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The  Norbert J. Kreidl Award for Young Scholars is the highest honor GOMD bestows upon a graduate student, recognizing research excellence in glass science. Emily will present her award lecture at the 25th International Congress on Glass (ICG 2019) in Boston, MA on June 9-14, 2019, hosted by the GOMD.
Robert W. Messler, Jr., Ph.D., FASM, FAWS, has authored more than a hundred technical papers and seven other engineering books. A Practical Guide to Welding Solutions is the logical complement to his renowned Principles of Welding.
Michael Deagen (Ph.D., December 2018) received the Rensselaer Founders Award of Excellence at the Honors Convocation ceremony on October 20, 2018. Established in 1994, the Founders Award "honors students who embody qualities of creativity, discovery, leadership, and the values of pride and responsibility at Rensselaer."
This distinction is meant to honor young researchers who have made significant contributions to their respective fields within Polymer Science and Engineering.

Institute News

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is proud to announce that Pingkun Yan, Ph.D., associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at RPI, has been appointed chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing (BIIP).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Georges Belfort, Ph.D., and Steven Cramer, Ph.D., both Institute Professors of Chemical and Biological Engineering, have won the 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education given by the National Academy of Engineering. 
Lung cancer is one of the most challenging diseases, making early diagnosis crucial for effective treatment. Fortunately, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming lung cancer screening, improving both accuracy and efficiency.
Ge Wang, the Clark-Crossan Chaired Professor and director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging journal. With nearly 3,000 submissions per year, it is the flagship journal in the tomographic medical imaging field and among the most highly cited of all biomedical engineering journals. Wang’s initial term is for three years and is renewable for a second term.
Clint Ballinger, Ph.D., professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is among 170 inventors elected by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) to its 2024 Class of Fellows.