The Lally School of Management and the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host 20 teams at its inaugural Business Analytics Case Competition on April 8.
The Jaffe Student Production Competition is pleased to announce that PhD architecture candidate Ute C. Besenecker and PhD arts candidate Ryan Ross Smith have been selected as the inaugural winners of the competition, open to students of all schools and departments.
Acclaimed author Alice McDermott will read from her work while at Rensselaer on April 15 as part of the annual McKinney Writing Contest awards ceremony.
With support from the Air Force Research Laboratory, researchers at Rensselaer will explore supercomputers that incorporate a highly efficient “neuromorphic” processor, which more closely represents the human brain in its architectural design.
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.