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A study from engineers at Rensselaer and the University of California, Berkeley, pairs light and genetics to give researchers a powerful tool for manipulating cells.

Professor Ganpati Ramanath was named a winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Neil Rolnick, professor of music, will present a concert of music for violin, piano, and computer at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27 at EMPAC.

The health, prosperity, security, and global leadership of the United States depend on our strength in science and technology.

Campus is still abuzz from last week’s announcement that IBM will give a version of its Watson system to Rensselaer. The computer rose to fame in early 2011 after if defeated the two all-time human champions of the quiz show Jeopardy!. The Internet is also abuzz with the news, and our own Jim Hendler is […]

The Jepsons’ gift will lay the groundwork for the establishment of The Sharon H. and David G. Jepson ’63 Career Development Chair in Architecture.

IBM announced it will provide a modified version of an IBM Watson system to Rensselaer, making it the first university to receive such a system.

The 2012-13 Annual Conference of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) was held on January 25th.

(High school senior Samantha Scibelli – named yesterday as one of 40 finalists in the prestigious pre-college Intel Science Talent Search 2013 – wrote this excellent post for The Approach, to tell us about her research  with Professor Heidi Newberg. Enjoy!) My name is Samantha Scibelli, I am currently finishing up my senior year at […]

Schwendeman's expertise lies in the general field of computational science and engineering.