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Rensselaer Hosts Fifth Annual $50K Tech Valley Collegiate Business Plan Competition
April 30, 2007: Three teams of budding student entrepreneurs from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College will vie to win the final round of Rensselaer’s $50,000 Tech Valley Collegiate Business Plan competition on May 3. The competition will be held on Rensselaer’s campus in the Center for Industrial Innovation, room 4050, beginning at 6 p.m. The competition is sponsored by Rensselaer’s Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at the Lally School of Management & Technology. |
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Engineer Proudly Represents His Puerto Rican Heritage
April 30, 2007: José González is fluent in the international language of science. Born the son of a medical doctor in Puerto Rico, he has been speaking this language since he was a child. On May 19, González will take the next step in a long journey as he crosses the platform at Rensselaer’s 201st Commencement. |
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Spring 2007 “Change the World Challenge” Winners
April 18, 2007: Three student submissions were recently honored as winners of Rensselaer’s “Change the World Challenge” idea competition for spring 2007. Created in 2005 by Rensselaer alumnus Sean O’Sullivan ’85, the competition is intended to support entrepreneurship education and inspire ideas to improve the human condition by providing a $1,000 cash award for ideas that will make the world a better place. |
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BusinessWeek Ranks Rensselaer’s
Corporate Strategy Program Among the Top 10
April 17, 2007: To determine how top schools rated in 11 different business specialties, BusinessWeek turned to the experts: the students. 80,000 business majors at 123 schools ranked their programs on a scale of one to five in different academic categories. Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management & Technology came in at number two in the nation in the area of corporate strategy. |
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New Ph.D. Program in Electronic Arts
April 5, 2007: Rensselaer recently garnered approval from the New York State Education Department to offer a doctoral degree in electronic arts. Now one of only a handful of universities in the United States to offer a Ph.D. program in this emerging field, the Institute will begin admitting students in fall 2007. Grounded in theoretical and historical arts research, the Ph.D. in Electronic Arts will meld Rensselaer’s diverse arts offerings — computer music, video, sound arts, performance, and Web-based and installation-based art, among others — with a variety of other disciplinary areas, depending on a student’s particular focus. |
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Rensselaer’s Graduate Programs
Rank Among the Best in the Nation
April 3, 2007: Rensselaer’s graduate programs in engineering, applied mathematics, and the fine arts rank among the best in the nation, according to the 2008 U.S. News & World Report guide to “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” “These rankings are another validation of our ongoing transformation to a world-class technological research university with global reach and global impact,” said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson. |
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