• Some Statistics
  
• Highlights of Department Professional Activities
• Faculty Award Recipients
• List of Department Publications on Display
• Student Award Recipients

Some Statistics

• 26 Faculty Members:
  • 1 Institute Professor:
  
  Dr. Ivar Giaever, PhD, RPI Class of '64
  1973 Nobel Laureate
  

• 12 Research/Visiting Appointments
• 5 Adjunct Appointments
• 8 Post-Docs
• 54 Full-Time Graduate Students (21-1/2 TAs, 26-1/2 RAs, and 2 Fellowships)
  5 Part-Time Graduate Students
• ~130 Undergraduate Students
• National Awards, including:
  • Boeing Outstanding Educator Award
  • Pew Leadership Award (for the renewal of undergraduate education)
  • Hesburgh Award (Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education)

• 1996 Gourman Report, "A Rating of Graduate and Professional Programs in American & International Universities" (Library REF LB 2331.62.G68x, 1996) shows that Rensselaer Applied Physics program is ranked in the top ten among universities in the US that have similar programs

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