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	A new research center at Rensselaer, funded by a five-year, $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to supplant the common light bulb with next-generation lighting devices that are smarter, greener, and ripe for innovation. “Sustainability and energy efficiency are two key challenges of our time, yet they also present rich opportunities,” said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson. “With innovation, ingenuity, and a clear vision, the NSF-funded Smart Lighting Center at Rensselaer will rewrite the rules for manipulating light and help introduce these new green technologies to the world.” Read more

Rensselaer Opens the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)

Rensselaer has opened the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), an unprecedented experimental center dedicated to the integrated pursuit of the performing arts and sciences.

EMPAC Grand Opening Colloquy

The Presidential Colloquy titled “Photons, Sound Waves, and Data Bytes: Creativity at the Nexus of Science, Technology, Media and the Arts” was the first event of the EMPAC grand opening celebration. Watch the archived Webcast

Research at the Intersection of Science and the Arts

The large volume of unencumbered space and immersive sensory environments located within each of the four EMPAC venues will allow researchers to use EMPAC as a giant simulation and modeling tool, offering new ways of using the senses to access, and understand hugely complex sets of data.

Research at the Intersection of Science and the Arts

Bold Experiment

With the opening of the building on Oct. 3, Rensselaer faculty, staff, students, and colleagues from around the world will find themselves inside “the box” — a spectacularly engineered, 220,000-square-foot platform for research, performance, and the development of revolutionary, world-changing new ideas.

EMPAC Provides Meeting Ground for Sciences, Arts, Imagination

A home for a new intellectual community at the intersection of the sciences and the arts, the 220,000-square-foot building will become a creative laboratory for research, performance, and the development of revolutionary, world-changing new ideas.

EMPAC Provides Meeting Ground for Sciences, Arts, Imagination

Rensselaer Graduate Wins International
Green Challenge Prize

Eben Bayer ’07 has been awarded €500,000 as winner of the Dutch Postcode Lottery’s PICNIC Green Challenge, an international competition to identify the most innovative product or service to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to a sustainable lifestyle.

Rensselaer Graduate Wins International Green Challenge Prize


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	Historic Rensselaer Capital Campaign Reaches Goal Nine Months Ahead of Schedule

	Rensselaer announced that it has surpassed the $1.4 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer capital campaign goal. The announcement came nine months in advance of the campaign’s target end date of June 30, 2009, and just days before the opening of the new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).

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Lighting Research Center Develops Framework for Assessing Light Pollution


	LRC Develops Framework for Assessing Light Pollution

	Balancing public and private interests for nighttime lighting has been a difficult undertaking, as too little lighting may increase safety and security issues, while too much lighting may cause problems for the environment. Scientists in the Lighting Research Center (LRC) have developed the first ever comprehensive method for predicting and measuring various aspects of light pollution.

	The method, called Outdoor Site-Lighting Performance (OSP), allows users to quantify and optimize the performance of existing and planned lighting designs and applications.