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The Office of Graduate Education, in cooperation with the schools of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Architecture, have presented the 2024-25 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and  Architecture Fellowship to the following students:These competitive fellowships are sponsored by the Dean of Graduate Education, Dorit Nevo, and offer the opportunity for advanced Ph.D. students to produce exemplary dissertation research in Architecture and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

Jayashree Balaraman, a sophomore computational biology student, has been named a Goldwater Scholar for 2024. Balaraman hails from East Brunswick, New Jersey.Named for the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, the Goldwater is considered among the most prestigious awards available to sophomores and juniors from U.S. colleges and universities who show exceptional promise in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering and who intend to intend to pursue research careers in these fields.  

The Office of Graduate Education, in cooperation with the schools of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Architecture, have presented the 2024-25 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Architecture Fellowship to the following students:

Recently, two teams from the Rensselaer Cybersecurity Collaboratory (RCC) competed in University of Connecticut's annual CyberSEED tournament.

The bi-annual CASE Open House will be held on Friday, May 3 at 10 a.m. at 86 34th Street, Suite D601 in Brooklyn, New York, 11232.

Research from the Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology (CASE) and the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was chosen by the Trust for Governor’s Island to be part of its inaugural Climate Solutions Challenge, a call for small busi¬ness¬es, entre¬pre-neurs, and non¬prof¬its to test and demon¬strate urban cli¬mate solu¬tions.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students will have the opportunity to meet with and learn from forensic scientists and other professionals from the New York State Police (NYSP) Crime Laboratory System at 2 p.m. on March 26 at the Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.

The Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is among the top in the country, according to the Animation Career Review.

Frank (Fengqi) Li, was featured in a story on the news site of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for his work studying the interactions of cities and their environments and people to address challenges like climate change and urban living.

Just shy of 50 teams of students from area high schools and around the world will compete at the 2024 New York Tech Valley FIRST ® Robotics Competition at MVP Arena March 22-23, 2024. Inventor Dean Kamen founded FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hosted the first regional event in 2014 and has been a major sponsor ever since.