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"Engineer Discovers Why Particles Disperse on Liquids"
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NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following investigators under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
November 20, 2009
Tony Award-winning choreographer Savion Glover thrilled friends of NJIT at the university’s recent annual black-tie benefit dinner, Celebration.
November 18, 2009
NJIT Professor Farzan Nadim, PhD will give an invited lecture at the Ninth Annual Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA) Conference on Dec. 8-13 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. "Determining Phase and Stability in Central Pattern Generators" will be the topic of his talk.
November 17, 2009
Michael Brownstein, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of humanities at NJIT, presented a talk entitled “Experimental Philosophy and Non-Conscious Moral Judgment” on Nov. 13 at The Philosophical Psychology Lab at Harvard University.
Even if you are not a cook, you might have wondered why a pinch of flour (or any small particles) thrown into a bowl of water will disperse in a dramatic fashion, radiating outward as if it was exploding. Pushpendra Singh, PhD, a mechanical engineering professor at NJIT who has studied and written about the phenomenon, has not only thought about it, but can explain why.
NJIT will hold its annual black-tie benefit dinner, Celebration, on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, at Pleasantdale Chateau, West Orange.
A drug to stop bleeding during a brain injury and a bed that will prevent bedsores are among the scientific discoveries at NJIT that received earlier this week more than a million dollars in funding from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.
November 11, 2009
Jason Peist '08, a member of the design team at TMR and Associates, P.C. in Rutherford, was named the AIA NJ Intern Architect of the Year for 2009. An early graduate of the 5-year bachelor of architecture program and the Albert Dorman Honors College in December 2008, Jason is currently enrolled in the Master of Science in Professional and Technical Communication program at NJIT.
November 09, 2009
NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) recently honored faculty, staff, students and alumni for outstanding work.
November 09, 2009
Iskander Akhatov, PhD, an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics at North Dakota State University, will discuss "Direct Write: Modeling and Experiment" on Nov. 13 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
NJIT Dean of Graduate Studies Ronald Kane will moderate a faculty panel representative of the colleges and schools at NJIT at the third edition of the popular panel discussion, "One Day in the Life of a Professor/Careers in Academe" on Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. in Eberhardt Hall Room 112. NJIT Dean of Graduate Studies Ronald Kane will moderate a faculty panel representative of the colleges and schools at NJIT. They include: Cristian Borcea, department of computer science, Joseph Bozzelli, department of chemistry and environmental science, Zhiming Ji, department of mechanical and industrial engineering, and Marguerite Schneider, School of Management, who will discuss academic careers and share their experiences in a program aimed at graduate students.
Denis L. Blackmore, PhD, professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Tapping Dynamics for A Column of Particles" on Nov. 9, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Mechanical Engineering Center Rm. 224. The Fall 2009 Colloquium Series is sponsored by The Granular Science Laboratory at NJIT. For further information, please contact Dr. A. Rosato, ME Dept. (rosato@njit.edu; 973-596-5829).
October 30, 2009
Martin Katzen, PhD, professor in the department of mathematical sciences (shown here with NJIT President Robert A. Altenkirch), Deran Hanesian, PhD, professor in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, and Onofrio Russo, PhD, professor in the department of physics, received awards for 45 years of service on Oct. 28 at the 2009 Service Award ceremony and reception. A total of 134 employees and retirees were recognized for their years of service to the university.
NJIT will hold its annual black-tie benefit dinner, Celebration, on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, at Pleasantdale Chateau, West Orange. Tony Award-winning dancer, choreographer and producer Savion Glover, who was born and raised in Newark, will provide the entertainment.
October 27, 2009
NJIT’s Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, has computed the probability of the Yankees and Phillies winning the World Series. He also has computed the most deserving of Major League Baseball’s prestigious 2009 Most Valuable Player (MVP) and Cy Young awards.
October 27, 2009
NJIT Humanities Professor Christopher Funkhouser, PhD, an expert in digital poetry, will perform at The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice Conference on Nov. 8 in Bergen, Norway. Funkhouser, who is also director of the Communication and Media Program at NJIT, will perform "Psychographic Poetry."
October 26, 2009
Itai Cohen, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of physics at Cornell University, will discuss "Defects and Epitaxy" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Oct. 30 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
October 22, 2009
NJIT Humanities Lecturer Jon Curley and Architecture Associate Professor Tony Schuman will join Newark-based filmmakers Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno for a panel discussion about making the film New Work: Newark in 3D on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Newark Museum. Curley wrote and recorded the poems that accompany the film, which is being shown in tandem with the 1920 avant-garde film Manhatta and will become a permanent part of the museum's permanent collection.
October 20, 2009
Jonathan Wylie, PhD, a professor at the City University of Hong Kong, will discuss "Drawing of Viscous Threads with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity" on Oct. 23 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
October 13, 2009
Corina Bot, a PhD student in the department of physics, received first prize for the most outstanding graduate student talk at the Rutgers-UMDNJ-NJIT Integrative Neuroscience Minisymposium on Oct. 12. The minisymposium offers a formal setting for graduate students and post-doctorate fellows to present their research prior to the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
October 13, 2009
NJIT Mechanical Engineering Professor Anthony D. Rosato, PhD will discuss "Density Relaxation of Granular Matter" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Oct. 16 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
Beena Sukumaran, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University, will discuss the "Influence of Inherent Particle Characteristics on the Shear Strength Properties of Particulate Materials" on Oct. 12, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Mechanical Engineering Center Rm. 2242. Sukumaran's lecture opens the Fall 2009 Granular and Multiphase Flows Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Granular Science Laboratory.
October 06, 2009
Robert Gilmore, PhD, professor in the department of physics at Drexel University, will discuss "Chaos: What Have We Learned?" at the Fall 2009 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Oct. 9 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
October 05, 2009
Maurie J. Cohen, director and associate professor in the Graduate Program in Environmental Policy Studies in NJIT's Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, is a co-convener of the 2009 Inaugural SCORAI Workshop: Individual Consumption and Systemic Societal Transformation, on Oct. 15-17 at Clark University. NJIT is serving as a cosponsor of the project and workshop.
October 05, 2009
Himanshu Gupta, PhD, a computer science professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook will discuss "Spectrum Auctions in Cellular Networks" on Oct. 7, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the GITC Building 4415.
October 01, 2009
Peter F. Patel-Schneider, PhD, a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs Research, will discuss "From Description Logics to OWL 2" at the Fall 2009 Computer Science Seminar Series on Oct. 5, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the GITC Building 4415.
September 28, 2009
Avi Maayan, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, will discuss "Data Mining and Network Analysis in Systems Biology" on Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
September 28, 2009
John Bush, PhD, associate professor of applied mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss "The Fluid Trampoline: Droplets Bouncing on a Soap Film" on Oct. 2 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
September 23, 2009
NJIT Humanities Lecturer Jon Curley has collaborated with Newark-based filmmakers Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno on a film about contemporary Newark that will be exhibited at the Newark Museum for its Centennial Celebration, Sept. 22, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010. Curley wrote and recorded the poems that accompany New Work: Newark in 3D, which will be shown in tandem with the 1920 avant-garde film Manhatta and become a permanent part of the museum's collection. In addition, he will join the Bongiornos for a panel discussion about making the film on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. at the museum.
