West Hall has a reputation at Rensselaer for its otherworldly, cryptic nature. When I arrived at RPI, one of the first things I heard about campus were the stories of the ghosts of West Hall. Rumor ...

Vaporwave is distinguished by its R&B influence and use of somewhat outdated aesthetics. Many songs which receive enormous amounts of praise are merely slowed down versions of old R&B music. As a ...

Since the turn of the new millennium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been changed through the implementation of President Shirley Ann Jackson’s The Rensselaer Plan. Under The Plan, major campus ...

In May, the U.S. Department of Education enacted new Title IX regulations, changing the obligations for campuses across the United States. Rensselaer’s implementation of the new federal and NYS ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s COVID-19 testing dashboard was updated today with a new positive COVID-19 test. The updated dashboard reflects all processed results as of yesterday. The positive ...

In an email to students Tuesday morning, Executive Director of the Health Center Dr. Leslie Lawrence informed the community that Rensselaer would be pausing distribution of the Johnson and Johnson ...

Starting today, the Mueller Center will be open to students for the first time since Rensselaer shutdown last Spring. The cardio and weight rooms will open, but the Armory, locker rooms, and Robinson ...

Elections Commission Chairperson Keenan Adams ’21 presented an update on the status of this week’s Student Government elections during Thursday's Senate meeting, in which several major errors were at ...

Vivian Rost-Nasshan ’26 has been elected Grand Marshal, beating Ria Massoni ’25G in a historic runoff election. Rost-Nasshan won by a margin of 197 votes. The student body also overwhelmingly approved ...

In last week’s Top Hat, our Grand Marshall Advaith Narayan gave his tips for managing academic stress. He talked about time management, goal setting, and motivation. Consider this a follow-up to ...

Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University Jennifer Rhee discussed concepts from her book, The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor, during the first ...

The discussion of how mathematics is being taught in the United States is often fixated on attainment. From Pew Research’s statement “[t]he most recent PISA [a standardized assessment] results, from ...