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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has announced 15
aspiring researchers as award recipients of the U.S. Navy's
2009 Young Investigator Program (YIP).
Nanobiotechnology expert Ravi Kane has been named the
P.K. Lashmet Professor at Rensselaer. The endowed professorship
is one of the highest honors bestowed on a Rensselaer faculty
member.
If you’ve ever wanted to talk to a nitrogen atom, or
sing-a-long with a water molecule, then ‘Molecules to the Max’
is for you. The upcoming IMAX film lets you experience the
subatomic world up close. But it also takes you where no
scientist has gone before.
Recent graduate Eben Bayer ’07 has been awarded €500,000
(over $700,000 USD) as winner of the Dutch Postcode Lottery’s
PICNIC Green Challenge, an international competition to
identify the most innovative product or service to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to a sustainable
lifestyle.
It's not every day that a research scientist and
university professor gets to see his work on the silver
screen.
Ravi S. Kane, professor of chemical and biological
engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won the
2008 Young Investigator Award from the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers’ Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Forum.
Professor Michael Jensen appointed as the founding
Technical Editor for the new journal, Applications in Thermal
Science and Engineering.
Barbara Ruel, Director, Women in Engineering &
Diversity, has been appointed to serve a two year term on Women
in Engineering Pro Active Network (WEPAN) Board of Directors as
Director of Membership.
Co-author Dr. Michael Shur with K. Fobelets (lead), S.
Rumyantsev, W. Van Roy, and R. Vanheertum received the Best
Reliability Paper Award at the 26th International Conference on
Microelectronics (MIEL 2008). They received the award for their
paper: Correlation Between Flicker Noise and Current
Linearity in Ferromagnetic-GaAs-metal Tunnel
Contacts.
Modeling, design, and controls expert B. Wayne Bequette,
professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, was recently elected a fellow of the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Sadly, Professor C. James Li, a member of the Department
of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering faculty since
1993 has passed away. Professor Li had been battling cancer for
over a year.
A professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be
recognized this week for research and technical achievements
toward the design and realization of 3-D integrated computer
chips.
The 2008 graduate's invention could replace one of the
most common pieces of technology in the world — the silicon
transistor for high-power and high-temperature
electronics.
Laura Wontrop knows all about cars and trucks.
It's not every day that you meet someone who builds
next-generation rocket engines — from scratch — for fun.
Rensselaers Formula SAE team had a successful 2008 race season, with a top-10 finish in June and another strong showing in May.
The Fellowship Board of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering
honor society, announced the selection of 145 Tau Beta Pi
Scholars from 366 applicants for undergraduate study during the
2008-09 academic year. Among the winners were three Rensselaer
engineering students, Brian J. Belley, Sharon M. Vuong and
Shankar Kar.
Sheldon Weinbaum ’59, CUNY Distinguished Professor of
Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at The City College of
New York, receives the prestigious Davies Medal for Engineering
Achievement from the Rensselaer School of Engineering.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's graduate programs in
engineering and the fine arts rank among the best in the
nation, according to the 2009 U.S.News & World Report guide
to "America’s Best Graduate Schools." The publication is
scheduled to hit newsstands on April 1, 2008.
Dan Horvath, has received the 2007-2008 "John A. Focht National Chi Epsilon Scholarship"
Chris Morrison, a graduate student in chemical and
biological engeering American Chemical Society (ACS)
Biotechnology Division won the W. H. Peterson Best Poster Award
given by ACS Biotechnology Division.
Ask Georges Belfort to name the most important aspect of
his career, and he'll say, "my wife, Marlene." The two have
been lifelong collaborators both at home, where they raised
three sons, and in the lab. In fact, according to Belfort,
5-10% of his academic research is in collaboration with
Marlene, a geneticist.
Ralph B. Peck, Professor Emeritus of Foundation
Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
died of congestive heart failure on February 18, 2008, at his
home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Professor Emeritus Robert H. Doremus died suddenly on
January 30, 2008 in Florida. He had been a member of the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering since 1971 and
was nationally recognized as a leader in glass and ceramic
science research.
Five new department heads recruited from within and
outside Rensselaer are now working to continue the School of
Engineering’s marked growth and expansion
Corrosion expert David Duquette, head of the Department
of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, has been named John Tod Horton Distinguished
Professor in Materials Engineering. The endowed professorship
is one of the highest honors bestowed on a Rensselaer faculty
member.
Professor Kim Boyer has joined the faculty of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute as head of the Department of Electrical,
Computer, and Systems Engineering.
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