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

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Join us for an ECSE Mercer Lecture: "Attention Masks, Normalization, and Positional Encodings: A Systems theoretic Perspective on Large Language Models" with Prof. Ali Jadbabaie of MIT. Abstract and speaker bio can be found at the event URL.

Tuesday / September 15, 2026 at 7:00 pm A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth's sun, and realizes that an unexpected friendship may be the key. Presented by UPAC Film/Video Directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Join BMES for a picnic on EMPAC Hill starting at 5pm. For further information, please reach out to leighm@rpi.edu.

TROY, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Athletics is expanding its partnership with The Zone, the mental performance platform built specifically for athletic programs, scaling from a first-year pilot to a department-wide rollout across all Engineers varsity programs. What began as a focused pilot with RPI's freshman student-athletes will now reach every athlete and coach in the department, making mental performance a permanent part of the RPI athletics experience.