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Carlos Godoy, PhD, JD

Carlos Godoy
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — godoyc
Name: Carlos Godoy
Title:Assistant Professor of Communication
Department Language Literature and Communication
School Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:http://www.hass.rpi.edu/~godoyc/
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Education Ph.D. University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication J.D. University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
Scholarly Works:
  • Miller, L.C., Appleby, R. P., Christensen, J.L., Godoy, C., Corsbie-Massay, C., Read, S. J., Marsella, S., & Si, M.. (2011) Virtual agents and virtual sexual decision-making: Interventions for on-line applications that change real-life risky sexual choices. In S. Noar & Harrington, N. (Eds.) Interactive Health Communication Technologies: Promising Strategies for Health Behavior Change. (Due in Press 2011: Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates) Assistant Professor of Communication Carlos Godoy has been commissioned by the prestigious Institute of Medicine (http://www.iom.edu/ ), headed by former Provost and Dean of Harvard University's School of Public Health (Harvey V. Fineberg) and an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, to write a white paper assessing the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations. Specifically, Professor Godoy will be: 1) examining the impact of the internet on the health of LGBT people; 2) The opportunities that technology provides to conduct innovative research with LGBT populations, including hard to reach subgroups; 3) the utilization of electronic health records to assure that health systems can track outcomes for populations at risk for unequal treatment; And 4) the use of internet technology for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and management of chronic disease among LGBT populations. Miller, L.C., Christenson, J.L., Godoy, C.G., Appleby, P.R., Corsbie-Massay, C., & Read, S.J. (2009). Reducing Risky Decision-Making in the Virtual and in the Real World: Serious Games, Intelligent Agents, and a SOLVE approach. In U. Ritterfield, M. Cody, P. Vorderer (Eds.) Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects. Routledge/LEA Press. Appleby, P.R., Godoy, C., Miller, L.C., & Read, S. J. (2007). Increasing healthy behavior through the use of interactive video technology. In T. Edgar, S. M. Noar, V.S. Freimuth (Eds.). Communication perspectives for HIV/AIDS in the 21st century. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

James Myers

James Myers
Thu, 2011-03-10 15:24 — myersj4
Name: James Myers
Title:Professor of Practice & Director, CCNI
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/research/ccni/
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Education Ph.D.,University of California, Berkeley

Kathleen Ruiz

Kathleen Ruiz
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — ruiz
Name: Kathleen Ruiz
Title:Associate Professor of Integrated Arts
Department Arts
School Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/~ruiz
Bio Kathleen Ruiz is a media artist who creates simulations, games, sculpture and photography. Her work explores issues about perception, behavior, interaction and the confluence of the imaginary and the real, inviting inquiry into how conceptual constructs are built and how they serve to shape ethics and power. Ruiz poses questions about the oxymoron of virtual violence, catharsis, and desensitization in simulated space. She provides us with simulated places where multiple viewpoints can be explored and expanded, while challenging us to simultaneously perceive the perspectives of the observer, the observed and the process of observation.

Ruiz is an Associate Professor of Integrated Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she develops and teaches courses in simulation, experimental game design, photography, digital imaging, and emerging genres. She is a founding member of the ErGoGenics Game Research Group and the CapAbility Games Research Project.
Ruiz holds a Master of Arts from New York University and is a doctoral candidate (abd) at the European Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies where she studied with French sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist Jean Baudrillard; political philosopher and media aesthetics theorist Jean Luc Nancy; media philosopher Wolfgang Schirmacher; French film maker Chantel Ackerman; British sculptor Antony Gormley; Palestinian/Israeli filmmaker Elia Suleiman; British photographer, and critic Victor Burgin; performance artist, researcher in neurology and anthropologist of the virtual world, Sandy Stone; and German philosopher of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen; and others.

She is the recipient of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Award, a New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Commission, the New York State Council on the Arts exhibition grant, the Experimental Television Center Grant, and the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist award. Her work was recently sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe. Ruiz's art has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums in the United States, Mexico, Europe, South America, and Asia and has been reviewed/published in the New York Times, Aperture, Art News, ARTI, Jornal do Brasil, The College Art Journal, The MIT Press, Reuters Video News International, Computer Graphics, Yale University Art Gallery, Wired, USA Today, arteTV, Kultur:Deutsche Welle, TeknoKultura, and others.

