Princeton Review Ranks Rensselaer Among Nation's Top Schools for Game Design Programs
Student work from the Experimental Game Design course lead by Kathleen Ruiz, associate professor of integrated arts. Image credit: Rensselaer/Ian Stead ’04
Anak Agung Julius Receives NSF CAREER Award
Anak Agung Julius, assistant professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority
Dollars Won’t Do It Alone: Deluge of Digital Data Needs Economically Sustainable Plans; Task Force Co-Chaired by Rensselaer Vice President
The Mathematics Behind a Good Night's Sleep
Why can’t I fall asleep? Will this new medication keep me up all night? Can I sleep off this cold? Despite decades of research, answers to these basic questions about one of our most essential bodily functions remain exceptionally difficult to answer. In fact, researchers still don’t fully understand why we even sleep at all.
PCs Around the World Unite To Map the Milky Way
Photo Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Combined computing power of the MilkyWay@Home project recently surpassed the world’s second fastest supercomputer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Host 12th Annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day
More than 1,100 (and counting) area students and their families will visit Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to participate in the 12th annual Black Family Technology Awareness Day event, to be held February 6. The event, designed to spur young people’s interest in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, (STEM) and the arts, will be hosted by Rensselaer’s Office of Institute Diversity and the Office of Academic Outreach Programs.
Researchers Using Science To Decode the Secrets of Olympic Skeleton Sliding
Rensselaer researchers help athletes trim track times Olympic skeleton athletes will hit the ice next month in Vancouver, where one-hundredths of a second can dictate the difference between victory and defeat.
Sanmay Das Receives NSF CAREER Award
Sanmay Das, assistant professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Das will use the five-year, $500,000 award to further his research into the dynamics of collective intelligence on the Web.