Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host its annual GameFest on Saturday, April 27, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on RPI’s campus.

For the 2023-2024 academic year, Rensselaer’s Science and Technology Studies Department experienced significant growth with the addition of three new faculty members. Tankut Atuk, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research is situated at the intersections of public/global health, medical sociology/anthropology, social epidemiology, and sexual health. Adam Biggs, Ph.D., focuses on race, civil rights, and the history of medicine. Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Ph.D. is an anthropologist and historian of science and medicine in the U.S.

The Office of Graduate Education, in cooperation with the schools of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Architecture, have presented the 2024-25 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Architecture Fellowship to the following students:

Chrysi Nanou, music fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and member of Spira Quartet, will present a program of classical and contemporary pieces, including a world premiere composition by Mary Simoni, Dean of the RPI School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Tuesday, April 9, at noon.