NJIT in the News

"The issues of climate change are very complicated,” said Philip Goode, PhD, to an audience of more than 200 faculty, staff, students and guests on April 6, 2005 in the NJIT Campus Center. Goode, a distinguished professor of physics at NJIT and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California, shared highlights from his research on the correlation between climate changes on earth and changes in the sun’s output, earth’s reflectivity and greenhouse gases. "The models are impressive, but appreciable climate factors are not accounted for in models, so their predictions of the future are not precise,” he said. “We cannot postdict the past.” 

Philip Goode, PhD, distinguished professor of physics at NJIT and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory, will discuss his research suggesting that climate changes on earth correlate with changes in the sun’s output on April 6, 3-4:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. The lecture will be webcast live that day by logging on to http://speakerforum.njit.edu/. For more information, call Jay Kappraff at 973-596-3490. Visit Past Press Release

NJIT Professor Elected Deputy Mayor of Freehold TownshipEugene B. Golub, PhD, a professor of civil engineering at NJIT, was elected deputy mayor of Freehold Township. Golub has been on the governing body since 1996 and served as deputy mayor in 1998, 1999 and 2001. He was mayor in 2002. Read more.Goode Elected Fellow of the American Physical SocietyPhilip R. Goode, PhD, distinguished professor in the physics department at NJIT and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory and Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for outstanding research in studies of solar structure and oscillations, in earthshine measurements of the global reflectance, and for critical national and international research leadership in solar astrophysics.Bloom Appointed Chair of NASULGC CouncilJoel S. Bloom, EdD, interim provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at NJIT, was appointed chair of the Council on Student Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.Briller Named Fulbright Senior Specialist in Education Vladimir Briller, director of outcomes assessment in the institutional research and planning department at NJIT, was recently named as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Education.

Solar physicists at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) say they expect to see dawn’s first light by January of 2006 with the new 1.6-meter telescope currently under construction.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $1.5 million to the project which will arguably create the world’s largest optical telescope for solar research. 

Best-selling author Sylvia Nasser whose first book, A Beautiful Mind, won the 1998 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Biography, highlighted the recent awards dinner for students, faculty and staff for the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

Big Bear Solar Observatory reopened Monday November 3 after a six-day shutdown cause by California’s wildfires.  Mandatory evacuation mean the center’s director Philip Goode had to leave his home on Big Bear Lake and return to New Jersey, where the observatory is managed by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark. But no harm came to observatory staff, property, or equipment.