Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today named Dr. Lee A. McElroy, Jr. as interim director of athletics. The appointment is effective March 1, 2015.
Three professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been selected to receive prestigious 2014 Faculty Awards from IBM.
A team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rockefeller University is developing a system that would make it possible to remotely control biological targets in living animals — rapidly, without wires, implants, or drugs.
Chanaka Edirisinghe, a recognized leader in the areas of finance, quantitative finance, and management science, has been named the Kay and Jackson Tai ’72 Senior Professor in the Lally School of Management.
Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Bulent Yener has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Yener is a professor of computer science and founding director of the Data Science Research Center.
As students around the nation hunker down for final exams, Rensselaer has kicked off a series of events and study programs to help students de-stress during the final exam reading days.
The Institute will host it's annual holiday concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14. "Celestial Songs, Earthly Dances … and Some Fireworks” will be held at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer.
Among my favorite research projects at Rensselaer are two – the Jefferson Project at Lake George, and the Image Based Ecological Information System (IBEIS) – that use data and computation to understand and protect our environment. So my interest was piqued when I heard researchers involved with the two projects were planning a collaboration. […]
Rensselaer professors Francine Berman and Ge Wang and Dean of Engineering Shekhar Garde have been named fellows of AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Troy, N.Y. – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the appointment of Curt Breneman as Dean of the School of Science. The appointment is effective January 1, 2015.