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2011
NJIT's Atam Dhawan Selected To Represent IEEE EMBS as 2012-2013 Distinguished Lecturer
December 15, 2011
Atam Dhawan, PhD, distinguished professor and associate dean of the Albert Dorman Honors College, was selected to represent the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) as a 2012-2013 Distinguished Lecturer.
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NJIT Humanities Professor Publishes New Multimedia Piece in Online Digital Art/Writing Journal
December 15, 2011
NJIT Humanities Professor Christopher Funkhouser has published a new multimedia piece in The New River, one of the oldest online digital art/writing journals.
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NJIT Procurement Director Makes DC Pitch for More Fed Funding
December 13, 2011
Attorney Dolcey E. Chaplin, director of the NJIT Procurement Center, participated last week in an invitation-only panel discussion on behalf of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee's Defense Business Panel.
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NJIT's Gautham Rao Named To Chair Kathryn T. Preyer Committee
December 06, 2011
Gautham Rao, PhD, director of the Law, Technology and Culture major in NJIT's Federated Department of History, has been appointed by the American Society for Legal History to chair the Kathryn T. Preyer Committee.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Dec. 9
December 05, 2011
Michael Weinstein, PhD, professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, will discuss "Scattering, Homogenization and Waves in Microstructures" on Dec. 9 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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NJIT Professor To Give Keynote Talk at IEEE's Globecom 2011 Workshop
December 02, 2011
Nirwan Ansari, PhD, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has been invited to deliver a keynote speech, "On Accelerating Content Delivery," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Services.
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NJIT's Basil Baltzis Named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of Newark College of Engineering
December 01, 2011
Basil C. Baltzis, PhD, professor in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, has been appointed as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the Newark College of Engineering.
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Nirwan Ansari, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has been invited to deliver a keynote speech, "On Accelerating Content Delivery," at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Services on Dec. 5 in Houston, Texas.
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NJIT Researchers Publish News of Success With Robots as Learning Tool
November 29, 2011
NJIT researchers, who have helped hundreds of science, mathematics, and technology teachers in New Jersey improve how students learn, have published a book chapter about their success using robotics as both a motivational and learning tool.
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Fluid Dynamics Seminar on Dec. 5
November 29, 2011
Praveen Ramaprabhu, PhD, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, will discuss "Numerical Simulations of the Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor Instability" on Dec. 5 at 4.p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Dec. 2
November 28, 2011
Kenneth Breuer, professor at Brown University, will discuss "The Mechanics of Bacterial Motility in Viscous and Viscoelastic Fluids" on Dec. 2 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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NJIT Humanities Professor Publishes Seventh Collection of Poetry
November 23, 2011
NJIT Humanities Professor and poet Burt Kimmelman, of Maplewood, has published his seventh collection of poetry, The Way We Live (Dos Madres Press, 2011).
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AT&T Executive To Discuss Advances in Network-Based Security at Department of Computer Science Seminar
November 23, 2011
Edward G. Amoroso, PhD, senior vice president and chief security officer for AT&T Services, Inc., will discuss "Advances in Network-Based Security and Career Advice to Students" on Nov. 28, 2:30 -3:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom A.
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Concrete Industry Management Program Hosts Biannual Patrons Meeting
November 22, 2011
The Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program at NJIT hosted a Biannual Northeast Concrete Industry Management Patrons meeting on Nov. 11 in Eberhardt Hall.
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NJIT's Department of Computer Science will host Security and Privacy Day, a biannual workshop sponsored by the computer security research community in the greater New York City area, on Dec. 2 in the Campus Center Atrium.
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Department of Computer Science Seminar on Nov. 23
November 17, 2011
Dajin Wang, PhD, a professor in the department of computer science at Montclair State University, will discuss "A Few Recent Results in WSN Research" on Nov. 23, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC 4415.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Seminar on Nov. 21
November 16, 2011
Mahmoud Wazne, PhD, assistant professor in the Center for Environmental Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology, will discuss "Beneficial Use of Industrial and Agricultural Waste Byproducts in Civil and Environmental Engineering Works" on Nov. 22, 4:30-6 p.m. in Colton Hall 210. >>
Department of Computer Science Seminar on Nov. 21
November 15, 2011
Alexander Schliep, PhD, an associate professor of computer science at Rutgers University, will discuss "Efficient Full Bayesian HMM for CNV Detection" on Nov. 21, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 4415.
