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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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