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Supporting The Humanities Center at Rensselaer

Founding Misson

The Humanities Center will explore practical ways that the humanities might create new partnerships with science and engineering, and inform in a more meaningful way “the application of science to the common purposes of life.”

 

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, home to The Humanities Center at Rensselaer, celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2008.   Historically, interdisciplinary organization has enabled the curriculum to engage a variety of disciplinary areas such as media studies, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, game studies, and visual culture. Under The Rensselaer Plan, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences has become a destination at Rensselaer for graduate and undergraduate students, and an originator of research within the humanities and social sciences disciplines.

Anticipating tommorow's needs today

Just as Rensselaer was the first technological institute, Rensselaer will now be one of the first technological institutes to fully recognize--and invest in--the realization of interdisciplinary partnerships between science and humanities.  your support of the Humanities Center will provide faculty, students, and the Rensselaer community as a whole, a venue specifically designed to explore tomorrow's challenges. It will a center to promote the possibilities and potential convergence between the humanities and the sciences.

It is our hope that you will join Rensselaer on this remarkable journey, establishing its rightful place in history as a world-class university with global reach and global impact.  

Partnerships for the future

The Humanities Center at Rensselaer will have both research and education functions in keeping with the underlying principal of The Rensselaer Plan  Center activities and forms of support for faculty will include that “research potentiates education.”:

Research

  • Visiting Professorships will bring scholars to the Rensselaer campus for short-term residencies or semester-long research and teaching.
  • Internal Fellowships will provide Rensselaer faculty members with release time and resources for research.
  • Graduate Student Fellowships will support Ph.D. students while they research issues central to the conception of the Center.
  • Colloquia and Lectures will provide forums on technology-related humanities topics for both on-campus and off-campus audiences.

Education

  • Undergraduate Research projects will engage students in projects based on Humanities disciplines and technology issues.
  • Curriculum Development Initiatives will continue to invigorate the undergraduate curriculum of the technological university.
SUPPORTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HUMANITIES CENTER AT RENSSELAER
Visiting Professor: half academic year$600,000
Rensselaer Professor: release time$200,000
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Seminar$200,000
Visiting Lectures: annual$40,000
Lecture Series: four per year$200,000
Graduate Fellowship$250,000
Post-Doctoral Fellowship$1,000,000
Publication Series: pamphlet, book Subvention$400,000

For further information contact:

John P. Harrington, Dean
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York 12180
518.276.6575
www.hss.rpi.edu