John Wen To Lead Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robotics and control systems expert John T. Wen has been named head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Becomes Founding Corporate Member of Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, the first industrial member, is helping shape the future of data science.
Saving the Planet (With an Algorithm)
Here’s a knotty problem: There is a relationship between human activity, damage to the environment, and harm to people (greenhouse gases leads to sea level rise which threatens coastal populations), but the cause-and-effect isn’t always clear. And while environmentalists collect stats on damage to the environment (pollutants in air and water, deforestation, species loss), policy […]
The Jefferson Project
All hands on deck! It’s Rensselaer biology professor Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer, with partners Harry Kolar (right) from IBM and Eric Siy (left) from the FUND for Lake George. They were on the water yesterday celebrating the launch of the Jefferson Project, an exciting new research effort to turn Lake George into the world’s biggest and most […]
New Project Aims to Make New York’s Lake George the “Smartest Lake” in the World
Rensselaer, IBM, and the FUND for Lake George announced the launch of “The Jefferson Project at Lake George.”
Bacteria Sent Into Space Behave in Mysterious Ways
Colonies of bacteria grown aboard space shuttle Atlantis behaved in ways never before observed on Earth.
Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering Expert Richard Gross Joins Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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.
The Rensselaer IDEA: Harnessing the Power of Data to Change the World
Rensselaer today announced a new university-wide initiative to tackle the challenges and opportunities of Big Data.
Breaking Ground in the STEM Fields: New York Times Writer Speaks at Rensselaer June 28
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.
Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Develop Next-Generation LED
Researchers from the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center have successfully integrated an LED and a power transistor on the same gallium nitride (GaN) chip.