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The IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters and NJIT's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will co-sponsor “The Perspective of Nanotechnology and Its Convergence with Future Information Technology" on Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. in ECE Rm. 202.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Nov. 18
November 11, 2011
John M. Guckenheimer, PhD, Abram R. Bullis Professor in Mathematics at Cornell University, will discuss "Mixed Mode Oscillations" on Nov. 18 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Camille Kamga, PhD, assistant professor of civil engineering at The City College of NY, will discuss "Dynamic Traffic Assignment Modeling for Incident Management" on Nov.15, 4:30-6 p.m. in Colton Hall 210.
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Yasmine Aly, Carlo Badiola, Shasha Zhang, Priya Santhanam, Shashank Vummidi, all graduate students in NJIT's Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, presented papers last week at the AIAA Region I Young Professional, Student, and Education Conference 2011. >>
Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering Seminar on Nov. 21
November 09, 2011
Joel Plawsky, PhD, professor in the department of chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will discuss "The CVB Heat Pipe Experiment on Earth and in Space" on Nov. 21 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall 210.
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NJIT's College of Architecture and Design Hosts Interdisciplinary Symposium on Energy
November 08, 2011
NJIT's College of Architecture and Design hosted the fourth annual AIA-NJ Symposium, entitled “Energy,” on October 26, 2011. >>
Joint Physics-MTSE Seminar on Nov. 10
November 08, 2011
Zujie Fang of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, will discuss "Optical Fiber Sensitivities and Fiber Sensors" at a Joint Physics-MTSE Seminar on November 10, 2.30-3.30 p.m. in Tiernan 408.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Seminar on Nov. 8
November 07, 2011
David R. Chapman, PE, president of Lachel & Associates, Inc., will discuss "Project Evaluation, Cost Estimating, and Risk Assessment" on Nov. 8, 4:30-6 p.m. in Colton Hall 210.
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More than a half dozen licensed inventions that will someday enable people to lead healthier and more productive lives has brought a unique honor to NJIT Professor Gordon A. Thomas, of Princeton Township.
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NJIT To Co-Sponsor IEEE Communications Society Talk on Nov. 8
November 04, 2011
Balagangadhar G. Bathul, PhD, of Columbia University will discuss "Cross-Layer Architecture and Design Approaches for Optical Networks" on Nov. 8 at 4:30 p.m. in ECEC 202. >>
NJIT Graduate Student Awarded Actuarial Foundation Scholarship
November 02, 2011
Jonas B. Brobbey, who received his BS in mathematical sciences in 2009 and is now pursuing an MS in applied statistics, has been awarded an Actuarial Diversity Scholarship from the Actuarial Foundation.
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NJIT Humanities Professor To Read His Poetry in Hoboken
November 01, 2011
NJIT Humanities Professor Burt Kimmelman, of Maplewood, who has published six poetry collections, will read from his collected works on Nov. 6 at 3 p.m. at the Monroe Center for the Arts in Hoboken.
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John J. Peirce, PE, DGE, vice president and secretary, and Jennifer Peirce Brandt, PE, vice president and principal of Peirce Engineering, Inc., will discuss "Selection of Excavation Support Systems: Advantages and Disadvantages" on Nov. 1, 4:30-6 p.m. in Colton Hall 210.
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Ionnis Kevrekidis, PhD, Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University, will discuss "No Equations, No Variables: Modeling and Computation for Complex Systems" on Nov. 7 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 210.
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Joint Physics and MTSE Seminar on Nov. 2
October 28, 2011
Alan E. Delahoy, former vice president, research and development at New Millennium Solar Equipment Corp., will discuss "Transparent Conducting Oxides with High Electron Mobility: A New Tool for Their Deposition" on Nov. 2, 2:30-4 p.m. in Tiernan 406.
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NJIT Alum To Discuss Recent Peace Corps Experience at Albert Dorman Honors College Colloquium
October 26, 2011
Owen Fitzgerald, who received a degree in engineering and construction technology from NJIT in 2008, will discuss his recent Peace Corps experience in Mali at the Albert Dorman Honors College Colloquium Series on Nov. 2, 2:30-4 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom A.
