4/30/2009
Building the First Carbon-Negative Airport
MyCityTalk.com
The Port Authority has pledged to make Stewart International Airport — a sleepy regional facility 60 miles north of Manhattan in the heart of the Hudson River Valley —the world's first "carbon-negative" airport. As part of this effort, the Port Authority is collaborating with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on green-technology opportunities.
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4/29/2009
Durable Light
Lanka Business Online
Sri Lanka has set up an energy efficient lighting center with United States support, aimed at promoting clean and low-cost lighting technologies in the south Asian region. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the development agency of the U.S. government, partnered with the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lighting Research Center to create the new lighting center.
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4/28/2009
RPI's Jackson selected for White House panel
Times Union
President Barack Obama recently appointed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST is a 20-member, private sector advisory group, drawn from industry, education, research institutions, and other nongovernmental organizations, and chaired by the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Dr. John Holdren.
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4/23/2009
Radio Mirchi’s Parigi Bags 2009 Rensselaer Entrepreneur Of the Year Award
India Journal
A.P. Parigi, managing director of Entertainment Network India Limited and managing director and CEO of Times Infotainment Media Limited, was named the 2009 William F. Glaser ’53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year. The Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognized Parigi’s vision and commitment in transforming Times’ Network’s Radio Mirchi, once a small player in a heavily regulated industry, into India’s largest private FM radio network in just seven years.
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4/20/2009
Measuring the Immeasurable: Bond Strength of Materials Linked to Heat Transfer
Science Daily
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have discovered there is a strong correlation between the speed at which heat moves between two touching materials and how strongly those materials are bonded together.
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4/20/2009
Rice University Business Plan Competition Awards $800,000 in Cash and Prizes
EarthTimes
The 2009 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) awarded more than $800,000 in cash and prizes at an awards banquet on Saturday, April 18. Troy Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received one of three NASA Earth/Space Engineering awards. Troy Research has developed disruptive technology for compact, energy-efficient deep-UV LEDs that are eco-friendly replacements for mercury-vapor lamps, and enable new applications in healthcare, purification, homeland security, and manufacturing.
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4/13/2009
Using Fungi to Replace Styrofoam
The New York Times
As a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Eben Bayer, a co-founder of the company Ecovative Design and a Vermont native with some experience harvesting mushrooms, realized that perlite, a type of volcanic glass frequently used as a component of insulation, was also used in growing mushrooms. He thought it might be possible to make insulation out of fungi using perlite — and in a class before he graduated in 2007, he proved right. Now, the company he founded with classmate Gavin McIntyre — Ecovative Design — is angling to provide not just a mass-market, organic insulation material, but also a replacement for Styrofoam, the non-biodegradable, carbon-intense material widely used in packing and shipping.
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4/13/2009
Biochemical changes that put sperm “in the mood” identified
Sindh Today
Making a significant advance towards new infertility treatments and a male contraceptive pill, scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have identified key biochemical changes that put sperm ‘in the mood’ for fertilization.
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4/1/2009
Astronomers Find Hidden Exoplanet in Hubble’s Dustbin
Wired Science
Peter Fox, chair of the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is featured in the article on a new data mining technique for analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's archival images.
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April 2009
Basic Research is Now Applied
Solid State Technology
Pete Singer, editor-in-chief of Solid State Technology, highlights the work of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers who have developed a method for producing slim and sticky nanorods that appear to be a perfect solution for “gluing” together stacked components in 3D integration.
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