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.
In a new episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast, leading figures from the team behind AiMOS, the powerful new supercomputer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, explain how machines like it are transforming research and society.
In the latest episode of Why Not Change the World? The RPI Podcast, leading experts in lighting and bone health reveal how their research tackles Alzheimer’s disease in new and unexpected ways.
Nathan Meltz, a senior lecturer in the Department of the Arts in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was recently awarded an Honorable Mention for his entry in the Four Rivers Print Biennial, a national juried exhibition.
Liping Huang, a professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named a fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) — an honor bestowed on members who have made “outstanding contributions to the ceramic arts or sciences.”
Manoj Gottipati, a research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded a $100,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation to support his research into a potential therapy for spinal cord injury (SCI).
Strategic alliances are used by firms to access capabilities developed by other firms. In the academic literature, the traditional assumption has been that firms form alliances when they lack their own resources to pursue market or technological opportunities. However, new research by Shyam Kumar, an associate professor in the Lally School of Management and director of the MBA program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, offers a different perspective.
The Princeton Review recently ranked Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as one of the top schools at which to pursue a graduate degree in game design.