Announcements

Rensselaer student-athlete Emily Laurilliard ’16 has been selected to receive the ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award for the Northeast Region. The prestigious honor is given annually to collegiate students who have shown great achievements on and off the court. The award takes into account a player’s tennis accomplishments, scholastic achievements, and extracurricular endeavors.

The RPI Board of Trustees has approved Leo Wan's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. Leo received both B.S. and M. Eng. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University, where he became a post-doc on stem cells and tissue engineering.

The RPI Board of Trustees has approved Dr. Xavier Ines' promotion to Professor. Xavier received his Ph.D. degree in 1998 in physics from the University of Bretagne Occidentale (France) for his contributions in characterization of propagation of optical scalar waves in highly diffuse medium. He then joined Prof Britton Chance laboratory in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stacyann Morgan, a doctoral student in the BME department, has been chosen to receive an ORS Sun Valley Alice L. Jee Young Investigator Award to attend the ORS 46th International Sun Valley Workshop on Musculoskeletal Biology, August 7-10, 2016. The award consists of a $1000 stipend and free registration for the workshop.

The Graduation dinner was held at the Troy Country Club on May 27, 2016 to celebrate the achievements of the students graduating this year. A total of 94 students graduated with a BS, 17 with a Masters, and 3 PhDs were awarded. The number of students receiving BS and MS degrees are at record values, reflecting the popularity of the program. In addition to honoring the graduating students, several award recipients were also announced at the dinner: The Paul B. Daitch Memorial Award: Carolyn Chlebek The Zelda & David G.

Ryan Gilbert has been selected as the recipient of Trustees' Outstanding Teacher Award. The award was announced by Provost Hajela at the 53rd Annual Faculty Recognition Dinner. This award is the highest teaching honor given by Rensselaer. Given annually, this award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in classroom instruction. Selection is made based on evidence of sustained outstanding teaching as reflected by student evaluations, peer evaluations and letters of support from colleagues, alumni and students.

Dr. Mariah Hahn has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 School of Engineering Classroom Excellence Award. The SoE awardees will be celebrated at the Faculty Achievement Recognition Dinner on 05/03/2016.

Alexis Ziemba, a graduate student in the BME department, has received a Graduate Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for her studies. Furthermore, Amy Loya, a second year graduate student in BME, and Katherine Cummins, a senior student, received honorable mentions for the fellowship. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is the country’s oldest fellowship program that directly supports graduate students in various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.