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Biomedical Engineering Department To Host Seminar on Oct. 28
October 25, 2011
Vivian K. Mushahwar, PhD, associate professor at the University of Alberta, will be the guest speaker at the Department of Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series on Oct. 28, 10-11:30 a.m. in the Central King Building Rm. 204.
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AIChE Student Chapter Receives Award from National Organization
October 24, 2011
The NJIT student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) received the Outstanding Student Chapter Award from the national organization for the 2010-2011 school year.
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New Book From NJIT Professor Focuses on Art, Science and Evolution
October 21, 2011
NJIT Professor David Rothenberg's newest book Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution (Bloomsbury Press) will be released at the end of this month. >>
Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Oct. 26
October 19, 2011
Rajarshi Roy, PhD, professor and director of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, will discuss “Synchronization in Real Networks: Control and Optimization” on Oct. 28 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Concrete Industry Management Program students Wilton Arellano, Nicholas Thomas, John Te, and Christopher Worthington, and CIM Specialist Anlee Orama attended the Concrete International Institute (ACI) Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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NJIT Math Professor Announces Who Deserves the Cy Young and Most Valuable Player Awards; Calls Rangers Solid Favorite for World Series
October 18, 2011
With Major League Baseball's World Series set to begin tomorrow, NJIT math professor Bruce Bukiet has once again analyzed the players most deserving of winning baseball's most important awards for the 2011 season. >>
ECE Professor Presents Two Papers at IEEE Conference in Alaska
October 18, 2011
MengChu Zhou, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, presented two papers at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics on Oct. 9-12 in Anchorage, AK.
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A new wireless device to help victims of spinal cord injury is receiving attention in the research community.
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Umit S. Ozkan, PhD, professor in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Ohio State University, will discuss "Catalysis and Energy" on Oct. 31 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 210.
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“Decide what you're passionate about and pursue that passion to the very best of your ability, always keeping the goal of excellence in mind.” That's the advice Gurinder S. Ahluwalia, of Danville, CA, offers to young people contemplating the path ahead.
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Robert Sommerlad, of Gurnee, IL, has thought a lot about the challenges of power generation since he completed his bachelor's in mechanical engineering at Newark College of Engineering in 1960.
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ECE Professor Gives Invited Talk at International Symposium
October 14, 2011
Durgamadhab Misra, PhD, professor in NJIT's department of electrical and computer engineering, presented an invited talk on “Issues and Challenges of High-κ Dielectrics on High-Mobility Substrates” at the International Symposium on ULSI Process Integration at the ECS Meeting in Boston on Oct. 10.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Oct. 21
October 14, 2011
Paul Steen, PhD, a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, will discuss "Dynamics and Stability of Reconfigurable Capillary Surfaces" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Oct. 21 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Biomedical Engineering Department To Host Seminar on Oct. 21
October 13, 2011
Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuroscience Research at the Kessler Foundation, will be the guest speaker at the Biomedical Engineering Department Seminar Series on Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Central King Building Room 204.
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The Major League Baseball Division Series is underway and NJIT math professor Bruce Bukiet has once again analyzed the probability of each team advancing to the World Series.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Oct. 14
October 10, 2011
Carlo Laing, a senior lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand, will discuss "Chimera States in Heterogeneous Kuramoto Networks" on Oct. 14 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Fluid Mechanics Seminar on Oct. 24
October 10, 2011
Paul Chiarot, PhD, assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, will discuss "Electrospray and Continuous Ink-jet Technologies: Novel Applications and the Electrohydrodynamics of Droplets and Sprays" on Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore 611.
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NJIT Board of Overseers Awards Fourth Excellence in Research Prize and Medal To Nationally Acclaimed Nanotechnology Expert
October 07, 2011
The NJIT Board of Overseers awarded the fourth annual Excellence in Research Prize and Medal yesterday to Haim Grebel, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering and a nationally acclaimed expert in nanotechnology.
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Computer Science Department Seminar on Oct. 26
October 07, 2011
David Korn, PhD, of AT&T Laboratories will discuss "Ksh and the AST Toolkit" on October 26, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 4415.
