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An Expedition to Mars (as played by a Central American volcano)
Rensselaer Professor Karyn Rogers wrote this guest post while cruising at 30,000 feet aboard a Boeing 737 on a flight from Albany to Managua, Nicaragua. After landing, hopefully without delay or lost...
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Guest Post: Christopher J. Low ’14 and Using Data Analytics as a GPS in Business
(In this guest post, Christopher J. Low, a Rensselaer graduate and IBM consultant, explains how business analytics, like a GPS system, has aided him in navigating his career.) Data has shaped a lot of...
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Jefferson Project – Working Upstream
Undergraduate J.J. Hu collects a leaf bag, which is used to determine rate of decomposition. (In this guest post, one of a series on monitoring and experimentation in the Jefferson Project at Lake...
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Jefferson Project—Fishing for Science
(In this guest post, one of a series on monitoring and experimentation in the Jefferson Project at Lake George, Bill Hintz, a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of project director Rick...
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Jefferson Project – Macro-Invertebrates
(In this guest post, one of a series on monitoring and experimentation in the Jefferson Project at Lake George, Matt Schuler, a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of project director Rick...
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IDEA – Building a Digital Infrastructure to Make Sense of Environmental Health
(This is the first in a series of guest posts about research related to the Rensselaer IDEA — the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications — a campus-wide institute dedicated to helping...
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RPI ChemE Car and Engineering in a Pinch
(The RPI ChemE Car team (pictured above) and Ian Gaudette, a Chemical Engineering student and the interim president of the team, wrote this post about a challenge (and their on-the-fly solution) they...
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Jefferson Project – An Exploration of the Hudson Led to Rensselaer
(Sherese Morgan, an enthusiastic undergraduate from Yonkers, NY with interests in the field of environmental science, contributed this guest post on her summer research with the Jefferson Project at...
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Venue — An open source digital attendance tracker
(The challenge: Create a mechanism that makes it possible for instructors to track students and for student to earn credit for their attendance or participation in activities like theatrical events,...
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The Winning Algorithm
(In this post, Rensselaer graduate student Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhães talks about his First Place Overall Award in the 2016 TripAdvisor programming challenge, held September 17. Graduate and...
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Guest Blogger: Rich Radke
(Professor and computer vision expert Rich Radke was kind enough to write the below post for The Approach – Enjoy!) I’m Rich Radke, an associate professor in the ECSE (Electrical, Computer, and Systems...
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Guest Blogger: Micah Clark
(Doctoral candidate Micah Clark wrote this excellent post for The Approach - Enjoy!) I’m Micah Clark, a Cognitive Science Ph.D. candidate working in the Rensselaer AI & Reasoning (RAIR) Lab under...
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Guest Blogger: Shawn Lawson
(Professor Shawn Lawson wrote this excellent post for The Approach – enjoy!) I’m Shawn Lawson , an assistant professor of computer visualization in the Department of Arts. During 2008, I was in an...
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Guest Blogger: Joel Plawsky
(Professor Joel Plawsky wrote this excellent post for The Approach – enjoy! It follows on this post from last summer detailing the science and launch into space of his CVB project.) “We have never seen...
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Guest Blogger: Erika Hango
(Civil Engineering senior Erika Hango wrote this excellent post for The Approach – enjoy! It’s about an engineering competition in which she and several classmates competed earlier this year.) The RPI...
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Guest Blogger: Tyler Hopf
(A group of Rensselaer architecture students are putting their education to work in the annual CANstruction competition to benefit local food pantries. Fourth-year architecture student Tyler Hopf...
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Guest Blogger: Alex Giordano
(Alex Giordano is a senior mechanical engineering major and shop manager for the Rensselaer Formula SAE student team. He wrote this excellent post for The Approach to talk about the yesterday’s event...
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Guest Blogger: Elizabeth Wroe
(Civil Engineering senior Elizabeth Wroe wrote this excellent post for The Approach. It’s about an engineering competition last month in Oakland, Calif., where she and her teammates won second place....
