Department News
Engineering researchers have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food handling and packaging.
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The road signs that direct traffic on the highways — collectively known as the cytoskeleton — are now the subject of research for Lee Ligon, associate professor of biology.
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Francine Berman co-leads the U.S. delegation, when nany of the world’s leading experts on “Big Data” and related fields will gather for the first plenary session of the new international Research Data Alliance (RDA).
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Four graduate students in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently earned the top prize in a national health data platform challenge designed to create new functionalities for the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) repository for open health data: healthdata.gov.
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IBM announced it will provide a modified version of an IBM Watson system to Rensselaer, making it the first university to receive such a system.
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