The work of Boris Khusid, professor in the department of chemical, biological and pharmaceutical engineering, has been included in NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program. >>

NJIT students will have the option next fall to live in a state-of-the-art, energy efficient, renewable energy building, thanks to $1.6 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). >>

NJIT students aim to improve the quality of life in New Jersey and there is no better indication of the scope of these efforts than the remarkable range of student research projects entered in the recent annual Dana Knox Student Research Showcase. >>

Most people don’t think of salvaged umbrellas, used auto parts or rusty old medical and restaurant equipment as catalysts for the imagination. But for Montclair artist and designer Boris Petropavlovsky, a former engineer trained in Russia, such found objects are elements of beauty and inspiration. >>

Boris Khusid, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at NJIT, will give a keynote presentation on conventional and traveling-wave dielectrophoresis in microfluidics and organize fluids engineering division sessions on electric and magnetic phenomena in micro- and nano-scale systems at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition on Nov. 5-10 in Chicago. >>

Boris Khusid, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at NJIT, will give three presentations on electric-field driven phenomena in micro-and nanofluidics and chair a session “Fluidics: Integrated Micro Fluidic Systems” at the 2006 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show: Nanotech 2006, on May 7-11 in Boston. >>

Osseiran-Hanna Promoted to Assistant Vice President Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna, Office of University Advancement, has been promoted to the position of Assistant Vice President/Senior Officer Major and Planned Giving. Previously she served as Director of Development. Professor Continues Tradition of Leadership in Architectural Design Computing Wassim Jabi, professor of architecture, has been elected president of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), which is dedicated to promoting communication and critical thinking with respect to the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science. Research Paper Cited by Online Nanotechnology Publication Nano World News called special attention to the paper subsequently presented at  the 2005 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show by NJIT researchers Rajesh Dave, Abhijit Gokhale, Boris Khusid and Robert Pfeffer: "Formation of Polymer Nanoparticles in Supercritical Fluid Jets." >>

A cryptography expert at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS). “I am happy to receive this notable honor from my colleagues around the world,” said Boris S. Verkhovsky, PhD, professor of computer science at NJIT and an expert in the art of deciphering messages in a code.More attention has been paid since 9/11 to this once obscure field since news stories have reported that terrorists communicate with each other through encoded computer messages. >>

NJIT Professor Elected EAS Fellow Boris S. Verkhovsky, professor of the computer science department at NJIT, was elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS). Dr. Verkhovsky is a vice president of the EAS and is a member of the Board of EAS Governors. Among its 650 members and fellows, the EAS has 43 Nobel Prize laureates, 29 Fields medalists and Turing Award and Wolf Prize winners combined; more than 70 members of the U.S. Academy of Sciences; 190 members of the French and Russian National Academy of Sciences and Fellows of the U.K. Royal Society combined; and many other dignitaries. For more details, visit www.eurasc.org or www.EASinUS.us. Mendonca Receives NSF Career Award David Mendonca, an assistant professor in the information systems department of the College of Computing Sciences, received a National Science Foundation Career Award. NJIT Professor Elected IEEE Fellow Dr. Yun-Qing Shi, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to multidimensional signal processing. >>