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Nov. 17, 2003
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| EMPAC’s New York City Debut |
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Tonight (Nov. 17), 250 guests will gather for the New York City debut of Rensselaer’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). The event will take place in The Duke, a 200-seat, black-box theater on 42nd Street.
President Shirley Ann Jackson, EMPAC Director Johannes Goebel, and London-based design architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw will offer the New York City arts community, media, and other invited guests a preview of EMPAC’s building and program that will enable artists from around the world to experience the nexus of research, technology, and the performing arts. More
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| President’s Science Adviser Visits Rensselaer
 The Honorable John H. Marburger III, science adviser to President George W. Bush and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), met with students, faculty, staff, and others from the Rensselaer community along with business and government leaders from the Capital Region during a visit to Rensselaer on Nov. 14. More
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Superb conductors of heat and infinitesimal in size, carbon nanotubes might be used to prevent overheating in next-generation computing devices or as fillers to enhance thermal conductivity of insulating materials, such as durable plastics or engine oil. But a Rensselaer research team has discovered that the nanotubes’ role as thermal superconductors is greatly diminished when mixed with materials such as polymers that make up plastics. More
Rensselaer’s Lighting Research Center Students Help Transform Historic Monument
At a special Veterans Day evening ceremony, Vermont Governor James Douglas threw the switch to illuminate the historic Bennington Battle Monument for the first time. Approximately 150 spectators cheered as the special energy-efficient lights slowly brightened to their full power, illuminating the state’s tallest structure with four beams carefully aimed to avoid light pollution, trespass, and wasted light. Providing the research for the new lighting were students from Rensselaer’s Lighting Research Center. More
Rensselaer Alum’s Incubator Start-Up Nurtures Undergrads
Eight Rensselaer undergraduates are getting hands-on experience in entrepreneurship at a company in the university’s Incubator Program.
The students work for Agora Studios, a start-up founded and run by Rensselaer alumnus Michael DelPrete ’01. The company — launched July 1 of this year — develops interactive online communities, and employs the eight as interns or on a full- or part-time basis. More
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A record number of prospective students and their families converged on Rensselaer Nov. 8 for the fall recruiting weekend, hosted by Undergraduate Admissions. During the weekend, 2,500 prospective students and their families were given the opportunity to participate in campus tours, open houses, academic presentations, and an activities fair. They were also given the opportunity to attend sessions on the admissions and financial aid process, the Career Development Center, as well as a “Life at Rensselaer” panel discussion.