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.

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.

Leading transportation engineering and humanitarian logistics expert Jose Holguín-Veras will speak this week at the high-impact International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany.

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 [...]