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Troy, N.Y. — Slingerlands resident E. Jeanne Jenkins will receive the Outstanding Service Award on Wednesday, Dec. 18 from Rensselaer's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) detachment. The award recognizes an individual or organization for providing exceptional support to the AFROTC, and for helping it fulfill its mission to cultivate leaders for the Air Force. Jenkins is the first recipient of the award.

Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has formed an alliance with two upstate New York universities and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez to enroll more minority students in graduate programs and to produce more minority professors.

Troy, N.Y. — After suffering the first of seven heartbreaking miscarriages in 1986, Rensselaer anthropology professor Linda Layne vowed to bring the subject of pregnancy loss to light. Now, nearly two decades later, Layne presents her findings in a new book titled Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (Routledge, 2003). In it, she challenges society and women's movements in particular to publicly discuss the topic and to offer more helpful support to "would-be" parents.    

Troy, N.Y. — More than 20 elementary-school students from the Susan Odell Taylor School visited the country's only 'Molecularium' today. Housed in the Lally Digistar II Planetarium in Troy's Junior Museum, the "Molecularium" is designed to introduce students in grades K-3 to simple material science concepts, including the states of matter - solids, liquids, and gases - and addresses the requirements of the New York State science curricula.

Troy, N.Y. — Two Rensselaer architecture students have received awards in an international juried competition for their original design of a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic to be used in sub-Saharan Africa. The competition was sponsored by Architecture for Humanity to design a fully equipped, mobile medical unit and treatment center that could be used for testing, prevention, and treatment of the disease, and to disseminate information and provide basic health care services.

Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer researchers have developed an automated system, called RPI-Trace3D, that can swiftly map capillaries in a live tumor. What used to take days of manually tracing the vessels, now takes two minutes. The diagnostic tool, in use at Harvard Medical School and at Northeastern University, is a boon to oncologists who aim to understand how blood vessels form in tumors.

Leon Lederman to Discuss Pre-College Science Education Troy, N.Y. — Leon Lederman, Nobel Prize-winner and internationally renowned particle physicist, will offer some radical ideas for improving pre-college science education when he delivers the annual Robert Resnick Lecture Wednesday, Nov. 20 from 4 to 5 p.m. in room 3303 of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Russell Sage Laboratory. The talk, titled “A Vision of 21st Century Science Education,” is free and open to the public.

Award will be given to underrepresented students of color Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has established a new scholarship for underrepresented minority students. The award, the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship, will provide financial support to one or more qualified and deserving undergraduates who have unmet needs and require additional support to enroll in or continue their studies at Rensselaer.

Hartford, CT — Dennis Tito ’64, founder and CEO of Wilshire Associates Inc., was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Hartford Chapter of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Alumni Association today. He received the honor at a dinner reception at the Hartford Club on Prospect Street this evening. The award recognizes a graduate’s outstanding achievement in professional and/or civic involvement.