MSE News and Events
Ravishankar Sundararaman has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS. He will receive the award at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego on Feb 26, 2020.
Prof. Jian Shi authors a Nature news & views letter to express his viewpoint on a recent work published in Nature on the topic of strain engineering in unconventional semiconductors.
Prof. Edwin Fohtung, an expert in scattering and imaging techniques for nanoscale device materials, joins the MSE faculty starting in Fall 2019.
Yanming Zhang has been awarded the Corning's Glass Age Scholarship which will support his research for the 2019-2010 academic year
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.
Institute News
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is proud to announce that Ge Wang, Ph.D., Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor and Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at RPI, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Edith H. Quimby Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medical Physics by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
A student team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) designed, built, and flew a remote-controlled aircraft that delivered one of the best overall flight performances in the history of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design Build Fly competition.
New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) could help shape the future of artificial intelligence by making AI systems less resource-intensive, higher performing, and designed to emulate the human brain.
New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) could help shape the future of artificial intelligence by making AI systems less resource-intensive, higher performing, and designed to emulate the human brain.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has announced the appointment of Zheyu Zhang, Ph.D., as the inaugural Richard P. Felak ’66 ’67G and Joan C. Felak Endowed Faculty Fellow in Electric Power Engineering.

RPI's Ge Wang Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovations in Medical Imaging
RPI Student Team Sets Records with Aircraft Design and Piloting at Global Competition
AI Rethought: RPI Researchers Propose a More Effective, Human-Like Approach
Zheyu Zhang Appointed Richard P. Felak ’66 ’67G and Joan C. Felak Endowed Faculty Fellow in Electric Power Engineering at RPI