Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has risen in its rankings among all national universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report list of “America’s Best Colleges,” weighing in at 41st, up from 44th last year. This is the ninth year in a row Rensselaer has been counted among the top 50 universities in the nation.
Eight years ago the first graduates of the master’s program in information technology (IT) at Rensselaer entered the work force. Today, they work at some of the top Fortune 500 companies and straddle the important divide between the business and technical side of international companies. Now, the success of the master’s program in IT and its graduates has drawn the attention of one of the top IT publications, Computerworld magazine.
Ravi S. Kane, professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won the 2008 Young Investigator Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum.
Larger amounts of fully synthetic heparin could be ready for use in patients in five years
Rensselaer researcher is using fluid mechanics to help athletes sharpen strokes
New research could help isolate genetic basis for disease, population variation
Last year, more than 90 percent of the graduating class went on to work or pursue graduate studies. Many of these recent graduates now enjoy working at some of the top technology companies in the world including Google, DreamWorks Animation, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems. But, it is Rensselaer graduates’ earning power and potential that has most recently been recognized by Forbes magazine.
Agreement establishes formal ties between entrepreneurial centers at each institution
BTUs Behaviors, Technologies, and Underlying Principles — should frame the energy debate A major restructuring of global energy markets is underway, challenging all to think about energy in new ways, yet the United States is at risk of being left behind because the nation lacks a comprehensive global energy security roadmap, warned the former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on Tuesday.
Since the idea of using DNA to create faster, smaller, and more powerful computers originated in 1994, scientists have been scrambling to develop successful ways to use genetic code for computation. Now, new research from a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests that if we want to carry out artificial computations, all we have to do is literally look around.