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Systems biology expert Juergen Hahn has been named head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Rensselaer.

The U.S. Navy is turning to the Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS) Program at Rensselaer to prepare a select group of U.S. Navy officers with skills needed for military cyberspace operations.

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, the first industrial member, is helping shape the future of data science.

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 […]

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 […]

Rensselaer, IBM, and the FUND for Lake George announced the launch of “The Jefferson Project at Lake George.”

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.