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Nanoengineered Coating Uses Naturally Occurring Water Deep in Earth to Power Underground Oil and Gas Sensors

Last spring, the Fortuns and STS graduate students Alison Kenner and Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn laid the groundwork for the Asthmatic Spaces courses.

Nanotechnology pioneer Richard W. Siegel, the Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and director of the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center, has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).

Jacob Fish, the Rosalind and John J. Redfern ’33 Chaired Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and director of the university’s Multiscale Science and Engineering Center, has won the biennial Computational Mechanics Award from the International Association for Computational Mechanics.

A team of geophysicists led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Steven Roecker is in Chile to study the scope and strength of aftershocks that continue to rattle the area following the massive Feb.

Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget in President Obama’s Administration, To Deliver Commencement Address May 29 Robert S. Langer photo credit: Stu Rosner Photography

Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget in President Obama’s Administration, To Deliver Commencement Address May 29 Robert S. Langer photo credit: Stu Rosner Photography

Peter Tessier Peter Tessier, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Listen to a podcast interview with Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize-Winner Javad Rafiee.

Student work from the Experimental Game Design course lead by Kathleen Ruiz, associate professor of integrated arts. Image credit: Rensselaer/Ian Stead ’04