The only way to learn if your water source has hexavalent chromium is to check with your public water supplier and request a water quality report, said NJIT Professor Taha Marhaba, a civil/environmental engineer.  >>

Robert Niedzwiecki, Andrew Keeling, and Abdel Hezzini took first-place honors in the semi-annual Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Design Workshop Poster Presentation event for their project “Implementation of a Digitally Controlled Exhaust Powered Generator.” >>

Ankur Agrawal, a PhD student in the department of computer science at NJIT, presented his paper titled "Dissimilarities in the Logical Modeling of Apparently Similar Concepts in SNOMED CT" last month at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2010 Annual Symposium in Washington, DC.  >>

Shabnam Darjani, a PhD candidate in the department of civil and environmental engineering at NJIT, received a student participation grant to attend a national conference organized by the National Science Foundation.  >>

As the holidays approach and you’re buying wine, ever wonder what’s really in a cork?  Ask NJIT’s John Federici, who has a new use for Terahertz imaging: searching for divots and cracks in wine corks to insure quality.  Using Federici’s laboratory, which is devoted to sub-millimeter or Terahertz waves, the project, in collaboration with Amorim & Irmãos S.A. Portugal, the world’s largest  natural cork producer, and sponsored by QREN, a Portuguese national program for development and innovation, is focused on detecting defects such as cracks and voids in the cork. >>

Sergei Adamovich, PhD, associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering at NJIT, was recently invited to participate in a press conference to present the results of his team's research to the media at the annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience. >>

Students in the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program at NJIT recently received certification in pervious concrete, a process that included a morning lecture on the knowledge needed for contractors to manage the material followed by an actual pouring of pervious concrete outside of the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center. Many other students were able to watch the pour as the future barbecue area and event space was being paved for the NJIT community. The program was sponsored by the PCA Northeast Cement Shippers Association. >>

The visiting delegation from Zhenjiang in Jiangsu Province, China visited NJIT on Dec. 3 and was led by Vice Mayor and General Secretary Mr. Xiao Ping Li.  He was accompanied by Mr. Qiliang Gui, Vice Secretary and Jian Lin Lu, as well as Mao Su Yan and Violet Gu of the Zhenjiang New Area Investment Promotion Center with Rongjun Ni and Weihua Cao of the Zhenjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone. >>

Jon Curley, PhD, university lecturer in NJIT's Department of Humanities, will be the featured poet on Dec. 2 at 8 p.m at Art House Productions in Jersey City. He will read from his book of poems New Shadows (Dos Madres Press, Inc., 2009).  >>

Byron Chen, PhD, an adjunct professor in NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Excellence in Instruction by an Adjunct Professor Award on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

Shilan Motamedvaziri, a teaching assistant in NJIT's Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, received the Excellence in Instruction by a Teaching Assistant Award on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

Piero Armenante, PhD, distinguished professor in NJIT's Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, received the Master Teacher Award on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

Michael Higley, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in NJIT's Department of Mathematical Sciences, will discuss "Evolution of an Elastic Capsule in Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow" on Dec. 6, 4-5 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611. >>

Leslie Greengard, PhD, of the Courant Institute at New York University, will discuss "A New Formalism for Electromagnetic Scattering in Complex Geometry" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Dec. 3 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Hall II. >>

Kang Xi, PhD, industry associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU-POLY, will discuss "Fast Failure Recovery in IP Networks" on Dec. 1, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 4415. >>

Min-ge Xie, PhD, professor of statistics and director of the Office of Statistical Consulting, Department of Statistics at Rutgers University, will discuss "A Latent Model to Detecting Multiple Temporal Clusters of Varying Sizes" on Dec. 2, 4-5 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611 (Math Conference Room). >>

Dorairaja Raghu, PhD, professor in NJIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Excellence in Upper Division Undergraduate Instruction Award on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

James Geller, PhD, professor in the NJIT's Department of Computer Science, received the Excellence in Research Award on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

The IEEE Communications Society North Jersey Chapter and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will sponsor "Stochastic Routing for Delay Tolerant Network" by Zygmunt J. Haas, PhD, of Cornell University and the National Science Foundation on Nov. 29 at 2:30 p.m. in 202 ECEC.  >>

Dale Gary, PhD, distinguished professor in NJIT's Department of Physics, received the Excellence in Research Award on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

Javier Diez, PhD, of the UNCPBA in Tandil, Argentina, will discuss "A Liquid Rivulet Placed Across on an Iinclined Plane: Its Stability" on Nov. 29, 4-5 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

Nancy L. Jackson, PhD, professor in NJIT's Department of Chemistry and Environmental science, will discuss "Aeolian Sediment Transport on Managed Coastal Systems" on Nov. 29, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 3710. Jackson will present results of a two-year field investigation to assess differences in sediment transport across backshore and foredune environments in New Jersey that are managed for shore protection with those that are allowed to evolve naturally. >>

Marino Xanthos, PhD, a professor in NJIT’s Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering was awarded the 2010 Heinz List Award at the annual meeting of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) in Orlando.  >>

Jerry Fjermestad, PhD, professor in NJIT's School of Management and Department of Information Systems, received the Excellence in Graduate Instruction Award on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

Roumiana Petrova, PhD, lecturer in NJIT's Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, received the Excellence in Instruction by a University Lecturer on Sept. 15, 2010 at the NJIT University Convocation, an awards ceremony with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. >>

NJIT Physics Professor Gordon A. Thomas was one of eight poster winners announced for the Biotech 2010 Innovation Corridor, the tenth annual joint symposium of BioNJ and Pennsylvania Bio. As part of the process, the eight posters and presenters were selected to participate in a special one-on-one mentoring sessions with experts in scientific research, business development, legal issues, and investments. Judith Sheft, associate vice president of technology development at NJIT, served as a co-chair of the symposium. >>

Sima Bagheri, PhD, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at NJIT, has been selected to participate in the 8th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference, "Seeing the Future with Imaging Science," Nov. 17-19, 2010, in Irvine, California. Bagheri’s contribution is entitled “The Impact of Global Change on Nearshore Water Quality – A Remote Sensing Approach.”    >>

The Society of Automotive Engineers Formula Team at NJIT recently participated in the New Jersey Science and Engineering Festival at Clifton High School. The festival is a “World’s Fair” comprised of exhibits, attractions, lectures, entertainment and opportunities to meet researchers, professors, and members of technical societies. >>

The history of sickle cell disease in the 20th century and its link to race is the focus of a Nov. 16, 2010 talk at a national symposium by NJIT Associate Professor Stephen Pemberton, PhD, an expert on the history of diseases.  >>

Anthony La Rosa '93, principal and managing director of Tri-Power Design, LLC in Denville, discussed his career path with mechanical engineering students last week at NJIT. The event was co-sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Mary Sullivan Memorial Lecture Series.  >>

