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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleGuest 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....
View ArticleScaling 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...
View ArticleWorld’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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleRoad 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleJefferson 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...
View ArticleJefferson 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...
View ArticleJefferson 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...
View ArticleBiomimicry 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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