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March 24, 2003

 
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Vikram Agrawal ’02, founder and CEO of etransmedia Technologies Inc., has been named one of The Business Review’s “40 Under Forty” winners for 2003. For the past four years, the weekly business publication has recognized 40 local professionals under the age of 40 as the Capital Region’s future business leaders. etransmedia Technologies Inc., which has offices in Rensselaer’s Incubator Center and in Bangalore, India, won first prize in the sixth annual Rensselaer-Lucent Technologies Business Plan Competition in 2001. According to The Business Review, “[the winners] set the pace of the local business landscape now and into the future” and “each brings something special to the work they do and the community they live in.” Agrawal and his fellow honorees will be recognized at a luncheon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany May 1. 3/24/03

Brendan Harnett and Michelle Myers, fifth-year architecture students at Rensselaer who received awards in an international juried competition for their original design of a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic, will have their work featured in an exhibition at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit of winning designs from Architecture for Humanity's latest design competition opened March 18 and will be on display until May 30. For more on the students’ project, go to http://www.rpi.edu/web/Campus.News/dec_02/dec_9/index.html. For more on the exhibit, go to http://www.mellowtek.com/~aplusd/. 3/17/03

Chung Kim ’99, a producer in professional and distance education and iEAR graduate, recently had two works accepted into the internationally recognized ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Art Gallery, one of the world’s largest computer graphics conferences/exhibitions. Kim’s works will be part of “CG03: Computer Graphics 2003” exhibition, which will be on display during the annual SIGGRAPH Conference, July 27-31 in San Diego, Calif. For more, go to http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/cfp/art/. 3/17/03

 

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E. Bruce Watson, Institute Professor of Science, is listed on ISIHighlyCited.com, a free Web site that gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations a tool to identify individuals, departments, and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades. ISIHighlyCited.com includes people in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering, and social sciences. The individuals listed are the most highly cited within each category for the period 1981-1999, and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers. Watson is listed in the geosciences category. 3/17/03

The Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association (UCAA) has announced its year-end basketball award winners and three Rensselaer student-athletes have been recognized. Junior guard Kristin Kaczynski was named to the Women's Basketball First Team while teammate Kaitlyn Saunders, a sophomore guard, earned Second Team honors. On the men's side, junior forward Jared Hite was selected to the All-UCAA Second Team

Also, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) has announced its ECAC East women's hockey year-end award winners and eight players from Rensselaer were recognized. Among them were sophomore Julie Vallarelli, who was named the Goaltender of the Year, freshman Julie Welte, who won the Rookie of the Year Award, and head coach Bill Cahill, who was honored as the 2002-03 Coach of the Year.

In addition, Vallarelli and sophomore defenseman Lane Dielwart were selected to the All-ECAC East First Team. Co-captains Christin Sauca, a forward, and Sara Riel, a defenseman, were named to the Second Team while Welte, Kari Rabatin, a defenseman, and Rosina Schiff, a goaltender, were chosen to the ECAC East All-Rookie Team. For more on Rensselaer athletics, go to http://www.rpi.edu/dept/athletics/ 3/17/03

 

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