Vincent Meunier, the head of the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named Editor-in-Chief of a Carbon Trends, a newly launched sister journal to Carbon, the premier research journal for carbon-related papers.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Sasha Wagner and Morgan Schaller, both assistant professors of earth and environmental sciences, are interested in constructing a clearer picture of how Western U.S. wildfire activity evolved throughout the Holocene, a period from about 11,650 years ago to today, and in bringing that historical perspective to modern wildfire regimes.

In research recently published in Nano Letters, a team of engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute continued to push the boundaries of material physics and performance by developing a new spectroscopy technique that allows researchers to examine particle interactions that before could not be measured.

Recent research co-authored by three faculty from the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute revealed that credit default swap contracts affect the dynamic of the lender-creditor relationship in the financial industry.

Jude Abu Zaineh, an electronic arts doctoral candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.

A third-year Science and Technology Studies doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been awarded two distinct honors that reflect the growing importance of STS approaches to the field of artificial intelligence.

Tucker Babcock, a doctoral student in aeronautical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded a NASA fellowship.

The Lally School of Management has named Clint Ballinger, lecturer and executive entrepreneur-in-residence, as the interim director of undergraduate programs beginning Sept. 1, 2020. 

A new safety app that will enhance security and reporting on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus is now available, and the Department of Public Safety encourages all members of the campus community to download it.

The Frightened President, a comedy-horror film by Jefferson Kielwagen, a lecturer in the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, premiered at the fourth annual Guarufantástico Film Festival in Guarulhos, Brazil. The film is available for online viewing until the end of August. The short feature was one of 60 independent films chosen as part of the professional category. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the premiere was virtual.