MSE News and Events
Seven Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute undergraduate students showcased research projects in the areas of materials science, computer modeling, chemical engineering, and more at a symposium held at Corning’s Sullivan Park Science & Technology Center just outside of Corning, New York on April 26, 2024.
Prof. Ravishankar Sundararaman has been promoted to a full professor and has also been awarded with the James M. Tien '66 Early Career Award. The award honors productivity in both teaching and research, with outstanding achievement in one of these areas.
Wei Bao, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won the Early Career Program (ECP) Award and Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award from the Department of Defense to study superconductors and cavity quantum materials, respectively.
The paper titled “On the nature of thermal transport in organic/inorganic nanolaminates” by Rajan Khadka and Prof. Pawel Keblinski has been featured as a cover article in the Journal of Applied Physics. Independently, the same work, as well as Rajan Khadka, were recognized by the MSE department by the 2024 “Norman S. Stoloff Research Excellence Award.
The MSE department welcomes new new Assistant Professor, Dr. Wei Bao, who will build a research group in the broad area of quantum materials for quantum information and quantum computing applications.
Institute News
Meet the RPI Engineers Guiding Artemis II to the Moon and Back
When Reid Wiseman '97 straps into the Orion capsule as commander of Artemis II, NASA's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century, he won't be the only RPI alum with a stake in the flight.
Scientists Create a New State of Matter at Room Temperature Using Light and Nanostructures
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter — known as a supersolid — by engineering how light and matter interact inside a nanoscale device. The work, published in Nature Nanotechnology, demonstrates that this exotic quantum phase can exist at room temperature, overcoming a long-standing limitation in the field.
Alhussein Abouzeid Named Head of RPI’s Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has appointed Professor Alhussein (Hussein) Abouzeid, Ph.D., as head of the department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Awarded $3.3 Million Grant to Improve mRNA Purification Technology
Research aims to address a critical bottleneck in the production of mRNA therapeutics.
RPI Faculty Among World’s Most-Cited Researchers
Two RPI researchers, Ge Wang, Ph.D., Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor and director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at RPI, and Fudong Han, Ph.D., associate professor and Priti & Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair, have earned a spot on Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list.