Sergei Adamovich, PhD, associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering at NJIT, co-authored "Integrated Arm and Hand Training Using Adaptive Robotics and Virtual Reality Simulations," which won the Best Paper Award at the VIII International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies in Valparaiso, Chile.  >>

Zhiming Ji, PhD, associate professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering, will discuss "Development of a Gait Rehabilitation System" on Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in  202 ECEC (Conference Room). For more information, contact MengChu Zhou at 973-596-6282. >>

Hans Thomann, PhD, senior scientific advisor at the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, will discuss "Energy in the 21st Century" on Nov. 17 at 11:30 am in Tiernan 373. For more information, contact Haidong Huang, 973-596-3576.  >>

Yuanqiu Luo, PhD, a senior research engineer in the advanced technology department of Huawei Technologies USA, Bridgewater, will discuss "Optical and Wireless Integration: A Passive Optical Network (PON) Time Synchronization Overview" on Nov. 18 at 6:15 p.m. (refreshments start at 6 p.m.) in Kupfrian 202. The event is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society North Jersey Chapter and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. >>

"Magnetic Fluids and Microfluidics: A Powerful Combination" will be the topic of a Fluid Mechanics Seminar by Raquel Perez-Castillejos, PhD, assistant professor in NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, on Nov. 15 at 4 PM in Cullimore Hall Room 611.       >>

The NJIT Steel Bridge Team recently participated in the New Jersey Science and Engineering Festival at Clifton High School. "How to Engineer a Bridge" was the theme of their display, which featured designing a virtual bridge with software and then load testing it with an animated truck as well as a "Paper Bridge Challenge" where students created a bridge from one sheet of copy paper that had to support 100 pennies. >>

Chun Liu, PhD, professor of mathematics at Penn State University, will discuss "Energetic Variational Approaches in the Modeling of Ionic Solutions and Ion Channels" on Nov. 12 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>

Randall H. Rieger, PhD, professor of statistics at West Chester University, will discuss "Testing for Violations of the Homogeneity Needed for Conditional Logistic Regression" on Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

The IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapter and NJIT will host  "Photocurrent and Noise Analysis as Alternative Approaches to Understanding OFET Behavior" on Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. in Room 202, ECE Center. The speaker will be John Kymissis, PhD of Columbia University. All are welcome. You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend. Contact: Durga Misra at 973-596-5739 or Edip Niver at 973-596-3542. >>

Darshan J. Desai, a lecturer in NJIT's Department of Biological Sciences, will discuss "The Role of E-Cadherin in the Regulation of Myelination in the Peripheral Nervous System" at a Biomedical Engineering Department Seminar on Nov. 5 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 3. >>

The NJIT Student Chapter of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) participated in the New Jersey Science & Engineering Festival held at Clifton High School on Oct. 23-24. Fifteen student volunteers in pharmaceutical engineering and chemical engineering provided visual examples via their simulation models, testing equipment and step-by-step presentations.   >>

NJIT Associate Professor Victor Matveev, PhD, in the department of mathematical sciences, was part of a research team that published “N-type Ca²⁺ channels carry the largest current: Implications for nanodomains and transmitter release,” in Nature Neuroscience on Oct. 17, 2010. >>

Miriam Ascarelli, a lecturer in the NJIT Department of Humanities, has published Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the Story of the Seeing Eye (Purdue Univ. Press), a short biography of Dorothy Harrison Eustis, founder of The Seeing Eye, Inc., the oldest existing dog guide-school in the world, located in Morristown. >>

Taehun Lee, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at CCNY, will discuss "Unstructured Lattice Boltzmann Method for Single- and Two-phase Flows" on Nov 8, 4-5 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

Alla Borisyuk, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of Utah, will discuss "Selectivity to Slowly Rising Stimuli in Frog Auditory Neurons" on Nov. 2 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

The IEEE Communications Society North Jersey Chapter and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will co-sponsor "Network Selection for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Systems," a talk by Chonggang Wang, PhD, senior staff engineer at InterDigital Communications, Inc. on Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. (refreshments start at 4:45 p.m.) in 202 ECEC. Contact: Nirwan Ansari at 973-596-3670.    >>

Drew Terpenning and Shengyan Gao, graduate students in NJIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the 2010 New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Outstanding Student in Transportation Award last week at the 12th Annual NJDOT Research Showcase at Rutgers University. >>

“HYMN to Improve the Longevity of Wireless Sensor Networks,” a paper co-authored by Nirwan Ansari, PhD, professor in NJIT's department of electrical and computer engineering, has been selected for an IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 Best Paper Award to be presented at the 2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010) in Miami, Dec. 6-10, 2010. GLOBECOM 2010 received 4614 paper submissions and a total of 11 papers have been selected to receive the best paper awards.  >>

V.J. Manzo, director of Music Technology at Montclair State University's John J. Cali School of Music, will discuss "Interactive Technology for Music Composition and Performance" on Nov. 3, 4-5 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 3730. Manzo is a composer and guitarist with research interests in theory and composition, artificial intelligence, interactive music systems, and music learning.  >>

NJIT Humanities Professor and clarinetist David Rothenberg will perform with Charles Lindsay in The Electrosense of Paddlefish, a multimedia piece on water in the American West on Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. at the Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th St. (between Washington Square Park E. and Greene St.). Rothenberg was awarded the third annual NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal on October 6. >>

There’s a 65 percent chance that the Texas Rangers will beat the San Francisco Giants in the World Series starting tomorrow, said NJIT’s Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences.  >>

Daniel Attinger, PhD, assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, will discuss "Multiscale Engineering of Solid-Liquid Interface" at the Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series on Nov. 1, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall, Room 611.  . >>

An expert in digital data forensics and information assurance, Yun-Qing Shi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, will number among 30 New Jersey inventors from eight companies and universities to be honored at the upcoming 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Awards on Nov. 4. Hosted by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, the ceremony and reception will take place at the Liberty Science Center.    >>

Lian Yu, PhD, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss "Crystallization of Organic Glasses" on Nov. 1 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117. >>

Yongchao Ge, PhD, assistant professor at the Mount Sinai Medical School, will discuss "Making Statistical Inference on the Proportion of Positive Cells for the Flow Cytometry Data" at the Statistics Seminar Series on Oct. 28, 4-5 p.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 611. >>

Meng-Sang Chew, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University, will discuss "Adaptive Control of a Model of an Artificial Heart: Theory and Experiment" at a Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Seminar on Nov. 3, 1-2:30 p.m. in the MIE Lecture Hall Room 224.  >>

The IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with NJIT will host a talk on “Advantages of Micro-inverters in AC PV Systems: Introduction to Petra Solar’s SunWave Technology" on Oct. 27 at 5 p.m. in the ECE Center Room 202. The speaker will be Dr. Hussam Alatrash, co-founder of Petra Solar. You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend. Contact: Dr. Durga Misra at 973-596-5739 (dmisra@njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver at 973-596-3542. >>

