Top 18. Best Tourist Attractions in Ithaca - New York
Top 18. Best Tourist Attractions in Ithaca - New York: Robert Treman State Park, Cornell University, Cornell Plantations, Buttermilk Falls State Park, Cayuga Lake, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca Farmers Market, Ithaca Waterfalls, Johnson Museum of Art, Cascadilla Gorge Trail, Ithaca Falls Natural Area, Sciencenter, Ports of New York, Museum of the Earth, Suspension Bridge, Ithaca Commons, State Theatre of Ithaca, Hangar Theatre,
Carl Sagan: SDI Debate - Vision or Delusion? (1987)
Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013. Between the two offices, Markey has been in Congress for more than 41 years. He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976.
Markey has focused on energy policy and was Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 to 2011. In 2013, after John Kerry was appointed United States Secretary of State, he was elected to serve out the balance of Kerry's sixth Senate term in a 2013 special election. Markey defeated Stephen Lynch in the Democratic primary and Republican Gabriel E. Gomez in the general election. When he left the House, he was its eighth most senior member. In 2014 Markey was elected to a full six-year Senate term. He is the dean of the Massachusetts congressional delegation and the second longest-serving current member of Congress from New England, behind Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
The 1997 movie Contact, based on Sagan's novel of the same name and finished after his death, ends with the dedication For Carl. His photo can also be seen at 59:23 in the film.
In 1997 the Sagan Planet Walk was opened in Ithaca, New York. It is a walking-scale model of the Solar System, extending 1.2 km from the center of The Commons in downtown Ithaca to the Sciencenter, a hands-on museum. The exhibition was created in memory of Carl Sagan, who was an Ithaca resident and Cornell Professor. Professor Sagan had been a founding member of the museum's advisory board.[137]
The landing site of the unmanned Mars Pathfinder spacecraft was renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station on July 5, 1997. Asteroid 2709 Sagan is named in his honor, as is the Carl Sagan Institute for the search of habitable planets.
Sagan's son, Nick Sagan, wrote several episodes in the Star Trek franchise. In an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise entitled Terra Prime, a quick shot is shown of the relic rover Sojourner, part of the Mars Pathfinder mission, placed by a historical marker at Carl Sagan Memorial Station on the Martian surface. The marker displays a quote from Sagan: Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you. Sagan's student Steve Squyres led the team that landed the rovers Spirit and Opportunity successfully on Mars in 2004.
On November 9, 2001, on what would have been Sagan's 67th birthday, the Ames Research Center dedicated the site for the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Cosmos. Carl was an incredible visionary, and now his legacy can be preserved and advanced by a 21st century research and education laboratory committed to enhancing our understanding of life in the universe and furthering the cause of space exploration for all time, said NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin. Ann Druyan was at the Center as it opened its doors on October 22, 2006.
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Ithaca, New York | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:48 1 History
00:01:56 1.1 Early history
00:05:02 1.2 Partition of the Military Tract
00:06:21 1.3 Growth
00:11:45 1.4 Recent history
00:13:17 2 Geography and climate
00:13:27 2.1 Geography
00:14:52 2.2 Climate
00:16:54 3 Demographics
00:20:07 3.1 Greater Ithaca
00:20:30 4 Local government
00:22:40 4.1 Politics
00:23:34 4.2 Sister city
00:23:45 5 Education
00:24:32 5.1 Colleges
00:25:07 5.2 Public schools
00:26:13 5.3 Library
00:26:42 6 Economy
00:29:05 6.1 Agriculture
00:29:42 7 Media
00:30:52 8 Culture
00:34:21 8.1 Music
00:36:57 9 Transportation
00:37:36 9.1 Roads
00:41:04 9.2 Bus
00:43:21 9.3 Airports
00:44:41 9.4 Railways
00:46:27 10 Points of interest
00:46:36 11 Notable people
00:46:45 12 Reputation
00:48:58 13 See also
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Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is the seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca–Tompkins County metropolitan area. This area contains the municipalities of the Town of Ithaca, the village of Cayuga Heights, and other towns and villages in Tompkins County. The city of Ithaca is located on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York, about 45 miles (72 km) south-west of Syracuse. It is named after the Greek island of Ithaca. Additionally, Ithaca is located 247 miles (398 km) southeast of Toronto, and 223 miles (359 km) northwest of New York City.
Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school of over 20,000 students, most of whom study at its local campus. In addition, Ithaca College is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college of over 7,000 students, located just south of the city in the Town of Ithaca, adding to the area's college town atmosphere. Nearby is Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). These three colleges bring tens of thousands of students, who increase Ithaca's seasonal population during the school year. The city's voters are notably more liberal than those in the remainder of Tompkins County or in upstate New York, generally voting for Democratic Party candidates.
As of 2010, the city's population was 30,014. A 2017 census estimate stated the population was 31,006.
Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca is the North American seat of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
We have to get off this planet! | Jim Bell | TEDxArrowheadRanch
Jim Bell makes the case that space exploration and our eventual colonization and settlement of deep space are not just optional, discretionary adventures to satisfy our urge to explore but, instead, are absolutely essential to the long-term survival of our species.
Dr. Jim Bell is a Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Jim’s research group primarily focuses on the geology, geochemistry, and mineralogy of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets using data obtained from telescopes and spacecraft missions. As an active planetary scientist, he has been heavily involved in many NASA robotic space exploration missions. He currently serves as the lead scientist in charge of the Panoramic camera (Pancam) color, stereoscopic imaging system on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Mastcam camera system on the Curiosity rover, and is the Principal Investigator for the Mastcam-Z cameras on NASA’s upcoming Mars-2020 rover.
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Museum of the Earth | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:36 1 History
00:01:51 2 Exhibits
00:02:10 2.1 North Atlantic Right Whale #2030
00:03:55 2.2 iRock of Ages Sands of Time/i
00:05:00 2.3 iA Journey Through Time/i
00:06:22 2.3.1 The Hyde Park Mastodon
00:08:02 2.3.2 Discovery Labs
00:08:34 2.3.3 Coral reef aquaria
00:09:01 2.3.4 Glacier exhibit
00:09:23 2.3.5 Steggy the iStegosaurus/i
00:10:07 2.3.6 Amelia the iQuetzalcoatlus/i
00:10:41 3 Educational Programs
00:11:08 4 Cecil A. Physis
00:11:59 5 Discovery Trail
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The Museum of the Earth is a natural history museum located in Ithaca, New York. The museum was opened in 2003 as part of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), an independent organization pursuing research and education in the history of the Earth and its life. Both PRI and the Museum of the Earth are formally affiliated with Cornell University. The Museum of the Earth is home to earth-science exhibits and science-related art displays with a focus on the concurrent evolution of the Earth and life.
Carl Sagan | Wikipedia audio article
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Carl Sagan
00:02:26 1 Early life and education
00:04:53 1.1 1939 World's Fair
00:06:24 1.2 World War II
00:07:23 1.3 Inquisitiveness about nature
00:09:56 1.4 High school years
00:11:57 1.5 University education
00:14:13 2 Career and research
00:17:46 2.1 Scientific achievements
00:20:54 2.2 iCosmos/i: popularizing science on TV
00:22:25 2.3 Billions and billions
00:23:13 2.4 Scientific and critical thinking advocacy
00:31:48 2.5 Popularizing science
00:32:28 2.6 Criticisms
00:34:35 2.7 Social concerns
00:37:51 3 Personal life and beliefs
00:48:08 3.1 Sagan and UFOs
00:51:36 3.2 Sagan's Paradox
00:53:21 3.3 Death
00:53:51 4 Awards and honors
00:54:00 4.1 Posthumous recognition
00:58:07 4.2 Publications
00:58:15 5 See also
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Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect.Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name. His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress.Sagan advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. Sagan and his works received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Dragons of Eden, and, regarding Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, two Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award, and the Hugo Award. He married three times and had five children. After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62, on December 20, 1996.
