MSE News and Events
Jian Shi is the 2019 winner of the Alfred H. Geisler Memorial Award that recognizes an outstanding young materials scientist/engineer from the Eastern NY ASM chapter.
![Erik Milosevic [milose@rpi.edu]](/sites/default/files/images-general/Erik.png)
Erik Milosevic has won the S.C. Sun Best Student Paper Award, to be presented at the IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference in Brussels on June 5, 2019.
Prof. Daniel Gall receives the 2019 IBM Faculty Award for research on "Post-Cu metallization".
Two MSE affiliated students, Alexander Yepikhin and Parth Bhide, have been selected for the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Award for 2019.
Professor Minoru Tomozawa has been elected to be a Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society, which is its most prestigious level of membership awarded only to three members each year.
Institute News
RPI Doctoral Student Honored as Rising Black Scientist
Steve Eshiemogie, a doctoral student studying chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been recognized as an honorable mention in the annual Cell Press Rising Black Scientists Awards for his essay “From village to lab: An African scientist’s quest for a sustainable future.” [MS1] More than 350 students across a range of scientific disciplines applied.
Made at RPI: Celebrating More Than Four Decades of Manufacturing Education
From computer chips and pharmaceuticals to batteries and airplanes, our world runs on manufactured goods and products. However, most people rarely think about how these things get made — not to mention the technology and engineering that goes into making them at scale.
RPI Grad, Now Postdoc, Wins Prestigious Koerner Family Foundation Fellowship
Joan Llabre, Ph.D. '23, who received her doctorate in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this past fall and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute, has won the Koerner Family Foundation Fellowship, which supports engineers pursuing careers in research.
RPI Scientists Developing Gene Editing Technology to Treat Alzheimer's
This year, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers will begin work on a radically new approach to treating and preventing genetic diseases such as Alzheimer’s.It’s thanks to a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s TARGETED Challenge, which funds scientific research on ways to deliver gene editing tools directly to cells in the human body.
RPI and HVCC Launch Semiconductor Workforce Development Program
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Hudson Valley Community College have welcomed the inaugural class of RPI-HVCC Semiconductor Scholars. Funded by the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, the Scholars program is one of many efforts in the Capital Region and around the country to prepare more students to enter the semiconductor industry.