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* Rensselaer Opens the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) *
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* Rensselaer Opens the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) *
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Experimental center to explore nexus of arts, science, and technology — virtual and real
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“The collaborative, interdisciplinary, and project-based approach of EMPAC creates an environment in which scientific and artistic imagination are reciprocal,” said Johannes Goebel, director of EMPAC. “The engineer develops technology that may enable the artist to fulfill the creative vision, while the artist challenges the engineer with unexpected approaches to meet the project’s needs.” 

EMPAC was made possible by a lead gift of $40 million from Nvidia co-founder and Rensselaer alumnus Curtis R. Priem ’82. The building was formally named for Priem at the Oct. 3 dedication. Read more

New York Times article: "A New Concert Hall Plays Up the Sound and Celebrates the Science"
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Rensselaer’s Lally School Featured in Princeton Review’s “Best 296 Business Schools”
October 9, 2008: Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management & Technology is an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. To identify the best programs, 19,000 students attending the 296 business schools profiled were surveyed.		 *
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* New NSF Engineering Research Center To Advance “Smart Lighting”
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Outshining Edison: New NSF Engineering Research Center To Advance “Smart Lighting”
October 6, 2008: A new research center at Rensselaer, funded by a five-year, $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to supplant the common light bulb with next-generation lighting devices that are smarter, greener, and ripe for innovation. 		*
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Rensselaer Hosts Global Leaders in the Media, Technology, and the Arts for Presidential Colloquy
October 1, 2008: Rensselaer launched the Grand Opening Celebration of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) with a discussion among global leaders in the media, technology and the arts, focusing on the intersection of technology, science, the arts, and culture.		 *
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* Robert Schlesinger
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Rensselaer’s Career Development Center Wins GE Partnership Award
September 26, 2008: The Career Development Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the recipient of this year’s General Electric (GE) Partnership Award. The distinction honors Rensselaer for its efforts in building corporate relationships and recruiting.		 *
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Professor-Turned-Producer Learns the Movie Biz
September 26, 2008: The film, “Molecules to the MAX,” the newest Molecularium movie, has been a three-year labor of love for Richard W. Siegel.		 *
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* Arturo Estrella
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Economist's Model Forecasted Current Economic Slowdown One Year In Advance
September 24, 2008: Arturo Estrella, professor of economics and new head of the economics department at Rensselaer, says that a model he developed forecasted the current economic slowdown at least one year before it became apparent to most observers.		 *
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Rensselaer Announces New Head of Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
September 23, 2008: Jonathan Dordick, the Howard P. Isermann ’42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer, has been named the new director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.		 *
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* Historic Rensselaer Capital Campaign Reaches Goal Nine Months Ahead of Schedule *
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Rensselaer announced that it has surpassed the $1.4 billion Renaissance at Rensselaer capital campaign goal. The announcement comes nine months in advance of the campaign’s target end date of June 30, 2009, and just days before the opening of the new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).
A Message from President Shirley Ann Jackson (Video)
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* Art and Science, Virtual and Real, Under One Big Roof *
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The New York Times describes Rensselaer's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center as "a technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses."

In the article Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson expresses the hope that just as such tools of science make possible new kinds of art, this new center of art would lead to new science.
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* Fungi Idea Wins
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Recent graduate Eben Bayer ’07 has been awarded €500,000 (over $700,000 USD) as winner of the Dutch Postcode Lottery’s PICNIC Green Challenge, an international competition to identify the most innovative product or service to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to a sustainable lifestyle.
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* Searching for the Origins of Autism *
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* Searching for the Origins of Autism *
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The cover of the July 11 edition of Science magazine highlights research on a complex and increasingly prevalent disease — autism. Assistant Professor of Biology Russell Ferland is coauthor of the study that offers some exciting new clues about the elusive origins of the disease.

*Cover reprinted with permission of AAAS

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