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Released: 14-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Research by a social scientist at Rensselaer confirms that online relationships can lead to face-to-face romance as in the scenario in You've Got Mail, the hit movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

Released: 14-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
Women with Cancer Want More Control
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Women with cancer want increased control and better information about their treatment options, concludes new research by a professor of anthropology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Released: 13-Apr-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Taking the Animal out of Animal Testing
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

A Rensselaer Incubator company has commercialized a technology that may take the animal out of animal testing. A Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and a senior research scientist at RPI have developed the Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing-ECIS 100(tm) --which uses electricity to study complex cell behavior.

Released: 10-Jun-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Wanted: Holistic Approach to Cancer Treatment
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

The effective treatment of cancer requires a comprehensive approach by the medical community to a patient's total life situation, says new research by a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and medical policy needs to be reformed to incorporate evaluation of alternative and complementary cancer therapies.

Released: 31-Aug-1999 12:00 AM EDT
3-D, Virtual Man Simulates Radiation's Effect on the Body
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

An engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created a 3-D virtual man called "Visible Photographic Man" (VIP-Man) that is so sophisticated it can model the effects of radiation on the skin, lens of the eye, optic nerve, GI-tract mucous membranes, and bone marrow--areas previously too minute to accurately model, but which are highly susceptible to radiation.

Released: 28-Jul-2000 12:00 AM EDT
College Stress? Work It Out!
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

First-year college students are more stressed out than ever trying to balance the increasing pressures of academic competition, financial responsibilities, and extracurricular activities such as running their own business.

Released: 17-Nov-2000 12:00 AM EST
Outsmarting the Upstarts
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

In their new book, Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts (Harvard Business School Press), six Rensselaer management professors lay out a manifesto for managing corporate innovation.

Released: 2-May-2001 12:00 AM EDT
Employment Options Are Many for Students Armed with a High-Tech Degree
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Even with a slumping economy, students graduating with a high-tech degree can continue to expect to have the upper hand in the hiring process, says Tom Tarantelli, director of the Career Development Center (CDC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

Released: 20-Jun-2001 12:00 AM EDT
High-Intensity-Discharge Headlights Improve Night Visibility
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Researchers at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute report that HID (high-intensity-discharge) headlights enable drivers to see more effectively at night than conventional tungsten-halogen lights.

10-Jan-2002 12:00 AM EST
New Star Structures Found in the Milky Way Alter Galactic Model
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

An Associate professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and An astrophysicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who are leading a team of researchers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, announced they have identified new star structures in the halo of the Milky Way that could alter the standard model of the galaxy. The research also has implications for how the Milky Way was formed.


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