Troy, N.Y. — Daniel Freedman, 30, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. He is the fifth Rensselaer faculty member this year and the 17th in the past three years to receive the award. The CAREER Award is the NSF’s most prestigious honor for faculty members who are at the beginning of their academic careers.
Rensselaer Researchers Achieve Unprecedented Control over Nanotube Growth Troy, N.Y. — Next-generation computer chips, integrated circuits, and the microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices that power them depend upon carbon nanotubes that can be grown up, down, sideways, and in all three dimensions. Researchers at Rensselaer are the first to achieve this unprecedented, specific, and controlled nanotube growth.
TROY, N.Y. — On Monday, April 8, Habitat for Humanity International (HHI) will honor the student chapter of Habitat for Humanity at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Millard Fuller, founder and president of HHI, based in Georgia, will kick off the event with a speech at 10 a.m. at the Chapel and Cultural Center, 2125 Burdett Avenue. He will talk about the need to build decent, affordable housing. His talk is free and open to the public.
New York State Support Helped to Undergird Success Troy, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been awarded a Center for Advanced Interconnect Systems Technologies (CAIST) by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to support research in microelectronic interconnect technologies, the backbone of the next generation of computer technology.
Honorary Doctorates To Be Conferred on Moviemaker Bobby Farrelly, Genomic Researcher Claire Fraser, and Brown University President Ruth Simmons Troy, N.Y. — Civilian space traveler and Rensselaer alumnus Dennis Tito will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s 196th Commencement ceremonies on May 18.
Troy, N.Y. — Mike Savic can't recapture the 18 missing minutes of the Watergate tapes, but he can teach computers to deliver sounds that have been damaged in transmission. His research will aid military communications, improve hearing aids, and possibly find music's lost chords.
Colón is Awarded $1 Million From the NIH to Study the Cause of the Disease Troy, N.Y. — The cause of Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) has remained elusive since it brought down one of baseball’s greatest players 60 years ago.
Troy, N.Y. — Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., will present “An Evening of Entrepreneurial Spirit, Social Responsibility, and Radical Business Philosophy” at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He will speak Friday, April 5, at 7 p.m., at the Armory on 15th Street. The event is free and open to the public.
Washington, D.C. — Rensselaer freshman student Richard Booton, who suffers from cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, and epilepsy, and was diagnosed with dyslexia, will be honored at the White House for his achievements on Wednesday, March 6. Booton, a computer science major, received a prestigious 2001 National Achievement Award from the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D).
Additional Experiments Are Needed Troy, N.Y. — A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has reported the observation of phenomena that could point to the possibility of nuclear fusion using a novel technique for plasma confinement. The approach, called “bubble fusion,” is reported in the March 8 issue of Science magazine.