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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Researcher and Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist Pave the Way for Polymer Design
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Unveil the World’s first …
Apr 5, 2024 — Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM officially unveiled the world’s first-ever IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI’s bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, IBM Quantum System One will significantly enhance educational and research opportunities for the university, as well as with other academic institutions and organizations across the ...
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Veterans Day Memorial. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 550 will honor and celebrate all veterans—past and present—this Veterans Day on November 11 at the Approach. Join the cadets at 10:45 a.m. as they lay a wreath near the WWI and WWII memorials and highlight the stories of ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Begins Installation of First-Ever …
On October 13, 2023, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM held a ceremonial groundbreaking to celebrate the first-ever deployment of an IBM Quantum System One on a university campus. The event, held at the RPI’s Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), featured a grand reveal of the IBM Quantum System One chandelier, the intricately wired golden ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Plans to Deploy First IBM …
Jun 28, 2023 — Today, it was announced that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will become the first university in the world to house an IBM Quantum System One. The IBM quantum computer, intended to be operational by January of 2024, will serve as the foundation of a new IBM Quantum Computational Center in partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Welcomes Class of 2026
Aug 29, 2022 — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI) incoming Class of 2026 is the largest first-year group of undergraduate students in the history of the Institute, the country’s first technological research university founded in 1824.With first-year enrollment at 2,012, the 2026 class bucks the national trend of declining college enrollment and sets the university on a strong path to academic and ...
More Than 2,000 Degrees To Be Awarded at 216th ... - Rensselaer …
May 20, 2022 — This spring, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first technological research university in the United States, will award a total of 2,063 degrees — 119 doctoral degrees, 425 master’s degrees, and 1,519 bachelor’s degrees — to 2,033 students, some of whom have earned multiple degrees. These accomplishments will be celebrated during the 216th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 21 ...
Rensselaer Class of 2025 Determined To Change the World
August 30, 2021. The incoming students who make up the Class of 2025 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute possess qualities that will help them adapt, innovate, and flourish during these unprecedented times. Hailing from 41 states and 12 countries, the incoming freshman class comes to campus with an average SAT score of 1463, the highest of any ...
RPI Celebrates Past, Present, and Future During Bicentennial Year
Sep 28, 2024 — The weekend launched — literally — with the Bicentennial Drone Show, where 750 drones took to the night sky to tell the story of RPI’s past, present, and future with dazzling 3D images. The Bicentennial Drone Show included an astronaut in honor of RPI's space legacy. Thousands of onlookers watched in awe as the drones depicted RPI ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Researcher and Nobel Prize …
Oct 30, 2024 — A research study led jointly by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI) Gaetano Montelione, Ph.D., Professor and Constellation Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; and David Baker, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, HHMI investigator, and the director of the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington School of Medicine; describes a systematic high ...