Rensselaer Awarded Mellon Grant To Expand Resource-Sharing System With Academic Libraries Throughout New York

Troy, N.Y. — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and four other independent colleges and universities in New York state to support development of a rapid and direct system of resource-sharing for academic libraries. The consortium of libraries, known as ConnectNY, shares library holdings, making the collections of all participating members readily available to students, faculty, and staff.

Rensselaer Completes Future Chips Constellation With Two New Faculty Appointments

Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the appointment of two new faculty members, thereby completing its Future Chips Constellation, the first of several "critical mass" groupings of world-caliber faculty in focal research areas. The new faculty are Shawn-Yu Lin, Ph.D., a recognized authority in photonics research, and Christian M. Wetzel, Ph.D., a research pioneer in semiconductor device design and manufacturing.

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