September 23, 2009
Adel Dayarian, a doctoral student at Rutgers University, will discuss "*De Novo* Assembly of Mate Pair Reads from Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies" at a Department of Computer Science Seminar on Sept. 30, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the GITC Building 4415.
September 22, 2009
Michael Brenner PhD, the Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, will discuss "The Fluid Mechanics of Fungal Spore Ejection" on Sept. 25 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
September 16, 2009
Glen Atlas, MD, associate professor of anesthesiology at UMDNJ and Stevens Institute of Technology, will discuss "Development of a Recursive Finite Difference Pharmacokinetic Model from an Exponential Model: Application to a Propofol Infusion" at the Fall 2009 Statistics Seminar Series on Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore 611.
September 14, 2009
Jun Zhang, PhD, an associate professor of physics and mathematics at the Courant Institute, NYU, will discuss "Ratchets in Fluid Transportation and Biological Locomotion" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Sept. 18 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
September 11, 2009
NJIT Professor Burt Kimmelman, who has published five poetry collections, will read from his collected works on Sept. 15, 2009 at 8 p.m. in The Carriage House Poetry Series.
September 11, 2009
Xiangmin Zhang, PhD an assistant professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Science at Rutgers University, will discuss "User Studies for Personalization of Information Retrieval (IR)" on Sept. 14, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 1403.
September 08, 2009
Sheldon M. Ross, PhD, Epstein Chair Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, will discuss "Gambler Ruin Problems and Pricing Barrier Options" at the Fall 2009 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Sept. 11 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
September 04, 2009
Cristian Borcea, PhD, of New Providence, assistant professor in the department of computer science, was promoted to associate professor with tenure at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009. Borcea also received at the ceremony, the NJIT Award for Graduate Instruction. He teaches in NJIT’s Department of Computer Science in the College of Computing Sciences.
September 04, 2009
NJIT Professor Dale Gary, PhD, of Berkeley Heights, an expert in solar radio data, was promoted to distinguished professor. Gary examines the conditions under which solar radio bursts from distinct solar events can disrupt cellular telephone signals.
September 04, 2009
Frank Y. Shih, a professor of computer science at NJIT, who is a steganography expert and author of a reference book about image processing and mathematical morphology, has received the NJIT Excellence in Research Award. The honor was awarded Sept. 2, 2009 at the University Convocation, an annual celebration.
September 04, 2009
Haimin Wang, of Livingston, an NJIT professor, whose work focuses on the physics behind space weather in order to predict unexpected and unwanted solar activities and their effect on Earth, has received the NJIT Excellence in Research Award.
September 04, 2009
James McHugh, PhD, of Bloomfield, professor in the department of computer science, received Master Teacher Designation, at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.
September 04, 2009
Jimmy Hayes, PhD, of Bloomfield, adjunct professor in the department of mathematical sciences, received the Award for Instruction by an Adjunct Professor at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.
September 04, 2009
John Bechtold, PhD, of Ridgewood, associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences, was promoted to professor at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.
September 04, 2009
Lou Kondic, PhD, of West Orange, associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences, was promoted to professor at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.
September 04, 2009
Richard Moore, of Philadelphia, PA, assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences, was promoted to associate professor with tenure at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.
September 04, 2009
Robert Friedman, PhD, of Closter, associate professor in the humanities department, received tenure at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.
September 04, 2009
Victor Matveev, PhD, of Hoboken, assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences, was promoted to associate professor with tenure at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009. “This designation is conferred annually on a select number of individuals who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence over a sustained period,” said Donald H. Sebastian, PhD, NJIT Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Research and Development.
September 04, 2009
Wooyoung Choi, PhD, of Montville, associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences, was promoted to professor at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.
September 03, 2009
Morton Denn, PhD, a professor at the Levich Institute, CCNY, will discuss "Issues in the Flow of Yield-Stress Liquids" at the Fall 2009 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Sept. 4 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
August 13, 2009
NJIT marks the start of the new school year on September 2, 2009 with University Convocation, an annual celebration and awards ceremony. The event, which recognizes the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff, will be held at 3 p.m., in the Jim Wise Theatre in Kupfrian Hall on the NJIT campus. A reception follows.
August 03, 2009
Fifteen high school/middle-school teams joined by College of Computing Sciences capstone teams will present the final deliverables of their real-world projects at the Summer 2009 Real World Connections Project Showcase and Awards Ceremony on August 6, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Enterprise Development Center 3.
August 03, 2009
Michael Siegel, PhD, a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Efficient Numerical Computation of Interfacial Fluid Flow" on August 6 in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
Dongwook Kim, a doctoral student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Mechanistic Aspects Underlying the Effects of In Vivo-like Synaptic Inputs on an Entorhinal Cortex Stellate Cell Model" on August 4, 10-11 a.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611 (Math Conference Room).
July 14, 2009
Daniel E. Bunker, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at NJIT, is a co-editor of Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2009). The graduate-level text incorporates the latest developments in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, one of the most controversial and high-profile areas of ecological research.
Matt Malej, a doctoral student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "A Reduced Uni-Directional Model for the Evolution of Nonlinear Ocean Surface Waves" on July 21, 10-11 a.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611 (Math Conference Room).
Deepak Khemani, PhD of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras will discuss "A CBR Approach to Knowledge Management" at a Department of Computer Science Seminar on July 13, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415.
NJIT will once again serve as one of 30 locations for an ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp this summer. The camp will be held July 12-24, 2009 at the NJIT campus.
Kamalesh Sirkar, PhD, distinguished professor of chemical engineering at NJIT, and internationally-renowned expert in membrane separation technologies will be the recipient of the NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal. The award presentation and lecture will take place Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, in Kupfrian Hall on the NJIT campus. A reception will immediately follow. For more information, please click here.
Sergiu M. Gorun, PhD, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, has been invited to give the keynote lecture at the combined 19th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry and 2009 International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies on August 23–28, 2009, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Neil M. Maher, PhD, associate professor, chair and graduate coordinator of the department of history, received the 2009 Robert Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence from the NJIT Alumni Association on June 13. Maher recently published Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2008) and is currently researching and writing an environmental history of the space race during the 1960s and 1970s.
NJIT humanities professor, author and clarinetist David Rothenberg will appear in the upcoming PBS documentary “The Music Instinct” airing June 24, 2009 on Channel 13 and affiliate stations throughout the state and the NYC region. He is also a participant through this week in the second annual World Science Festival in New York City. Various scientific luminaries in this week’s events include Lisa Randall, E.O. Wilson, Brian Greene, and celebrity science fans like Harrison Ford and Alan Alda.
June 11, 2009
Two professors of mathematics at NJIT will number among the first Fellows named by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Gregory Kriegsmann, PhD, noted for his research in applied mathematics, asymptotic methods and more, will receive the honor. So, too, will Robert M. Miura, PhD, who develops mathematical models in neuroscience. The ceremony will take place this coming July in Denver.
