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Celebrating
100 Years of Rensselaer Hockey
On Saturday, Feb. 9, Rensselaer will celebrate
"100 Years of Rensselaer Hockey" with a series of events.
The day kicks off with the annual Alumni Hockey Game at the Houston
Field House. The puck will drop at noon for this free event. The celebration
continues at the Big Red Freakout Ice House, followed by the 25th Anniversary
Big Red Freakout hockey game. More
Lockheed Martin
To Host This Year's Archer Leadership Conference
The Archer Center for Student Leadership Development will hold its annual
leadership conference from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 26, in
the Rensselaer Union. This year's conference,
sponsored by Lockheed Martin, will center around the theme "Leading
Change in a Wide Open World." More
Peering
Deeper Into the Milky Way
Heidi Jo Newberg, associate professor of physics, and Brian Yanny,
an astrophysicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, are leading
a team of researchers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) that
has announced they have identified new star structures in the halo
of the Milky Way. Their research could alter the standard model of
the galaxy and has implications for how the Milky Way was formed.
Their findings were reported at the recent annual meeting of the American
Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C., and will be published in
the Astrophysical Journal. More
R&D
Stars
Industry Week names professors Jonathan Dordick and Martin
Glicksman among 30 R&D "Stars to Watch" in 2002. The
magazine says it "celebrates the contributions of individuals
who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth."
In 1999, IW named President Shirley Ann Jackson to the list.
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Shekhar Garde, assistant professor of chemical engineering,
received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
from the National Science Foundation (NSF). He will use
the five-year, $374,965 grant to develop computer simulation
tools for understanding and modeling how biological molecules
self-assemble in water-based solutions. 
