned more than one degree. These accomplishments will be celebrated during the 213th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 18, beginning at 8:15 a.m. in the East Campus Athletic Village stadium on the Rensselaer campus.

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