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LRC Students Transform
Learning Experience Into Community Service Graduate students from Rensselaer's Lighting Research Center (LRC) recently helped shed some objective light on a controversial topic in Bennington, Vt. The students studied issues surrounding an idea to light the historic Bennington Battle Monument. They presented a lighting demonstration and two public forums examining a proposal from a citizen's group to light the 306-foot Revolutionary War monument, which has been the center of heated debate for months. More
Biotech Center Construction Provides Living Laboratory Some architecture and engineering students are taking advantage of a major campus building project to explore the nuts and bolts of designing and constructing a new facility. Tracking the Biotechnology Center, a two-credit course currently in its third semester, examines "all the things you do to design a building," said Richard Rittelmann '60, a course instructor and a partner in Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann. The building is designed by the joint venture team of Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann of Butler, Pa., and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Pittsburgh. More
Harry Herbrandson, former professor of chemistry, died Nov. 12. Herbrandson, who received a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1942 and a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1945, joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1949. He retired in 1986. Prior to joining Rensselaer, Herbrandson was a research fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor of chemistry at Union College. More
Intel
Honors Kalyanaraman and Donates Equipment
Two representatives of Intel Corporation visited Rensselaer recently to honor Associate Professor Shivkumar Kalyanaraman for his contributions to the Intel IXA University Program. As part of the program, Intel donated 20 IXP1200 network processor development systems, which are the cornerstone of Kalyanaraman's new course, Experimental Networking. More
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Engineering
students presented their final projects in Introduction to Engineering
Design (IED) on Dec. 6 in the Great Hall of the Darrin Communications
Center. IED is a sophomore-level engineering design class in which
students are assigned a theme to guide their creativity. This semester,
students were challenged to design and build a "Ball Testing
Machine" that improves the understanding of ball motion. Approximately
70 teams demonstrated their projects. 
Vermont
Senator Jim Jeffords and his wife, Elizabeth, toured the Rensselaer
Model Railroad Society's Railroad Heritage Exhibit Dec. 9. Jeffords,
who was traveling through the area, had read a recent article about
the exhibit in a Rutland newspaper. The model railroad exhibit, located
in the basement of Davison Hall, depicts the fictitious New England,
Berkshire & Western Railroad in the 1950s. A large portion of
the exhibit depicts Vermont and in particular the Rutland Rail Yard.
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