V.J. Manzo, director of Music Technology at Montclair State University's John J. Cali School of Music, will discuss "Interactive Technology for Music Composition and Performance" on Nov. 3, 4-5 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 3730. Manzo is a composer and guitarist with research interests in theory and composition, artificial intelligence, interactive music systems, and music learning.  >>

Burt Kimmelman, PhD, a professor in NJIT's Department of Humanities, will read his poetry at the Kelley Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. in the Arts Cafe. >>

Shelley Fried, PhD of the Department of Neurosurgery/ Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School and the Boston Retinal Implant Project, Boston VA Healthcare System, will discuss improved stimulation methods with neural prosthetics on Oct. 22 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 3. >>

"The Effect of Periodic and Non-Periodic Inputs on Firing Rate Resonance in a Stellate Cell Model" is the topic of a Mathematical Biology Seminar by Dongwook Kim, a doctoral student in NIJT's Department of Mathematical Sciences, on Oct. 26 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

Bruno Hancock, research fellow in Global Research and Development at Pfizer Inc., will discuss "Using Emerging Predictive Tools to Accelerate Drug Product Development" on Oct. 25 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall, Room 117. >>

In a Policy Forum article in today's issue of Science, a group of leading biodiversity scientists, including NJIT’s Daniel Bunker, have argued that targets to be met by 2020 under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) must consider the real value of biodiversity if they are to be attained.  >>

Young Ju Lee, PhD, assistant professor in the department of mathematics at Rutgers University, will discuss "Self-Sustaining Oscillations of the Falling Sphere Through the Johnson-Segalman Fluids" on Oct. 18. 4-5 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

NJIT Junior Richard Ossa, of Clifton, was selected as one of the first to be named an Obama Scholar in a competitive process by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF).  >>

Zhanlu Zhang, PhD, associate professor of land use planning and management in the Department of Land Management, School of Public Administration, Renmin University in Beijing, China, will present a seminar on "Land Use Policy and Farmland Consolidation in China" on Oct. 19 at 11:30 a.m. in 373 Tiernan Hall. The seminar is hosted by NJIT's Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science. >>

The NJIT Astronomy Club will host a public talk on research with the Hubble Space Telescope on Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. in Kupfrian 117. The talk is by Slawomir Piatek, senior university lecturer in NJIT's Department of Physics, whose research group has been measuring motions for nearby dwarf satellite galaxies using data taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Telescopes will be set up after the talk, weather permitting, to view Jupiter and the Moon. Contact: Dale E. Gary at 973-596-5376.  >>

Andrew Hill, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "The Effect of Prenatal and Postnatal Nicotine Exposure on the Postnatal Development of an In Vitro Respiratory Rhythm" on Oct. 15, 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>

Historians usually depict the space race of the 1960s and 1970s as a pitched technological battle between Cold War political rivals. Yet while U.S. and Soviet spacecraft forced the world to look upward towards the Moon, they also, quite ironically, encouraged citizens across the globe to gaze back down at “spaceship Earth” with a newfound environmental awareness.  >>

Paul Takhistov, PhD, an associate professor of food engineering in the Department of Food Science at Rutgers University, will discuss "Solid Lipid Nanoparticles: from Emulsions to Advanced Drug Delivery Systems" at the Fall 2010 Graduate Research Seminar Series on Oct. 18 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117. >>

Ali Akansu, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering and his former doctoral student Handan Agirman-Tosun, PhD, published the paper "Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform with Nonlinear Phase," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 4547-4556, Sept. 2010.  This is a continuation of a number of contributions made by them on Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform. Akansu will also give a talk entitled "Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform with Nonlinear Phase: A Time-Frequency Method" on Oct. 20 at Purdue University . >>

Xiaoqiao Meng, PhD, a research staff member of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, will discuss "Towards Efficient Capacity Planning in Cloud Computing" on Oct. 18,  2:30-3:30 p.m. in the GITC Building 4415.  >>

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority in the US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Menssana Research Inc., a company with research facilities in the NJIT Enterprise Development Center, a contract for $4.2 million to develop a breath test for radiation exposure. If the contract is exercised with options, it could total $22.84 million.   >>

The exotic world of interspecies music was revealed yesterday when the third annual NJIT Excellence in Research Prize and Medal was bestowed upon David Rothenberg, PhD, a member of NJIT’s faculty, best-selling author and acclaimed jazz clarinetist, by the NJIT Board of Overseers. "As an NJIT Overseer, I am especially appreciative of David’s accomplishments in reaching out and building relationships with readers and listeners beyond what is generally considered the traditional boundary of academia," said NJIT Board of Overseers Chairman Emil Herkert. >>

Ben Glasser, PhD, a professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University, will discuss "Why All the Brazil Nuts Are Not on Top: Granular Size Segregation of Binary, Ternary and Multi-sized Mixtures" on Oct. 11 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117. The lecture is part of the Fall 2010 Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series. >>

A $5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to upgrade and expand a set of radio frequency antennas at Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA) has been awarded to NJIT.  >>

With the Major League Baseball Division Series set to begin, associate math professor Bruce Bukiet at NJIT is performing his analysis of the probability of each team advancing to the League Championship Series.  "Going into these series, the Philadelphia Phillies have a 64 percent chance of defeating the Cincinnati Reds in their best of five game series,” he said. “The Texas Rangers, New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants have slight advantages to win series over their opponents, the Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves respectively in the first round Division Series contests. >>

Bruce Bukiet, PhD, of West Orange, an associate professor in NJIT's Department of Mathematical Sciences who applies mathematical modeling techniques to elucidate the dynamics of run scoring in baseball, has won the 2010 Major League Baseball Predictions contest sponsored by Baseball PhD. >>

Jon Curley, of Jersey City, and Burt Kimmelman (at left), of Maplewood, associate professor and professor, respectively, in NJIT's Department of Humanities, will participate in a poetry reading presented by the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative on Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Williams Center for the Arts in Rutherford.    >>

Leslie Woodcock, PhD, Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, will discuss “Powders Behaving Like Liquids” at the Granular and Multiphase Flows Colloquium Series on Oct. 4, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in GITC 3710. >>

Charles Peskin, PhD, professor at the Courant Institute at New York University, will discuss "A Look-Ahead Model for the Transcriptional Dynamics of RNA Polymerase" on Oct. 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>

Sergei Adamovich, PhD, associate professor in NJIT’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, gave an invited lecture last week at the meeting of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine in Washington, DC. He participated in a panel of six experts from the US, Canada and Europe to share his views on future trends in pediatric rehabilitation. The topic of his presentation to a large audience of pediatricians and physical/occupational therapists was the use of technology (robotics and virtual reality) in rehabilitation of arm movement in children with cerebral palsy.  >>

Ian Lafond, a second-year PhD student in NJIT's Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. This $142,000 award will support Ian's dissertation research in the lab of Associate Professor Sergei Adamovich over the next four years. >>

Carol S. Johnson, PhD, an associate professor in NJIT's Department of Humanities, has won the 2010 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Award in Technical and Scientific Communication in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication for The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810-1925 (Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2009). The award will be announced at the 2011 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) meeting in Atlanta in March.  She is a resident of Oak Ridge. >>

