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TROY, N.Y. — Cardboard boxes being delivered to homes and businesses — one, two, even three packages at a time — are as ubiquitous as holiday lights this time of year. While most people enjoy giving and receiving gifts throughout the season, there’s increasing concern over the rise in congestion, emissions, and energy consumption associated with an influx of deliveries. A new survey conducted by a research team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute indicates that some online shoppers are open to receiving packages in another way, if it would help offset this growing problem.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in conjunction with the City of Troy Capital Resource Corporation (CRC) as conduit issuer, successfully priced $261,165,000 2020A Series tax-exempt bonds on November 20, 2019.  Proceeds will be utilized to refund the Institute’s $311,630,000 2010A Series tax-exempt bonds.  The transaction is expected to close on June 3, 2020.

Elementary and middle school students from around the region will compete in the annual Hudson Valley FIRST LEGO League Qualifying Tournament on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus on Saturday, Dec. 14. This is the 12th year that Rensselaer has served as the host facility for this regional competition, which is open to students aged 9-14 years old. 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students Justin Hubbard ’22, Mark Muscara ’22, Ronak Patel ’22, and Emmanuel Sylvester ’21 have been named University Innovation Fellows by the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University.

In a special episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast, two prominent inventors — who also happen to be Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni — look to the future and offer their advice on how to prepare for it.

TROY, N.Y. — Power generation, the heat in our homes, air-conditioning, even the manufacturing of some of the products we use each day rely on evaporation and condensation processes. Improving and controlling these phase-change phenomena could increase energy efficiency across a vast number of industries.

Researchers from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently published the latest in a series of studies exploring how light impacts alertness during the day and sleep quality at night in daytime office workers.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been working diligently to find and harness a quasiparticle that has a quantum degree of freedom, an essential property needed to advance quantum computing and quantum information storage.

TROY, N.Y. — Many technologies that are essential for daily life — from communications to GPS navigation to weather forecasting — rely on the thousands of satellites that are orbiting Earth. When those satellites run out of gas and stop working, there’s not much that can currently be done to fix them.

The most powerful supercomputer to debut on the November 2019 Top500 ranking of supercomputers, also the most powerful supercomputer in New York State, was recently unveiled at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center for Computational Innovations.