Current Artistic Research includes:
* The Other: an interactive 3D simulation that explores the theme of multiple perspectives through different characters, each with their own viewpoint, in a dynamic environment showing how one’s actions and decisions affect others environmentally, socially, and culturally.
* Telomere: a multimedia ballet exploring conceptions of age and agelessness in a triumph of the human spirit while the inevitable collapse of body occurs through time. “Telomere” uses the biological process of cell division as a metaphor for the life process of a prima ballerina. In an alchemic interweaving of art and science, the many aspects of aging are experienced physically, socially, psychologically, spiritually and emotionally.
* ErGoGenic Research Group: (co-founder), a trans-disciplinary team of artists, composers, cognitive scientists, medical doctors, psychologists, and game designers who are developing physical interfaces and bio-feedback to directly affect gameplay and interaction in games/simulations to encourage reaching and maintaining healthy levels of cardiovascular activity. This group is also working on games which aim to approach satiation through psycho/physio interaction.
* Capability Games and Simulation: (co-founder) an interdisciplinary group of programmers, artists, engineers, and composers who are developing interactive multimedia game simulation modules for differently abled people to help in learning basic life skills for independence through fun, repetition and engagement. Visual/auditory stimulation and memory systems are being developed in conjunction with innovative interface modalities tailored for individuals who have sustained brain injuries or who are physically and/or mentally handicapped.
* Multi-Sensory Media Art expanding beyond the eye/ear metaphor using olfaction, proprioception, EEG/EKG, and other emerging interfaces/delivery systems.
* Nanosculptures: and the interplay of macro and nano structures: The area of nanotechnology is holding potential creative territory for new kinds of artistic/scientific/philosophical/environmental/medical/ethical discourse and collaboration. Evolving preliminary ideas for nano dimension projects which consider physical phenomena and new perceptive environments emerging from nanoscale research could include fascinating super-mini objects, larger frameworks for virtual and physical three dimensional “sculptures and terrains” which would act as catalysts for opening much needed thoughtful and critical dialogues.
* Playable Art: physically and environmentally stimulating fine art sculpture and environments for touching, hearing, seeing, climbing, jumping, exploring, imagining, and cooperating for fun, enjoyment and education.

Ruiz is currently engaged with scholarly research that is centered on simulation, perspective and empathy.
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Education Ruiz holds a Master of Arts from New York University and is a doctoral candidate (abd) at the European Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies in Switzerland
Scholarly Works:
  • "Physically Interactive Gaming: What Appeals to Adolescent and Undergraduate Women?" by Julie G. McIntyre , Sybillyn Jennings (The Sage Colleges) and Kathleen Ruiz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) at the Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference in Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 4-5, 2007
  • "Imaginary Homelands: Reconstituted Narratives in the Digital Landscape", The Photography Quarterly, #85, Vol. 20, No.4. 2003 Published paper and curated exhibition,by Kathleen Ruiz Imaginary Homelands: Reconstituted Narratives in the Digital Landscape is an exhibition exploring the notion of "homeland" within the context of the transience, portability, and flexibility of digital media. The exhibition includes the work of a diverse group of nine artists who investigate this subject using digital media ranging from photographic and video methodologies to interactive virtual environment installations. Each artist presents a strong personal, political or psychological discourse on the preservation, reflection, exploration, and longing for a home that may or may not be actual. The works presented are created by artists from Ghana, Latvia, Israel, Malaysia, Spain, America, Brazil, and Bulgaria. The title is taken from Salman Rushdie's collection of essays and criticism of the same name - his ten-year personal and intellectual odyssey that records the politics and irony of culture, film, religious fundamentalism, racial prejudice, and the preciousness of the imagination and free expression. The common theme seen throughout the work included in the Imaginary Homelands exhibition is coping with transience, a topic that is especially relevant in our current times of displacement, globalization, and the turmoil of unresolved conflicts worldwide.
  • "Conditions of Engagement in Game Simulation: Contexts of Gender, Culture and Age", Ralph Noble,Ph.D., Kathleen Ruiz, Ph.D. abd,Marc Destefano,PhD., Jonathan Mintz Juried paper presented at the International Digital Games Research Association, "Level Up" University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 2003 We advocate a research approach to determining the conditions of engagement in game simulation that is a multi-disciplinary cultural and scientific inquiry at the juncture of psychological, artistic, and programming perspectives. What are the factors that cause some people to become enthralled with detail-oriented simulation game-play, while others are captivated by more abstracted, symbolic styles of play? How are the conditions of engagement influenced by gender, culture, and age? Keywords: Research methodology, psychology of engagement, intuition, decision making, gender, culture, real world psychology and game worlds, game aesthetics, game composition, logistics of perception, synthesis of factors
  • Web3D RoundUp: Looking Backwards and Forwards Vol.34 No.2 May 2000 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics World, May, 2000, vol. 34, no.2, pgs 60-61.
Recognitions:
  • Sony Computer Entertainment, Europe
  • New York State Council on the Arts
  • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art
  • Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Visual Arts Residency Award