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Hear Live Webcast Tonight of Top NJIT Researcher Detailing Future of Nanotechnology
October 06, 2011
NJIT Electrical Engineering Professor Haim Grebel, who will be honored tonight by NJIT for his research, will speak in a free, live webcast about the future of nanotechnology and his research.
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New Book by NJIT Humanities Professor Reviewed by Online Publication
October 05, 2011
Electro Þerdix, a book published earlier this year by NJIT Humanities Professor Christopher Funkhouser, was reviewed by Jacket 2, an online publication associated with PennSound and the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept. Seminar on Oct. 11
October 05, 2011
John L. Cusack, president of Gifford Park Associates and board chair, New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology, will discuss "Technology Verification of Cleantech, Energy & Environmental Technology" on Oct. 11, 4:30-6 p.m. in Colton Hall Rm.210.
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NJIT History Professor To Keynote Transatlantic Conference
October 04, 2011
Richard B. Sher, PhD, distinguished professor in NJIT's Federated Department of History, will give the keynote lecture at the "Ireland, America and the Worlds of Mathew Carey" conference on Nov. 17 at the National Library of Ireland. >>
Grace Wang, PhD, an associate professor in NJIT's Department of Computer Science, will host a student panel on "Intern Experience in Summer 2011" on Oct. 10, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center 4415.
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Graduate Seminar on Oct. 10
October 04, 2011
Kathleen Mihlbachler, university lecturer in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering at NJIT, will discuss "Preparative Chromatography for the Purification of Pharmaceutical Intermediate and A API" on Oct. 10, 2-3:30 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 210.
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Statistics Seminar on Oct. 6
October 04, 2011
Yichao Wu, PhD, assistant professor in the department of statistics at North Carolina State University, will discuss "Continuously Additive Models for Functional Regression" on Oct. 6 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall Rm. 111. >>
Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Oct. 7
October 03, 2011
Philip Yecko, PhD, assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Montclair State University, will be the guest speaker at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on Oct. 7 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Seminar on Oct. 4
October 03, 2011
Rima Taher, PhD, PE, university lecturer in NJIT's College of Architecture and Design and consulting structural engineer at Taher Engineering LLC, will discuss "Working with Architects and Contractors: An Engineer's Perspective" on Oct. 4, 4:30-6 p.m. in Colton Hall 210.
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Biomedical Engineering Department To Host Seminar on Sept. 30
September 26, 2011
Richard Foulds, PhD, associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering at NJIT, will discuss "The Biomechanics of Ventriloquism" on Sept. 30, 10-11:30 a.m. in the Central King Building, Rm. 204.
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Applied Mathematics Seminar on Sept. 30
September 26, 2011
Lisa Fauci, PhD, the Nola Lee Haynes Pendergraft Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University, will discuss "Waving Rings and Swimming in Circles: Some Lessons Learned through Biofluiddynamics" on Sept. 30 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Effectively Utilizing e-Discovery and Computer Forensics Will Be Topic of IT Seminar
September 23, 2011
"Effectively Utilizing e-Discovery and Computer Forensics" is the topic of a seminar to be presented by Barry Rozen, manager of Electronic Discovery at Johnson & Johnson, on Oct. 5, 3:15-4:15 p.m. in GITC 1100.
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Joint Physics and MTSE Seminar on Sept. 28
September 23, 2011
Parag Borgaonkar, MS '10, a technical sales engineer at CSM Instruments, will discuss "State-of-the Art in Surface Mechanical Properties Characterization Methods" on Sept. 28, 2:30-4 p.m. in Tiernan 406.
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NJIT Distinguished Professor To Give Invited Talk on Future of Engineering in Medicine at Cornell University
September 22, 2011
Atam P. Dhawan, PhD, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean of the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT, will discuss "The Future of Engineering in Medicine" on Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m. at Cornell University.
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Jon Curley, university lecturer in the Humanities Department at NJIT, has just published Poets and Partitions: Confronting Communal Identities in Northern Ireland, a comprehensive analysis of Northern Irish poetry focusing on the colonial, political, and cultural underpinnings that have shaped artistic expression in a variety of ways.
