Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Do you know how RPI Engineering faculty are shaping the future? In just 20 minutes, you’ll discover how their research is changing the world! Join us to learn how TED Talk meets research presented in PechaKucha style! Open to ALL!! Can the brain and spine truly heal themselves after injury? Dr. Ed Palermo will show you how he makes "Science that Heals".

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - “Latent Type Heterogeneity in Dynamic Empirical Models”. This talk introduces the semiparametric type fixed effects (TFE) linear panel model that allows for heterogeneous coefficients and time-varying patterns of heterogeneity, driven by a latent, time-invariant continuous random variable referred to as a "type". Further details presented at the seminar.

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and Semi-crystalline Polymers Dr. Eric Brown Director of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and Senior Director in the Associate Laboratory Directorate for Physical Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM - The Michael M. Abbott Lecture Series hosted each fall in the Chemical Engineering Department honors Abbott’s legacy and celebrates his achievements. This year's speaker is Dr. Randall Snurr, Professor from Northwestern University. Dr. Snurr's seminar titled “Abbott Lecture: Adsorption Hysteresis and Effects of Framework Flexibility in Nanoporous Materials: Thermodynamics and Applications” is opened to all. Refreshments will be available in the Ricketts Coonley Lounge (120) at 8:45 a.m.

Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 7:00 PM - Thu , October 9, 2025 1:00 AM - This 30-minute information session is hosted by Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., and will focus on RPI's 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: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - As part of this week's Chemistry Seminar Series, Folsom Librarians Stacey Amundson and Brenden McCarthy will speak on "LIBRARIES at RPI: A Discussion on Library Resources for Researchers". Come learn about the many resources available to researchers on campus.

Join Jim Evans, Director of Multi Media Services, on Thursday October 16th from 11am-12pm for a hands-on webinar about Carousel Digital Signage, RPI's campus-wide signage system.

Whether you're promoting an event, sharing a campus update, or spotlighting a team achievement, this training will help you get your message on screens across RPI.

Open to RPI campus community only. Register online at https://rensselaer.webex.com/weblink/register/rf01c7b66cceead46ccb48bd624c388dc

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Amid a historic decline of the middle class caused in part by the “missing middle” housing crisis, Anna Kornbluh (Professor of English, University of Illinois - Chicago) argues that cultural study must revamp its traditional sociological methods. Briefly considering architecture, photography, fiction, and television, this talk experiments with a formalist approach to mid aesthetics: "good enough art.” Join us Oct. 9 at 6:30pm in Sage 3303.