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Of the Higgs Boson and the Bubble
As part of the celebration surrounding last week’s announcement that physicists had discovered the Higgs boson particle—a subatomic particle which is theorized to imbue elementary particles with...
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Guest Blogger: Michelle Riedman
I’m Michelle Riedman, a civil engineering (structures) graduate student working with Professor Christopher Letchford and Professor Michael O’Rourke. We are currently conducting a research project for...
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Guest Blogger: Hannah Fix
(Senior Hannah Fix wrote this excellent post for The Approach to tell us about her educational outreach work with Professor Patrick Underhill. Enjoy!) My name is Hannah Fix, I am a senior...
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Guest Blogger: Samantha Scibelli
(High school senior Samantha Scibelli – named yesterday as one of 40 finalists in the prestigious pre-college Intel Science Talent Search 2013 – wrote this excellent post for The Approach, to tell us...
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Guest Blogger Laurie Leshin: Messengers from Space – Friend or Foe?
(In the wake of this morning’s headlines about a meteorite blast in Russia, the Institute’s own Laurie Leshin, dean of the School of Science and space science rock star, wrote this post for The...
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Guest Blogger Tyler Hopf: We’re Not in CANsas Anymore
(Rensselaer Architecture student Tyler Hopf wrote this post about a team of Rensselaer students who are putting their skills and talents to a good cause in the Albany round of the nationwide...
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Guest Post: Daniel Angerhausen and the Flying Observatory
Daniel Angerhausen with SOFIA (Later this week, Daniel Angerhausen, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jon Morse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor of physics and associate vice president for...
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Guest Post: When a Small Part Bursts Your Bubble
(In our last report, Daniel Angerhausen, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jon Morse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor of physics, was poised to fulfill a longtime dream and fly about...
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Guest Blogger Jingjing Tian: Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
(Rensselaer civil engineering doctoral student Jingjing Tian iwrote this post about her experience at a huge shake-table experiment she and her adviser, Professor Michael Symans, attended last year....
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Scaling the GeoWall Challenge
(Rensselaer civil engineering students shared some thoughts about their experience at the 2014 Geo-Wall competition, held this February in Atlanta by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The...
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World’s Smallest Comic Strip (Etched on a Strand of Human Hair)
Detail of the comic strip Andrew Zonenberg etched onto a human hair (Rensselaer doctoral candidate Andrew Zonenberg explains how his research led him to create the “world’s smallest comic strip” by...
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Top 5 Reasons to Attend a Research University
The college application deadline is fast approaching and within a few short months, it will be decision day for millions of students who must declare where they plan to go to college. Students will...
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Road Salt Stress on Wetland Communities
(In this guest post, Aaron Stoler, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Rensselaer biologist and Jefferson Project at Lake George director Rick Relyea, discusses research results recently published...
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A Quarter Century of the World Wide Web
(For some 2016 is the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web (more about the veracity of that milestone below). In this post, Rensselaer professor James Hendler answers some questions about the...
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Jefferson Project – Road Salt Stress on Vernal Pools
(In this guest post, Devin Jones, a graduate student in the lab of Rensselaer biologist and Jefferson Project at Lake George Director Rick Relyea, discusses research results recently published in the...
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Jefferson Project – Road Salt and Developing Trout
[The Jefferson Project at Lake George is conducting ongoing research into how human activities may be affecting the lake. This guest blog by Bill Hintz, a post-doctoral research associate in the lab...
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Jefferson Project – Changing forests, road salt, and wetland ecosystems
[The Jefferson Project at Lake George is conducting ongoing research into how human activities may be affecting the lake and surrounding wetlands. This guest blog by Aaron Stoler, a postdoctoral...
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Biomimicry and Bio-Inspired Science On Display
Bio-inspired chemistry, in which biological design principles are applied to the construction of man-made hybrid nano-chemical catalytic structures, is a rapidly emerging area that is attracting...
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