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Rensselaer in Brief
New constellation
RPI has started hiring for its second constellation, the Biocomputation and Bionformatics Constellation. Angel E. Garcia will begin his appointment as senior constellation chair professor in biocomputation and bioinformatics on January 1, 2005.
Garcia currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and leads research in theoretical biology and biophysics. His group will conduct their research in the new Biotechnology Center.
According to President Shirley Ann Jackson, “[Garcia’s] interdisciplinary research is truly visionary, and will further enhance the emergent biotechnology programs at Rensselaer, placing us on the cutting edge of research in biocomputation and bioinformatics.” Entrepreneur of the year
Frederick Smith, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, was recently named the 2004 Resselaer Entrepreneur of the Year. He will give a presidential lecture tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 pm in the auditorium of the new Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.
The lecture, entitled “Challenges of Businesses Competing in the Global Marketplace,” will be followed by a networking reception at 4:30 pm. Both of these events are open to the general public.
Smith is being honored by the Paul J. ’69 and Kathleen M. Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship in Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management and Technology for his leading role in establishing the $28 billion FedEx Corporation as a global leader in transportation and package logistics. Clinic receives grant
After Troy was designated a medically underserved population by the federal government, the Whitney Young Center received $816,637 from a federal grant pool of $39 million to build a clinic in Troy. These funds have been set aside for the purpose of extending health care to more low-income and uninsured inner-city citizens.
The site of the proposed center has drawn criticism. The Whitney Center is seeking to put the clinic on the land now occupied by a former CVS. Opponents claim that the clinic will remove a high-value property from the tax rolls and are seeking an alternate location for the clinic.
Support for the clinic itself, however, has yet to wane, and local officials are confident that the clinic will be located somewhere in Troy and will begin serving citizens as soon as possible.
Two fellows named
Professors Michael Hanna and George Plopper have been named “Education Fellows in the Life Sciences” by the National Academies for their role in a summer institute regarding innovation in the techniques used to teach undergraduate biology.
The summer institute drew its inspiration from a National Academies’ National Research Council entitled “Bio2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists.” The report pointed out that undergraduate biology courses were failing to keep pace with the rapid innovation and broadening of the biological research field, which required understanding of other disciplines such as math and computer science.
Professors Hanna and Plopper were among 39 people recognized by the National Academies for accomplishment stemming from the report and the subsequent work of the summer institute. RPI has already instituted many concepts from this conference in the form of a next generation studio biology course being offered, and may even have subsequent plans to make the course an institute-wide requirement. |
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