 |
News
presidential lectures Knowles describes Student Life’s goals Sodexho food gets mixed marks
Ed/Op
EIC answers final questions Staff Editorial
Seek opinions of students prior to changing Hartford Derby
Dining hours in Union extended Top Hat
Troy focus groups forming Letter to the Editor
Meanest Man gets meaner
Features
Journey transports audience to slope Pipe-A-Thon exhibits impressive a cappella Dave Barry
Barry gives advice for preventing flu Words to Eat By
Minissale’s earns return visitation Tweedle and Dee
Counseling Center offers confidential help for those with depression Ninjas provides cheap laughs Tweedle and Dee
Proper, complete information is essential for healthy exercise routines
Sports
Hockey blasts Vermont, ties Dartmouth Football falls to Hobart, slips into NCAA Tournament Basketball feels optimistic NHL turns up heat on midseason play Engineers fare well against D-I teams Men’s basketball looks to improve on success Last unbeaten falls, upsets rule week 11 Men, women tally first win of season
|
|
Rensselaer in Brief
eMPAC in NYC
This past Monday, RPI gave a preview of its Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in The Duke, a black box 200 seat theater on New York City’s 42nd Street.
President Shirley Ann Jackson, eMPAC Director Johannes Goebel, and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw led the preview. Among those present were media, members of the New York City arts community, and invited guests.
The event featured two multimedia performances that were meant to emphasize eMPAC’s developments and future, three models of the structure, and a plasma screen rendering of the building.
The construction of eMPAC is expected to cost more than $140 million. When complete, eMPAC will include a theatre, concert hall, and a studio. Renderings from the architect are available at http://empac.rpi.edu/. Incubator employs
RPI alumnus Michael DelPrete ’01 started a company in July through RPI’s incubator program to build and develop interactive online communities. Currently, it is not only working on building a community of firms and companies that were sponsored by RPI’s Incubator, but it is also employing eight undergraduates as interns, part-time workers, and fulltime employees.
DelPrete, who is president of the company, says that the company benefits from having a wide variety of perspectives. Among those employed by the startup are a computer science major, an EMAC major, and a biotechnology major.
In addition to working on the Incubator community, the company is also working with local firms and on a project with firms listed by the national department of energy. The undergraduates working for the company include sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Nanotube research
Assistant Professor Pawel Keblinski led an RPI research team whose research recently was published in an issue of Nature Materials. The research is looking into how well carbon nanotubes conduct heat when added to other materials.
The fact that carbon nanotubes are thermal superconductors in isolation has been known for a while, and as such they may be used to increase thermal conductivity in insulators and used in computing devices.
The new research conducted by the RPI team, however, shows that when the nanotubes are added to polymers such as plastic and epoxy that the thermal conductivity is vastly reduced.
The reduction has to do with resistance that results from the interface of the two materials. These findings agree with the findings of a research team at the University at Illinois at Urbana Champaign. |
|