A customer at an Apple store asks for the latest iPhone in black, but then suddenly changes his preference to white when he sees everyone else buying black . . .  Although the child knows she shouldn't press the big red button, she finds her hand inching toward it. . . . In some cultures, young men and women who decide to marry know that they will see each other in person for the first time on their wedding day.  How did these people make their choices? How do any of us make vital and mundane choices? >>

Aydın Sunol, PhD, a professor in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida, will discuss "Supercritical Fluid Aided Synthesis of Nano Structured Particles" on Sept. 27 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117. >>

Carol S. Johnson, PhD, of Oak Ridge, an associate professor in NJIT's Department of Humanities, has won the 2010 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Award in Technical and Scientific Communication in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication for The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810-1925 (Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2009). The award will be announced at the 2011 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) meeting in Atlanta in March. >>

Devendra Bajaj, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Orthopaedics at UMDNJ-NJMS, will discuss "Tooth: A Tough Natural Biocomposite" on Sept. 24, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>

The exotic world of interspecies music will be revealed on Oct. 6, 2010 when the New Jersey Institute of Technology Excellence in Research Prize and Medal is bestowed upon David Rothenberg, a member of NJIT’s faculty, best-selling author and acclaimed jazz clarinetist, by the NJIT Board of Overseers. “Harmonic Connections in Nature, Science and Music,” held at 5 p.m. at the Jim Wise Theater in Kupfrian Hall, will include a presentation by Rothenberg, PhD, professor of philosophy and music, on how and why music enables him to communicate with birds and whales—the subject of his two best-selling books.  >>

The NJIT Astronomy Club is hosting a public talk on the NASA space mission New Horizons on Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. in Kupfrian 117. The New Horizons mission will study the first "double planet" Pluto and Charon and its moons Nix and Hydra. A presentation on the mission will be given by Amateur Astronomers, Inc. (AAI) Sidewalk Astronomy Chair Helder Jacinto, who will cover the space craft, its Jupiter mission and discuss the Pluto and Charon spacecraft visit. >>

Each year since 2005, colleges and universities across the United States have recognized September as National Campus Safety Awareness Month. Following the ninth anniversary of 9/11, higher education institutions continue to work collaboratively to improve the safety and security of students, faculty, staff and guests on their campuses by sharing information regarding policies and strategies to consistently maintain safe campuses throughout the State. >>

Music has many virtues — including the potential to benefit individuals whose mobility is severely impaired by cerebral palsy and spinal injuries. In the first of NJIT’s new series of Technology and Society Forum presentations, Pauline Oliveros and colleagues from the Deep Listening Institute will demonstrate software that makes it possible to improvise music with slight head movements. This software extends the expressive, holistic and therapeutic benefits of musical improvisation to both adults and children. >>

The IEEE Communications Society North Jersey Chapter and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will sponsor a seminar by Yigal Bejerano, PhD, of Bell Laboratories Alcatel Lucent on Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m. in ECEC 202. Bejerano's topic will be "Understanding the Unfair Behavior of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs." >>

Andrea Barreiro, PhD, acting assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington, will discuss "Modeling Cooperative Activity in Neural Systems" on Sept. 14 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

Wah-Keat Lee, PhD, of the X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, will discuss "X-ray Imaging of Complex Dynamics at the Advanced Photon Source: Ferrofluids, Bugs and Sprays" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Sept. 10 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall 2. >>

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.   >>

"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.  >>

NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) team have achieved “first light” using a deformable mirror in what is called adaptive optics at BBSO. An image of a sunspot was published Aug. 23, 2010 on the website of Ciel et l'Espace, as the photo of the day. >>

Paul G. Ranky, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at NJIT, recently presented "Case-Based/Problem-Based Sustainable Green Engineering Teaching /Learning Methods and Experiences for Millennial Generation Engineering Students in the USA, Europe and Asia" at the 2010 International Symposium on Flexible Automation in Tokyo, Japan. He also served as co-chair of the Green Engineering Session at this conference. >>

Yuan-Nan Young, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, has been invited to speak on "Dynamics of a Polar Filament in Stokes Flows" at the Workshop of Fluid Motion at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada from August 9-13.  He will speak on the same topic at the SIAM Conference on Wave and Nonlinear Dynamics in Philadelphia from August 16-18. >>

Two NJIT biomedical researchers have received the prestigious Coulter Foundation Translational Awards for promising patent applications that may some day extend peoples’ lives.  >>

Jeongwoo Lee, PhD, a research professor in the department of physics, will deliver an invited talk, "Sunspots at Centimeter Wavelengths" on August 22-26 at the International Astronomical Union Symposium on Physics of Sun and Star Spots in Ventura, California. >>

Allison Perlman, PhD, an assistant professor in the Federated History Department, has been awarded a one-year research fellowship in the Verklin Program in Media Ethics and Policy at the University of Virginia. Dr. Perlman is the first research fellow in the Verklin Program, which intends to produce high-quality academic research on the ethics of media policy, the reciprocal relationship between the media and the law, and the political and social impact of media regulation. While at the University of Virginia, she will deliver two university-wide talks on her research and will present her research at the inaugural conference of the Verklin Program, which will be attended by the deans of the respective Annenberg Schools, the chair of the communications studies department of the University of Michigan, and other prominent media policy scholars. The fellowship also will support Dr. Perlman's completion of her book manuscript, Reforming Television: Media Activism, Media Policy, Media History. She will spend the 2010-2011 academic year in Charlottesville. >>

Philip R. Goode, PhD, distinguished professor of physics at NJIT and director of Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California, has received a three-year, $2.4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to improve the optics at BBSO.  >>

Nirwan Ansari, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, will deliver the keynote speech, "TCP: Is It Time for A Makeover?" on Sept. 24-26 at the International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content in Beijing, China. >>

Roy H. Goodman, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "What to Do with Your Numerical Simulations" at the Summer Program Seminar Series on August 5, 2-3 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611 (Math Conference Room). >>

NJIT Professor of Humanities and interspecies music expert David B. Rothenberg, PhD, is on tour this week performing whale-related music throughout Finland, Sweden and Arctic Norway with Whale Kit, a group of electronic musicians from Russia. Rothenberg will receive the third annual NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal on October 6, 2010.  >>

Xiaoni Fang, an instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2D Dry Granular Materials" on August 3, 2-3 p.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall Rm 611 (Math Conference Room). >>

Anthony D. Rosato, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at NJIT  has received a Fulbright Senior Research Award to study the dynamic behavior of systems composed of particles at the University of Salerno, in Fisciano, Italy.  He’ll start the four-month program next May. >>

