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Photo Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Combined computing power of the MilkyWay@Home project recently surpassed the world’s second fastest supercomputer

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.

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, 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.

Rensselaer Receives More Than $10 Million in Recovery Act Funding Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has so far received more than $10 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

More than 13,200 high school students have filed applications to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, according to numbers released today by Rensselaer Admissions. Applications are still being counted, but the current record total represents a growth of more than 8.8 percent since last year at this time.

New identity, vision for former Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced today its Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems (DSES) will be renamed the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE). The change, effective immediately, was approved recently by the Board of Trustees upon recommendation of the department and the dean, and with the support of the provost and the president.

New DoD MURI grant supports investigation of unified theories of language and cognition Despite the power of computers to crunch numbers with unfathomable speed and perform quadrillions of calculations per second, the machines are still quite primitive in their ability to truly understand human language.

Innovator and industry veteran Robert F. Karlicek Jr. has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC). His appointment was effective January 4, 2010.

Peter Bohlin, a 1958 graduate of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been selected as the 2010 Gold Medalist by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Awarded annually, the AIA Gold Medal is considered to be the highest honor bestowed to an individual architect.