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Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium, Panel 3: Power, Capital, and People
Panel 3 Participants:
Seng Kuan, moderator
Edward Eigen: “I. M. Pei and the ‘Big Plan’: The Several Lives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum”
André Bideau: “Between the Superblock and the Pyramid. I. M. Pei and Araldo Cossutta at La Défense”
Cole Roskam: “The Fragrant Hill Hotel: Reassessing the Politics of Tradition and Abstraction in China’s Early Reform Era”
Shirley Surya: “Pei's Office and Singapore's Urban Core: Corporate Architecture, Symbolic Aestheticization and Economic Pragmatism”
Kellogg Wong: “I. M. Pei & Partners, the Pei Team, and Singapore”
A two-part symposium examining the work and life of I. M. Pei from multiple vantage points. Organized by the Harvard GSD with M+, Hong Kong, and the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.
Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most celebrated yet under-theorized architects of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although Pei’s six-decade career is mostly identified with his unwavering interest in cultural synthesis and the power of pure geometrical form, his modes of practice demand further investigation of their intertwinement with the multiple historical and discursive moments of modern architecture. The two-day symposium will include panel discussions and scholarly presentations that showcase new research on Pei’s manifold contributions to the built environment. Notable alumni from Pei’s office will discuss the emergence of a new kind of architectural practice in the postwar era. Among the topics to be addressed in the paper sessions are technological innovations with concrete, the glass curtain wall, and structural designs; Pei’s longstanding affinities for China’s landscape and vernacular traditions; his legacy on major urban spaces in Boston and other cities around the world; and the increasingly global and transnational conditions of architectural production that Pei successfully navigated. Organized with M+, the new museum for visual culture being built in Hong Kong, this symposium is part of a yearlong celebration of the 100th birthday of Ieoh Ming (I. M.) Pei MArch ’46. Both I. M. and his wife, Eileen Pei GSD ’44, studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as did their sons Chien Chung (Didi) Pei, AB ’68, MArch ’72, and Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, AB ’72, MArch ’76. Pei was also an assistant professor of architecture at the GSD. In March the GSD held a panel discussion, led by Harry Cobb AB ’47, MArch ’49, which focused on the formative years of I. M. Pei’s career as well as some of his special friendships, influences, and projects.
A second symposium, co-organized by M+ and the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, will be held in Hong Kong on December 14-15.
These two symposia are made possible with the generous support of the C Foundation.
Wellesley College Commencement 2016 ( Full-Length)
Wellesley College celebrated its 138th Commencement on Friday, May 27, 2016.
Invocation by Tiffany Steinwert, Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life
Welcome by President H. Kim Bottomly
Student Address by Grace Park '16
Presentation of the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Commencement Address by Lulu Chow Wang '66
Charge to the Class of 2016 by President H. Kim Bottomly
Modern architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:39 1 Origins
00:03:55 2 Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914)
00:10:14 3 Early American modernism (1890s–1914)
00:11:48 3.1 Early skyscrapers
00:13:29 4 Rise of Modernism in Europe and Russia (1918–1931)
00:14:35 4.1 International Style (1918–1950s)
00:17:00 4.2 Bauhaus and the German Werkbund (1919–1932)
00:20:25 4.3 Expressionist architecture (1918–1931)
00:25:22 4.4 Constructivist architecture (1919–1931)
00:29:23 4.5 Modernism becomes a movement: CIAM (1928)
00:32:46 5 Art Deco
00:34:58 5.1 American Art Deco; the skyscraper style (1919–1939)
00:36:47 5.2 Streamline style and Public Works Administration (1933–1939)
00:38:40 6 American modernism - Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra (1919–1939)
00:41:11 7 Paris International Exposition of 1937 and the architecture of dictators
00:44:21 8 New York World's Fair (1939)
00:45:20 9 World War II: wartime innovation and postwar reconstruction (1939–1945)
00:48:16 10 Le Corbusier and the iCité Radieuse/i (1947–1952)
00:50:02 11 Postwar modernism in the United States (1945–1985)
00:50:59 11.1 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum
00:53:13 11.2 Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
00:54:35 11.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
00:56:25 11.4 Richard Neutra and Charles & Ray Eames
00:58:19 11.5 Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Wallace K. Harrison
01:00:49 11.6 Philip Johnson
01:02:12 11.7 Eero Saarinen
01:04:57 11.8 Louis Kahn
01:06:55 11.9 I. M. Pei
01:10:17 12 Postwar modernism in Europe (1945–1975)
01:13:56 13 Latin America
01:17:41 14 Asia and the Pacific
01:20:51 15 Preservation
01:22:03 16 See also
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Modern architecture, or modernist architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function (→functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament.