Peter Ma '07, a software engineer at Casting Networks, Inc. in Los Angeles, is seeking votes for his mobile application in the Apps for Healthy Kids Contest. Ma, who received his BS in computer engineering in 2007, recently entered and won a contest that was hosted by Snaptic and Hopelab, and also sponsored by TEDPrize; the challenge was to build an android application that promotes movement. Ma's "Earn the Stars" mobile application is a merit-based tool for educating, motivating, recognizing and rewarding children to make good choices about nutrition and participating in physical activities. "We made sure to highlight that nutrition and sports are the key," says Ma, a former captain of the NJIT men's soccer team.  >>

Jacek Wrobel, a doctoral student in applied mathematics at NJIT, will discuss "Adaptive Methods For Computing Invariant Manifolds of Maps" at the Summer Program Seminar Series on July 27, 2-3 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

Anthony D. Rosato, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at NJIT, gave a seminar entitled "Microstructure Evolution in Tapped Monodisperse Spheres via Discrete Element Modeling" today at the University of Salerno in Fisciano, Italy. >>

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded NJIT $468,495 to create a comprehensive series of four courses to train and teach mechanical engineers in the New York Metropolitan Region how to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings.  The NJIT Center for Building Knowledge, which thanks to its involvement with regional utilities and other state agencies has had much experience doing this kind of work, will organize and run the training sessions. Center Executive Director Deane M. Evans will be the project director.     >>

Michael Booty, PhD, a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Classical Aerofoil Theory and Variations on a Theme" at the Summer Program Seminar Series on July 15 in Cullimore Lecture Hall Rm. 611 (Math Conference Room). >>

Cheul H. Cho, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at NJIT, will receive the 2010 Phase I Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award for his work on stem cell technology for the treatment of liver failure. Dr. Cho will present his project at the Foundation Annual Meeting on August 9 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. >>

University Carlos III of Madrid has selected NJIT Distinguished Professor Emerita Starr Roxanne Hiltz as the holder of a "Chair of Excellence" for the 2010-2011 academic year. She will be working on human-computer interaction research related to Emergency Response Information Systems.  Murray Turoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of NJIT's Information Systems Department, will accompany her as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Informatics, teaching a course and conducting research with the Interactive Systems Group. . >>

NJIT Humanities Professor and poet Burt Kimmelman, PhD, of Maplewood, discussed his recent collection As If Free and more with the critic, scholar and poet Thomas Fink in an interview that has been published in Jacket Magazine. Published in Australia, Jacket is probably the best known/widest readership publication of avant-garde English-language poetry and poetics, and recently affiliated itself with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania where Kimmelman will give a reading this October.  >>

David Horntrop, PhD, a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Stochastic Simulation with Application to Materials" at the Summer Program Seminar Series on July 8, 2-3:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611 (Math Conference Room). >>

Treena Arinzeh, PhD, an associate professor in NJIT's Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a Career Awardee of the 2010 Coulter Foundation Translational Award for Biomedical Engineering. The award seeks to support biomedical research that is translational in nature, and to encourage and assist eligible biomedical engineering investigators to establish themselves in academic careers involving translational research.   >>

Farzan Nadim, PhD, professor in the Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Biological Sciences at NJIT, will serve as a member of the Sensorimotor Integration Study Section, Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). >>

With July 4th around the bend, if you’ve ever feared a head injury from a roller coaster ride, it’s time to stop worrying and enjoy your local amusement parks. Although a significant body of scientific research has long contended that the physics behind gravitational force isn’t enough to cause problems, misconceptions have abounded anyway, said Bryan Pfister, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering at NJIT. >>

Rudrani Banerjee of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT will discuss "A Usage Rate Sensitive Warranty Servicing Strategy With Imperfect Repairs" at the Summer Program Seminar Series on June 29, 2-3 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611 (Math Conference Room). >>

Louis J. Lanzerotti, PhD, a distinguished research professor in the department of physics at NJIT, will lead the 12-member panel organized by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies (www.nationalacademies.org) to identify possible causes of unintended acceleration in vehicles in the aftermath of Toyota's large recalls. >>

Nancy Coppola, of Mountain Lakes, a professor in the department of humanities at NJIT and the director of the Master of Science program in Professional and Technical Communication, received the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication from the Society for Technical Communication. >>

NJIT Professor David Rothenberg, a best-selling author and acclaimed clarinetist, will perform with pianist Marilyn Crispell for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s next Listening Party on Tuesday, June 22nd at 7 p.m. Featured will be their album, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House, released this month by ECM Records. >>

Helping stroke patients regain use of their hands and arms through innovative robotic and virtual reality-based video game therapies is the focal point of NJIT Associate Professor Sergei Adamovich, a biomedical engineer. Thanks to a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Adamovich is developing better ways to rehabilitate people who have lost control of their hands, fingers, shoulders and elbows.   >>

Laurent Simon, PhD, a professor in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering at NJIT, will be a presenter at an NSF-sponsored workshop on July 12-14 at San Jose State University. The workshop is entitled “Enhancement of Chemical Engineering Curricula with Biological Applications in Process Dynamic and Control.” >>

Christopher Funkhouser and Andrew Klobucar, professor and assistant professor, respectively, in the Department of Humanities, participated in The 4th International Conference & Festival of the Electronic Literature Organization on June 4 at Brown University. Klobucar gave a paper titled "The Broken Mirror" and Funkhouser gave a paper called "From Capacity to Truncation" and a multimedia performance titled "Multi-MIDI-a Poetry."  >>

“The Enterprise Development Center (EDC) at NJIT is still growing rapidly to be the largest high-tech business incubator in the USA with 95 portfolio companies, despite the tough economy! Entrepreneurs and individual initiatives in the EDC are working to help NJ solve economic growth problems and make NJ a state leading in technology development and the right place to live and work!,” said Jerry Creighton Sr., EDC Executive Director. >>

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has, once again, approved the outstanding teaching of the department of mechanical engineering at NJIT. For the seventh consecutive year, the department received the ASME Student Sections Award--formerly the Ingersoll-Rand Award.  The award typically goes to a college or university in the Northeast. >>

NJIT will launch this fall a new 12-credit graduate certificate in sustainability policy and environmental management. The program will require students to complete four courses. Maurie Cohen, PhD, associate professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science, will be the program coordinator. >>

Sergiu M. Gorun, PhD, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, was part of a team that presented their research this spring at the 43rd Annual International Meeting of the Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cardiff, UK. Gorun's team members included Hans Moons and Sabine van Doorslear, both of the Department of Physics at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and Lukasz Lapok of NJIT. Moons presented the work of the team entitled "CW and Pulsed EPR Characterization of Soluble Metal Phthalocyanines Lacking C-H bonds," which won the JEOL Prize.  >>

The NJIT Board of Overseers will present the third New Jersey Institute of Technology Excellence in Research Prize and Medal on October 6, 2010, to best-selling author and acclaimed clarinetist David B. Rothenberg, PhD. Through music and writing, Rothenberg, a professor of humanities at NJIT, explores the world of interspecies music. >>

