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The New York Times describes Rensselaer's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center as "a technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses."
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* Rensselaer Opens the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center *
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* Rensselaer Opens the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center *
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Experimental Center To Explore Nexus Of Arts, Science, And Technology
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Rensselaer has opened the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), a unique experimental center dedicated to the integrated pursuit of the performing arts and sciences. “EMPAC is an unprecedented platform for creativity and discovery, a world-class performing arts center and a high-tech research facility under one roof,” said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson.  Read more
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Also: A New Concert Hall Plays Up the Sound and Celebrates the Science (The New York Times)
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Rensselaer’s Lally School Featured in Princeton Review’s “Best 296 Business Schools”
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Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management & Technology is an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. To identify the best programs, 19,000 students attending the 296 business schools profiled were surveyed.
Lally School of Management & Technology
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Outshining Edison: New NSF Engineering Research Center To Advance “Smart Lighting”
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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.
EMPAC
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EMPAC Grand Opening Colloquy
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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
EMPAC Grand Opening Colloquy
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Research at the Intersection of Science and the Arts
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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
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Bold Experiment
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With the opening of the building on Oct. 3, Rensselaer faculty, staff, students, and colleagues from around the world found 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
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Historic Rensselaer Capital Campaign Reaches Goal Nine Months Ahead of Schedule

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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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A video message from President Jackson
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* Lighting Research Center Develops Framework for Assessing Light Pollution *
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LRC Develops Framework for Assessing Light Pollution

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