Rensselaer is part of NASA’s new Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments (PCE3) Consortium,one of five cross-divisional research coordination networks with the NASA Astrobiology Program. The PCE3 aims to identify planetary conditions that might give rise to life’s chemistry.
NASA’s Astrobiology Program has awarded a $9 million grant to Earth First Origins project, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor Karyn Rogers, to uncover the conditions on early Earth that gave rise to life by identifying, replicating, and exploring how prebiotic molecules and chemical pathways could have formed under realistic early Earth conditions.
A unique partnership between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Athletics and the National Grid Foundation is encouraging local students to aim high with their education. On Friday, February 15, the partners will honor local children from the Troy City School District at an annual “Shoot for the Stars” event. Top performing students will receive special “Rising Star” trophies.
Mallory Gaspard, a dual major in physics and mathematics and a member of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), is one of five finalists in the Red Hat 2019 Open Source Woman of the Year Academic Award competition. The winner will be selected following a public voting process, which ends at on February 25. […]
Nearly 400 Capital Region elementary and middle school students will gather on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Saturday, February 9, to learn how a career in engineering can help them change the world. At Exploring Engineering Day, young students in third through sixth grade will have the opportunity to learn from, and be inspired by, accomplished Rensselaer students. They will learn the importance of brainstorming, designing, building, testing, and working as a team through hands-on activities.
TROY, N.Y. — Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who developed a blood test to help diagnose autism spectrum disorder have now successfully applied their distinctive big data-based approach to evaluating possible treatments.
The American Chemical Society has recognized Montwaun Young, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, for his outreach efforts with a 2019 Outreach Volunteers of the Year award for the Eastern New York Local Section. Department head Wilfredo Colón, noting that each local section may recognize only one individual annually for […]
The ALSETLab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received an award of $100,000 from Dominion Energy, a Virginia-based company, to support research on flexible alternating current transmission systems. ALSET stands for Analysis Laboratory for Synchrophasor and Electrical Energy Technology, but perhaps more importantly, it is “Tesla” – as in, Nikola Tesla – spelled backwards. The lab […]
Xavier Intes, professor of biomedical engineering and co-director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been promoted to Fellow of the Society by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. SPIE annually promotes select members as new fellows. This year, SPIE will honor 88 new Fellows of the Society. This honor […]
Colorectal surgery is a hands-on activity, but in recent years the effectiveness of traditional assessment methods in evaluating surgeons’ technical skills has been called into question. A team of collaborators with ties to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is responding by pioneering the use of virtual reality technologies to train and objectively evaluate colorectal surgeons without putting any patients at risk.