Several NJIT professors and graduate students participated in the 2010 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Annual Technical Conference on May 16-19 in Orlando, Florida. Attending were Professor Marino Xanthos, Research Professors Costas Gogos and Peng Wang of CBPE, Kwabena Narh, professor in NJIT's Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Linjie Zhu and Herman Suwardee of NJIT's Polymer Processing Institute (PPI), as well as five PhD students: Huiju Liu, who received his PhD degree this week; Jin Uk Ha, Qian Zheng, Min Yang, and Graciela Terife.  Peng Wang was the organizer, on behalf of the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering and PPI, of two special sessions on pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion. Six technical papers on research conducted on campus were presented by Wang, Gogos, Suwardee, Liu, Ha, and Terife. During the May 18 SPE awards ceremonies, Xanthos and Liu received the Heinz List Reactive Extrusion and the Professor Lew Erwin Outstanding Graduate Student Awards, respectively. >>

Yeheskel Bar-Ness, PhD, of Marlboro, Newark College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at NJIT was selected as one of two recipients of the Communication Theory Technical Committee Service Award for 2009. >>

NJIT Assistant Professor Richard Garber will receive next week a Project of the Year Award from Jersey City for the PREtty Fab House, a one-family sustainable home in the Greenville section of Jersey City. >>

Eric Katz, PhD, of Bay Shore, NY, a professor in the department of humanities at NJIT, presented a paper entitled "The Nazi Engineers: Reflections on Technological Ethics in Hell" at the 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology on May 10, 2010 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.  >>

Ali Abdi, PhD, associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, received the IEEE Region 1 Award for his outstanding leadership and contributions in underwater acoustic communications. >>

A special issue of The Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE) co-edited by Maurie Cohen, an associate professor at NJIT, was cited today in a blog by Rob Walker, who writes the "Consumed" column for the Sunday New York Times Magazine. The special issue was published as Volume 14 Issue 1 (January/February 2010). The papers of the online issue are freely downloadable.  >>

Each year, the NJIT Newark College of Engineering (NCE) gives the Innovation in Design Award to an engineering student who excels as a designer. This year, Giancarlo Fricano, of Bridgewater, a senior whose design skills twice helped the NJIT Steel Bridge Team capture first place in regional competitions, received it. >>

NJIT civil engineering students have for the fifth straight year taken first-place honors at the annual Metropolitan New York Region Steel Bridge Competition this past weekend. Some 25 students–including many seniors–will work past NJIT’s May 17, 2010 commencement to ready the 20-foot-long model steel bridge for the next step.  >>

Guy-Alain Amoussou, PhD, program officer at the National Science Foundation, will discuss "Seeking NSF Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate Education and Research" at the Department of Computer Science Colloquium on May 19, 11 a.m-3 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415.  >>

The IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters and NJIT will host "From Deep Trenches to Skyscrapers: A Walk Down Memory Lane" by Subramanian Iyer, PhD, a distinguished engineer and chief technologist for the Semiconductor Research and Development Center at IBM Systems & Technology Group, on May 5 at 7 p.m. (free buffet begins at 6:15 p.m.) in Room 202, ECE Center. All are welcome.  >>

The IEEE Communications Society North Jersey Chapter and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will co-sponsor "Optimized Design and Management of Overlay Networks" by Anwar Walid, PhD, a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories at Alcatel-Lucent, on May 3 at 6 p.m. in 202 ECEC at NJIT. For more information, contact Nirwan Ansari at 973-596-3670 or Yanchao Zhang at 973-642-7817.  >>

Ian Gatley, PhD, internationally known in the fields of astronomy and imaging science, has been named NJIT Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. His appointment will be Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics. Gatley’s first day at NJIT will be Monday, May 3, 2010 as he prepares for the start of the 2010 fall semester.  >>

Hao Lin, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University, will discuss "Electrokinetic Transport in Electroporation-Mediated Molecular Delivery" at the Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series on May 3 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

The ASCE Student Chapter at NJIT received first place in every competition that they entered at this weekend's 2010 Metropolitan Regional Conference held at FDU in Teaneck. Beginning on Friday evening, undergraduate civil engineering student Luz Zidziunas won the the Mead Technical Paper Competition for her paper "Ethics and the Engineer of 2025." On Saturday, NJIT's Steel Bridge Team again emerged as champions of the Regional AISC/ASCE Student Steel Bridge Competition. Under the highly able leadership of their advisors (Professors John Schuring, Alan Slaughter and Anthony Massari) and co-captains Tien Tran and Giancarlo Fricano, the NJIT team also placed first in every single scoring category including Structural Efficiency, Construction Economy, Stiffness, and Aesthetics. The team now advances to the Steel Bridge Nationals, which will be held at Purdue University on Memorial Day Weekend.  >>

Robert V. Kohn, PhD, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Courant Institute, New York University, will discuss "The Evolution of a Crystal Surface: Steps, PDE's, and Self-Similarity" on April 30 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

Chris Wiggins, PhD, a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, will discuss "Form, Function, and Information Processing in Stochastic Regulatory Networks" at the Mathematical Biology Seminar Series on April 27 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

NJIT Management Professor Michael Ehrlich, PhD, will discuss "From Academia to Wall Street and Back: A Curious Journey" at a Department of Computer Science Seminar on April 29, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415. >>

Image Processing and Pattern Recognition: Fundamentals and Techniques (IEEE & Wiley Publishers, 2010), a new book by NJIT Professor Frank Y. Shih, PhD, features unique coverage of the most interesting developments and updated techniques, including image watermarking, digital steganography, document processing and classification, solar image processing and event classification.  >>

Peter L. Elkin, MD, MACP, FACMI, of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Department of Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, will discuss "The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Enterprise Data Translational Architecture" on April 27, 1-2 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415.      >>

As Earth Day approaches, you may want to hear more from Maurie Cohen, an associate professor at NJIT, who is one of a quartet of editors responsible for producing a special issue about sustainable consumption and production prepared for The Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE). The papers of this online issue are freely downloadable at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123296535/issue. >>

Yasmine Aly, of Bloomfield,  a doctoral candidate studying chemical engineering at NJIT received on April 14, 2010, the first-place gold medal for her graduate research project, “Aluminum-based Reactive Composite Powders” at the NJIT Dana Knox Student Research Showcase on April 14, 2010.  >>

Kenneth Gethard, of Fairfield, a doctoral student in environmental science at NJIT, received the second-prize silver medal for his graduate project “Desalinations Using Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Membrane Distillation.” His advisor was Somenath Mitra. The award was presented at the annual NJIT Dana Knox Student Research Showcase held April 14, 2010.  >>

Camelia Prodan, PhD, an associate professor in the department of physics at NJIT, will discuss "Topological Phonon Modes and Their Role in Dynamic Instability of Microtubules" on April 20 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

Teddy Asefa, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, will discuss "Multifunctional Nanomaterials: From Novel Synthetic Methods to their Applications in Catalysis, Medicine and Energy" on April 26 at 2:45 PM in Tiernan Hall Rm. 373. >>

