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Welcome to the RPI Wiki, an in-progress project to catalog Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's rich history and provide lasting resources for new and returning RPI students.

RPI is the oldest engineering school in the Western Hemisphere, with over 200 years of history. Its student life has evolved immensely in that time, and throughout its history it has been the alma mater of countless leading engineers and a flashpoint for political activism and student rights. It has the oldest continously-existing all-student government in the United States in the Rensselaer Union, and its model for polytechnic education informed the American engineering schools that came after it.

The RPI Wiki is a project intending to write this history down, from the Institute's proudest moments to its darkest, while also providing a resource for students akin to the various "Student Handbooks" or "Student Guides" of prior years. In this way, the RPI Wiki can serve as a resource to students, faculty, alumni, and prospective students, and make our Institute's history last forever.

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Featured campus articles:

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• President of the Institute
• Board of Trustees
• Big Red Freakout
• Freshman Hill
  • Freshman Five
• The Tunnels
• Rensselaer Drop Squad
• The Arch

Featured Union history articles:

• Grand Marshal
• President of the Union
• Grand Marshal Week
• Student Senate
• Executive Board
• Judicial Board
• Graduate Council
• Undergraduate Council
  • Class Councils

Check out some of our student guides!

• Registration
• The Student Discount
• Accessing Syllabi via Heliocampus
• Navigating SIS
• The Guide To Troy
• Contributing

The RPI Wiki is a venture of the Rensselaer Union Student Government, and is maintained by the Student Senate's Web Technologies Group and the Wiki Subcommittee of its Rules and Administration Committee. Please contact Vice Grand Marshal for Internal Affairs Griffin Oliver (oliveg2@rpi.edu) or WTG Chair Aaron Niyazov (niyaza@rpi.edu) for questions, comments, or concerns.

The RPI Wiki is a strictly student-run and nonprofit project, and is not affiliated with the Institute or its administration in any way. The Wiki may use Institute logos or insignia in a way inconsistent with official RPI branding guidelines. This is compliant with fair use doctrine and it supports the Wiki's aim to research, report on, and comment on RPI as an institution and its history.