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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (/ r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər /; RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, United States.It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere.
The history of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) spans nearly two hundred years beginning with its founding in 1824. RPI is the oldest continuously operating technological university in both the English-speaking world and the Americas. [1] The Institute was the first to grant a civil engineering degree in the United States, in 1835.
The Lally School of Management is the business school of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), located in Troy, New York. Established in 1963, [5] the school is known for its emphasis on the integration of management, technology, and innovation.
Russell Risley Sage (August 4, 1816 – July 22, 1906) was a trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for 10 years and is Russell Sage Laboratory's namesake. After his death in 1907, his wife, Olivia Slocum Sage, donated $1,000,000 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a memorial to her late husband. The Russell Sage Laboratory, built and ...
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which opened on October 3, 2008. The building is named after Curtis Priem, co-founder of NVIDIA and graduate of the RPI Class of 1982, who donated $40 million to the Institute in 2004.
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She was the subject of false claims (made by others, not by Jackson herself) that she invented caller ID and call waiting.
This is a list of people associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, including presidents, institute leaders, trustees, alumni, professors and researchers. For a list of the highest elected student leaders at RPI see: List of RPI Grand Marshals
In 1824 Van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton established the Rensselaer School (now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI) "for the purpose of instructing persons, who may choose to apply themselves, in the application of science to the common purposes of life". [42]