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A record total of 15, 201 high school students have filed applications to attend Rensselaer this fall.

More than 100 area middle and high school students from the Capital Region will participate in the 22nd annual greater Capital Region Science and Engineering Fair.

A new lecture series at Rensselaer is dedicated to fostering discussion and public interest in topics related to nuclear engineering.

This year the Production, Installation, and Performance (PIP) seminar at Rensselaer takes place in a cavernous mausoleum of the industrial age known around town as “the Gasholder Building.”

Student creativity and entrepreneurial thinking has received funding from the Rensselaer Class of ’51 Entrepreneurship Fund.

On the evening of Thursday, March 8, a motion-sensitive video camera was discovered in the locker room of an athletic facility on the Rensselaer Troy campus.

Lee Ligon has found a previously unknown connection between breast cancer tumor cells and the surrounding healthy tissue.

(A group of Rensselaer architecture students are putting their education to work in the annual CANstruction competition to benefit local food pantries. Fourth-year architecture student Tyler Hopf wrote this post explaining the students’ goal and asking for your support. The above image shows one of the entries from last year’s event.) Each year, CANstruction—a non-profit [...]

Two years ago, Class of 2003 graduate Lt. Miroslav “Steven” Zilberman, who was serving as a Naval pilot aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, made a decision that saved the lives of three of his crewmates.

Since my early days studying complex organic molecules in college to today as I sort through myriad sources of information on news websites, blogs, and elsewhere,  I have often forced myself to step back and examine the “big picture” to obtain a better understanding of an important topic. A recent lecture on climate change here [...]