News from the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://science.rpi.edu en-us Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2013 04/25/13 - The APS cited Newberg for "her contributions to our understanding of the structure of the Milky Way galaxy and the universe and for the development of software and hardware infrastructure for measuring and extracting meaningful information from large astronomical survey data sets." http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3168 25 Apr 2013 09:30:00 EST 04/15/13 - Peter Dinolfo, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation. http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3164 15 Apr 2013 11:30:00 EST 04/12/13 - The School of Science has refurbished the optics on a Boller and Chivens 16-inch Cassegrain telescope, which is the largest telescope in the Hirsch Observatory. http://www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v7n7/telescope.html 12 Apr 2013 10:00:00 EST 03/19/13 - The road signs that direct traffic on the highways — collectively known as the cytoskeleton — are a mystery, and now the subject of research for Lee Ligon, associate professor of biology. http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3152 19 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EST 3/18/13 - More than 100 middle and high school students will participate in the 23rd annual Greater Capital Region Science and Engineering Fair Saturday, March 23. The daylong event will be held in the Walker Laboratory building.. http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3151 13 Mar 2013 11:00:00 EST 2/22/13 - Four graduate students in the Tetherless World Constellation recently earned the top prize in a national health data platform challenge.. http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3136 22 Feb 2013 10:00:00 EST 2/19/13 - President Barack Obama has appointed Laurie Leshin, dean of the School of Science, to the advisory board of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.. http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3135 19 Feb 2013 13:00:00 EST 1/30/13 - IBM has donated a version of its Watson system to Rensselaer, making it the first university in the world to receive such a system. Students and faculty will explore new uses for Watson and ways to deepen its cognitive computing capabilities..http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3126 30 Jan 2013 13:00:00 EST 1/24/13 - Schwendeman's expertise lies in the general field of computational science and engineering where he has made contributions in diverse topics such as combustion and reactive flow, optimizing transonic and hypersonic wings, fabrication of integrated circuits, and the stability of imploding shock waves..http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3124 24 Jan 2013 10:00:00 EST 12/20/12 - A $480,000 gift from the Emily Landecker Foundation will establish the James P. Ferris Fellowship in Astrobiology..http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3121 20 Dec 2012 9:00:00 EST 12/14/12 - Nonlinear analysis expert Joyce McLaughlin, Ford Foundation Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, has been named an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)..http://www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v6n19/math.html 14 Dec 2012 11:00:00 EST 12/10/12 - A team of astrobiology researchers will use a series of nighttime flights on an airborne observatory to search newly born stars for the presence of precursors to life..http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3115 10 Dec 2012 9:00:00 EST 12/06/12 - The closer you live to another person, the more likely you are to be friends with them despite the growing use and impact of social media. http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3112 05 Dec 2012 9:00:00 EST 12/4/12 - A team of interdisciplinary researchers has developed a new method for significantly increasing the heat transfer rate across two different materials.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3110 04 Dec 2012 11:00:00 EST 12/3/12 - Rensselaer has announced a five-year $499,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to establish the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship in Computer Science.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3108 03 Dec 2012 09:00:00 EST 11/29/12 - Shawn Yu-Lin, professor of physics and a member of the Future Chips Constellation and Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, has been selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3107 29 Nov 2012 14:00:00 EST 11/13/12 - Computer science professor Francine Berman will lead U.S. participation in a new international organization that will accelerate research data sharing among scientists around the globe.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3102 13 Nov 2012 13:00:00 EST 11/13/12 - Rensselaer launched the Center for Cognition, Communication, and Culture (CCC) with a series of multimedia presentations and demonstrations of research in the initial core research areas: cross-modal displays, mixed reality, and synthetic characters.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3105 13 Nov 2012 11:00:00 EST 10/26/12 - Jim Hendler, head of Computer Science, has been honored with an inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3101 26 Oct 2012 10:00:00 EST 10/01/12 - Professor Fox is currently the Tetherless World Research Constellation Chair and a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Computer Science.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3086 01 Oct 2012 10:00:00 EST 07/02/12 - New research led by chemists in the Baruch '60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research at Rensselaer is seeking to detail the individual steps of highly efficient reactions that convert sunlight into chemical energy within plants and bacteria.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3061 02 Jul 2012 09:00:00 EST 06/26/12 - Hendler is currently a senior constellation professor in the Tetherless World Constellation and program director of the Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS) program at Rensselaer. He will be stepping down from his leadership of the ITWS Program to assume the department head post.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3061 26 Jun 2012 09:00:00 EST 06/07/12 - Scientists at Rensselaer have begun work on a new Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) project to develop computer systems that help quickly identify emerging ideas and capabilities in technology.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3052 07 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EST 06/07/12 - Engineers and scientists at Rensselaer are working to develop powerful new decision-making and data visualization tools for emergency management. These tools aim to help law enforcement, health officials, water and electric utilities, and others to collaboratively and effectively respond to disasters.