Rensselaer Professor Sandipan Mishra Receives NSF CAREER Award
Control systems expert Sandipan Mishra has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Rensselaer Professor Riccardo Bevilacqua Wins Young Investigator Award from U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research
Riccardo Bevilacqua has been named the recipient of a 2013 Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Lawrence Livermore Scientists Set a New Simulation Speed Record on the Sequoia Supercomputer
Computer scientists have set a high performance computing speed record that opens the way to the scientific exploration of complex planetary-scale systems.
Guest Post: Daniel Angerhausen and the Flying Observatory
(Later this week, Daniel Angerhausen, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jon Morse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor of physics and associate vice president for research for physical sciences and engineering, will be flying aboard the airborne telescope SOFIA. Angerhausen, a native of Uerdingen, Germany [about 30 minutes from Cologne], sent us this excellent post […]
Biomedical Imaging Expert Ge Wang Joins Rensselaer as Clark and Crossan Professor
Biomedical imaging expert Ge Wang recently joined Rensselaer as the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering.
Beat the Odds: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Community Set to Raise Funds and Cancer Awareness
More than 1,000 members of the Rensselaer community, along with family and friends, will participate in the eighth annual Relay For Life event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society.
Analytics Heads to Graduate School at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
To prepare students and career professionals for careers requiring Big Data and analytics skills, IBM and Rensselaer are offering a one-year Lally graduate degree program: the Master of Science in Business Analytics.
MilkyWay@Home Co-Founder and Rensselaer Professor Heidi Newberg Named Fellow of American Physical Society
Galactic astronomer Heidi Newberg has been selected as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Capital Region’s Top Research Institutions Host Symposium on Building Collaborations in Research Leading to Medical Advances
Biomedical researchers, industry leaders and policymakers discussed ways to build collaborations that will translate basic scientific research into practical, commercial health care applications.
Distant Stars, Giant Planets … And an exhibit on Capitol Hill
More than 1,000 light years from Earth, a giant gaseous planet is in a tight and fast orbit around a star larger than the Sun, and, between the two of them, there’s something funny going on. The star is known as HAT-P-7 or Kepler 2, the planet is Kepler 2b, and Rensselaer physics and astronomy student Emily DeLarme has […]