Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Please join the BME department faculty and staff was we celebrate the 2026 graduates! Families welcome.

Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM - The Ph.D. Hooding ceremony is a unique recognition of the achievement of each student who has earned a doctorate. Each doctoral candidate is introduced individually during the ceremony. They will have their hood placed on them while standing on the stage in the concert hall. Check-in starts- at 7:45 AM Ceremony- at 8:30 AM Refreshments- after the ceremony concludes.

Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - RPI at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph. D., will be reviewing the online, project-based graduate degrees and certificates. Expect to hear details about how RPI Instructor Mentors provide industry expertise, advice, and mentorship in a targeted and experiential learning environment. Please RSVP if you plan to attend and learn more about RPI at Work.

May 1-2, 2026 North American Conference on Video Game Music 2026 Visit link for details. Presented by School of HASS Conference North American Conference on Video Game Music

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Join BME for our endowned Weinbaum lecture as Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown from Arizona State University presents "Heal the Gut to Help the Brain: Microbiota Transplant Therapy in Autism"

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM - Join us for a screening of Starman, a New York Times Critics Pick. In this meditative, intergalactic biopic from Academy Award®-nominated director Robert Stone, we follow Gentry Lee, Chief Engineer for Planetary Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on his remarkable journey through space and on Earth. Followed by a live Q&A with Robert Stone, moderated by Dr. William Gibbons, Dean, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Reception to follow.

Wednesday / April 29, 2026 at 4:30 pm From Academy Award®-nominated director Robert Stone, a New York Times Critics Pick documentary. In this meditative, intergalactic biopic, we follow Gentry Lee, Chief Engineer for Planetary Exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and sci-fi writer, on his journey through space and on Earth. From the Viking and Voyager missions to co-authoring the future with Arthur C. Clarke, Lee’s life has been spent with his head in the stars and his feet on the ground.

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Join us for an ECSE Seminar: "Understanding and Using Embedding Spaces of Large Models" with Prof. Anand Sarwate of Rutgers. Abstract and speaker bio can be found at the event URL.

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Join RPI at Work on this 30-minute information session hosted by Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., and will focus on the Systems Engineering and Technology Management graduate degree. The degree is digitally delivered, flexible, and project-based to prepare decision-makers with broader and deeper capabilities in leading dynamic organizations. The session will highlight program details and how you can select graduate certificates relevant to your work to complete your graduate degree.

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - This Mathematical Sciences Colloquium will feature a presentation titled "Accelerating high-order methods for PDEs using fast direct solvers" by Dr. Dan Fortunato. He is an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Mathematics and the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute. His research focuses on spectral methods, fast methods for PDEs, integral equations, computational fluid & solid mechanics, and multigrid methods.