The NJIT Alumni Association annually honors a select group of distinguished alumni for their notable achievements in their professional careers, community activities, and/or support of NJIT. This year’s event will honor a group of New Jersey residents who made their marks in the fields of architecture, engineering and more. Set for Saturday, June 13, 2009, at 4 p.m. at NJIT, the event caps Alumni Weekend at the University.
NJIT professor and poet Burt Kimmelman, of Maplewood, will be a featured reader in the Phoenix Poetry Reading Series on June 7 at 5:30 p.m. at Bangal Curry, 65 West Broadway in New York City. Kimmelman chairs the department of humanities at NJIT.
"Secrets of Winning SBIR/STTR Proposals," a half-day seminar that will provide participants with an introduction to and overview of the SBIR and STTR programs, will be held on June 24, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at NJIT's Enterprise Development Center, 211 Warren St., Rm. 407. Sponsored by the NJ Commission on Science & Technology, the seminar will feature representatives of the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at the Picatinny Arsenal. Registration: $35 in advance; $45 at the door. To register, click here.
June 03, 2009
Zeyuan Qiu, associate professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, will discuss "Protection of Critical Source Areas for Achieving Long-term Sustainability of Water Resources" on June 8, 2-3 p.m. (EST) as part of the Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS) webinar series. CNS is an EPA grant program offered through the National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) Science To Achieve Results (STAR) program that supports collaboration between science and engineering researchers and decision-makers to pursue regional sustainability. Call in: 866-299-3188; Passcode: 202-343-9759. Webinar access: http://portal.epa.gov/webconference; Conf. ID: 411720. Slides from the webinar series and the schedule of upcoming talks are posted on the CNS science connector page.
May 27, 2009
NJIT will host on June 1-2, 2009 Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM '09), the sixth in a series of annual conferences organized by the NJIT's Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics. This year's conference will focus on mathematical biology with sessions in neuroscience, ecology, biophysics, and biostatistics. For a list of plenary and invited speakers, click here.
NJIT’s new 1.6-meter clear aperture solar telescope—the largest of its kind in the world—is now operational. The unveiling of this remarkable instrument—said to be the pathfinder for all future, large ground-based telescopes—could not have come at a more auspicious moment for science. This year marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescope that he used to demonstrate that sunspots are indeed on the Sun.
May 14, 2009
Distinguished Visiting Professor James C. Phillips, PhD of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University will discuss "Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life)" on May 15 at 11 a.m. in Tiernan Hall Rm. 408. The seminar is a joint presentation of NJIT's Department of Physics and the Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science and Engineering.
NJIT’s 2009 Commencement Ceremony will be held Saturday, May 16, 2009, at the Prudential Center, Newark from 9 a.m.-noon. During the ceremony, more than 2,000 honorary doctoral degrees and earned doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees will be conferred on the Class of 2009.
Ornthida Sae-Khow, a doctoral student in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT (shown here with advisor Somenath Mitra), took first place and received a $1000 cash award in the North Jersey Chromatography Group (NJCG) Student Research Poster Competition. Her poster was entitled "Micro Scale Solid Phase Extraction Using Carbon Nanotubes as Adsorbents."
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, a professor of information systems at the University of Oulu in Finland and a visiting scholar at Media-X, Stanford University, will discuss "Persuasive Systems Design" at an Information Systems Department Seminar on May 11, 1-2 p.m. in GITC 1403.
The C2PRISM Project, a grant project at NJIT funded by the National Science Foundation, is organizing a Career Day for approximately 250 Newark high school students on May 11, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The event, which will be held in the Student Center Ballroom A, Architecture Gallery, GITC Room 3720, and the Campus Center Atrium, will showcase the various mathematics and science careers relevant to the eight NJIT PhD fellows who participated in the project.
May 04, 2009
NJIT senior Babatunde Busari, a dual computing sciences and mechanical and industrial engineering major, was named the winner of the second annual Randal Pinkett Campus CEO Challenge last week. The competition provides an opportunity for young entrepreneurs currently running their own companies or brainstorming a possible business idea to submit their mini-business plans for a chance to win cash prizes, awards and a business consultation with Dr. Pinkett.
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.
April 29, 2009
Ganesh K. (Mani) Subramaniam of AT&T Labs–Research in Florham Park, will discuss "Some Approaches to Mine Time Series Data" at the Statistics Seminar Series on April 30 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
April 27, 2009
Ka Yee Lee, PhD, a professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago, will discuss "Beyond Wrinkles: Stress and Fold Localization in Thin Elastic Membranes" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on May 1 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
April 24, 2009
Peter Thomas, PhD, a professor in the department of mathematics at Case Western State University, will discuss "Stochastic Phenomena in Chemotaxis" at the Mathematical Biology Seminar Series on April 28 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
April 24, 2009
Raquel Benbunan-Fich, PhD, an associate professor of information systems at Baruch College, City University of New York, will discuss "Tagging Site or Social Recommendation System? The Case of 11870.com" at an Information Systems Department Seminar on April 29, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC 1403.
Philip R. Goode, PhD, distinguished professor of physics at NJIT, will be inducted tonight into the New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was created in 1999 to recognize the best and the brightest New Jersey has to offer by honoring the achievements of life science and high-tech research and business leaders, educators, and government officials who have demonstrated exemplary work in innovative products and therapies. Sponsors of the event are BioNJ, HINJ, and TechAmerica.
NJIT seniors Didem Cakiroglu and Ripa Patel presented the project they developed with teammate Alex Armas for RDE Systems at the tenth annual Spring 2009 CCS Capstone Showcase yesterday. The Capstone Program at NJIT matches interdisciplinary teams of senior students with clients from industry, government and university programs to develop customized software and database applications, to design and test devices, or to analyze and diagnose a variety of business problems.
Philip R. Goode, PhD, distinguished professor of physics at NJIT, will be inducted into the New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame on April 23 at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston, NJ. The Hall of Fame was created in 1999 to recognize the best and the brightest New Jersey has to offer by honoring the achievements of life science and high-tech research and business leaders, educators, and government officials who have demonstrated exemplary work in innovative products and therapies.
Susana Addo Ntim, a PhD student in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, has been awarded a Faculty for the Future fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation. The Faculty for the Future awards are open to women academics in science and engineering from developing and emerging countries and provide funding for advanced graduate study. The long-term goal of the program is to generate conditions that result in more young women pursuing scientific disciplines.
April 21, 2009
Gleb Shtengel, a senior scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will discuss "Interferometric Fluorescent Super-Resolution Microscopy of 3D Cellular Ultrastructure" at the Physics Department seminar series on April 27, 12 noon-1 p.m. in 408 Faculty Memorial Hall.
April 21, 2009
Michael Shearer, PhD, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University, will discuss "Particle Size Segregation in Granular Flow" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on April 24 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
April 20, 2009
David Ambrose, PhD, assistant professor in the department of mathematics at Drexel University, will discuss "Two Problems in Interfacial Fluid Dynamics" at the Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series on April 20 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
April 16, 2009
John W. Hutchinson, PhD, the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering at Harvard University, will discuss "Thermal Barrier Coatings in Gas Turbine Engines: The Role of Fracture of Metal/Ceramic Interfaces" on April 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Room 3730. The Elsevier Distinguished Lecture is co-sponsored by Elsevier and the NJIT Granular Science Laboratory.
