Modeling, design, and controls expert B. Wayne Bequette has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

In the last three decades, Americans launched numerous grassroots commem­orations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In her publication, Popular Memories: Commemorations, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship, Associate Professor Ekaterina Haskins examines this trend.  

President Barack Obama has selected The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., to receive the National Medal of Science, the highest honor for scientific achievement bestowed by the U.S. government.

Doctoral candidate Matthew Dion ’12 and his partners in Amp It Up have been awarded a prestigious EXIST Business Start-up Grant to help fund their invention—an inexpensive device that could make prosthetic legs readily available to amputees in developing nations.

Troy, N.Y. – Mattheos A.G. Koffas, a professor in the Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been appointed the Dorothy and Fred Chau ʼ71 Career Development Constellation Professor at Rensselaer.

Rensselaer Professor Audrey Bennett was recognized as the 2015 Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

When 31 members of the Rensselaer Finance and Procurement Services group move into new offices in Proctor’s Theater later this month, it will bring to full circle Rensselaer’s involvement with this historic building in downtown Troy.

The fourth installment of Rensselaer TALKS focuses on the theme of “Chaos.” The program will begin at noon in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies auditorium on Dec. 14. 

(In this guest post, Brian Mattes, a senior research specialist in the laboratory of Rick Relyea, Rensselaer professor and director of the Jefferson Project at Lake George, explains how experiments help us make sense of observational data gathered by the Jefferson Project’s observational platform.) A lot of what’s been written about the Jefferson Project at […]

The newest Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication concentration in Multisensory Data Design will equip  graduates to present data in multiple ways that better communicate the stories behind the data and its potential to improve everyday life.