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| Rensselaer President
Shirley Ann Jackson addressed the 28th Annual Colloquium
for Science and Technology Policy in Washington,
D.C. on April 10. Jackson presented the 2003 William
D. Carey Lecture at the colloquium, which is sponsored
by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). The title of her speech was “Standing
on the Knife Edge: The Leadership Imperative.”
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NLRB
Accepts SEIU Local 200United Petition to Cancel Secret
Ballot Election
The National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) on April 10 accepted the request by SEIU
Local 200United to cancel the secret ballot election,
scheduled to take place on April 15. The NLRB accepted
the union’s request with the stipulation that the
union cannot seek another petition for an extended period
of time. More
Making
Plastic Smarter With Protein
How do you improve on plastic,
a modern material that has already changed the way we
do everything from design medical devices to build cars?
Embed it with specialized proteins called enzymes, says
Shekhar Garde, assistant professor of chemical engineering
at Rensselaer. More
Rensselaer
Art Students Gear Up for a “Transfizzling”
Multimedia Performance
Rensselaer art students have
spent the semester collaborating with Rensselaer and Princeton
electronic arts faculty members on a multimedia project
called ”Transfizzle.” The multimedia performance
combines dance, chamber music, video, and the latest in
high-tech wearable computer gear, including an electronic
glove. More
Rensselaer
hosted the 17th annual National Conference of Black Physics
Students April 3-6. More than 150 African American graduate
students from colleges around the country attended the conference,
which featured tours of campus labs, lectures and workshops
with Rensselaer faculty and nationally known speakers, and research
presentations by the graduate students. President Jackson delivered
the keynote address at the dinner; Cynthia McIntyre, chief of
staff, was a founder of the NCBPS and served on the 2003 planning
committee.