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VP Rounds discusses campus construction

Governance Commission called

Film starts debate

Freshman elections held

Ed/Op

Staff Editorial
Let UPAC Cinema show Farhenheit 9/11 movie

Editorial Notebook
Keep small classes running

Editorial Notebook
Say goodbye to Astroturf field

Top Hat
Constitution up for review

Interfraternity Council
Final week brings rush to end

Derby
Committees open to all students

Letter to the Editor
Cannot avoid all obscenity

Letter to the Editor
Let UPAC show movie

Letter to the Editor
Film sparks debate

Letter to the Editor
Republicans at RPI speak

Features

Pikmin 2 improves game

Mainstage: UPAC show impresses

“Father of Community TV” pays visit

Dave Barry
Barry faces down fierce hordes of fish

Reynolds, Montbleau deliver one-two punch

Lake George event offers relaxation

CD reviews indicate trends in modern music

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Sports

Ties leave RPI frustrated

Engineers fall in tight contest

Women’s tennis continues serving up wins

Offense laboring for RPI

Hello greed, goodbye NHL

RPI Cycling fairs well in first all-nighter

Colts charge back, Vick leads Falcons

Red Hawks remain winless

Rensselaer in Brief
U.S. Senate Passes Bill
Last week, the United States Senate designated Troy’s Kate Mullany House a National Historic Site. The building is currently a National Historic Landmark and a plan calls to renovate the house into a labor union museum.

The site is located on 8th Street near Hoosick Street and was home to Kate Mullany during the 19th Century. As one of the first women labor organizers in the country, she rallied Troy women who were working in commercial laundries to demand more suitable working conditions in 1864.

If the House of Representatives also approves the new designation, the National Park Service would most likely provide more funds and support for the renovation plans. Congressman Mike McNulty is the sponsor of the bill in the House.

Professor Recognized
Technology Review ranked Merck Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Ravi Kane among the top 100 innovators in technology. Kane works at RPI as a researcher in biotechnology, advanced materials, nanotechnology, and polymers. His research focuses on medicine and biology.

Kane has been working on developing an antidote to the anthrax toxin as well as designing new molecules that could possibly fight off an HIV infection. The National Institutes of Health awarded him $2.1 million earlier this year to develop the antidote. For the new molecule research venture, he was awarded a two-year $150,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2003.

Kane, along with the other 99 Technology Review winners, will be honored on September 29 and 30 at the magazine’s Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Fellowship Awarded
he Herman Family Fellowship for Women in Entrepreneurship was awarded to Jennifer Sin. Currently an MBA student in the Lally School of Management and Technology, Sin graduated from Hamilton College in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree of science in biology.

According to Michael Herman ’62, member of the RPI Board of Trustees and general partner of the Herman Family Trading Company, the fellowship is given to women who have a strong background in technology and have showed entrepreneurial skills and spirit. In choosing Sin as the recipient, they have selected a woman who has “an excellent background in molecular genetics and entrepreneurial experience in business,” said Iftekhar Hasan, dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology.

Sin stated that she believes “the hands-on approach to the new curriculum at the Lally School will put [her] in a position to create [her] own business, or practice corporate entrepreneurship,” when she earns her MBA.

The Lally School just recently started a new curriculum that combines coursework into year-long classes and according to the school, these classes are aimed at preparing students for the complexities of the real-world business environment.