Troy, NY – Growing food year-round is not a new concept. Today, researchers are exploring a sustainable way to increase access to locally grown food, through urban farming, which fosters the growth or production of food in a city or heavily populated town or municipality.
Although Germanium is a more efficient semiconductor than silicon, the high cost of developing germanium crystals eclipsed its efficiency, and silicon captured the field in electronic devices. But new research establishing an economical method for growing crystalline thin-film germanium – using a process known as van der Waals epitaxy — challenges that supremacy.
Troy, N.Y. — While simulation platforms have been used to train surgeons before they enter an actual operating room (OR), few studies have evaluated how well trainees transfer those skills from the simulator to the OR. Now, a study led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator-trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.
Three Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students have been named University Innovation Fellows by the Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson recently returned from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils, which took place Nov. 11-12 in Dubai. The annual meeting brought together more than 700 members of the Network of Global Future Councils to shape a better future.
President Shirley Ann Jackson is hosting a reception for Rensselaer alumni, parents, students, and friends at Steinway Hall in New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 15, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The evening will include a performance led by Mary Simoni, dean of the Rensselaer School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS), and recognition of Simoni as a Steinway Artist.
A new book conceived and edited by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor June Deery examines the role of media, from television and movies to today’s digital platforms, in representing social class.
With support from a four-year $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Blanca Barquera, an associate professor of biological sciences, and a team including researchers at Tufts University and Harvard Brigham and Women’s Hospital are examining evidence that Bacteroides can create energy with and without oxygen by using aerobic and anaerobic respiration, an unusual feature among many human gut bacteria.
Rensselaer Lally School Associate Professor Aparna Gupta has been invited to join the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a visiting researcher.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been recognized as having one of the top three Master of Business Analytics programs in the United States by the TFE Times.