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 […]

The United States Department of Commerce has awarded the Department of Commerce Gold Medal to Frank Lombardo, research assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental at Rensselaer.  

Throughout the month of February, in honor of Black History Month, several Rensselaer Union student organizations have been offering a host of programs for members of the campus and local community

Rensselaer Dean of Architecture Evan Douglis is among four individuals to be honored by the Cooper Union Alumni Association at their Founder’s Day Celebration on April 26, 2015.

The Lally School of Management will host its fourth annual business model competition for undergraduate and graduate students on Feb. 25. Nine student teams will have an opportunity to pitch their product or software ideas.  

Richard Kauffman, Chairman of Energy and Finance for New York in the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, will give the keynote address at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Rensselaer Center for Future Energy Systems on Feb. 26. 

In celebration of National Engineers Week, the School of Engineering at Rensselaer is hosting its annual Exploring Engineering Day event Feb. 21. Area students in grades 3 to 6, and their parents will explore engineering activities as part of the program.

The new Knowledge and Innovation Program (KIP) of the Rensselaer Office of Research has awarded four grants to spur multidisciplinary research.

Rensselaer professor of civil and environmental engineering Michael O’Rourke wrote the book that is critical for preventing roofs from caving in under the weight of snow.