Departmental News
Immersive Environments in Action at Rensselaer Research Showcase
Research projects under development within the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were on stage for the institute’s third annual research showcase held Thursday.
Rensselaer and Mount Sinai Team Up To Earn Prominent Role in New NIH Program in Environmental and Children’s Health
To support its groundbreaking work in the emergent field of “exposomics,” the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded two grants to research teams from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Launches Initiative on Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development Knowledge: Semantic and Data Analytic Support
Rensselaer has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Healthy birth, growth and development (HBGD) initiative.
Rensselaer Professor Peter Fox Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Peter Fox, director of the interdisciplinary Information Technology and Web Science program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Neuromorphic: Rensselaer Researchers To Design the Next-Generation Supercomputer
With support from the Air Force Research Laboratory, researchers at Rensselaer will explore supercomputers that incorporate a highly efficient “neuromorphic” processor, which more closely represents the human brain in its architectural design.
New Seed Grant Program Tackles Societal Challenges With Broad-Based Research Teams
The new Knowledge and Innovation Program (KIP) of the Rensselaer Office of Research has awarded four grants to spur multidisciplinary research.
Rensselaer Professors Hendler, Gray, and Ji Receive 2014 IBM Faculty Awards
Three professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been selected to receive prestigious 2014 Faculty Awards from IBM.
Rensselaer Professor Deborah McGuinness Collaborates on New $15 Million NSF Award for DataONE Environmental Science Project
The National Science Foundation has awarded $15 million to a team of environmental and earth science data researchers, including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who are providing tools and infrastructure that improve access to vast amounts of scientific data.
Landmark Report on the State of Lake George Water Quality Reveals Threats, Will Guide Strategic Vision for the Future
A major new report—The State of the Lake: Thirty Years of Water Quality Monitoring on Lake George—details three decades of continuous monitoring that found Lake George to be in “remarkably good condition.”
What Data Science Needs
To meet its potential for driving discovery and knowledge acquisition, data science must address the key challenges posed by “Big Data,” assert Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professors James Hendler and Peter Fox in a commentary appearing in the June edition of the journal Big Data.