Facility Focus: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Founded in 1824 and located in Troy, NY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is America’s first technological research university. RPI advances research in a wide range of fields, with an emphasis on biotechnology, nanotechnology, computational science and engineering, data science, and the media arts and technology. RPI has an established record of success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace, fulfilling its founding mission of applying science “to the common purposes of life.”