April 15, 2009
Bonnie J. Dunbar, PhD, president and CEO of The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, will be the guest speaker at a Biomedical Engineering Seminar on April 23 at 11:30 a.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 118. Dunbar recently retired from the NASA Johnson Space Center, where she was Associate Director, Technology Integration and Risk Management for the Space Life Sciences Directorate.
April 15, 2009
Alex Tuzhilin, PhD, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, will discuss "Improving Predictive Performance of Recommender Systems Using External Aggregate Ratings" at an Information Systems Department Seminar on April 20, 1-2 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, Room 3720.
Student teams will present their real-world projects at "Mission Impossible!," the tenth annual College of Computing Sciences (CCS) Spring 2009 Capstone Program Showcase on April 22, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Atrium. Register online.
April 14, 2009
Arthur Cohen, PhD, a professor in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers University, will discuss "New Multiple Testing Methods in the Dependent Case" on April 17 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
April 13, 2009
Biyue Liu, PhD, professor in the Department of Mathematics at Monmouth University, will discuss "Computer Simulations of Blood Flows in Atherosclerotic Arteries" at the Spring 2009 Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series on April 13 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Rm. 611.
April 09, 2009
Undergraduate research projects by students from Newark College of Engineering, College of Computing Sciences and College of Science and Liberal Arts will be showcased at the NJIT Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program Tenth Annual Research Symposium on April 17, 9:15-11:45 a.m. in the Campus Center Atrium. The symposium is open to all of the NJIT community as well as the public.
April 07, 2009
Yun Qing Shi, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, will discuss "First Digit Law and Its Application to Digital Forensics" at a Computer Science Department Seminar on April 13, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 4415.
Image Processing and Mathematical Morphology: Fundamentals and Applications (CRC Publisher, 2009), a new reference book by NJIT computer science professor Frank Y. Shih offers a comprehensive overview of morphological mechanisms and techniques and their relation to image processing. More than merely a tutorial on vital technical information, the book places this knowledge into a theoretical framework. Morphology is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of words.
April 02, 2009
Viji Santhakumar, PhD, of the Department of Neurology and Neurosciences at UMDNJ will discuss "Topological Determinants of Epileptogenesis" at the Spring 2009 Mathematical Biology Seminar Series on April 7 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
The New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels should make the playoffs in the American League (AL) in 2009 with most other teams lagging well behind.
April 02, 2009
Mark Alber, PhD, professor in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics and the Center for the Study of Biocomplexity at the University of Notre Dame, will discuss the "Connection Between Discrete Stochastic and Continuous Models in Biology" at the Spring 2009 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on April 3 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
Frederick Y. Wu, PhD of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, will discuss "Business Entities: A Concept for Unifying Business Process and Information Modeling" on April 6, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC Building 4415.
March 31, 2009
"The Effect of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure on Postnatal Development of the Respiratory Rhythm" is the topic of a Physics Department Seminar by NJIT Biology Professor Andrew Hill, PhD on April 6, 12 noon-1 p.m. in Faculty Memorial Hall Rm. 408.
Mikael Rechtsman, PhD of the Courant Institute will discuss
"Upper Bounds on Photonic Bandgaps" at the
Waves Seminar Series on April 1 at 3:45 p.m. in Cullimore
Hall, Room 611.
March 30, 2009
Asohan Amarasingham, PhD, of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, will discuss "Nonparametrics for Spike Train Analysis" on March 31 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611. The lecture is part of the Spring 2009 Mathematical Biology Seminar Series.
March 25, 2009
CCS Dean Narain Gehani will provide opening remarks at "Funding Experiences in CCS: Part 3," a Computer Science Department Seminar on March 30, 2:30-4 p.m. in the GITC Building 3730. CCS Professors Frank Shih, Quentin Jones and Roxanne Hiltz will participate in the panel discussion.
Richard B. Sher, PhD, a distinguished professor of history at NJIT, has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). Sher, of Maplewood, is one of only 44 new Fellows and one of five new Corresponding Fellows.
March 24, 2009
Harvey Segur, PhD, professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado, will discuss "The Explosive Instability" at an Applied Mathematics Colloquium on March 27 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
Thirty-five NJIT faculty members and graduate students will present posters describing new research in a wide range of disciplines supported by the National Science Foundation-funded NJIT ADVANCE Program on March 30, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Campus Center Atrium. Speakers at the 2009 NJIT ADVANCE Research Showcase include: Donald Sebastian, PhD, interim provost and senior vice president for research and development at NJIT; Semahat Demir, PhD, NSF Biomedical Engineering Program Director; and Elizabeth Posillico, PhD, president and CEO, Elusys Therapeutics, Inc.
The newly-established Academy of Geo-Professionals, established by the American Society of Civil Engineers, will induct NJIT professor of civil engineering Priscilla Nelson, PhD, the former provost, into its inaugural class on March 18, 2009.
High school students from more than 30 New Jersey schools will test their wits in a computer programming contest at NJIT.
March 11, 2009
If your child dreams of designing for the web, then NJIT is the place to be on March 18, 2009. Nearly 500 high school students from more than 43 New York and New Jersey high schools will descend upon the campus for NJIT’s Fourth Annual Web Design Competition.
March 06, 2009
Alfonso Renart of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University will discuss "The Asynchronous State in the Cerebral Cortex" at a Mathematical Biology Seminar on March 10 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611.
March 06, 2009
Yuji Kodama, professor of mathematics at The Ohio State University, will discuss "Two Dimensional Solitons in Shallow Water" at an Applied Mathematics Colloquium on March 13 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
March 04, 2009
Henri Angelino of the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan will discuss main research activities and international cooperation policy at a Computer Science Department Seminar on March 9, 2:30–3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415.
March 04, 2009
Yujun Wu of Sanofi-Aventis will discuss "Approaches to Handling Data When a Phase II Trial Deviates from the Pre-specified Simon’s Two-Stage Design" at a Statistics Seminar on March 5 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
March 04, 2009
Oscar Bruno, PhD, professor of applied & computational mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, will discuss "Accurate Solution of Highly Oscillatory Wave Propagation and Scattering Problems" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on March 6 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
March 04, 2009
Macneil Schonle of the University of California, San Diego will discuss "Using Programming Tools to Extend the Reach of Modularity" at a Computer Science Department Seminar on March 4, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415.
March 03, 2009
Shuyuan (Mary) Ho of Syracuse University will present her research on "A Socio-Technical Approach to Theorizing on Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Virtual Organizations" on March 3, 1:30–2:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 3720.
February 26, 2009
"The Effect of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure on Postnatal Development of the Respiratory Rhythm" is the topic of a Physics Department Seminar by NJIT Biology Professor Andrew Hill, PhD on March 2, 12 noon-1 p.m. in Faculty Memorial Hall Rm. 408.
