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$1.4 billion campaign goal reached just days before EMPAC grand opening Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced that it has surpassed the $1.4 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer capital campaign goal. The announcement comes nine months in advance of the campaign’s target end date of June 30, 2009, and just days before the opening of the new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), launched under President Shirley Ann Jackson’s ambitious Rensselaer Plan.

Discussion will launch the grand opening celebration of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will launch the Grand Opening Celebration of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) with a discussion among global leaders in the media, technology and the arts, focusing on the intersection of technology, science, the arts, and culture. 

The Career Development Center (CDC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the recipient of this year’s General Electric (GE) Partnership Award. The distinction honors Rensselaer for its efforts in building corporate relationships and recruiting. Rensselaer is also recognized as among the best of 40 elite executive schools selected by GE as top developers of talent and company placement.

The above graphs were provided by Arturo Estrella, professor of economics and head of the economics department at Rensselaer.

A new technique for creating liquid lenses with water and sound could enable a new generation of low cost, lightweight, energy efficient cameras.

Colloquium held in Lucca, Italy, on Sept. 19