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Rensselaer Installs First of Its Kind Smart Lighting Testbed in Hospital Inpatient Setting
To study the effects of lighting on human health and diseases, the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer installed a novel hospital inpatient lighting test bed at the University of New Mexico Health Center. 
Richard Radke Named Deputy Director of the Smart Lighting ERC
Special effects engineering expert Richard Radke has been appointed deputy director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Rensselaer. 
Modeling, Design, and Controls Expert B. Wayne Bequette Named Fellow of IEEE
Modeling, design, and controls expert B. Wayne Bequette has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 
Rensselaer Receives $9.44M Grant From Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy provided a $9.44 million grant to help refurbish and upgrade the electron linear accelerator at the Gaerttner LINAC Center at Rensselaer. Once upgrades are complete, it will be home to some of the nation’s most advanced technology.
Student-Led Company Receives Grant To “Amp It Up”
Doctoral candidate Matthew Dion ’12 and his partners in Amp It Up have been awarded a prestigious EXIST Business Start-up Grant to help fund their invention—an inexpensive device that could make prosthetic legs readily available to amputees in developing nations.