Four Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students have received a scholarship from the Vertical Flight Foundation. Undergraduate student Colin Hamilton and graduate students Ahmad Amer, Matthew Misiorowski, and Ariel Walter are among just 26 students nationwide to receive this honor this year. The foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of the Vertical Flight Society, gives these merit-based […]
Jennifer Pazour, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, has been invited to give the Distinguished Researcher Presentation at the World Class Supply Chain Summit this spring. The event, which brings together more than 100 leaders in the field, will be held in May in Milton, Ontario. The summit serves as a forum to discuss […]
Students from Rensselaer Motorsport, the Formula SAE team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, unveiled the car they will be using to compete at Michigan International Speedway later this year. The vehicle, RM24, was completely designed and built by student team members. Team Leader Ryder Winans said they used advanced CAD and simulation software to design the […]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is celebrating its first semester as part of a New York State Center of Excellence in Digital Game Development. Together with Rochester Institute of Technology and New York University, the center has received nearly $900,000 in new grant funding from New York to support and grow the state’s digital gaming sector.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host a lecture by McGill University’s Marcelo M. Wanderley titled “Frontiers in Musical Interactive System Design & Aesthetics” on April 5, 2019. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 5, in Studio Beta at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center on the Rensselaer campus. The event is free and open to the general public.
Minoru Tomozawa, professor of materials science and engineering, will deliver the American Ceramic Society’s 2019 Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture. This lecture has been delivered each year since 1933, and is named after the founder of the American Ceramic Society. Those nominated, and chosen, have gained national recognition in their field. Tomozawa will present his […]
Wei Ji, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been awarded the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Graduate Faculty Teaching Award at the doctoral-level. The honor is in recognition of “excellence and creativity in the teaching of graduate students.” Ji will receive the award at the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting […]
TROY, N.Y. — As online commerce drives up the number of deliveries being made each day throughout the country, relatively small changes in the timing and frequency of freight deliveries—such as switching the standard delivery window from day to night—may have significant environmental and economic benefits, according to experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
TROY, N.Y. —Three leaders who have made transformative contributions to public health and other critical fields—Dr. John P. Holdren, Dr. Helene D. Gayle, and James J. Barba—will address graduates at the 2019 Commencement Ceremony at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 18, 2019.
Last year, as the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute prepared to revamp the university’s core curriculum, students were surveyed about what course sequences they would be interested in. To the surprise of the department’s faculty and administrators, one of the most popular responses (just behind “artificial intelligence” and tied for second place with “game design”) was “well-being.”