The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples.
Rensselaer continues to rank among the nation’s top schools for engineering, according to this year’s list of Best Graduate Engineering Programs by U.S. News & World Report.
Eric Ledet, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and his research team have been named the 2015 recipients of the prestigious ISSLS prize for lumbar spine research.
Zvi Rusak, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, at Rensselaer has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
John Tichy, professor and former head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering received the Mayo D. Hersey Award by the American Society for Mechanical Engineers.
Five Rensselaer graduates have been recognized in the 2015 class of “40 Under 40,” which was recently announced by the Albany Business Review.
Juergen Hahn, professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been appointed a trustee of the CACHE (Computer Aids in Chemical Engineering) Corporation.
AT&T*, in partnership with area universities, businesses and tech organizations, today launched the AT&T Tech Valley Civic App Challenge—a two-month “virtual hackathon”. Rensselaer is participating in the event.
The Rensselaer Union is a student-run, self-supporting, and self-governing body that controls, finances, and organizes student activities. Recently, the Rensselaer Union unveiled its latest project—a new website.
Ring any bells? Readers of the Approach may remember a 2014 post on the Image-Based Ecological Information System, or IBEIS, an experimental software tool that can identify individual animals pictured in the thousands of ordinary photos taken by tourists in game parks such as Yellowstone National Park, Amboseli National Park in Kenya, or the Galapagos Islands […]