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Joseph Baladi, PE, PP, of the Division of Engineering and Development Review in Bergen County, NJ, will discuss "Capital Improvement Projects From A to Z" on Sept. 27, 4:30-6 p.m. in Colton Hall 210.
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Mathematical Sciences Department To Host Fluid Mechanics Seminar
September 20, 2011
Camille Duprat, PhD, of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, will discuss "Elastocapillary Flows" on Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.
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Graduate Seminar on Sept. 26
September 20, 2011
Bozena "Bo" B. Michniak-Kohn, PhD, director of the Center for Dermal Research (CDR) at Rutgers University, will discuss "Tyrospheres as Delivery Vehicles for Topical Therapeutics" on Sept. 26 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall, Room 210.
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Biomedical Engineering Department To Host Seminar on Sept. 23
September 19, 2011
Ronald Chamberlain, MD, MPA, FACS, chairman and surgeon-in-chief in the department of surgery at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, will discuss "Biomedical Advances and Surgery: Pushing the Envelope in the New Millennium How Minimal and Can Minimally Invasive Surgery Become?" on Sept. 23, 10-11:30 a.m. in the Central King Building, Rm. 204. >>
NJIT To Host IEEE Control System Society Seminar on Sept. 20
September 19, 2011
Felicia Sun, PhD '01, production engineer at the Ford Motor Company, will discuss "On Improving Fuel Efficiency of Hybrid Electric Vehicles" on Sept. 20, 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the ECE Building Room 202.
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Applied Mathematics Seminar on Sept. 23
September 16, 2011
Xiaofan Li, PhD, associate professor of applied mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology, will discuss "Microstructual Evolution in Elastic Media" on Sept. 23 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Hall II.
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NJIT Professor Organizes IEEE 2011 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications
September 15, 2011
Nirwan Ansari, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, along with COMSOC leaders from Europe and Asia, is spearheading the 2011 IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications on Sept. 26-29, 2011.
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Mengchu Zhou, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, presented his status report about his recently launched Wiley-IEEE Press Series on Systems Science and Engineering at the IEEE Press Editorial Board meeting on Sept. 9-10 in San Francisco.
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NJIT Professor Publishes Paper in IEEE Magazine
September 14, 2011
Ali N. Akansu, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, published a paper with his PhD student Mustafa Torun and Marco Avellaneda of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU entitled "Portfolio Risk in Multiple Frequencies" in the Sept. 2011 issue of IEEE Signal Processing magazine.
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International Society Honors NJIT Professor
September 12, 2011
The Society for Technical Communication honored Nancy Coppola, a professor of English at NJIT and founding director of the Master of Science in Professional and Technical Communication program, in a ceremony at its annual conference in Sacramento, CA on May 17.
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Applied Mathematics Department Colloquium on Sept. 16
September 12, 2011
Sanjeeva Balasuriya, PhD, associate professor of mathematics at Connecticut College, will discuss "Transport and Barriers in Unsteady Flows" on Sept. 16 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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NJIT To Salute Smart Grid Expert, Sotirios G. Ziavras, of Fort Lee
September 09, 2011
Sotirios G. Ziavras, PhD, of Fort Lee, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, and director of the NJIT Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing Laboratory, has been selected to receive the Excellence in Graduate Instruction Award at NJIT's University Convocation.
