Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has named Daniel Potvin, Ph.D. as the Founding Director of SCALE.Rensselaer, a new business accelerator focused on scaling tough tech ventures. Potvin, who assumed the role in June, will lead efforts t…
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have found that today's leading artificial intelligence tools for predicting protein structures routinely generate results that are physically and chemically impossible, exposing critica…
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has appointed globally renowned neuroscientist Katerina Akassoglou, Ph.D., as the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Constellation Chair in the Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine (…
RPI’s Institute Archives and Special Collections (IASC) has rediscovered archival documents from the American Revolution, including a letter from George Washington, information about the founding of New York state, and other primary sources…
Velan Studios, a Troy-based game development studio co-owned by RPI alumnus Karthik Bala ’97, has been announced as the developer behind a remake of the Nintendo 64 game Star Fox, now available on the Nintendo Switch 2. Karthik Bala ’97 and…
For the first time in RPI history, the Institute’s Concrete Canoe team won first place at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Concrete Canoe regional competition, earning a spot at the national competition June 25-27. The annual
Justine and Jim Mullen ’80 have generously donated to RPI in support of several research projects and a workshop in computational biology, with emphases in artificial intelligence, and quantum computing—all priorities outlined in the RPI Fo…
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have discovered a microscopic organism that can transform into a cannibalistic "supergiant" that drastically changes size, shape, and behavior, and abandons filter-feeding to hunt and co…
Now streaming on PBS, Project Chapel chronicles the installation of the world's first IBM Quantum System One on a university campus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The documentary follows the transformation of RPI's historic, cen…
Walk Through a Campus Shaped by Generations Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will be featured as a tour site in What’s Out There Weekend Upper Hudson Valley, a regional celebration of historic and designed landscapes organized by The
By Ryan Cheng ’26, psychological science major I came to RPI as a biology major. This was mostly out of circumstance, in all honesty. I was directionless, and biology seemed like a catch-all for me to figure out what I wanted to do. Not to
By Jayashree Balaraman ’26, dual major in computational biology and biochemistry As a child, I was always asking questions. I was the kid who loved mad-science camps, fascinated by the idea that the world could be understood if you kept ask…