In a typical year, the students graduating with bachelor’s degrees from the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences would give public presentations of their thesis projects at the end of the spring semester. Of course, 2020 has been anything but a typical year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such a gathering was not possible.

A group of researchers with diverse expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) recently joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of the Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration (AIRC), a joint initiative of Rensselaer and IBM Research. Two of those experts sat down to discuss their exploration of artificial intelligence in the context of social media for the latest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast.

As part of the inaugural class participating in The Arch at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Alex Christoforides ’21, a computer science major, completed his fall semester away internship opportunity at MathWorks in the Natick, Massachusetts, Lakeside Campus.

Many students choose to pursue an internship or co-op at one of the leading companies partnered with CCPD. One notable partnership Rensselaer cultivated is with MathWorks, a private company specializing in mathematical computing software.

Yaron Danon, a professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer, has been elected a fellow of the American Nuclear Society.

Winners have been announced in the 79th annual McKinney Writing Contest, which recognizes top writers in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student community.

Two scientists describe the extreme conditions in which life can be found and what that reveals about the origins of Earth in the newest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast.

Alex Connor ’23 is this year’s 1st Place winner of the Paul J. and Kathleen M. Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship’s combined spring competition. Connor, a chemical and biological engineering Ph.D. candidate, took the top prize of $8,000 for his presentation on MegaSilk, a synthetic silk for multiple industries in need of strong lightweight material.

The life-saving use of naloxone and the social movement to make it more available in order to combat opioid overdoses is the focus of the latest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast.

Three Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate students have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships.