"Broadband: Closing The Economic Divide," The Alliance for Digital Equality's Newark Digital Empowerment Broadband Summit, will be held on April 23, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. in the NJIT Campus Center. Speakers include: Newark Mayor Cory Booker; CNN Contributor Mario Armstrong; New York Secretary of State Lorraine Cortez-Vasquez; JNET President and CEO  David Jefferson; FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn; and National Urban League President Marc Morial as well as other distinguished panelists and participants locally and nationwide. For more information or to register, log on to: www.alliancefordigitalequality.org >>

CGC Genetics, Inc., the first private medical genetics laboratory in Portugal, celebrated the grand opening today of its U.S. operations in NJIT's Enterprise Development Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and press conference. Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, whose office brought CGC to Newark and the U.S., led the ribbon-cutting ceremony with Stefan Pryor, deputy mayor for Economic Development; Joao Vellera, Portuguese ambassador to the U.S.; Maria Amelia Paiva, consul general of Portugal; Robert A. Altenkirch, president of NJIT; Donald H. Sebastian, senior vice president for research and development at NJIT; and Dr. Robert Johnson, dean of the New Jersey Medical School. >>