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Colonies of bacteria grown aboard space shuttle Atlantis behaved in ways never before observed on Earth.

Richard Gross has joined Rensselaer as a chair in the Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering Constellation and professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Rensselaer today announced a new university-wide initiative to tackle the challenges and opportunities of Big Data.

Members of the Rensselaer campus and local community are invited to a special lecture featuring New York Times and Scientific American technology columnist David Pogue.

Researchers from the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center have successfully integrated an LED and a power transistor on the same gallium nitride (GaN) chip.

The Lally School of Management and Technology will host its annual business plan competition for high school students on May 29.

Second Lt. Paul Maloney, USMC had a memorable Commencement; perhaps a bit more memorable than he and his family had bargained for.

U.S. Representative John R. Lewis (D-GA) urged graduates to use their skills to build a kinder, more equitable society.

The 11th annual President’s Commencement Colloquy will engage its 2013 honorary degree recipients in a discussion titled “Leading Cultural Shifts: Courage, Creativity, Commitment.”

Now here is something really fun! The School of Science just posted a gallery of images from their Research Photo Contest. These are photos that chronicle the work of researchers within the School of Science at Rensselaer, and they run the gamut from a glorious shot of twilight on an Adirondack lake — taken in the […]