Mariya Tohfafarosh, of Hackensack, received the Outstanding Senior Award in Biomedical Engineering at the 12th Annual Salute to Engineering Excellence at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE).  The event was held March 25, 2010 at NJIT. >>

Phong Pham, of Newark, received the Outstanding Senior Award in Mechanical Engineering at the 12th Annual Salute to Engineering Excellence sponsored by NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE).  The dinner was held March 25, 2010 at NJIT.  >>

U.S. Food and Drug Administration district staff recently spoke to a group of some 25 graduate students and professors in NJIT's Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society (GBMES). The presentation centered on the history of the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with an additional focus on the FDA's role in the regulation of medical devices. >>

Dario Pompili, PhD, an assistant professor in the ECE Department at Rutgers University, will discuss "Inter-glider Underwater Communication and Coordination for Ocean Monitoring and Coastal Tactical Surveillance" at the Department of Computer Science Seminar Series on April 19, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC 4415. >>

A poem from NJIT Humanities Professor Burt Kimmelman's new collection As If Free (Talisman House, 2009) will be the featured literary work on The Writer’s Almanac program on April 20.  Garrison Keillor will read Kimmelman's poem “Taking Dinner to My Mother” on his National Public Radio show. Kimmelman, of Maplewood, is chair of the department of humanities at NJIT. In the New York City area, the show will air at noon on WQXR-FM 105.9, and will air at various times during the day depending on where in the country you are tuning in. If you can’t catch the reading “live” then you can pick it up on the NPR or Writer’s Almanac websites in the show’s archive; the poem will be posted there along with a podcast. >>

Students in the Department of Engineering Technology’s Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program received a special invitation from The Port Authority of NY and NJ to view $23 billion of construction at the New York World Trade Center site. Mohamed Mahgoub, assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Allyn Luke in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering accompanied the students last week to the construction site, where they had the opportunity to ask questions about the project and job opportunities as they viewed the onsite mixing and testing of concrete.  >>

The Department of Public Safety has introduced Your Everything Tracking Inventory (YETI), a secure, user-friendly web app that stores information about valuable property, thus improving the chance of recovery if items are lost or stolen. Members of the NJIT community can enter information such as make, model, and serial number into an NJIT database. In the event that valuables are lost or stolen, police officers will be able to retrieve the description and serial number of the missing property and enter this information into a national database--significantly improving the chances of recovery. "We would like to thank CCS Capstone students Kaushal Patel, David Holl, and Daniel Rose for their participation in creating YETI," said NJIT Director of Public Safety Robert Sabattis. >>

Eric Keaveny, PhD, of  the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences atNew York University, will discuss "Rotation-Translation Coupling Strategies for Artificial Low Reynolds Number Propulsion" on April 19 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

John Federici, a physics professor at NJIT, sees the use of terahertz rays as a critical technology in the defense against suicide bombers and other terrorist activities.  Federici and his research team recently described experimental results from a digital video camera invented in their laboratory that uses a terahertz imaging system.  One day such a device could be used to scan airport passengers quickly and efficiently. “Video-Rate terahertz Interferometric and Synthetic Aperture Imaging” appeared in Applied Optics (July, 2009).  >>

Greg Wilson, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, will discuss "High Performance Computing Considered Harmful" at the Spring 2010 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>

NJIT Humanities Professor and clarinetist David Rothenberg will bring his unique perspective to interpreting our relationship with nature through words and music at a free lecture on April 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union in New York City.  >>

The White House announced yesterday that New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will receive more than $23 million of the $2 billion allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to achieve widespread meaningful use of health IT and facilitate use of an electronic health record (EHR) by every person by the year 2014. >>

NJIT Humanities Professor Nancy W. Coppola has been named the 2010 recipient of the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching presented by the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Coppola will receive the award at the STC Conference in May. >>

Jonathan Rubin, PhD, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, will be the guest speaker at the Mathematical Biology Seminar Series on April 13, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

Mani Lakshminarayanan, Investigative Research, Late Development Statistics, Merck & Co. Inc., will discuss "Meaningful and Reproducible Conclusions in Clinical Trials: A Statistician's Perspective" at the Statistics Seminar Series on April 8 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. >>

Hui Xiong, PhD, an associate professor at Rutgers University in Newark, will discuss "Financial Fraud Detection and Prevention With Data Mining Techniques" on April 12, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC 4415. >>

Hassan Aref, PhD, Reynolds Metals Professor and Niels Bohr Visiting Professor  at Virginia Tech, will discuss "Point Vortices: A Classical Mathematics Playground" on April 9 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Hall II. >>

Junwen Weng, an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry at the University of Hong Kong, will discuss "A Novel Profile-HMM To Predict MicroRNAs and Their  Targets Simultaneously" on April 5, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415. >>

James Meiss, PhD, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will discuss "Transitory Dynamical Systems and Transport" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on March 26 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>

Xiaohui Luo, a senior biometrician at Merck and Company Inc., will discuss "Estimation of Treatment Difference in Proportions in Clinical Trials with Blinded Sample Size Re-estimation" at the Statistics Seminar Series on March 25 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 110. >>

Dan Pei, PhD, a senior member of the technical staff at AT&T Labs, will discuss "Network Aware Forward Caching" at a Department of Computer Science Seminar on March 29, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Rm. 4415. >>

Amir H. Hirsa, PhD, a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will discuss "Protein Assemblies at Flow Interfaces: 2D Crystallization and Amyloid Formation" at a Fluid Dynamics Seminar on March 24, 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611. >>

Jie Ga, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at Stony Brook University, will discuss “Greedy Routing with Guaranteed Delivery Using Ricci Flow” on March 25 at 11:30 a.m. in 202 ECE at NJIT. The presentation is co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society North Jersey Chapter and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. >>

Teams of 3-4 students representing more than 43 New York and New Jersey high schools will participate today in NJIT's Fifth Annual Web Design Competition. Sponsored by NJIT's Department of Information Systems, the competition challenges students to create or improve websites according to established design specifications. >>

A press conference, following a check signing, will be held on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at 3:30 p.m., when NJIT receives a three-year, $1.5 million grant from Apollo Solar Energy, Inc., a public US corporation, to build a solar research center. >>

With pitchers and catchers having recently reported to spring training, once again Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor at NJIT, has applied mathematical analysis to compute the number of games that Major League Baseball teams should win in 2010. >>

Anthony D. Rosato, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at NJIT, will give a lecture entitled "Density Relaxation–A Review of the Literature and Recent Results" on March 17 at the University of Madrid. >>

Yanchao Zhang, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his research project entitled “Dependable Data Management in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks.” >>

NJIT Humanities Professor Burt Kimmelman of Maplewood, who has published six poetry collections, will read from his collected works at the PoetsWednesday Series on March 10 at 8 p.m.at the Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge. >>

