This year, 1,613 students will receive degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Saturday, May 26, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the East Campus Athletic Village (ECAV) stadium.
Rensselaer will convene the 10th annual President’s Commencement Colloquy engaging its 2012 honorary degree recipients in a discussion titled “Honoring Tradition, Responding to a Changing World.”
Engineers for a Sustainable World have been hard at work transforming a used 20-foot steel shipping container into a safe, comfortable, and transportable bedroom for orphaned children in Haiti.
Computational mechanics expert Suvranu De has been named the new head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE).
Laurie Anderson has been named the inaugural distinguished artist in residence at EMPAC for a three-year term beginning later this year.
Rensselaer today announced the new Manufacturing Innovation Learning Lab (MILL).
Professor Lester Gerhardt last month received the prestigious Benjamin Garver Lamme Award and Medal from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has named Curt Breneman as the new head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Breneman has been with Rensselaer since 1989.
Leading transportation engineering and humanitarian logistics expert Jose Holguín-Veras will speak this week at the high-impact International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany.
Several biomedical engineers have collaborated with artists from the College of Saint Rose and the surrounding Capital Region to bring their research on healing the nervous system to the public through art.