TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's hockey team mounted a furious late comeback with a pair of goals in the final 67 seconds, but ultimately fell 4–3 to St. Lawrence in ECAC Hockey play tonight inside Houston Field House. Tyler Wallace, Dovar Tinling, and Gustavs Ozolins found the net for the Engineers, who outshot the Saints 19–13 in the third period and generated repeated high-danger looks in the closing minutes.

TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's hockey team earned a thrilling 2–1 overtime victory over Union College on Friday afternoon at Houston Field House, powered by a two-goal performance from Charlotte Wensley and a 31-save outing from Reese Keating.

CASTLETON, Vt. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's basketball team opened its season with a composed road win, pulling away after halftime to defeat VTSU Castleton 72–60 at Glenbrook Gymnasium tonight.

POTSDAM, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's basketball team controlled the tempo from the opening tip and used a decisive third-quarter surge to pull away for a 61–44 season-opening win over SUNY Potsdam at Jerry Welsh Gymnasium.

In this talk, Michele Friedner (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago) analyzes how special educators at a school for children with intellectual disabilities in India engage in collaborative sense-making projects with the children with whom they work (although there is the question of what collaboration actually means) and in the process they create create rich social worlds that are oriented towards the present and the near future. Join us 11/12 at 11:30am in Sage 5711.

Join Liz Bowen (Bioethics & Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical Center), Johanna Crane (Alden March Bioethics Institute), Michele Friedner (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago), and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Science and Technology Studies, RPI) for a conversation about medical ethics from 2pm-3:30pm in Sage 5510.

This interactive experience explores how engaged social practice can serve as a methodology for collective research and restorative community building. Through facilitated invitation, inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros (musician, humanitarian, and founder of Deep Listening), participants explore presence and play, cultivating capacity for orientation to what is emerging in this moment. Join at EMPAC Studio Beta from 5-7pm on 11/19.

The RPI Concert Choir, with RPI’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, will present its inaugural Festival of Lessons and Carols. Following the format of the University of Cambridge's famous festival, RPI's program will interweave readings and music that celebrate charity and benevolence. The program will feature the RPI Concert Choir performing music of Durufle, Chesnokov, Rachmaninoff, Brahms and U2 alongside readings by several distinguished surprise guest readers! Admission is free.

Date: Friday, November 7, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Alexei Bulazel currently serves as Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Cyber at the White House National Security Council (NSC), where he leads US government coordination of national security policy on cyber issues.