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In honor of Women’s History Month, read about three early women professors who forged a path for others to follow: Marie de Pierpont, Herta Leng, and Edith Luchins. Read: http://bit.ly/1fLtcVB

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Congratulations to architecture+, a design and service-oriented architecture and planning firm in Troy, NY, which has received an Honor Award for Historic Preservation from the Eastern New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the rehabilitation of the Grand Staircase. This $7.4 million project, located between the Empire State Plaza and the Cultural Education Center, was completed as a New York State Office of General Services Term Contract assignment. Frank M. Pitts ’75 is the founding partner and president of architecture+ and many Rensselaer graduates work there. The awards were presented on March 2 at The Arts Center in Troy. Jury comments shared at the ceremony recognized that “An effort like this of historic preservation is very difficult work and in this case, it was mastered. The diligence of the design firm is clear in technical detailing, and as a result successful due to simplicity.” Read more about the project: http://bit.ly/2mN1iSK

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So proud! Rensselaer alumnae Cheryl Porro ’93, senior vice president, technology and products at Salesforce.org, and Casey Edgeton ’06, senior product designer at up-and-coming health care startup Forward, have been named to Business Insider’s 43 Most Powerful Female Engineers of 2017! According to Business Insider, “There are women who are leading important tech teams at important companies. And there are women who are building cool cutting-edge technologies at startups. In other words, there are women having fabulous careers as engineers, building the technology that millions of people use on a daily basis. With that in mind, here are 43 powerful American women who are developers, designers, engineering directors, bio scientists, nuclear scientists, and rocket scientists.” Read more: http://read.bi/2lvyB8w

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Hedgehog, Cancer, and Zinc | News & Events

“In test tubes and cell culture studies we can see that zinc deficiency leads to Hedgehog activation. But is this happening in human disease? This is what we want to study," said Chunyu Wang, an associate professor of biological sciences and member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer.

Jefferson Project at Lake George

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"Want a stronger economy? Give immigrants a warm welcome.” Kevin Shih, assistant professor of economics at Rensselaer, says there is evidence that immigrants actually promote economic growth in this article in The ConversationUS. http://bit.ly/2le8aUO

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For more than a quarter of a century, the Albany Business Review has been recognizing and celebrating the achievements of the Capital Region business community. The first Achievement Awards event was held in the 1980s. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson and School of Engineering Professor Daniel Walczyk were among 12 individuals honored for outstanding achievements in technology and business during the Feb. 17 Albany Business Review Tech Awards event. Read more: http://bit.ly/2kQROoW

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NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star In a news release today, NASA reports that its Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. "This is the most exciting result I have seen in the 14 years of Spitzer operations," said RPI graduate Sean Carey ’88, Ph.D.’95, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California. “More observations of the system are sure to reveal more secrets.” Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. Read more: http://go.nasa.gov/2mmnjDX

Why are human bodies asymmetrical? - Leo Q. Wan

Professor Leo Wan’s research on left-right asymmetry is featured in a Wired article, “Biologists Are Figuring Out How Cells Tell Left From Right.” Watch as Wan explains the fascinating research in this TedEd video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLgh1pJP5ng Read the Wired article: http://bit.ly/2l4ekH7

Shirley Jackson of RPI in Troy, NY wants Rensselaer to graduate the next Google or Apple founder - Albany Business Review

According to a recent interview that appeared in the Albany Business Review, Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson believes a Rensselaer graduate will, someday, create the next company that changes the way people live. The next Google, the next Starbucks, the next Apple. She believes they will build that business here. “We think it will happen one of these days,” Jackson said. “To have a company that starts here become the next Google.” That vision mirrors her own career as a theoretical physicist, chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission under President Bill Clinton, and 18 years as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Physics Professor Gwo-Ching Wang has been elected as a fellow of the Materials Research Society for “for seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding of surface and thin film ordering using electron diffraction and the invention of electron pole figure technique for growth front texture analysis.” “Throughout her career, Gwo-Ching Wang has made many significant contributions to the fundamental science of thin film materials and characterization, to the extent that future thin film technology will benefit from the knowledge of interface and surface of these materials gained from her group’s work,” said Curt Breneman, dean of the School of Science. “We congratulate her on this honor, and we are very proud to have her as a colleague.”