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New siren system to quickly alert the Troy campus during an emergency situation

A fire occurred on the evening of June 29, 2009 in the Jonsson-Rowland Science Center. The fire was quickly contained, and there was one minor injury, and some smoke and water damage to portions of the building. Below is a statement from Vice President for Administration at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Claude Rounds on the details of the June 29, 2009 fire:

The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision, which hit store shelves this month, is published by BenBella Books.

Special program will air Sunday evenings throughout the summer

The protein Fatty Acid Binding Protein is activated during the process of capacitation. Image Credit: Rensselaer/Mark Platt

The top row of images is comprised of digital photographs taken from Troy, N.Y. of the Feb. 21, 2008 lunar eclipse.

Walé Adeosun, chief investment officer of Rensselaer, has been named chair of the New York State Common Retirement Fund’s (CRF) Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

Rensselaer Assistant Professor Leila Parsa has been named a winner of the Office of Naval Research 2009 Young Investigator Program. As part of the award, Parsa will receive a three-year, $500,000 research grant for applying her investigations into the design and control of energy and power electronics converters toward the development of new shipboard power systems of interest to the U.S. Navy and its Office of Naval Research.

Sleep disturbances increase as we age. Some studies report more than half of seniors 65 years of age or older suffer from chronic sleep disturbances.