Rensselaer Researchers Develop Coating That Safely Kills MRSA on Contact
Scanning electron microscopy image of nanocomposite film. Image Credit: Rensselaer/Ravindra C.Pangule and Shyam Sundhar Bale
The Next Frontier for States and Cities: Building Clean Energy Industries and Green Jobs
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Receives NSF Grant To Develop National Study That Identifies the Best Practices and Policies of States and Cities Focused on Businesses That Create Green Jobs
Breaching the Blood-Brain Barrier To Create Powerful New Tools for Fighting Cancer
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Are Developing New Technology for Pushing Drugs Through the Blood-Brain Barrier, Directly Targeting Brain Tumors
Exposure to Early Evening Sunlight in Spring Creates Teenage Night Owls
As part of a USGBC-funded research project at New York’s Algonquin Middle School in 2009, a student wears a personal light-measuring device, called a Daysimeter, to monitor her rest and activity patterns and the amount of “circadian light” reaching her eyes.
Philippe Baveye To Join Rensselaer Faculty as Kodak Chair in Environmental Engineering
New Tenured Professor Will Add Interdisciplinary Expertise in Hydrology, Soil Science
NASA Grant Supports New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer in Search for Conditions of Life in the Universe
Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk around a luminous young star. Dust particles in the disk that orbit around the star may eventually coalesce to form new planets. Research by the RPI team will provide new insight into the chemical evolution of the disks.
Designing Touch-Sensitive Virtual Reality Tools To Train and Test Tomorrow's Surgeons
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Researchers Receive $2.3 Million NIH Grant To Develop and Validate Virtual Reality Hardware, Software for Training and Certifying Laparoscopic Surgeons