Drive Green with National Grid  is offering the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a new webinar series to answer questions related to electric vehicles (EVs). National Grid is offering a $350 gift card for anyone who purchases or leases an EV before December 31, 2020.

A new episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast focuses on discoveries in space. Specifically, it highlights a recent finding about the nature of the Milky Way galaxy and technology being used aboard the International Space Station to make strides in pharmaceutical research and other areas.

Lucy Zhang, an associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Suvranu De, the J. Erik Jonsson ’22 Distinguished Professor of Engineering and head of the same department, have each been elected fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

The workings of the human brain — from decision-making and dealing with stress to analyzing and improving certain cognitive functions — are the focus of a new episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast.

A cross-disciplinary team of faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have launched the Alzheimer’s Prevention Project and created a website designed to encourage citizens to engage in activities that scientific research has identified will reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

The latest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast features excerpts from three lectures that were part of the Engineering the Anthropocene speaker series held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Adam Fellows, a second-year student of Economics in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently honored with a national service award from Hormel Foods.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mathematics student Daniel Kosmas has been awarded a National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship. The three-year award will support Kosmas’ research in disrupting human trafficking networks.

Carolyn Tennant, an electronic arts doctoral candidate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has curated the first American solo retrospective of the pioneering British audiovisual artist Vicki Bennett for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, New York.

The newest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast features two women who are already changing the world, though neither one has completed their undergraduate degree yet.