NJIT's Information Systems Department, Office of Technology Development and the NSF-funded ADVANCE Project will co-sponsor an interdisciplinary, cross-sector seminar on text-mining and research networks on March 8, 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. (followed by discussion) in the GITC Building, Room 3710. "Automated Discovery of Emerging Online Communities and Research Networks: New Tools and Techniques from Academia and Industry" will feature presentations by Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD (pictured), assistant professor in the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University; and Sheldon Sloan, MD, MBE, vice president of policy, Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology. Lunch will be provided. >>

Sergiu M. Gorun, PhD, associate professor of chemistry at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), was awarded a patent today for a novel composition of matter. “Functional Coating Compositions of Perfluoroalkyl Perfluoro-Phthalocyanine Compounds” (US Patent Number 7,670,684) discloses a new self-contained subclass of molecules. These new materials are comprised of organic scaffolds with metal centers, which can be applied as either an opaque or transparent hydrophobic coating. >>

Dongsheng Che, PhD, assistant professor in the department of computer science at East Stroudsburg University, will discuss "Computational Methods for Deciphering Genomic Structures of Bacteria" at the Department of Computer Science Seminar Series on March 8, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the GITC Room 4415. >>

Maurie Cohen, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Is It Futile To Pursue Economic Growth?" at the NJIT-Sigma Xi Research Café on March 4, 4:30-6 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Area, 3rd Floor, NJIT Campus Center. >>

Michael Jaffe, a research professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, has received a patent for a chemical derived from sugar. This new material is a derivative of isosorbide and may be able to replace bisphenol A (BPA) in a number of consumer products, including the lining of tin cans. >>

"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," a musical thriller by Stephen Sondheim, will be presented by the Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Department on March 3, 4, 5, 6 at 7 p.m. and on March 7 at 2:30 p.m. in NJIT's Jim Wise Theatre. Michael V. Kerley of NJIT's Humanities Department directs.  Reservations: theatre@njit.edu; 973-596-3457. >>

An NJIT alumna of Haitian ancestry, who returns summers to teach in NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), has just returned from a 10-day visit to Haiti. Mechanical engineer Darlene Clovis, who works at Picatinny Arsenal, flew to Haiti with Engineers Without Borders to evaluate the safety of buildings. >>

Huixin He, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University-Newark, will discuss "Nanomaterials for Biosensors and Nonviral Delivery" at the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series on March 1 at 2:45 p.m. in Tiernan Hall, Rm. 373. The seminar is open to the public.  . >>

Michael Houle, PhD, a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, will discuss "Locality-Sensitive Analysis for Rank-based Similarity Search" on Feb. 24, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC 4415. >>

Robert V. Kohn, PhD, a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute at New York University, will discuss "The Evolution of a Crystal Surface: Steps, PDE's, and Self-Similarity" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Feb. 26 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>

Henri Angelino, PhD, a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo and acting director of NII's Global Liaison Office will discuss main research activities and international cooperation policy at the NII on Feb. 22, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC 4415. The lecture kicks off the Spring 2010 Computer Science Department Seminar Series. >>

Robert M. Miura, PhD, distinguished professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Stretching of Heated Viscous Threads" on Feb. 22, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Mechanical Engineering Center Rm. 224. >>

NJIT Professor David Rothenberg, a prominent author and musician, will present in words, images and music his ideas about how evolution produces beauty, not only adaptation. The free talk, entitled “Whales, Birds and Why Nature Is Beautiful,” will be held Feb. 11, 4:30-6 p.m., in the faculty dining area on the third floor of the NJIT Campus Center. The public is invited and refreshments will be served. >>

NJIT Humanities Professor Christopher Funkhouser, an expert in digital poetry, will be an invited speaker and performer at "In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice At The Edge: A Gathering" at the Banff Art Center on Feb.18-21 in Alberta, Canada. Funkhouser will join 36 forward-thinking literary artists who will create a context for the demonstration and discussion of cutting-edge literary practice.    >>

Jackie Sung, PhD of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, will discuss "The Role of Chemical Kinetics in Green Combustion" on Feb. 15 at 2:45 p.m. in Tiernan Hall Rm. 373. >>

Pierre Gouton, PhD, a professor at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, will discuss "Color Image Processing and Applications" at a Department of Computer Science Seminar on Feb. 8, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 4415.  >>

NJIT Professor David Rothenberg, a prominent author and musician, will present in words, images and music his ideas about how evolution produces beauty, not only adaptation.  His evidence is the hard-to-explain qualities of bird song, whale song, and other unusual habits of various creatures. >>

Denis L. Blackmore, PhD, a professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Approximations to Granular Relaxation Flows: Lattices, Limits, Infinite-dimensional Dynamical Systems and Solitons" on Feb. 5 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.   >>

Israel Wachs, PhD, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, will discuss "Operando Spectroscopy: A SpectroKinetic Approach to Catalysis Research" on Feb. 8 at 2:45 p.m. in Tiernan Hall Rm. 373. >>

NJIT's Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering has been awarded the 2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Lucy and Charles W.E. Clarke Scholarship. "I think our success in securing this funding is a reflection of the level of dedication and professionalism that our student members of ASME exhibit," said Mechanical Engineering Professor Harry Kountouras. "ASME has recognized that commitment by honoring NJIT and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with this award." >>

Simon Podkolzin, PhD, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, will discuss "Reaction Mechanism Studies on Surfaces of Catalytic Nanoparticles with Kinetics, Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations" on Feb. 1 at 2:45 p.m. in Tiernan Hall Rm. 373. The lecture kicks off the Spring 2010 Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series. >>

Michael Renardy, PhD, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech, will kick off the Spring 2010 Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series with a sequence of lectures beginning on Jan. 25 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611. "Turning Polymeric Liquids into Theorems: Part One" is the topic of his lecture.   >>

Xiaodong Lin, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at Rutgers University, will discuss "Regularization for Stationary Time Series" on Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611 (Math Conference Room). >>

Distinguished Professors Emeriti Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff of NJIT's Information Systems Department are spending the month of January as visiting professors at the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii.  In October they participated as invited keynoters at a workshop on the Future of Higher Education in Romania, held in Bucharest. In November, a visit to Finland included invited presentations by Hiltz on "The Impact of Online Learning and Social Media on Higher Education" at the Finnish Society for Futures Studies, Helsinki; and "Social Media: Characteristics, Social Issues, and Use in Marketing," at the Turku School of Economics. Turoff's invited presentations included: "Emergency Response Information Systems" at Nokia in Helsinki, and a keynote address on the Delphi Method at the annual Millennium Project meeting in Helsinki. "These are exactly the kinds of opportunities we hoped to have when we transitioned to emeritus and emerita status," said Hiltz. "It is quite wonderful to be able to work with colleagues all over the world."  >>

Chrissa Roessner, P.E. '01, a project engineer with The Louis Berger Group Inc., is featured as one of the top 10 "2010 New Faces of Engineering" in the Winter 2010 edition of the Society of Women Engineers Magazine.   >>