Announcements
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The 2017 Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer Gordon Conference took place in Galveston, TX from January 8 - 13. This year's Chair is Evelyn Wang. Vice Chairs are Joel Plawsky and Jungho Kim.
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Institute Professor, Georges Belfort, was honored at the 2016 American Institute for Chemical Engineer’s (AIChE) meeting in San Francisco California.
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The NYSP2I (New York State Pollution and Prevention Institute) R&D Student Competition enables students to propose, research, and design solutions to environmental challenges.
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Currently, there are two tenure track faculty openings for the Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering: one is at the Assistant Professor level, the second is at the Associate Professor level.
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David Eckhardt! An RPI Alumnus wins the prestigious AIChE F.J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award for Service to the Institute.
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CBE in the NEWS
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Class of 2019 Encouraged To Change the World
May 18, 2019 -During the 213th Commencement Ceremony at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s oldest technological university, the Honorable John P. Holdren urged the Class of 2019 to become emissaries “on the relevance of science and technology to the biggest issues affecting human well‐being.”
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Carbon Capture Research Receives $3 Million from U.S. Department of Energy
March 5, 2019 -TROY, N.Y.
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Engineering Program Ranked Sixth in the Nation
November 12, 2018 -Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ranks sixth nationally in its overall engineering program, according to rankings published by College Factual, a source of data analytics and insights on college outcomes.
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Research on Light-Matter Interaction Could Lead to Improved Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
October 10, 2018 -A paper published in Nature Communications by Sufei Shi, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, increases our understanding of how light interacts with atomically thin semiconductors and creates unique excitonic complex particles, multiple electrons, and holes strongly bound together. These particles possess a new quantum degree of freedom, called “valley spin.” The “valley spin” is similar to the spin of electrons, which has been extensively used in information storage such as hard drives and is also a promising candidate for quantum computing.
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Call for Code Hackathon: Natural Disaster Preparedness and Relief Code Challenge
September 13, 2018 -How do we keep the lines of communication open in the face of disaster? Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is serving up fresh ideas as part of the “Call for Code” hackathon challenge in partnership with IBM, David Clark Cause, United Nations Human Rights, and The American Red Cross.
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Task Force Exploring Greek Life at Rensselaer
June 21, 2018 -Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson has appointed a task force to study and assess fraternity and sorority life at the university.
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Herbie Hancock Tells Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2018 Graduates To Nurture Their Humanity
May 19, 2018 -When legendary jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock took the podium at the 212th Commencement at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Saturday, he told a story from his own years as a young graduate, at a time when he was playing piano with the Miles Davis Quintet.
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Commencement 2018: Service to Their Country
May 17, 2018 -This year, 34 students will graduate from the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and start active military service as officers with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
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Commencement 2018 Profile: Amber and Alwaleed Zia
May 11, 2018 -The support of family is an integral part of any college student’s experience. In the case of Amber and Alwaleed (Al) Zia’s parents, that support meant moving the whole family from Darien, Connecticut, to Lee, Massachusetts, so that their daughter and son could commute together to and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute daily. And together they will graduate on May 19.
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Wickless Heat Pipes: New Dynamics Exposed in a Near-Weightless Environment
April 27, 2018 -Heat pipes are devices to keep critical equipment from overheating. They transfer heat from one point to another through an evaporation-condensation process and are used in everything from cell phones and laptops to air conditioners and spacecraft.
Normally, heat pipes contain porous metal wicks that return liquid to the heated end of the pipe where it evaporates. But engineers are working to develop wickless heat pipes that are lighter and more reliable. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute initiated the Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB) project to study these wickless heat pipes for use in near-zero gravity environments for aerospace applications.
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Proof of Water Wires Motivated by a Biological Water Channel
April 25, 2018 -Aquaporins are proteins that serve as water channels to regulate the flow of water across biological cell membranes. They also remove excess salt and impurities in the body, and it is this aspect that has led to much interest in recent years in how to mimic the biochemical processes of aquaporins potentially for water desalination systems.
An international team of researchers co-led by Georges Belfort has discovered water, in the form of “water wires,” contained in another molecule—the imidazole—a nitrogen-based organic compound that could be used as a potential building block for artificial aquaporins. The findings were recently published in Science Advances by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Belfort is Institute Professor and professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Rensselaer Graduate Student Awarded Lush Prize for Work To End Animal Research in Toxicology
April 6, 2018 -Carolina Motter Catarino, a graduate student in chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded £10,000 from the Lush Prize, which is a collaboration between cosmetics company Lush and research organization Ethical Consumer. As the largest prize fund for the complete replacement of animal experiments, it funds projects working to end animal research in toxicology (chemical testing).