Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and GlobalFoundries will host the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) 2.0 Regional Meeting on April 24.

The varied events of Rensselaer’s 2014 Earth Week Festival all celebrate interconnections — across generations and geography, between plants, animals, and humans, and across issues as distinct as shale gas, public education, and environmental governance.

Rometty receives an honorary degree, along with WWW inventor Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, and pioneering geneticist Mary-Claire King.

Mastracchio will answer questions from students live from the ISS at 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 18.  

Seventy students will pitch their budding business ideas to a panel of management scholars, entrepreneurs, and area business leaders.

A motorcycle jacket with LEDs that creates a third brake light and a retainer that combats dry mouth disease are among the 10 winning ideas.

President Jackson calls for greater connectivity for collaboration, discovery, and innovation at Internet2 Global Summit.

A team of 13 students have spent the past several months devising ways to construct a scene from classic literature entirely out of canned goods.

Acclaimed short story author Lydia Davis will speak on April 16 as part of the annual McKinney Writing Contest awards ceremony.

Congressman Paul Tonko will deliver the keynote address at the second annual Advanced Manufacturing Conference.