Francine Berman was named a co-chair of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ryan Gilbert, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
NYSERDA has given Rensselaer a High Performance Building Plaque for energy-saving investments that will reduce energy use and save the Institute $223,513 annually.
Neil Rolnick, composer and professor of music, will embark on a new project—a piece for pianist Vicky Chow—with support from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University.
Nuclear safety expert Peter Caracappa, the campus radiation officer, will visit Capitol Hill Friday to brief congressional staffers on radiation and radioactivity.
Computer scientist Carlos Varela has received seed funding from the U.S. Air Force to help make flight data as updated, active, and accurate as possible.
President Shirley Ann Jackson and three top researchers from the Institute have been invited to deliver an “Ideas Lab” presentation at the World Economic Forum.
President Shirley Ann Jackson has been chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to receive its prestigious 2011 Philip Hauge Abelson Award.
President Shirley Ann Jackson, and a delegation of Rensselaer faculty are among global leaders in government, business, academe, media, and the arts who will convene at the WEF.
Graphene is the thinnest material known to science. The nanomaterial is so thin, in fact, water often doesn’t even know it’s there.