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Rensselaer in Brief
Troy Library updated
The Troy Public library is preparing for the installation of 14 new computers donated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The public library received a $60,674 grant to help provide an expanded public access to computers and the Internet.
The grant will be used for the purchase of eight PC’s, one content server, and one HP4050 laser printer at the main library, four PC’s, a server, and printer at the Lansingburgh branch, two PC’s, a server, and printer at the Sycaway Branch, and additional networking hardware and software.
Installation of the computer systems is scheduled for February 12 and 13 at the main library, February 14 at the Sycaway Branch, and February 15 and 16 at the Lansingburgh Branch.
In order to provide for the staff training for the new computer systems, the main library will be closed during the day on February 12 and 13.
The main library will remain open during the evening period from 5 to 9 pm on those two dates for regular library business and for a concert on Tuesday featuring the Morningside Baptist Church Choir.
The Lansingburgh Branch will be closed on February 16. Project Links honored
Project Links, the RPI program dedicated to using interactive, Web-based modules to relate the concepts of math to real-world concepts, was recognized recently with the PREMIER Award for Excellence in Engineering Education by the National Engineering Education Delivery System.
Funding for the Links Project is partly supported by a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
A Project Links demonstration and a reception will be held Friday, February 2 from 4:30 to 6 pm in the Russell Sage Dining Hall.
It will honor the accomplishments of faculty, staff, and students who have made the program so successful since its launch in 1996. Members of the campus community are encouraged to attend.
Mark Holmes, chair of mathematics, and Robert Spilker, chair of biomedical engineering, head Project Links. With help from faculty from various other departments, Holmes and Spilker developed the content for the modules. Each one of the modules is designed for use in both a math course and an engineering or science course. A University of Albany team helps Rensselaer faculty to evaluate the modules.
"Project Links is a great success, and our thanks go to the faculty, staff, and students who have spent countless hours on content, design, and testing of the modules. The PREMIER award recognizes their hard work and how successful they have made project links," said Holmes.
In addition to their use at Rensselaer, the Project Links modules are also currently being employed in classrooms at Siena College, Hudson Valley Community College, the University of Delaware, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Awareness celebrated
Rensselaer will host a Family Technology Awareness Day on Saturday, February 3 from 11 am to 4 pm to help commemorate Black Technology Awareness Week.
Feature events planned for the day are hands-on demonstrations and discussions, including "African Fractals: From Cornrows to Computation," the patented automatic Double Dutch jump rope machine created by student inventor Tahira Reid ’00, and the virtual trading room, as well as exhibits from Troy’s Junior Museum.
The first 100 people arriving will be given free t-shirts.
A pizza lunch will be provided for those attending, and at the conclusion of the event, there will be a drawing for a Compaq PC.
For more information, please contact Trina Beaudoin or Deborah Nazon in the Office of Institute Diversity at 276-3060, or e-mail beaudp@rpi.edu. |
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