February 23, 2009
Hernán Makse, PhD, professor in the Levich Institute and Physics Department at City College of New York, will discuss "Theory of Random Packings" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Feb. 27 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
February 23, 2009
Kwabena A. Narh, PhD, associate chair and undergraduate advisor for the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, presented a poster at the National Science Foundation Engineering Education Awardees Conference held in Reston, VA from Feb. 1-3. The title of his poster was “Outcomes and Lesson Learnt at the REU-site on Engineered Nano-Composite Particulate Materials.” Narh also recently presented a paper titled “Influence of Deagglomeration States of Carbon Nanotubes on the Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites” at AsiaNaNo 2008, the 2008 Asian Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Zhichun Li of Northwestern University will discuss "Towards High Performance Network Defense" at the Department of Computer Science Seminar Series on Feb. 25 at 2:45 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415.
February 20, 2009
Robert K. Prud’homme, PhD, professor and director of the Program in Engineering Biology at Princeton University, will discuss "Next Generation Nano Carriers for Multifunctional Drug Delivery, Imaging, and Targeting-How Do We Make Them?" on Feb. 23 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 205. The Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering Graduate Seminar is presented by the NSF-ERC for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) at NJIT. Contact: R. Dave, dave@njit.edu, (973) 596-5860.
February 18, 2009
More than 300 people and 30 companies are expected to attend the sixth annual biomedical engineering showcase and career fair on March 13, 2009 at NJIT. The annual event, to be held from 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in NJIT’s Campus Center, unites industry professionals and academics interested in the applied-life sciences.
February 17, 2009
Marcus Felson, PhD, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark, will discuss "Modeling Crime with Super-Simple Mathematics" on Feb. 20 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
February 17, 2009
"Theory of Ferroelectric Superlattices and Epitaxial Films" is the topic of a Physics Department Seminar by David Vanderbilt, PhD, a professor in the Physics Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick on Feb. 23, 12 noon-1 p.m. in Faculty Memorial Hall Rm. 408.
February 16, 2009
Apu Kapadia, PhD, of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory will discuss "Halo: High-Assurance Searches in Peer-to-Peer Networks" on Feb. 23, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Room 4415.
February 13, 2009
“Long-range solid-state ordering and high geometric distortions induced in phthalocyanines by small fluoroalkyl group,” by lead author Sergiu M. Gorun, PhD, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, will be the cover article and artwork published in the Feb. 21, 2009 print edition of Dalton Transactions, An International Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.
February 12, 2009
Nathaniel Nystrom, a postdoctoral researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, will discuss "Domain-Specific Language Extension for Correctness and Performance" at a Computer Science Department Seminar on Feb. 16, 2:30–3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415.
February 11, 2009
Allen Lee, PhD, a professor of information systems and associate dean for research and graduate studies in the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University, will discuss "A Scientific Basis of Rigor in Information Systems Research" on Feb. 16, 1-2 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, Room 3720.
February 10, 2009
Nine lucky NJIT students are testing one of the nation’s first application development courses for the Apple iPhone. The upper-level course, taught by Director of University Web Services Jim Robertson, illustrates how to develop applications for the popular iPhone.
February 10, 2009
Nancy W. Coppola, PhD, a professor in the department of humanities at NJIT, will be named one of 25 Associate Fellows for the Society for Technical Communication.
February 05, 2009
NJIT Humanities Professor and clarinetist David Rothenberg and Rutgers Music Professor and pianist Lewis Porter will perform jazz and electronics selections on Feb. 11, 2:30-4 p.m. at the John Cotton Dana Library on the Rutgers-Newark campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
Former world renowned chess champion, Chitra Sridhar, now a graduate student in the College of Computing Sciences at NJIT, has challenged the university community to a play-off Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009.
February 03, 2009
NJIT Professor Grace Guiling Wang, PhD will discuss "Dependable Sensor Networks" on Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. in ECEC 202. The seminar is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society North Jersey Chapter and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
February 03, 2009
Emil Prodan, PhD, assistant professor of physics at Yeshiva University, will discuss "The Modern Theory of Tunneling Conductance" on Feb. 9, 12 noon-1 p.m. in Faculty Memorial Hall Room 408.
February 02, 2009
John Pelesko, PhD, an associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware, will discuss "Soap Films, Droplets, Electric Fields, Magnetic Fields, and Elasticity" on Feb. 6 at at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2. The lecture is the third in the Spring 2009 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series.
January 30, 2009
A new book by Carol S. Johnson, PhD, assistant professor in the department of humanities at NJIT, shows how archives available in local and state libraries across the U.S. can provide rich sources of technical communication history and examples of technical and business writing. In The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810 to 1925 (Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2009), Johnson explains that our predecessors eventually turned logs and notes into standardized texts and industry bibles, creating many of the types of information design that we use today. A podcast series related to the book is available at http://web.njit.edu/~cjohnson/lukens.htm
January 28, 2009
Cyrill Muratov, PhD, an associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "A Variational Approach to Front Propagation in Infinite Cylinders" on Jan. 30 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2. The lecture is the second in the Spring 2009 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series.
January 27, 2009
Huixin He, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry at Rutgers-Newark will be the guest speaker at a Physics Department Seminar on Feb. 2, 12 noon-1 p.m. in Faculty Memorial Hall Rm. 408. "Fabrication of High Performance Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites for Biosensors and Flexible Electronics: Multiple Roles of DNA Dispersed and Functionalized Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes" is her topic.
January 22, 2009
New Jersey Monthly magazine this month named NJIT President Robert A. Altenkirch one of New Jersey’s most important people to watch in 2009.
Ralph Izzo believes that our society is steering a very unsustainable course when it comes to energy — and he speaks with authority. In the first Technology and Society Forum presentation at NJIT for spring 2009, Izzo will explore how the impacts of climate change and an uncertain economy make it imperative to redefine our complex relationship with energy.
The Urban Land Institute of Northern New Jersey has honored NJIT adjunct professor and attorney Jerry Fitzgerald English as “Land Use Educator of the Year” for her 23 years of leadership and service to the environmental sector especially within the region.
January 20, 2009
Louis Lanzerotti, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor in the department of physics at NJIT, will discuss the "New Spaceflight Mission To Study Earth's Radiation Belts" on Jan. 26, 12 noon-1 p.m. in 408 Faculty Memorial Hall (FMH).
January 14, 2009
Building a robot, busting a crime and launching two rubber-powered model monoplanes number among the dozen-plus exciting opportunities at tomorrow’s annual Science Olympiad at NJIT.
January 12, 2009
NJIT’s Office of Technology Development is hosting an 11-week series of webinars focused on commercialization of research (life science and engineering-based technology), on Wednesdays beginning Jan. 14–March 25, 1-2:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 1403. Co-organized by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer, the course will discuss the practical business and legal issues that researchers need to understand to commercialize their research. Contact Judith Sheft, Associate Vice President Technology Development at 973-596-5825; sheft@njit.edu.
January 08, 2009
The Princeton Review today named NJIT among the nation’s top 50 public undergraduate institutions for value. NJIT was included in the select listing because it has long been known for affordability nationally and in the region. The annual tuition this year for in-state students is under $10,500.
