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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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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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