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$745,000 Awarded to Fund 10 Research Projects through new alliance, a Capital Region Economic Development Council priority project.

The Douglas Mercer ’77 Laboratory aims to promote and encourage the “lost art of tinkering”.

Professor Peter Fox has been named the new director of the Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS) program.

Rensselaer will host local high school students for a morning and afternoon of activities to celebrate national Manufacturing Day.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Department of the Arts with a series of events and will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

Researchers seek to harness the power of computer graphics cards to solve one of the world’s most pressing health care technology challenges.

Civil engineers from Rensselaer were part of an international research team that collapsed a full-scale dike this week in The Netherlands.

A new study from professor Mariana Figueiro at the Rensselaer Lighting Research Center is lighting up the Internet with news that nobody wants to hear: your phone, computer, tablet, and other back-lit devices may be keeping you awake at night. Here’s why: Looking at a back-lit display for two hours can trick your brain into producing […]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this week was ranked 23rd on the 2012 list of Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs by U.S. News & World Report.

U.S. News & World Report ranking of 41st in the nation among national research universities