A Conversation with Rensselaer Lally School Student Sean Edward Wilson ’16

In this Approach blog post, the Rensselaer news team spoke with Rensselaer Lally School of Management student Sean Edward Wilson ’16 about his work in the classroom and the community. Q: What drew you to majoring in business management at Rensselaer and how has this influenced your future career interests? I transferred to Rensselaer from […]

Internet of Things … Aboard a Steamboat

For more than a year, the Jefferson Project at Lake George has been collecting electronic data from sensors mounted in stream beds, platforms moored on the water, and the depths of the lake bottom. A tour boat plying the southern basin of the lake may be an unexpected next step for sensor deployments, but it’s […]

A Detector Shines In the Search for Dark Matter

A team of international scientists involved in the XENON100 project have demonstrated the sensitivity of their detector and recorded results that challenge several dark matter models and a longstanding claim of dark matter detection. 

A Conversation with Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year Dr. Paul A. Bleicher ’76

In this Approach blog, the Rensselaer news team spoke with alumnus Paul A. Bleicher, M.D., Ph.D., (B.S. ’76), who is the 2015 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year, and chief executive officer of OptumLabs, about entrepreneurship, resilience in leadership, and his time at Rensselaer. Q: What drew you to biology at Rensselaer and how has science […]

The Importance of Strain in Kinesin-14 Motor Proteins

New research shows that a single conserved mechanism governs the movement of two structurally distinct variants of kinesin-14 – a class of molecular motors that moves materials and facilitates chromosomal separation within cells. 

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