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Congratulations to Professor Amir Hirsa, who will be the next chair of the Science Subcommittee for the International Space Station User Advisory Committee, at the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space. In this role, Professor Hirsa will lead a team to provide input and perspective about the management of ISS Nation
Congratulations to the DARPA team which was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2025) that took place in Stanford, CA recently. IWSHM is the top international conference on the topic of structural health monitoring and related areas.
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Have you considered getting involved in research, but just don't know where to start? This series is designed for you! Come hear from faculty about their research and advice to get started! RSVP here for each session.
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Congratulations to MANE Professor Dr. Shankar Narayan on receiving the HTD Boelter-McAdams Prize at the 2025 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. This award is presented to a member of the Heat Transfer division of ASME that is recognized for their exemplary achievements and contributions to thermal science and engineering.
Congratulations to Dr. Johnson Samuel for being awarded the David M. Darrin ’40 Counseling Award for 2025!
A team of RPI graduates (Joe Adam '17, '18, '21, Tyler Mucci '21, '23, Cesar Gonzalez '20 and Nate Karwic '20) is preparing once again to remotely conduct experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The ring-sheared drop module on the ISS is being utilized to advance our understanding of the flow of complex fluids and develop predictive modeling capabilities.
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Ozioma Ozioko, a doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is on a mission to give her home country of Nigeria — and the rest of the world — ready access to solar energy. “Growing up, the power supply was very unstable. Sometimes we could go for a week without power. I remember my brothers and I doing our homework by the light of a kerosene lamp,” Ozioko said. “Nigeria has abundant solar energy resources, but the cost-effective utilization of these resources is a challenge. I want to change that.”
Hunter Belanger ’18, ’19G, Ph.D., assistant professor in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE), is one of four researchers nationwide to receive a Department of Energy Distinguished Early Career Award.The five-year, $625,000 grant will fund Belanger’s research aimed at making nuclear power safer and more efficient, supporting state and national efforts to transition away from carbon-emitting energy sources.
From lane-keep assistance to blind spot detection, today’s cars come equipped with autonomous driving features that make driving easier and safer. Rene Mai, a doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, imagines a world in which humans and machines complement each other’s strengths to do more together, a concept known as “symbiotic autonomy.”
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) today announced two special honorands for its Bicentennial Commencement celebrations. Astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman ’97 will return to RPI as the Bicentennial Commencement Speaker, and Emily Warren Roebling, who led the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge to completion, will receive a posthumous honorary degree, the first to be awarded in the history of RPI.Reid Wiseman ’97
Six RPI students have been awarded fellowships from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
From computer chips and pharmaceuticals to batteries and airplanes, our world runs on manufactured goods and products. However, most people rarely think about how these things get made — not to mention the technology and engineering that goes into making them at scale.
The RPI team is working toward a big dream: a rocket that reaches well beyond the Kármán Line — the point 330,000 feet above sea level that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doctoral student Emily de Stefanis is one of 60 recipients of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. The SCGSR program places students with mentors at DOE national labs, where students learn from top experts in their field and conduct research in state-of-the-art facilities.De Stefanis will spend 2024 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico working on her research with experts in the field of nuclear materials.
This all-day event will include speakers, presentations and lab tours highlighting how New York’s Capital Region is advancing technology. Please register online.
When
October 25, 2023
8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Where
Heffner Alumni House
1301 Peoples Ave.
Troy, NY 12180
Above: South pole of the moon. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Sandeep Singh, assistant professor of mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering, answers questions about the significance of landing on the moon’s south pole and how his lab is tackling some of the challenges associated with traveling between the Earth and moon.
What is significant about the recent Indian and Russian lunar missions to the south pole of the moon?
