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IT Security - Protect Your Credentials from Agentic AI

As agentic AI systems become increasingly capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution, it’s critical to understand the risks of sharing your login credentials—especially institutional ones—with these tools. Please read this IT security accouncement, Protect Your Credentials from Agentic AI, for additional information.

October Dining Events!

We’ve got an exciting month of dining events planned—mark your calendars and join us for great food, fun, and festivities at our dining halls and retail locations across campus!

Men’s Tennis Begins Liberty League Play with Sweep at Bard

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's tennis team swept Bard College this afternoon at the Stevenson Athletic Center.

Graduate Certificates Review with Rensselaer at Work | Oct. 1

Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Join Rensselaer at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., in a 30-minute information session highlighting the whole range of Rensselaer’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 RSVP if you plan to attend.

Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Leonid Rokhinson, Purdue University | Oct. 1

Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Title: “Experimental search for non-Abelian matter”

RPI now has access to the full IEEE Electronic Library

The RPI Libraries are pleased to announce that the RPI community now has full access to the IEEE Electronic Library (IEL), which provides full-text IEEE content published since 1988, with select content dating back to 1884, from journals, conferences, transactions, magazines, standards, and more.

Fall Town Meeting | Oct. 1

Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM - President Martin A. Schmidt '81, Ph.D., invites you to attend the Fall Town Meeting on Wednesday, October 1, at 3 p.m. in the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) theater.

RPI Machine Learning & Theory Seminar: Tight Success Probabilities for Quantum Period Finding and Phase Estimation | Oct. 1

Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Speaker: Duc Khai Dong (CSCI PhD Student) The ML + Theory Seminar Series is hosted by the Computer Science Department at RPI. For more information on the ML&Theory Seminar Series, please visit: http://cs.rpi.edu/%7Egittea/old-site/mltheoryseminar.html

MSE Seminar: Dr. Diana Qiu | Oct. 1

Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Many-body Effects on Exciton Dynamics and Nonlinear Optics in Low-Dimensional Materials Diana Y. Qiu Yale University

Free Flu Shots for Students

The Student Health Center will be hosting flu shot clinics across campus the week of 10/6: Monday in DCC; Tuesday in the Union; Wednesday in ECAV. Don't miss this opportunity to protect yourself from seasonal influenza. Cost: no charge! Benefit: no missed classes due to the flu!

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