Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researcher Ravi Kane has been awarded $2.1 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to develop an antidote to counteract the potentially deadly anthrax toxin in humans who have been exposed to the bacteria's spores.
Nalamasu's Research Played Major Role in Enabling the Microelctronics Revolution
Troy, N.Y. — An international team of physicists has provided the best evidence to date of the existence of a new form of atomic matter, dubbed the "pentaquark." The research team confirmed the existence of pentaquarks by using a different approach that greatly increased the rate of detection compared to previous experiments. The results are published as the cover story in today's issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
Troy, N.Y. — The Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is introducing a new MBA curriculum for the fall 2004 academic semester. The new curriculum does not follow the traditional MBA approach in which each course focuses on a specific business discipline, such as marketing or accounting; rather, it combines coursework into year-long classes that capture the complexity of the real-world business environment.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) President Shirley Ann Jackson announced today that the Institute is planning to elevate the women’s ice hockey program Division III to Division I. A timetable is being developed for the move.
Troy, N.Y. - The American Ethnological Society (AES) has awarded Kim Fortun, associate professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the organization's Sharon Stephens Prize for her work titled Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (University of Chicago Press, 2001). The Sharon Stephens Prize recognizes a junior scholar's first book "that speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy."
Troy, N.Y. - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will receive $750,000 in federal funding to support the development of a new Center for Quantitative and Computational Bioscience, which will be part of the Institute's Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. Federal support for the new Center was included in the Energy and Water Appropriations bill signed into law Dec.1, 2003.
A New, International Program and Custom-Designed Building, Where Art and Science Will Meet, Mingle, and Change One Another
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Report Finding Published in the November Issue of Nature Materials
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