Riccardo Bevilacqua is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer, who recently received a prestigious award and grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. We ask Riccardo about his work: Q: You’re interested in building self-assembling space robots. Tell me a little bit about it. A: [...]
More than 1,100 members of the Rensselaer community, along with family and friends, will participate in the seventh annual Relay For Life event.
(Below is an opinion piece by our own Jonathan Dordick on the need for personalized medicine. Dordick is the Howard P. Isermann Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of our Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. This winter he spoke at World Economic Forum in Davos about pharmaceutical safety and development. He shares [...]
Georges Belfort visited Germany and Italy last month as part of two prestigious honors from elite European scientific societies.
Nuclear engineering expert Yaron Danon has been named director of the new Gaerttner Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Center .
Students in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program labor over the course of an entire academic year (and sometimes longer) to build the video games showcased at the annual GameFest at Rensselaer. Every year, it seems, student-designed games break new ground for GameFest, introducing emerging technologies like augmented reality, real-world applications in education, [...]
In celebration of Oliveros’ 80th birthday, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is hosting an exceptional concert.
Decades ago, Rensselaer chemist James Ferris created long chains of RNA molecules in the lab using simple clay materials and basic organic molecules as a catalyst. The discovery helped launch a theory on how life on Earth may have arisen so many years ago – a theory that still stands strong today. Many astrobiologists support [...]
Students, mentees, and scientific collaborators of Professor of Chemistry James Ferris gathered at a special session of the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta, Ga., on April 19 to honor the scientist.