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3053 07 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EST 06/07/12 - James Myers, director of the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) supercomputing facility, will speak about the future of American manufacturing today as part of a panel discussion at the second annual CGI America meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3054 07 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EST 06/05/12 - Leading "big data" analytics firm GNS Healthcare has signed a multi-year agreement to extend and expand its membership with the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) at Rensselaer.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3051 05 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EST 5/3/12 - Professor Curt Breneman has been named as the new head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Formerly the acting head of the department, Dr. Breneman is also the director of the Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research (RECCR).  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3037 3 May 2012 10:00:00 EST 4/19/12 - Students, mentees, and scientific collaborators of Professor of Chemistry James Ferris gathered at a special session of the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta, Ga. on April 19 to honor the scientist.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3024 19 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST 4/2/12 - Their unique partnership has uncovered a new computational model called "cell graphs" that links the structure of human tissue to its corresponding biological function.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3015 2 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST 3/30/12 - Two years ago, Class of 2003 computer science graduate Lt. Miroslav "Steven" Zilberman, who was serving as a Naval pilot aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, made a decision that saved the lives of three of his crewmates.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3014 30 Mar 2012 15:00:00 EST 3/14/12 - Rensselaer biologist Lee Ligon has found a previously unknown connection between breast cancer tumor cells and the surrounding healthy tissue. The results provide new information on the earliest stages of breast cancer metastasis.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3007 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 EST 3/8/12 - A Rensselaer research team is part of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3006 3 Mar 2012 11:00:00 EST 2/17/12 - Joanne Luciano in the Tetherless World Constellation is co-chairing the 2012 CSHALS conference Feb 22-24 in Boston, Mass.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2995 17 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST 2/1/12 - Professor Lewis will use the five-year, approximately $575,000 award to study electronics at the molecular level. The research seeks to better understand how molecules are transported through advanced electronic systems.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2988 01 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST 1/24/12 - Computer scientist Carlos Varela has received seed funding from the U.S. Air Force to help make flight data as updated, active, and accurate as possible.   http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2983 24 Jan 2012 11:00:00 EST 1/13/12 - Professor García is currently Senior Constellation Chaired Professor in the Biocomputation and Bioinformatics Constellation, and a professor of physics.   http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2974 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST 1/6/12 - Two members of the Science faculty have been named fellows of the American Physical Society "for their exceptional contributions to the field of physics."  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2972 06 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST 1/4/12 - Scientists have used the capabilities of one of the world’s most powerful university-based supercomputers to uncover the properties of a promising form of graphene, known as graphene nanowiggles.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2968 04 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST 12/22/11 - Two members of the Science faculty have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2966 22 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST 11/30/11 - Scientists in the New York Center for Astrobiology have used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth.   http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2953 30 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST 11/29/11 - Rensselaer is a key partner in a new project to create better technologies for scientists and engineers to store, share, and preserve important scientific data related to sustainability research.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2952 29 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST 11/2/11 - Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology searched for methanol, a key ingredient in the synthesis of organic molecules that could lead to life.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2941 02 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST 10/27/11 - Robert Linhardt is working to forever change the way some of the most widely used drugs in the world are manufactured.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2938 27 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST 9/28/11 - A team of researchers led by Robert Linhardt has announced the sequence of a complete complex carbohydrate biopolymer.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2932 10 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST 7/27/11 - Dr. Jon Morse, Director of the Astrophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, will join the Institute as Associate Vice President for Research/Physical and Engineering Sciences starting October 3, 2011.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2905 27 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST 7/26/11 - Laurie Leshin, deputy associate administrator of exploration systems for NASA, will join Rensselaer as dean of the School of Science. Leshin will bring experience as a leader, educator, researcher, and administrator to leadership of the school.  http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2903 26 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST 7/13/11 - Professors Curt Breneman, James Crivello, and James Moore have been recognized by the ACS for their "outstanding achievements in and contributions to Science, the Profession, and the Society."  http://news.rpi.edu:80/update.do?artcenterkey=2898 13 Jul 2011 10:00:00 EST 6/8/11 - Graduate student Kinsley French has earned a graduate research award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue her research into proteins and HIV transmission while she works toward her doctoral degree at Rensselaer.  http://news.rpi.edu:80/update.do?artcenterkey=2883 08 Jun 2011 09:00:00 EST 5/26/11 - Research led by Miriam Katz recently published in Science finds evidence that early Antarctic Circumpolar Current development impacted the global climate.  http://news.rpi.edu:80/update.do?artcenterkey=2878 26 May 2011 09:00:00 EST