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Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson will co-chair a national “Energy Security, Innovation & Sustainability Initiative” of the Council on Competitiveness. She will be joined by co-chairmen James W. Owens, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Caterpillar Inc., and D. Michael Langford, National President of Utility Workers Union of America, in the initiative designed to enhance U.S. competitiveness and energy security.

Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute officials have announced that the Institute’s faculty governance structure will be reviewed and modified in order to strengthen the role of tenured and tenure-track faculty members in the faculty governance process.

Continues call for investment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talent and research to sustain the national capacity for innovation

Beattie named acting director Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced that Athletic Director Ken Ralph will resign from the post he has held since 2002 in order to accept the position of athletic director at Colorado College. The decision is effective Aug. 16, at which point Rensselaer Sports Information Director Kevin Beattie will assume Ralph’s duties as acting athletic director until a national search is completed.

New discovery at Rensselaer could lead to faster, cooler interconnects Troy, N.Y. — A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics. 

New Rensselaer provost calls for emphasis on developing human capital

Senior Phillip Bracken works on his closed-loop cooling system in a lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., as part of a 10-week summer internship with the space agency.

A block of carbon nanotubes before (left) and after (right) being compressed more than 500,000 times. There is virtually no difference in shape, mechanical integrity or electrical conductivity.

New study provides context for ongoing debate over “net neutrality” Troy, N.Y. — A new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, AT&T Labs, and the University of Nevada, Reno suggests that an Internet where all traffic is treated identically would require significantly more capacity than one in which differentiated services are offered.

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