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Research News (2009-2010)

07/29/10 - Engineering for Development in the Third World Needs a Makeover

07/28/10 - Rensselaer Professor Discovers Mysterious Workings of Cholera Bacteria

07/27/10 - Breaching the Blood-Brain Barrier To Create Powerful New Tools for Fighting Cancer

07/26/10 - Exposure to Early Evening Sunlight in Spring Creates Teenage Night Owls

07/19/10 - NASA Grant Supports New York Center for Astrobiology in Search for Conditions of Life in the Universe

07/15/10 - Designing Touch-Sensitive Virtual Reality Tools To Train Tomorrow’s Surgeons

07/12/10 - A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Terahertz Remote Sensing

07/01/10 - New York City Department of Transportation Recognizes Project Led by Rensselaer

06/22/10 - Research From Rensselaer Professor Offers Clues to Alzheimer’s Disease

06/21/10 - Researchers at Rensselaer Develop New Method for Mass-Producing Graphene

06/17/10 - Rensselaer Professor Receives $2.9 Million NSF Grant To Support Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning STEM Disciplines

06/16/10 - Researchers Develop Ultra-Simple Method for Creating Nanoscale Gold Coatings

06/07/10 - DaySwitch® Field Test Demonstrates Simple Daylight Harvesting Technology to Save Energy

06/01/10 - NSF Grant Won by Professor Heidi Newberg Will Establish Historic U.S.-China Partnership

05/18/10 - New Nanotech Discovery Could Lead to Breakthrough in Infrared Satellite Imaging Technology

05/10/10 - Researchers To Send Bacteria Into Orbit Aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis

05/04/10 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Launches $16.75 Million Center To Research Social Cognitive Networks

04/19/10 - Green@Rensselaer: Students Using Solar Power To Create Sustainable Solutions for Haiti, Peru

04/08/10 - Student Team Named Semifinalist in Dell Social Innovation Competition

04/08/10 - Motherhood Lost Conversations: Educational Television Series Series Co-Produced by Rensselaer Professor

04/08/10 - Three Rensselaer Student Teams Earn Top Honors for Entrepreneurial Ideas

03/31/10 - Research Leader at Rensselaer Will Participate in Washington, D.C., Symposium on Preserving Digital Information

03/26/10 - Rensselaer Researchers Secure $1 Million Grant To Develop Oil Exploration Game-Changer

03/24/10 - The Asthma Files: Creating a Portrait of Asthmatic Spaces in New York State and Beyond

03/18/10 - Rensselaer Geophysicist Rushes to Chile To Study Earthquake Aftershocks

03/09/10 - Green@Rensselaer: A Semester in the Adirondacks

03/03/10 - Helping Hydrogen: Student Inventor Tackles Challenge of Hydrogen Storage

03/01/10 - Predicting the Fate of Stem Cells

02/26/10 - Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority

02/26/10 - The Mathematics Behind a Good Night’s Sleep

02/16/10 - Lack of Morning Light Keeping Teenagers Up at Night

02/10/10 - PCs Around the World Unite To Map the Milky Way

02/03/10 - Researchers Using Science To Decode the Secrets of Olympic Skeleton Sliding

01/28/10 - Rensselaer Receives More Than $10 Million in Recovery Act Funding

12/18/09 - Professors James Hendler and Jeffrey Trinkle Selected as 2010 IEEE Fellows

12/17/09 - A Prescription for Healthier, Longer-Lived Levees and Dams

12/07/09 - Rensselaer Students Recognized for Ideas To “Change the World”

12/07/09 - Green@Rensselaer: Researchers Reveal That Environmentally Devastating Zebra Mussels Can Be Controlled

12/03/09 - Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

11/12/09 - Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

11/06/09 - green@rensselaer: Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

10/22/09 - Rensselaer To Lead Multimillion-Dollar Research Center for Social and Cognitive Networks

10/22/09 - Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues on Climate Change

10/21/09 - Francine Berman To Receive Kennedy Award for Cyberinfrastructure Leadership

10/15/09 - Rensselaer Researchers Receive $1 Million To Model Metal Maladies

10/01/09 - Rensselaer Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms for Massive Scientific Collaboration

09/29/09 - Rensselaer Researchers to Develop and Test Next-Generation Radar Systems

09/16/09 - Rensselaer Leads Effort To Replace One of the Most Widely Used Drugs in American Hospitals

09/16/09 - New Clermont Project – Navigating the Hudson River With Hydrogen Fuel Cells

09/15/09 - Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Launches Innovation Competition

09/08/09 - Rensselaer Receives More Than $4.8 Million in Recovery Act Funding

09/01/09 - Greenlighting a Greener World

08/27/09 - A New Way to Look at Innovation: Rensselaer Professor Outlines Blueprint for Social Change

08/24/09 - Shuttle To Carry Rensselaer Experiment to International Space Station

07/09/09 - Rensselaer Researchers To Participate in Seismic Test of Seven-Story Building

06/16/09 - The Vision Revolution: Eyes Are the Source of Human “Superpowers”

06/09/09 - Insights Into Male Fertility: New Research Shows Potential for a Male Contraceptive

06/08/09 - Moon Magic: Researchers Develop New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses

05/29/09 - Researchers Develop Light-Treatment Device to Improve Sleep Quality in the Elderly

05/22/09 - The Promises and Perils of Immersing Children in Technological Environments

05/19/09 - Robert Linhardt Named One of the Scientific American 10

05/19/09 - A New Way of Treating the Flu

05/08/09 - One Step Closer: Novel Opioid Receptor Compound From Rensselaer in Phase I Clinical Trials

04/13/09 - Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

04/06/09 - Rensselaer Announces New VP for Research

03/25/09 - Fitter Frames: Nanotubes Boost Structural Integrity of Composites

03/24/09 - Faster, Cheaper Fuel Cells: New $1.6 Million DoE Grant Supports Fuel Cell Manufacturing Innovations

03/23/09 - Rensselaer Receives More Than $2 Million From New York State To Fund Stem Cell Research

03/19/09 - No Small Measure: Origins of Nanorod Diameter Discovered

03/17/09 - Slimmer, Stickier Nanorods Give Boost to 3-D Computer Chips

03/04/09 - Student Developer of Versatile “G-gels” Wins $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Prize

02/27/09 - Rensselaer Previews New IMAX Movie, “Molecules to the MAX”

02/23/09 - Building a Better Protein

02/23/09 - Hidden Before Our Eyes: Tiny World Makes Giant Leap to Silver Screen

02/17/09 - Researchers Isolate Protein Domain Linked to Tumor Progression

02/02/09 - Using “Stealth Education” To Increase Science Literacy

01/20/09 - Light-Speed Nanotech: Controlling the Nature of Graphene

01/12/09 - Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the “Droop”

01/06/09 - Study Yields Clues About the Evolution of Epilepsy