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Leadership for a Comprehensive Energy Roadmap: The First 100 Days

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President Shirley Ann Jackson will outline a 100-Day Energy Action Plan to guide the next Administration and Congress toward a comprehensive energy strategy when she addresses the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
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Robert Linhardt has spent years stitching together minuscule carbohydrates to build a more pure and safer alternative to the commonly used and controversial blood thinner heparin. At the national conference of the American Chemical Society on August 17, 2008, Linhardt announced that his research team may have accomplished this task by building the first fully synthetic heparin. Their creation is the largest dose of heparin ever created in the lab. Read more
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Rensselaer Rises in Rankings of Nation’s Top 50 Universities
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has risen in its rankings among all national universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report list of “America’s Best Colleges,” weighing in at 41st, up from 44th last year. This is the ninth year in a row Rensselaer has been counted among the top 50 universities in the nation.
Rensselaer Rises in Rankings of Nation’s Top 50 Universities
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Forbes Recognizes Earning Power of Rensselaer Graduates
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Forbes ranked Rensselaer graduates as some of the top earners in the country when compared with other university alumni. Rensselaer graduates were number 14 on the list of 20 top universities. The median salary for a Rensselaer graduate with zero to five years experience was $61,100 and $110,000 for those with 10 to 20 years experience.
Forbes Recognizes Earning Power of Rensselaer Graduates
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Rensselaer Receives $850,000 From NRC To Boost
Nuclear Engineering Education
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission awarded two grants totaling $850,000 to boost nuclear engineering education, research, and workforce development at Rensselaer. The grants will support two new nuclear engineering professors as well as graduate student research.
Rensselaer Receives $850,000 From NRC To Boost Nuclear Engineering Education
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New $1.1M Grant: Restoring Basic Needs After Disasters
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A new six-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will allow researchers at Rensselaer to investigate how different civil infrastructures within a city or county – such as roadways, water and power utilities, hospitals, banks, or law enforcement – interact after a disaster.
Rensselaer Receives $850,000 From NRC To Boost Nuclear Engineering Education
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“Top Secret” Technology Helps U.S. Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics
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Rensselaer fluids mechanics professor, Timothy Wei, used experimental flow measurement techniques to help American swimmers sharpen their strokes, shave seconds from their lap times, and race toward a gold medal in Beijing.
Timothy Wei
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IT Master’s Program Catches Eye of Computerworld
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Eight years ago the first graduates of the master’s program in information technology (IT) at Rensselaer entered the work force. The success of the program and its graduates has drawn the attention of one of the top IT publications, Computerworld, which named Rensselaer’s IT graduate program in its list of “IT Schools to Watch.”
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Study Says Eyes Evolved for X-Ray Vision

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The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from Mark Changizi, assistant professor of cognitive science at at Rensselaer, has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: our ability to see through things.
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Using Computers To Unravel Genetic Code

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Researchers have identified just 200 positions within the curves of the DNA helix that they believe capture much of the genetic diversity in European Americans, a population with one of the most diverse and complex historic origins on Earth.
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