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Research isn’t just for professors or Ph.D. students. Our undergraduates enjoy the perks of working alongside some of the world’s leading researchers.
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Jennifer Whiting, a junior majoring in Biology, visualizes neurons to determine if the polybasic region is important for normal development of the nervous system.
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Rensselaer Commencement 2008 Commencement 2008
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Commencement 2008
Rensselaer’s 202nd Commencement
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The Commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. at Harkness Field, on the Rensselaer campus in Troy, New York. This year’s Commencement speaker is political analyst, editor, best-selling author, and Harvard professor David Gergen.
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Shirley Ann Jackson
2008 Commencement Colloquy
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On Friday, May 16, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host the 2008 President’s Commencement Colloquy, focused on the leadership challenges to maintain a sustainable global society in the midst of extraordinary growth and change.
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RSVP (Registration) | Live Webcast
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Class of 2008
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Future NASA Astronaut Aiming for Space
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It’s not every day that you meet someone who builds next-generation rocket engines — from scratch — for fun. But Phil Bracken, who will graduate this month from Rensselaer with a major in aeronautical engineering and a clear goal of becoming an astronaut, is doing exactly that.
From Formula SAE to a Career With General Motors
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Laura Wontrop ’08 knows all about cars and trucks. In fact, after graduating, the 21-year-old mechanical engineering major will join automotive giant General Motors as a vehicle definition engineer, and play a key role in solidifying the design of next-generation concept cars.
Graduate Helps Students Tackle AP Exams
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More than 1.5 million high school students will soon be preparing to take the annual College Board Advanced Placement exams. Class of 2008 graduate and budding entrepreneur Chris Keenan offers a free online study resource to help students tackle the AP courses and exams.
Sweet Success With Invention of Artificial Golgi
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Jeffery Martin ’08 has put his basic knowledge of sugars to exceptional use by creating a lab-on-a-chip device that builds complex, highly specialized sugar molecules, mimicking one of the most important cellular structures in the human body — the Golgi Apparatus.
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The Connected Kids Project
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Students, parents, and teachers across the nation will soon be faced with the challenge of seeking out summer recreational, educational, employment, and social-service activities. To make things easier for Capital Region residents, a team of professors have created Connected Kids, a new youth services online information system.
The Connected Kids Project
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President Jackson Joins Government and Research Leaders To Announce New River Research Center
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Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson joined state and local legislators and research leaders to announce a historic collaboration between academia, industry, and government to develop an 11,000-square-foot environmental research center on the Hudson River in Troy.
Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson
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Forty-Fifth Annual Faculty Recognition Dinner
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Rensselaer’s forty-fifth Annual Faculty Recognition Dinner, held on Monday, April 28, 2008, included the presentation of faculty awards, the announcement of the Trustees’ Outstanding Teacher Award, and the presentation of gifts for years of service and retiring faculty. Photo Slideshow
Forty-Fifth Annual Faculty Recognition Dinner
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5th Annual Game Festival & Symposium
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The 5th Annual Game Festival & Symposium this year was a part of the HASS 50th Anniversary Celebration. With the theme “Influence and Independence: New Faces of Games,” the Festival featured 20 student created games and an all-day symposium with a variety of lectures and presentations. Photo Slideshow
5th Annual Game Festival & Symposium
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* Gregory Williams *
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Student’s Web Language Gains International Recognition

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Gregory Williams, a doctoral student in computer science, single-handedly implemented a Web language that allows Web sites to speak and share data with one another. His language will form a baseline for other companies and researchers to build upon.
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* Researchers Develop Darkest Manmade Material *
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Researchers Develop Darkest Manmade Material

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Researchers at Rensselaer and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man.
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The material, a thin coating comprised of low-density arrays of loosely vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.
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* Interstellar Shock Waves *
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Physicists Uncover New Solution for Cosmic Collisions

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Two theoretical physicists have used what they call “pen-and-paper math” to describe the motion of interstellar shock waves — violent events associated with the birth of stars and planets.
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