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Jen Pazour was on sabbatical in academic year 2022-2023 and awarded an International Excellence Fellowship from  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) where she was able to collaborate with  IFL - Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme, KIT.
While global warming is leading to ever longer ice-free periods in the Arctic Ocean with concomitant increases in commercial shipping, the potential economic benefits of this activity must be weighed against the challenges of conducting maritime operations in a fragile ecosystem subject to extreme and unpredictable weather conditions, a lack of emergency support and response infrastructure (ERA), and the considerable cost a
Jen Pazour was elected to be the vice president and then president of the 2024 INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL). Congratulations, Jen! Obviously, this will come with a lot of work. List of INFORMS TSL Officers 2024 is available at: https://connect.informs.org/tsl/abouttsl/officers.
RPI IISE hosted Kevin Bleyle from P&G to speak to Industrial and Management Engineering (IME) students virtually on January 17th, 2024. Kevin Bleyle graduated from RPI as an Industrial and Management Engineer in the class of 98'. He went on to get his master's in management technology from the University of Pennsylvania.

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With the CHIPS and Science Act, the United States’ commitment to becoming a global leader in semiconductor manufacturing once again was formalized. After the recent global chips shortage, combined with the pervasiveness of chips in our everyday products from refrigerators, to cars, to watches, it is now a national priority to ensure that semiconductors are produced domestically for economic and security reasons.
Steve Eshiemogie, a doctoral student studying chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been recognized as an honorable mention in the annual Cell Press Rising Black Scientists Awards for his essay “From village to lab: An African scientist’s quest for a sustainable future.” [MS1] More than 350 students across a range of scientific disciplines applied. 
From computer chips and pharmaceuticals to batteries and airplanes, our world runs on manufactured goods and products. However, most people rarely think about how these things get made — not to mention the technology and engineering that goes into making them at scale. 
Joan Llabre, Ph.D. '23, who received her doctorate in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this past fall and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute, has won the Koerner Family Foundation Fellowship, which supports engineers pursuing careers in research. 
This year, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers will begin work on a radically new approach to treating and preventing genetic diseases such as Alzheimer’s.It’s thanks to a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s TARGETED Challenge, which funds scientific research on ways to deliver gene editing tools directly to cells in the human body.