Archive for 'The Approach'
Taking on Shaker
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Mary Martialay.
How might modern architecture look if it were steeped in Shaker culture? Check out the possibilities imagined by Rensselaer architecture students next weekend at “Material Manifestations, cultural and material affects of Shaker artifacts,” sponsored by the Shaker Museum & Library. Saturday’s exhibit, book launch and discussion grew out of a semester-long study of Shaker artifacts in [...]
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From Rwanda to the New York Times
Posted on 24. Aug, 2010 by Mary Martialay.
Be sure to follow Michael Mascarenhas, a professor of science and technology studies, as he blogs for the New York Times’ “Scientist at Work” while on a two-week research trip in Rwanda. Mascarenhas is the second Rensselaer professor to appear on the blog, which chronicles the work of scientists in the field. Although he’s only days [...]
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Helping Leopards (and Farmers) Change Their Spots
Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by Michael Mullaney.
Graduate students visiting Rensselaer from Stellenbosch University in South Africa are working on a fascinating project: tracking leopards. The project is just starting out, and research will take place on both sides of the Atlantic. The Stellenboschers spent the past two weeks at Rensselaer in the peerless Design Lab, and then a group of Rensselaer students [...]
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Gravity Check
Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Mary Martialay.
On the side of a medical examining table designed by Architecture Professor Ted Krueger’s vertical studio design class, students installed a small brushed aluminum knob with four gravity settings: Flip the switch, change gravity. The gravity switch is a tongue-in-cheek answer to one of the challenges facing the students as they designed a medical workstation for [...]
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Professor Blogs for New York Times
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Mary Martialay.
As if traveling to Accra, Ghana isn’t enough, Ron Elgash – a professor in Rensselaer’s Department of Science and Technology Studies – is blogging about his research trip in the New York Times. Eglash, who teaches in the Design, Innovation and Society program, has been blogging this week on the New York Times’ “Scientist at [...]
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Top 10 science papers
- Evolutionary hidden information detection by granulation-based fitness approximation • ArticleApplied Soft Computing, Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 719-729 | Davarynejad, M.; Ahn, C.W.; Vrancken, J.; van den Berg, J.; Coello Coello, C.A. […]
- The Hallmarks of Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 57-70 | Hanahan, D.; Weinberg, R.A. […]
- Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 129-141 | Hafner, M.; Landthaler, M.; Burger, L.; Khorshid, M.; Hausser, J.; Berninger, P.; Rothballer, A.; Ascano, M.; Jungkamp, A.C.; Munschauer, M.; Ulrich, A.; Wardle, G.S.; Dewell, S.; Zavolan, M.; Tuschl, T. […]
- A Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Drug-Tolerant State in Cancer Cell Subpopulations • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 69-80 | Sharma, S.V.; Lee, D.Y.; Li, B.; Quinlan, M.P.; Takahashi, F.; Maheswaran, S.; McDermott, U.; Azizian, N.; Zou, L.; Fischbach, M.A.; Wong, K.K.; Brandstetter, K.; Wittner, B.; Ramaswamy, S.; Classon, M.; Settleman, J. […]
- Immunity, Inflammation, and Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 883-899 | Grivennikov, S.I.; Greten, F.R.; Karin, M. […]
- Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors • ArticleCell, Volume 126, Issue 4, August 2006, Pages 663-676 | Takahashi, K.; Yamanaka, S. […]
- The Inflammasomes • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 821-832 | Schroder, K.; Tschopp, J. […]
- Mitochondria Supply Membranes for Autophagosome Biogenesis during Starvation • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 656-667 | Hailey, D.W.; Rambold, A.S.; Satpute-Krishnan, P.; Mitra, K.; Sougrat, R.; Kim, P.K.; Lippincott-Schwartz, J. […]
- Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 805-820 | Takeuchi, O.; Akira, S. […]
- Reconstitution of the RIG-I Pathway Reveals a Signaling Role of Unanchored Polyubiquitin Chains in Innate Immunity • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 315-330 | Zeng, W.; Sun, L.; Jiang, X.; Chen, X.; Hou, F.; Adhikari, A.; Xu, M.; Chen, Z.J. […]
