Andrzej Zarzycki, an assistant professor in NJIT's College of Architecture and Design, has been elected to the New York City chapter of the ACM/SIGGRAPH Board of Directors. ACM SIGGRAPH is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for computer graphics and interactive techniques.

NJIT will mark the new academic year on Sept. 15, 2010 with its annual University Convocation, an awards ceremony coupled with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. The event will be held at 3 p.m. on Lubetkin Field at J. Malcolm Simon Stadium, on the NJIT campus. A reception for the award winners will follow.  

Up on the roof of the NJIT Campus Center, NJIT award-winning chef Peter Fischbach eyes a new crop of green goodness.  In about two months, Fischbach hopes a bounty of wholesome organic winter veggies--from kale to arugula--will be ready to harvest into mouth-watering, organic greatness in his kitchen.  

The Enterprise Development Center at NJIT was featured in the August 2010 issue of TechNews magazine. The article, “Talk About a Win-Win!” People 2 Business Teams Up Startup Executive Mentors,” appears on pages 12 and 13.

"Rheology, Processing and Structure Development of Concentrated Suspensions and Nanosuspensions" is the topic of a seminar presented by Dilhan Kalyon, PhD, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, on Sept. 13 at 2:45 p.m.in Kupfrian Hall, Room 117. 

Daisy, a four-year-old female Labrador Retriever/German Shepherd mix lost at Newark Airport since August 14, was last tracked to the area around the NJIT campus. She is tan with a black nose and was wearing a red collar with no identification tags but is microchipped. Reward: $1000. If found (please do not chase), call 973-204-2440.

NJIT newcomers Camille Billing and Amanda Redden collected their first college goals, lifting the Highlanders to their first women’s soccer victory of 2010, a 2-1 win at Saint Peter’s Sunday afternoon. The Highlanders (1-1) also got the first college assist from freshman Rebecca Tustin, who helped out on Billing’s goal, in taking the road win.

Faculty and staff volunteers will serve a free breakfast to students at the university’s seventh annual Pancakes with the President event on August 30, 8-10 a.m. on the Campus Green. NJIT President Robert A. Altenkirch will welcome students to campus as NJIT officially kicks off the 2010-2011 academic year. 

Interior design student Anita Graham of Mullica Hill was selected to participate in the Autodesk Student Expert Program and attended the Revit Bootcamp in San Francisco August 9-13. Twenty-two students in a variety of disciplines from schools that included NJIT, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California at Berkeley, Georgia Tech, University of Southern California, Penn State, Purdue, and Virginia Tech gathered to train with solution specialists to learn Revit and Ecotect or Autodesk Inventor so that they can, in turn, help students at their own schools. For Ms.Graham, this was the second consecutive year she received a scholarship to participate and, for the second consecutive year, was the only interior design student selected. 

Why sunspots are a strong source of radio emissions and what information those emissions carry will be the focus of an invited talk by NJIT Research Professor Jeongwoo Lee tomorrow at the International Astronomical Union Symposium on the Physics of Sun and Star Spots in Ventura, CA.  The event numbers among the top gatherings in the U.S. for people studying sunspots and related phenomena.