January 07, 2009
Nirwan Ansari, of Montville, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has received two notable honors. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named him a Fellow for his contributions to broadband networks and communications. Ansari also received an award from the IEEE member and geographic activities board.
December 23, 2008
Searching for an up-and-coming newsmaker for 2009 to round-off your new year’s spotlight? Why not take a closer look at three young, dynamic NJIT professors with a visit to “Spotlight” in the NJIT Newsroom. There you’ll find the following three winning professors with contact information so you can reach them today!
The Great Depression collided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these calamities—and preventing their reoccurrence—was a major goal of the New Deal. In Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007), NJIT author and professor Neil M. Maher recounts the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps.
December 04, 2008
The NJIT Department of Humanities Communication and Media Program will host a screening of representative works by students enrolled in the Video Narrative course this semester on Dec. 8, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m in Cullimore Hall Room 411. The event concludes the Department of Humanities Videography Den Fall 2008 series of student-faculty produced video screenings. For more information, e-mail Christopher Funkhouser.
NJIT’s Capstone Showcase in Information Technology will feature teams of students detailing current or recent projects developed for regional corporate sponsors, non-profit organizations and student entrepreneurs.
December 01, 2008
Ravindra Bhatt, PhD, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, will discuss "Spins in Semiconductors: From Antiferromagnetism to Ferromagnetism" at the Physics Department Seminar on Dec. 1, 12 noon-1 p.m. in 373 Tiernan Hall.
November 25, 2008
Judith Sheft, associate vice president for technology development at NJIT, has been awarded funds from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to assist faculty researchers with the most promising patentable inventions with funding grants of up to $50,000.
NJIT's College of Computing Sciences is presenting a seminar entitled, "In Pursuit of Unintended Consequences and Other Thoughts on NJIT’s Website Strategy", on Dec. 3, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 3710.
November 21, 2008
Priscilla P. Nelson, PhD, has announced that she will resign her position as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at New Jersey Institute of Technology, effective November 28, 2008, to pursue the university’s special projects related to international program development.
November 19, 2008
Pierre Collinet of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium will discuss "Thin Liquid films, Droplets and Contact Lines with Evaporation and Condensation" at an Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Nov. 21 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
November 17, 2008
Aleksandra Walczak, PhD of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics at Princeton University, will give the Physics Department Seminar on Nov. 24 from 12 noon-1 p.m. in 373 Tiernan Hall. Walczak will discuss learning design principles from noisy small gene regulatory networks.
November 13, 2008
Peter D. Miller, PhD, a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, will discuss "On the Semiclassical Limit for the Sine-Gordon Equation" at an Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Nov. 14 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
November 13, 2008
The Computer Science Research Committee at NJIT in conjunction with the Department of Information Systems is organizing a series of four talks titled "Funding Experiences in CCS" during the coming academic year. NJIT Professors Guiling (Grace) Wang, James Calvin and Michael Recce will share their experiences with obtaining funding on Nov. 19, 2:30-4 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 3730. Donald Sebastian, PhD (at left), Senior Vice President for Research and Development at NJIT, will provide opening remarks.
NJIT sustainability expert Deane Evans will provide an introduction to the basics of building green, high performance primary and secondary schools at a free seminar, open to the public, at NJIT. The talk, set for Nov. 19, 2008, at 3 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117, will include a review of the status of the NJ schools’ construction program.
The Research & Development Council of New Jersey will present on Nov. 6, 2008, a coveted Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award to NJIT Distinguished Professor Yeheskel Bar-Ness, a prominent expert in the field of wireless communications and signal processing.
November 03, 2008
Nina C. Shapley, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of chemical and biochemical engineering at Rutgers University, will discuss "Flow of Concentrated Suspensions in Asymmetric Bifurcations" at the Fall 2008 Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611.
"Toward Optical Hydrodynamics" is the topic of a talk by Jason W. Fleischer, PhD, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, on Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611. The event is part of the Fall 2008 Waves Seminar Series at NJIT.
October 29, 2008
A free seminar by NJIT sustainability expert Deane Evans scheduled for Nov. 5, 2008, at 3 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm 117 has been postponed.
Scientists believe that complex diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression and cancer are not caused by one, but a multitude of dysfunctional genes. A novel computational biology method developed by a research team led by Ali Abdi, PhD, associate professor in NJIT’s department of electrical and computer engineering, has found a way to uncover the critical genes responsible for disease development.
October 27, 2008
Horacio G. Rotstein, PhD, assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "The Mechanism of Abrupt Transition from Normal to Epileptic Spiking Activity in Medial Entorhinal Cortex Layer II Stellate Cells" at the Mathematical Biology Seminar Series on Oct. 28 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611.
October 21, 2008
Andrea Bertozzi, PhD, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of California-Los Angeles, will discuss "Swarming by Nature and Design" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Oct. 24 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
NJIT’s Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of scoring in baseball, has computed the probability of the Rays and Phillies winning the World Series now that the Rays have defeated the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series.
October 16, 2008
Li (Erran) Li, PhD, of the Networking Research Lab at Bell Laboratories will discuss the feasibility of "Achieving Practical Constructive Interference Control in Wireless Networks" on October 20, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Room 4415.
October 15, 2008
NJIT’s Bruce Bukiet, a mathematician who has applied mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, is now applying his methods to ascertain the players most deserving of major league baseball’s prestigious 2008 Most Valuable Player (MVP) and Cy Young awards.
October 15, 2008
Linda Cummings, PhD, an associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Bistability in Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Devices" on October 17 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
October 15, 2008
Maurie J. Cohen, PhD, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, will discuss "The Unsustainability of American Consumer Society" at NJIT's Green Lecture Series on October 22 at 3 p.m. in Kupfrian 117.
October 14, 2008
The lecture by Jin Sun, PhD, professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University, scheduled for October 20 has been cancelled.
An NJIT professor who has discovered new communication channels in underwater environments and invented a technique to communicate data through these channels will be honored later this month by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.
October 10, 2008
Dan Bunker, PhD, an assistant professor in NJIT's Federated Department of Biological Sciences, will discuss "Quantifying Species Functional Diversity with Convex Hull Volume" on October 14 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611. The lecture is part of the Fall 2008 Mathematical Biology Seminar Series.
October 06, 2008
Grétar Tryggvason, PhD, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will present a seminar on "Computational Studies of the Dynamics of Heterogeneous Continuum Systems" on Oct. 10 at 11:35 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
October 03, 2008
Annaleena Parhankangas, PhD, an associate professor in NJIT's School of Management, will explore the paradoxes, challenges and potential of entrepreneurship in technology-driven industries at the Department of Computer Science Seminar Series on Oct. 8, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Room 4415.
September 30, 2008
Yili Chen, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Delaware, will discuss "Integration of Genome and Epigenetic Feature To Predict c-Myc Targets" on Oct. 6, 2:30–3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Room 4415.
September 30, 2008
Doron Levy, PhD, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland-College Park, will discuss "Group Dynamics in Phototaxis" on Oct. 3 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2. The lecture is part of the Fall 2008 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series.
