Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Join Chabad on Campus for a Secrets to Success event at the Chabad House on September 16th. For further information, reach out to Lichts2@rpi.edu.

TROY, N.Y. — The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Department of Athletics has announced the hiring of Taylor Gardner as the new head coach of the Engineers' softball program.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Title: “Emerging Materials, Mechanisms, and Design Principles for Wurtzite Ferroelectrics”

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Stop by the Mueller Center for rotating wellness activities like meditation, free snacks, creative crafts, and more.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Join RPI at Work's Aric Krause, Ph.D., in a 30-minute information session highlighting the whole range of RPI's online, project-based graduate certificate programs. These certificates are three courses in length, developing targeted ability groups, and can be completed in as little as seven months. Please register if you plan to attend.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM - Join the Ask me Anything event with Women in Mane including groups WIN, AIAA, WiME on the Playhouse Concourse to gather more information on these clubs. Please reach out to Crockm@rpi.edu for further information on the event.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM - Join Women in MANE for a Q and A outside tabling event with groups including WiME, AiAA, WiN, MANE Dept. With any further questions please reach out to bittna2@rpi.edu.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Taming chaos: quantifying atomic-scale disorder in materials under extreme conditions James Chapman Materials Informatics Lab, Boston University

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Are you working on groundbreaking research? Are you curious about what happens to your ideas, inventions, research, and software at RPI? Join the Intellectual Property & Technology Licensing (IPTL) team for an informational session on the basics of intellectual property. We’ll cover patents, copyrights, invention disclosures, commercialization, and when you should contact IPTL. Please click on the link for registration and WebEx.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - “Applied Mechanics Approaches to Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurodegeneration”, Dr. Lakiesha Williams, Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies Department of Biomedical Engineering, MAE Affiliate Faculty, U. Florida