Wei Ji, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been awarded the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Graduate Faculty Teaching Award at the doctoral-level. The honor is in recognition of “excellence and creativity in the teaching of graduate students.” Ji will receive the award at the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting […]

Emily Aaldenberg, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been chosen to receive the Norbert J. Kreidl Award for her contribution to understanding the origins of fast-surface stress relaxation in glass. The Norbert J. Kreidl Award for Young Scholars is awarded by the Glass & Optical […]

Luigi Vanfretti, associate professor of electrical engineering, has beenelected to the board of the North American Modelica User’s Group. The organization was “founded to support users within North America, and to promote the use of Modelica for engineering model development in the region.” Vanfretti was also recently elected to the Modelica Association. The nonprofit organization […]

Sergio Pequito, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, has been named a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). As the largest technical professional organization in the world, IEEE is focused on technological innovation to benefit humanity. The level of senior membership is given to those with professional maturity, who […]

Liwen Chen, a doctoral student in the department of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, recently won the prestigious Frank J. Padden Jr. Award from the 2019 American Physical Society March Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The award is given to a graduate student for “Excellence in Polymer Physics Research.” She received this honor after presenting […]

Pingkun Yan, co-director of Rensselaer’s Biomedical Imaging Center, recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bench-to-Bedside award grant with his NIH collaborator Dr. Brad Wood for their research focused on improving cancer detection through ultrasound imaging. Right now, Yan said, ultrasound imaging is the most commonly used tool for interventional procedures. It is easy […]

More than a dozen Rensselaer undergraduate students, from the Nuclear Engineering Program, recently received $7,000 annual scholarship awards funded by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in recognition of their educational excellence. Li (Emily) Liu, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer, said the 18 awards are part of a continuous effort by […]

The tuberculosis bacteria—Mycobacterium tuberculosis—infects more than 2 billion people each year. Some will develop full-blown tuberculosis, while others, although infected, never develop symptoms of the disease. The population is divided among people who are resistant, susceptible, and super susceptible, and no one is exactly sure why. With a grant from the National Institutes of Health […]

The healthy development and looping of the heart depends on the chirality, or “handedness,” of cells, according to research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Chirality is a property of asymmetry that is identifiable when objects, like right and left hands, are mirror images of each other. Cells in the body also display chirality, but researchers are […]

Catalin Picu, associate head of undergraduate studies for the department of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in Romania. Picu is also a member of Rensselaer’s Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine. His research is focused on the mechanics of solids, micro […]