The Obama Challenge
By Don Sebastian, NJIT Provost

“This spring, as I listened to President Obama’s address before the National Academies, I couldn't help but see a powerful connection to events of the Kennedy era —ones that shaped my life and that of countless other Baby Boomers. Meeting Kennedy’s challenge of ‘landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth’ drove important technological developments and made science and technology a constant topic of conversation. . .”