It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the
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Lunar IceCube | Wikipedia audio article
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Lunar IceCube is a planned NASA nanosatellite mission to prospect, locate, and estimate size and composition of water ice deposits on the Moon for future exploitation by robots or humans. It will fly as a secondary payload mission on the first flight of the Space Launch System, Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) scheduled to launch in 2020.
How to Implement Rotational Grazing in Equine Facilities
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Suzette Truax, Equine Specialist, USDA NRCS Pennsylvania, Chambersburg, PA
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Participants in this training will learn about grazing concerns and solutions horse owners have when dealing with limited acreage.
Participants will learn about equine behavior and how management needs to be adjusted to have successful pastures on limited acres. The discussion will focus on pasture management and heavy use areas (sacrifice areas) and why they are important for a successful pasture. Conservation planners and others will learn how they can help horse owners develop and implement conservation practices on these acres.
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Rochester, New York | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:29 1 History
00:11:03 2 Geography
00:15:12 2.1 Climate
00:16:10 3 Demographics
00:20:28 3.1 Religion
00:21:41 4 Crime
00:22:54 5 Economy
00:24:00 5.1 High technology
00:25:49 5.2 Food and beverage
00:27:47 5.2.1 Breweries
00:28:19 5.3 Major shopping centers
00:28:35 5.3.1 Former shopping centers
00:29:11 5.4 Tallest buildings
00:29:27 5.5 Companies
00:31:06 6 Government
00:32:00 6.1 Neighborhood Service Centers
00:33:33 6.2 Representation at other levels of government
00:33:44 6.2.1 Representation at the federal level
00:34:20 6.2.2 Representation at the state level
00:34:30 6.2.2.1 New York State Senate
00:34:48 6.2.2.2 New York State Assembly
00:35:08 6.2.2.3 Courts
00:35:29 6.2.3 Representation at the county level
00:35:50 7 Fire department
00:37:22 8 Cityscape
00:37:32 8.1 Principal suburbs
00:38:09 8.2 Neighborhoods
00:39:14 8.2.1 Browncroft
00:39:51 8.2.2 14621 community
00:41:32 8.2.3 Lyell-Otis
00:42:32 8.2.4 19th Ward
00:45:47 8.2.5 Charlotte
00:46:57 8.2.6 Corn Hill
00:48:17 8.2.7 Upper Monroe
00:49:36 8.2.8 East End
00:50:11 8.2.9 Maplewood
00:50:59 8.2.10 North Winton Village
00:53:17 8.2.11 Park Avenue and the Neighborhood of the Arts
00:54:12 8.2.12 Plymouth-Exchange
00:54:43 8.2.13 South Wedge
00:55:51 8.2.14 Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood
00:57:13 8.2.15 Swillburg
00:57:59 8.2.16 Marketview Heights
00:58:29 8.2.17 Homestead Heights
00:59:16 9 Education
01:00:23 9.1 Colleges and universities
01:01:20 9.1.1 University of Rochester
01:02:24 9.1.2 Former colleges
01:03:43 9.2 Secondary education
01:05:03 10 Culture and recreation
01:06:09 10.1 Nightlife
01:08:42 10.2 Park lands
01:10:01 10.3 Festivals
01:12:03 10.4 Media
01:12:57 10.5 Points of interest
01:15:15 10.6 Sports
01:15:42 10.6.1 Professional sports
01:16:38 10.6.2 College sports
01:18:13 11 Transportation
01:18:23 11.1 Maritime transport
01:20:58 11.2 Air transport
01:22:23 11.3 Rails and mass transit
01:27:27 11.4 Major highways and roads
01:29:40 11.5 Later expressway proposals
01:35:36 12 Notable people
01:36:37 13 Sister cities
01:37:08 14 See also
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Rochester () is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York. With a population of 208,046 residents, Rochester is the seat of Monroe County and the third most populous city in New York state, after New York City and Buffalo. The metropolitan area has a population of just over 1 million people. It is about 73 miles (117 km) east of Buffalo and 87 miles (140 km) west of Syracuse.
