For RPI alumnus Doug Mercer ’77, helping prepare the next generation of electrical engineers to excel in the workforce has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Microscopic image of fluid inclusions in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals, which preserve ancient air and brine. (Justin Park/RPI) More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the appointment of Andrea S. Ballinger as Chief Information Officer, effective February 1, 2026. The appointment follows a comprehensive national ...

Concerns about crime and safety have a dramatic impact on the behavior of Airbnb customers, according to new research co-authored by Liad Wagman, Ph.D., Dean of the RPI Lally School of Management. In ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) officially cut the ribbon on its new Center for Smart Convergent Manufacturing Systems (CSCMS) during an all-day launch event on October 23, 2025. A New York ...

The new technique to manufacture ultra-thin semiconducting membranes could lead to a breakthrough in night vision technology (Getty Images) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) scientists played a ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) unveiled an evolved brand identity that both honors its 200-year legacy and signals its future ambitions. The brand refresh comes at a time as RPI steps into its ...