On Feb. 5, at 5:30 p.m. Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) will be illuminated red in such a way that it will beat like a heart.
While most of the campus was dealing with frigid temperatures during the winter break, eight members of the Rensselaer student chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA traveled to Panama.
Rensselaer computer and data science experts Francine Berman and James Hendler will help guide a new open access computer science journal which launched today.
Francine Berman, the Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and chair of the U.S. branch of the Research Data Alliance, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Professor Jason Hicken has won a Young Investigator award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He will use the three-year, 300,000 grant to further his research into developing new techniques for improving the design process of complex engineering systems.
The Young Actors Guild (YAG) is being integrated into the programming serving Summer@Rensselaer youth audiences effective February 1, 2015.
Renowned biotechnology innovators Robert Linhardt and Jonathan Dordick have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Rensselaer Professor Karyn Rogers wrote this guest post while cruising at 30,000 feet aboard a Boeing 737 on a flight from Albany to Managua, Nicaragua. After landing, hopefully without delay or lost luggage, she will travel to the colonial city of Leon, jumping off point for the expedition to the Cerro Negro volcano (pictured above) […]
The economic impact of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on the Capital Region was more than $1 billion in 2013, representing an increase of $300 million over the last eight years, according to a new study released January 15.
Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson will join other global leaders at the 45th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.