September 24, 2008
Ying Wei, PhD, assistant professor of biostatistics at Columbia University, will discuss "Quantile Regression and Its Application in Medical Sciences" on Sept. 25, 2008 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
September 23, 2008
Cristian Borcea, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at NJIT, will discuss "Career Advice for PhD Students: How to Get the Most out of Your Time in the PhD Program" on Sept. 29, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Room 3730.
September 23, 2008
The Computer Science Research Committee at NJIT in conjunction with the Department of Information Systems will host "Funding Experiences in CCS," a series of four talks during which CCS faculty with successful experience in obtaining funding will share their experiences. The seminar will be held on Sept. 24, 2:30–4 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Room 3730.
September 22, 2008
Ehud Yariv, PhD, a senior lecturer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, will discuss "Electrokinetic Flows about Polarizable Particles" at the Fluid Dynamics and Waves Seminar Series on Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611.
September 18, 2008
Yehoshua Perl, PhD, of New York City, a professor in the department of computer science, received at NJIT’s annual awards convocation, the NJIT Excellence in Research Award.
September 17, 2008
Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, PhD, of Montclair, a professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT received a master teacher designation at NJIT’s annual convocation Sept. 3, 2008.
September 15, 2008
NJIT physics professor Andrew Gerrard hopes by the end of October to be able to peer through what will be the second largest optical telescope east of Texas. Under his direction, a 1.2-meter diameter, fully-steerable Itek optical telescope will soon be installed far from city lights atop Jenny Jump Mountain, Hope.
September 15, 2008
Joyce McLaughlin, a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will discuss "Shear Stiffness Imaging as an Early Diagnostic Tool: New Applications and New Imaging Algorithms" on Sept. 19 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
September 11, 2008
With a charge not to tear down Newark’s older buildings, but to rehabilitate them, NJIT research professor Deane Evans, an architect and executive director of NJIT’s Center for Architecture and Building Science Research will open Newark’s Green Future Summit tomorrow morning at NJIT.
September 08, 2008
NJIT Associate Professor Robert S. Friedman is first author of a reference guide to the theory and research supporting the field of technology and innovation management.
September 08, 2008
Gregory Chirikjian, PhD, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss "Stochastic Models and Lie Groups" on Sept. 12 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
September 05, 2008
Deane M. Evans, FAIA, a research professor and executive director of the Center for Architecture and Building Science Research at NJIT, will provide welcoming remarks at Newark's Green Future Summit on Sept. 12-13 in the NJIT Campus Center. The two-day summit, which is free and open to the public, will highlight existing Newark sustainability initiatives and programs, present best practices from across the country, and offer an opportunity for participatory dialogue to chart priorities and next steps. Registration is required.
September 04, 2008
Naomi Leonard, PhD, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, will discuss "Mobile Sensor Networks: Cooperative Sensing and Control" on Sept. 5 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
NJIT Humanities Professors Christopher Funkhouser and Andrew Klobucar will perform on August 30, 4-6 p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Admission: $6.
NJIT will mark, once again, the new school year with University Convocation, an annual celebration and awards ceremony recognizing students, faculty and staff accomplishments.
Yuan Young, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Novel Fluid Dynamics in Stokes Flows" on August 6, 10-11 a.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611.
NJIT postdoctoral students and companies in the Enterprise Development Center (EDC), NJIT’s high technology business incubator, were awarded eight grants totaling $480,000 from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to bolster company growth and jumpstart the careers of young scientists.
Learning science has never been more rewarding for young girls than during the next few weeks at NJIT when FEMME, the 27-year-old, five-week, summer enrichment program, whirls to a fabulous finish. Hands-on, sophisticated projects guarantee to keep girls (ages 8-15) giggling and learning. Among the lessons: building paper roller coasters to learn physics and tie-dyeing shirts to study chemistry.
July 17, 2008
It’s okay to be a geek because geeks rule the world, astronaut Bernard Harris told 52 middle school youngsters during a special luncheon at NJIT’s ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp.
NJIT Humanities Professor Christopher Funkhouser, PhD, will perform while screening his latest multimedia text-movie, this is not a b (pdp remix), which was recently published at trickhouse.org, on July 20, 4-5 p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
July 15, 2008
The first African-American astronaut, Bernard Harris, ExxonMobil engineers and 52 middle school students will design and construct at NJIT small rafts of aluminum and straw designed to hold pennies.
Karl Schweizer, PhD, a professor in the federated department of history at NJIT, has been elected a fellow of the New York Academy of Arts in recognition of his contributions to historical studies.
Vladislav Goldberg, PhD, distinguished professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, presented a lecture last month at the fifth annual Abel Symposium at the University of Tromsø in Norway.
NJIT Mathematics Professor Bruce Bukiet, PhD is featured in the Van Houten Library's main exhibit —a salute to baseball-this summer. Bukiet, an avid Mets fan who is also associate dean of NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts, uses a mathematical model to predict Major League Baseball outcomes.
Sundar Subramanian, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Survival Analysis: An Overview" on July 2 at 10 a.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611. The lecture is part of the Department of Mathematical Sciences Summer Program Seminar Series at NJIT.
NJIT Professor and Maplewood resident Burt Kimmelman will read from his poetry tonight at the Bright Hill Literary Center, Treadwell, NY. The Center is located near the State University of New York at Oneonta. Kimmelman, a professor in NJIT’s department of humanities, has published five poetry collections and is awaiting the publication by Talisman House in early 2009 of his sixth collection, As If Free.
David Rothenberg, PhD, professor of humanities at NJIT, will discuss his new book Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound on WNYC 93.9 FM's "Soundcheck Live" program today at 2 p.m.
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June 16, 2008
NJIT has awarded the first Thomas Fellowships to a gifted computer scientist from South Jersey and a promising young Chinese electrical engineer with three patents already under his belt.
Philip Rinaldi '68, founder and former chief executive officer of Coffeyville Resources and a member of the NJIT Board of Overseers, hosted a dinner cruise around Manhattan for 38 guests on June 5 aboard his one-of-a-kind yacht, the Vivere. The cruise was a silent auction offering at NJIT's Celebration 2007. In addition to the Rinaldis’ generosity, the NJIT Board of Overseers and NJIT Board of Trustees members who signed on for the cruise donated more than $10,800 to NJIT. As per Phil’s request, this amount will be equally divided in support of scholarships at the New Jersey School of Architecture, Newark College of Engineering, and the College of Science and Liberal Arts.
Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, PhD, an associate professor in the department of humanities and the director of NJIT’s Murray Center for Women in Technology, received the University Change Agent Award on June 9 from the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). The award recognizes and honors an individual who has driven positive change at his/her institution with regard to the climate for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, with an emphasis on engineering.
Michael R. Booty, PhD, associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Bubble and Drop Deformation and Breakup: The Influence of Surfactant and Surfactant Solubility" on June 4, 10-11 a.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611. The lecture is part of the 2008 Summer Program Seminar Series.
Architects Deane M. Evans, FAIA, executive director of the Center for Architecture and Building Science Research at NJIT, and Christine Bruncati, RA, will be interviewed on a rebroadcast of NJN's Green Builders, which profiles green building pioneers who have taken the leap into making their part of the “built environment” a more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly place. Air times are June 1 at 11 p.m.; June 11 at 9 p.m.; and June 14 at 3 p.m.