Richard W. Siegel

Richard W. Siegel
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — sieger
Name: Richard W. Siegel
Title:Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Engineering and Director, Nanotechnology Center
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Bio

Dr. Siegel serves on the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He has also chaired the World Technology Evaluation Center worldwide study of nanostructure science and technology that led to the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. He is the past chairman of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials and earlier served on the U.S. National Materials Advisory Board Committee on Materials with Submicron-Sized Microstructures. He was the co-chairman of the Study Panel on Clusters and Cluster-Assembled Materials for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Siegel was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1966 to 1976 and at Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1995. He has been at Rensselaer since 1995, serving as Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering from 1995 to 2000. He has authored more than 260 publications and numerous patents (11 issued, 7 pending) in the areas of defects

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Education Ph.D. Metallurgy (University of Illinois, 1965), M.S. Physics (University of Illinois, 1960), B.A. Physics (Williams College, 1958)
Scholarly Works:
  • Tao, P., Li, Y., Siegel, R. W., and Schadler, L. S., “Transparent Luminescent Silicone Nanocomposites Filled with Bimodal PDMS-Brush-Grafted CdSe Quantum Dots”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1, 86-94 (2013)
  • Gagner, J. E., Shrivastava, S., Qian, X., Dordick, J. S., and Siegel, R. W., “Engineering Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Requires Understanding the Nano-Bio Interface ¬– A Perspective”, J. Physical Chemistry Letters 3, 3149-3158 (2012) INVITED
  • Mehta, R. J., Zhang, Y., Karthik, C. Singh, B., Siegel, R. W., Borca-Tasciuc, T, and Ramanath, G., “A New Class of Doped Nanobulk High-Figure-of-Merit Thermoelectrics by Scalable Bottom-up Assembly”, Nature Materials 11, 233-240 (2012)
  • Shrivastava, S., Nuffer, J. H., Siegel, R. W., and Dordick, J. S., “Position-specific Chemical Modification and Quantitative Proteomics Disclose Protein Orientation Adsorbed on Silica Nanoparticles”, Nano Letters 12, 1583-1587 (2012)
  • Gagner, J. E., Qian, X., Lopez, M., Dordick, J. S., and Siegel, R. W., “Effect of Gold Nanoparticle Structure on the Conformation and Function of Adsorbed Proteins”, Biomaterials 33, 8503-8516 (2012)
  • Dulgar-Tulloch, A. J., Bizios, R., and Siegel, R. W., “Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Nano- and Micro-grainsize Titania Topography”, Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications 31, 357-362 (2011)
  • Nuffer, J. H., and Siegel, R. W., “Nanostructure–Biomolecule Interactions: Implications for Tissue Regeneration and Nanomedicine”, Tissue Engineering Part A 16, 423-430 (2010) INVITED
  • Murday, J. S., Siegel, R. W., Stein, J., and Wright, J. F., “Translational Nanomedicine: Status Assessment and Opportunities”, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 5, 251-273 (2009) FEATURE ARTICLE
  • Professor Siegel has authored or coauthored 280 articles and several patents (11 issued in US, 6 pending), edited ten books, presented more than 490 invited lectures around the world
Recognitions:
  • Fellow of Materials Research Society
  • 1994 recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award in Germany

Deanna M. Thompson

Deanna Thompson
Thu, 2011-03-10 15:12 — thompd4
Name: Deanna Thompson
Title:Associate Professor
Department Biomedical Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)
Bio Deanna M. Thompson received her B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan (1993). She received her M.S (1999) and Ph.D (2001) in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University as a NIH Pre-doctoral trainee in an interdisciplinary training program in Biotechnology. Dr. Thompson did her post-doctoral training at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Shriners Burns Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital (2001-04). She joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer in 2004 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. Dr. Thompson is a member and her lab is located in the Center of Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Research Center. Dr. Thompson’s research interests are neural tissue engineering specifically related to peripheral nerve and spinal cord repair, neural stem cells, and biomaterials for nerve repair. Dr. Thompson is the recipient of the JD Watson Young Investigator Award and School of Engineering Research Award from Rensselaer. She is a member of several professional societies including Biomedical Engineering Society, Society for Biomaterials and Society for Neuroscience as well as the reviewer for several international and national journals and grant agencies. She is on the Executive Committee for the NIH Biomolecular Pre-doctoral training program and is the faculty co-advisor for the Society of Women Engineers
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Education BSE, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
MS, Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University (Piscataway)
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University (Piscataway)