On April 2, Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson delivered the inaugural Pauline Newman ’47 Distinguished Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
A team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute undergraduate mathematics students has placed third out of more than 430 teams in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, widely regarded as the most prestigious pure mathematics competition in North America.
Wilfredo Colón, professor and associate dean of science for research, has been named head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the School of Science, effective April 1, 2015.
Spring is inevitable. And while ice still caps Lake George, data about the water beneath has been flowing into the Jefferson Project at Lake George throughout the cold, long winter. The winter has been a time for testing, de-bugging, and anticipation, as researchers begin working with a network of sensor platforms installed in the waning […]
The Princeton Review has again named the Rensselaer Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program as one of the top 25 video game design programs. Rensselaer is No. 11 on the list this year.
Internationally renowned Dutch-Australian media theorist and Internet critic, Geert Lovink, will speak at Rensselaer on April 1. Lovink’s is hosted by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
Master’s degree students studying business at Rensselaer are taking their academic knowledge to the next level by learning to identify commercialization pathways for lab research discoveries and inventions.
A team of researchers, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Morgan Schaller, show that continental erosion over the last 40 million years has contributed to the success of diatoms, marine algae that play a key role in the global carbon cycle.
A team of researchers, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Yuri Lvov, has found an elegant explanation for the long-standing Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem, first proposed in 1953, and now considered the foundation of experimental mathematics.
Morgan Schaller has been appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences within the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Schaller joins Rensselaer from Rutgers University.