Christopher Funkhouser, PhD, associate professor in the department of humanities at NJIT and an expert in digital poetry, read from his forthcoming work, Technopoetry Rising, on WNYC Radio's "Ceptuetics" program earlier this month.
Peter Gordon, PhD, assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will describe some major mathematical ideas used in analysis of reaction diffusion equations and systems on May 28 at 10 a.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611. "Reaction Diffusion Equations 101" is the title of his lecture, which kicks off the Summer Program Seminar Series.
May 16, 2008
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host May 19-21, 2008, more than 200 leading experts for the fifth annual Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics Conference, an unusual three-day event featuring leading researchers who will discuss the latest news and research findings in their fields.
May 16, 2008
Daljit Ahluwalia, the visionary, vibrant and longtime chair of NJIT’s Department of Mathematical Sciences, will be honored at 6:30 p.m. on May 19, 2008 for his pivotal role in dramatically raising the department’s status on campus and in the nation. The honor will be awarded on the occasion of Ahluwahlia’s 75th birthday before more than 200 leading academics from around the world.
When Stephanie Milczarski, 25, of Montclair, a future physicist, walks at NJIT’s May 17, 2008 commencement in the Prudential Center, more than kudos may be on her mind. Milczarski didn’t arrive at NJIT until leaving a competitive physics program elsewhere, working full time several years and then slowly returning to academe as an NJIT undergraduate.
When Daniel Boston, of Pittsgrove Township, a budding computer scientist and top academic award winner, walks at NJIT’s upcoming May 17, 2008 commencement in the Prudential Center, he may ponder more than his near-perfect grade point averages or a $62,000 scholarship for ongoing doctoral studies at NJIT.
Talented high school students from throughout North Jersey will test their knowledge in performing timed laboratory experiments, writing computer programs, designing chemical apparatus, and more at the New Jersey Chemistry Olympics on May 21 in Tiernan Hall. The one-day competition is co-sponsored by NJIT and The North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society-Teacher Affiliates.
May 13, 2008
NJIT Provost Priscilla P. Nelson, of West Orange, received the Kenneth R. Row Award from the American Association of Engineering Sciences on May 5 for promoting unity among engineering societies. She accomplished this goal through her current work at NJIT coupled with earlier leadership positions at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
"Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics," the fifth in a series of annual conferences organized by NJIT's Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, will be held on May 19-21 at NJIT. This year's conference will focus on mathematical biology (including mathematical neuroscience, developmental biology, and ecology), mathematical fluid dynamics, applied statistics and biostatistics, electromagnetics/waves, and acoustics.
A better understanding of brain injury, a way to rejuvenate dead nerve endings and a device allowing patients to monitor their glaucoma at home, number among this year’s nine winners at NJIT’s annual provost’s student research day.
NJIT Provost Priscilla Nelson, of West Orange, will be honored tonight in Washington, DC, by the American Association of Engineering Societies for promoting unity among the engineering societies. The organization said she accomplished this goal through her leadership positions at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NJIT. She will receive the Kenneth Andrew Roe Award in recognition of this work at a banquet.
Mark Shattuck, PhD, an associate professor of physics at City College of New York, will discuss "Shaken, Not Stirred: Granular Equilibrium" at the Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series on May 5 at 4 p.m., Cullimore Lecture Hall Room 611.
NJIT’s associate provost for information services and technology and chief information officer David F. Ullman, of South Orange, was named chief information officer for 2008 (for nonprofits) by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC).
Gregory Kriegsmann, distinguished professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media" on May 2 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2.
April 28, 2008
M.C. Bhattacharjee, PhD, a professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Shock Models, a Family of Discrete Laws and Corresponding Strongly Decreasing Failure Rate Laws in Continuous Time" at the Statistics Seminar Series on May 1 at 4 p.m. in 425 Fenster Hall.
Saverio Spagnolie, a PhD student in applied mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, will discuss “Direction Reversal in Flapping Flight and Shape Changing Locomotion” on April 28 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 535. The talk is part of the Spring 2008 Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series at NJIT.
NJIT Humanities Professor, writer and musician David Rothenberg, PhD, will share his insights into the music of the natural world at a recital on May 3 at 7 p.m. at the Glynwood Center in Cold Spring, NY. There is no admission charge, but registration is required. For reservations, contact Anita Barber at 845-265-3338 x 101.
April 22, 2008
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";?>NJIT and the Liberty Science Center recently unveiled the Bat Mobile, a new, interactive baseball exhibit that allows guests to test various types of bats, estimate the velocity of a ball after it has been hit, and determine where it would land in the field. Designed by NJIT Physics Professor Ravindra Nuggehalli and a team of NJIT students, the Bat Mobile will be available to Liberty Science Center guests throughout this year’s baseball season. Ravi and his \"Bat Mobile\"
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Filippo Posta, a doctoral student in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss “Signal Transmission in Epithelial Layers” at the Mathematical Biology Seminar Series on April 22 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
More than 120 New Jersey high school students from 40 private and public schools will compete for the title of New Jersey’s best future computer programmers when NJIT runs its annual contest April 18, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. in the NJIT Campus Center.
Edgardo Farinas, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his project "New Tools for High-Throughput Screening of Protein Libraries: Engineering Metalloproteins Displayed on Bacillus Subtilis Spores." The prestigious career award recognizes teacher-scholars most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.
April 16, 2008
Mikko Haataja, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) at Princeton University, will discuss "Heterogeneous Lipid Bilayers: Evolving Microstructures in Biology” at the Spring 2008 Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series on April 16 at 1 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
Mariana Cassimiro, Fatima Elgammal, Brian Emmanuel, Michael Lam, Nan Maung, Matthew Peragine, and Alex Virodov, all NJIT mathematical sciences majors, were recognized for their poster presentations at the Garden State Undergraduate Mathematics Conference on April 12. The students, divided in three groups, were awarded three out of the first four places (including first) among all presenting four-year colleges. NJIT professors Roy Goodman, David Horntrop, and Michael Siegel were the students' research mentors.
Student teams will present their real-world projects at "Mission Impossible!," the eighth annual Spring 2008 College of Computing Sciences (CCS) Capstone Showcase on April 23, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. in the Campus Center Atrium.
April 14, 2008
Jan Achenbach, PhD, Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick School Professor at Northwestern University will discuss "Structural Health Monitoring–What is the Prescription?" on April 14, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rooms 3730 and 3740. The lecture is sponsored by Elsevier and the NJIT Granular Science Laboratory.
Sheryl Sorby, National Science Foundation Program Director for Undergraduate Education and former chair of Engineering Fundamentals and associate dean of engineering at Michigan Tech, will discuss the correlation between well-developed spatial skills and success in engineering, computer science, chemistry and computer-aided design on April 15 at 2:30 p.m. in Eberhardt Hall Room 112. The presentation is co-sponsored by the NJIT/NCE Extension Services in Engineering Project Team and the NSF-funded NJIT ADVANCE Project. For more information, contact Professor Norman Loney at loney@njit.edu or Talina Knox at knoxt@njit.edu.