MSE News and Events
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.
Liping Huang, associate dean for research and graduate programs in the School of Engineering, has been accepted as a member of the 2019-2020 cohort of fellows for the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) at Drexel program.
Professor Minoru Tomozawa has been awarded the prestigious Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture by the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). He will deliver this lecture during the Materials Science & Technology Conference and Exposition during the week of September 29 - October 3, 2019, in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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.
Institute News
RPI Professor Appointed Chair of IEEE Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing Technical Committee
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).
RPI Announces $10 Million Gift from Alumnus and Entrepreneur Ajit Prabhu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has received a $10 million gift from Ajit Prabhu ’98, founder and CEO of Quest Global, to establish the Ajit Prabhu Catalyst Endowment and the Ajit Prabhu Catalyst Fund, both in support of the Office of Strategic Alliances and Translation (OSAT). Prabhu launched the fund, which will assist RPI student and faculty entrepreneurs.
RPI Researchers Receive Prestigious Gordon Prize from National Academy of Engineering
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.
Multimodal Multitask Foundation Model Enhances Lung Cancer Screening and Beyond
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 Named Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
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.