Nuclear engineering expert Emily Liu is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer. We ask Emily about her work: Q: Your research is fascinating! It spans from nanomaterials, to radiation damage, to nuclear threat detection. What is the overall problem you are trying to solve? A: My research targets a […]
Karyn Roger has been appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Students are part of a team that has qualified for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge.
John T. Wen received the 2013 Transition to Practice Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society.
If you wanted to learn to speak Chinese – really speak Chinese at a level that allowed you to converse with native speakers at a high level and conduct business in China – you’d have to go to China, right? Not necessarily, thanks to the work of some Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professors. They’re working to […]
A new way for diabetics to test for glucose levels and a concussion-reducing baseball helmet are among the 10 winning ideas in the Fall 2013 Change the World Challenge Challenge.
Leading the re-established Chinese language program are two new educators, Yalun Zhou and Jianling Yue.
(Photo: John Killings / Rensselaer Union) The princesses on campus last weekend weren’t waiting around in a tower to be rescued by a prince. They weren’t tripping over their own glass slippers on the way home from a fancy ball. And they certainly weren’t sleeping, waiting for a magical kiss to wake them. These princesses — […]
Heng Ji has been appointed as the Edward P. Hamilton Development Chair and Tenured Associate Professor in Computer Science.
Rensselaer has kicked off a series of social events and study programs to help students de-stress during the final exam reading days December 9-10.