Accolades: Feb. 4, 2002

Rensselaer's American Heart Walk Team, composed of 54 members of the Rensselaer community, raised over $8,000 for the American Heart Association's Heart Walk, held Sept. 29 in Colonie. In December, the team was notified they had won the top award in the Education group, and had placed ninth out of 130 teams in overall donations raised, beating teams from the areas of education, government, industry, health, and finance. The 2001 American Heart Walk raised $422,000 up more than $45,000 from last year. There were approximately 3,000 participants. 2/4/02

Student Accolades

John Riker and Martha Merzig, both participants in the fifth-year architecture competition studio directed by adjunct faculty member Galia Solomonoff, received an honorable mention in the Queens Plaza - Design Ideas Competition of the Van Alen Institute. They were the only students among the nine winning teams of professionals in this open international competition to redesign an extremely complex site. 2/4/02