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.

Maurice Suckling, a professor of practice in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and renowned video game writer, has been nominated for a 2019 Charles S. Roberts Milieu Award for his design of his first board game, Freeman’s Farm 1777.

Vincent Oliveto, a doctoral student in nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has received the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program, funded by the Department of Defense (DOD).

A new LED design, the details of which were recently published in Science Advances, provides a promising layout for future LED — light-emitting diode — technology, one that solves the challenge of declining brightness at higher energy levels, known as efficiency droop.

Xavier Intes, a professor of biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has edited the book Imaging from Cells to Animals in Vivo.

Langdon Winner, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded the 2020 John Desmond Bernal Prize by 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Bowen Wang, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, has been selected to receive the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Young Investigator Award for his abstract presentation, titled “Fracture Risk in Type 2 Diabetes: Longitudinal Glycemic Control-based Prediction and Efficacy of Medications.”

Nathan Meltz, a senior lecturer in the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an award-winning printmaker, has been chosen to exhibit his work in a show that encourages artists to explore the impacts of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Providing managers with the freedom to be entrepreneurial and take risks is essential to corporate innovation, according to recently published research conducted by faculty members in the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an alumnus of the Institute.