Rochester was one of America's first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing hub. Several of the region's universities (notably the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology) have renowned research programs. Rochester is the site of many important inventions and innovations in consumer products. The Rochester area has been the birthplace to Kodak, Western Union, French's, Bausch & Lomb, Gleason and Xerox, which conduct extensive research and manufacturing of industrial and consumer products. Until 2010, the Rochester metropolitan area was the second-largest regional economy in New York State, after the New York City metropolitan area. Rochester's GMP has since ranked just below Buffalo, New York, while exceeding it in per-capita income.The 25th edition of the Places Rated Almanac rated Rochester as the most livable city in 2007, among 379 U.S. metropolitan areas. In 2010, Forbes rated Rochester as the third-best place to raise a family in the United States. In 2012, Kiplinger rated Rochester as the fifth-best city in the United States for families, citing low cost of living, top public schools, and a low jobless rate.Rochester is a Globa ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:54 1 History
00:03:02 1.1 1824–1900
00:06:31 1.2 Since 1900
00:11:22 2 Campus
00:12:16 2.1 1824–1905
00:12:53 2.2 Ricketts Campus, 1906–1935
00:14:18 2.3 Post-war expansion, 1946–1960
00:16:16 2.4 Modern campus, since 1961
00:19:17 2.5 Other campuses
00:20:09 3 Academics
00:22:12 3.1 Rensselaer Plan
00:25:53 3.2 Faculty
00:26:02 3.3 Rankings
00:29:02 4 Research and development
00:33:55 5 Students
00:36:50 6 Greek life
00:40:29 7 Athletics
00:42:13 7.1 Ice hockey (men's)
00:44:44 7.2 Ice hockey (women's)
00:45:40 7.3 Lacrosse (men's)
00:46:12 7.4 Baseball
00:46:43 7.5 American football
00:47:36 7.6 Athletic facilities
00:49:49 8 Student life
00:53:40 8.1 RPI songs
00:54:52 8.2 First Year Experience and CLASS programs
00:56:21 9 Notable alumni
01:01:30 10 See also
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (), or RPI, is a private research university and space-grant institution in Troy, New York, with additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut.
The institute was established in 1824 by Stephen van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the application of science to the common purposes of life and is described as the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world. Numerous American colleges or departments of applied sciences were modeled after Rensselaer. Built on a hillside, RPI's 265-acre (107 ha) campus overlooks the city of Troy and the Hudson River and is a blend of traditional and modern architecture. The institute operates an on‑campus business incubator and the 1,250-acre (510 ha) Rensselaer Technology Park.Today, RPI is organized into six main schools which contain 37 departments, with emphasis on science and technology. It is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business and management, information technology, the sciences, design, and liberal arts. RPI's Science MBA, Engineering MBA and Master of Science in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship are identified as highly inventive and innovative by the Peterson's guide. RPI is ranked 49th out of all universities in the United States according to U.S. News & World Report. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is also highly recognized internationally for its engineering and computing programs, and has been ranked within the top six universities in the United States for highest median earnings of recent alumni.As of 2017, RPI's faculty and alumni include six members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, six National Medal of Technology winners, five National Medal of Science winners, eight Fulbright Scholarship recipients, and a Nobel Prize winner in Physics; in addition, 86 faculty or alumni are members of the National Academy of Engineering, 17 of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, eight of the National Academy of Medicine, and nine of the National Academy of Inventors. Research projects include the areas of Astrobiology and Astrophysics, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Energy, Environment, and Smart Systems (EES), Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Computational Science and Engineering, and Cognitive Engineering.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Since 2009, he has hosted the weekly radio show StarTalk. In 2014, Tyson began hosting Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, an update to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series.
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