Video games represent one of the largest and fastest-growing entertainment industries in the world. Newzoo analysts predicted that gamers across the globe would spend $137.9 billion on games in 2018. Beyond games, today’s interactive technology also helps shape how young people learn, drives national defense strategies via computer simulations, and assists training efforts in biomedicine, physical fitness, anti-terrorism, and much more. The highly regarded Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a leader in games studies and rankings released recently by Animation Career Review support that: The program was ranked No. 13 nationally on the list of top game design programs in the United States and No. 11 nationally among schools offering a bachelor of science degree in game design.

Civil and environmental engineers from across the globe will be invited to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on June 4 as Rensselaer continues to play an active role in innovative Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) research. 

With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, a team of researchers including Kevin Rose, assistant professor of biological sciences, will study the water resources of the Limpopo River Basin in southern Africa, considered one of the most biodiverse natural areas on the planet.

Jian Shi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, is the 2019 winner of the Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award.   The award, given by the Eastern New York Chapter of ASM International, “recognizes an outstanding young materials scientist/engineer” from the chapter who has made significant contributions to the fields of education, research, or manufacturing, before the age of 40.  

Daniel Gall, professor of materials science and engineering, has received the 2019 IBM Faculty Award, part of a competitive worldwide program aimed at fostering collaboration in research and promoting curriculum innovation. With the award, Gall receives $40,000 to support his work in the area of post-Cu metallization. 

Jonathan Dordick, the Howard P. Isermann ’42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer, will receive the Amgen Biochemical and Molecular Engineering Award at the ECI Conference on Biochemical and Molecular Engineering in Quebec, Canada, this July.

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) recently awarded Miles A. Kimball, professor of communication and media in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, the Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research. The award, given out annually, recognizes researchers who have made positive, significant contributions to the field of technical communication. It […]

Having just completed her sophomore year, Maggie McAuliffe, an industrial and management engineering major, is preparing to participate in the inaugural Arch program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In this innovative program, all undergraduate students live on campus during the summer after their sophomore year and participate in an off-campus experiential learning experience during the fall […]

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer scientist Francine Berman has been awarded a fellowship as part of the  2019–2020 fellowship class. Berman, an international leader in data science, was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work has focused on the […]

This semester, a team of students from the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer won the regional round of the 2018-2019 ASCM Case Competition that took place in Boston. The annual competition, sponsored by the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) and Deloitte Consulting LLP, requires students to present solutions to supply chain management problems […]