Learn more about the AT&T Tech Valley Civic App Challenge at the "check-in" and hacking event on April 18 at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity, 35 4th St, Troy, N.Y.
Rensselaer will host a screening of Transparent followed by an interactive Q&A panel discussion focused on exploring transgender identity and social issues on April 9.
(In this guest post, Christopher J. Low, a Rensselaer graduate and IBM consultant, explains how business analytics, like a GPS system, has aided him in navigating his career.) Data has shaped a lot of my life experience so far, and now it’s also an important part of my career. In academics, numbers and information were […]
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.