New Center Pursues Interdisciplinary Solutions for Critical Health Care Challenges Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the new Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM) within the School of Engineering.

The new Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has transformed a key building on the Institute’s storied campus into a test bed for high-efficiency lighting.

Researchers throughout Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are coming together to develop a new interdisciplinary Data Science Research Center. The center will bring together top researchers from every school within Rensselaer as well as collaborators at other universities and corporations to develop new and better ways to store, protect, share, and gain knowledge from scientific data.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Use Water to Open, Tune Graphene’s Band Gap

      Dr. Marcian E. “Ted” Hoff, Jr.

Prestigious Designation by American Society of Civil Engineers Recognizes Nation’s Oldest Civil Engineering Degree Program

In 1835, Rensselaer Issued the First Civil Engineering Degree in the United States Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today (Oct. 14, 2010) celebrated its place in history as the first university in the United States to issue a degree in civil engineering.

A recent Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society acknowledges the potential of Rensselaer researcher Lee Ligon’s work on breast cancer. Ligon is investigating interactions between cells as breast cancer spreads within the body.

James K. Mitchell, Class of 1951 Esteemed Geotechnical Engineer and Educator To Be Awarded Highest Honor Given to a Rensselaer School of Engineering Alumnus

Vincent Meunier, Ph.D. Computational physicist Vincent Meunier has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the Gail and Jeffrey L. Kodosky ’70 Constellation Professor of Physics, Information Technology, and Entrepreneurship.