Rensselaer is America’s oldest technological research university, offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology and web science, architecture, management, and the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

The university offers degrees from five schools: Engineering; Science; Architecture; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; and the Lally School of Management; as well as an interdisciplinary degree in Information Technology and Web Science.

Rensselaer offers more than 145 programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. Students are encouraged to work in interdisciplinary programs that allow them to combine scholarly work from several departments or schools. The university provides rigorous, engaging, interactive learning environments and campus-wide opportunities for leadership, collaboration, and creativity.

Driven by talented, dedicated, and forward-thinking faculty, Rensselaer has dramatically expanded the research enterprise by leveraging our existing strengths and focusing on five signature research areas: biotechnology and the life sciences; energy and the environment; computational science and engineering; nanotechnology and advanced materials; and media, arts, science, and technology.

The Institute is especially well-known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development.

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An Organotypic Mammary Duct Model Capturing Matrix Mechanics-Dependent Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Progression

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Kristen Mills, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, studies the mechanics of cancer and tumor cell invasion, migration, and interactions with the extracellular matrix. Her lab develops new models that mimic aspects of the mechanical environment within the body, providing new insight into solid tumor development and metastasis. Mills earned her bachelors of science in mechanical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 1999 before receiving her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2008. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of New Materials and Biosystem at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and a lecturer in advanced materials at the University of Ulm, before joining the Rensselaer faculty. Mills received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award in 2019, as well as a Department of Defense CDMRP Neurofibromatosis Research Program New Investigator Award.

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