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Gifted Mathematician From Hoboken To Be Honored at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
Victor Matveev, of Hoboken, an associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences in NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts, has been selected to receive the honor of “Excellence in Upper Division Undergraduate Instruction” at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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NJIT Promotes Expert in Atomic, Magnetic and Correlated Electron Systems
September 09, 2011
Trevor Tyson, PhD, of Mineola, NY, professor in the department of physics, was promoted to Distinguished Professor with tenure at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Tian Tian, of Lake Hiawatha, Receives Award for Teaching at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
Tian Tian, of Lake Hiawatha, a teaching assistant in the department of computer science at NJIT, has received the award of Excellence in Instruction by a Teaching Assistant at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Andrei Sirenko of Basking Ridge Promoted to Professor at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
Andrei Sirenko, PhD, of Basking Ridge, associate professor in the department of physics, has been selected to be promoted to professor at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Neural Tissue Engineer, from Newton, PA, Promoted at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
A specialist in neural tissue engineering, Bryan Pfister, of Newton, PA, an assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering in NJIT's Newark College of Engineering, has been selected to be promoted to associate professor with tenure at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Somenath Mitra, of Bridgewater, Promoted to Distinguished Professor With Tenure at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
Somenath Mitra, PhD, of Bridgewater, a professor in and chair of the department of chemistry and environmental science, has been selected to be promoted to Distinguished Professor with tenure at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Cherry Hill Information Scientist Promoted to Associate Professor With Tenure at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
Min Song, of Cherry Hill, an assistant professor in the department of computer science in NJIT's College of Computing Sciences will be promoted to associate professor with tenure at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Laramie Potts, of Basking Ridge, Promoted to Associate Professor With Tenure at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
Laramie Potts, of Basking Ridge, an assistant professor in the department of engineering technology in NJIT's Newark College of Engineering, has been selected to be promoted to associate professor with tenure at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration held to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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West Orange Computer Scientist Receives Teaching Honor at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
James Geller, of West Orange, a professor in the department of computer science, in NJIT's College of Computing Sciences has been selected to receive the Professional Development Award at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Jay Kappraff, of East Orange, Honored for Teaching at NJIT
September 09, 2011
Jay Kappraff, of East Orange, an associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts, has been selected to receive the award, “Excellence in Innovative Teaching” at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011.
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Andrew Gerrard, of Bridgewater, Promoted to Professor With Tenure at NJIT Convocation
September 09, 2011
Andrew Gerrard, PhD, of Bridgewater, associate professor in the department of physics, will be promoted to professor with tenure at NJIT's University Convocation, an annual celebration to be held Sept. 14, 2011. Convocation at NJIT traditionally honors select faculty and staff members who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence over a sustained period.
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Mechanical Engineering Professor Gives Talk in Spain
September 09, 2011
Anthony D. Rosato, PhD, professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at NJIT, gave a talk entitled "Transition of Random Granular Assemblies to Structural Order via Mechanical Tapping" on Sept. 6 at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
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Chemical Engineering Department Graduate Seminar on Sept. 12
September 08, 2011
Hai-Ying Chen of Chen Emission Control Technologies, Johnson Matthey Inc., will discuss "Molecular Sieve Supported Transition Metal Catalysts for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx in Diesel Exhaust" on Sept. 12 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 210.
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NJIT's Maurie Cohen Appointed Associate of the Tellus Institute
September 08, 2011
Maurie Cohen, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Director of the Graduate Program in Environmental Policy Studies at NJIT, has been appointed Associate of the Boston-based Tellus Institute.
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NJIT To Honor Work of Professor With Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
September 06, 2011
What do brilliantly colored glass, advanced batteries, and innovative technology for the regulation of brain functions have in common? They are nano-scale structures far smaller than the wavelengths of energy coursing through them in different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, said NJIT Professor Haim Grebel.
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Shivon Boodhoo, undergraduate advisor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, and Sanchoy Das, PhD, professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering, presented their work at the 2011 Health Care Operations Research/Systems Engineering Symposium on August 10-12 at the Mayo Clinic.
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ECE Professor Presents Three Papers at IEEE Conference in Italy
August 29, 2011
Mengchu Zhou, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, presented three papers at the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering in Trieste, Italy.
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Josep Miquel Jornet, a doctoral student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, will discuss "Enabling Communication in Wireless Nanosensor Networks (WNSNs)" on Sept. 1 at 11:30 a.m. in ECEC 202. >>
Jeffrey Pohlmeyer of Livingston, a PhD student in the Applied Mathematics program at NJIT, has received the Visiting Studentship award from the University of Oxford, UK for the Spring 2012 semester.
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The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the new book by NJIT Associate Professor Stephen Pemberton. The book recounts the promising and perilous history of medical and social efforts to manage hemophilia in 20th-century America.
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Anthony Rosato, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at NJIT, will give a talk on August 17 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
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Distinguished Professor of Physics Trevor Tyson is featured in the August 10, 2011 issue of Photon E-Newsletter published by Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Chemical Engineering Student Receives HBCSF's Outstanding Achievement Award for 2011
August 10, 2011
Chemical engineering student Elaine Gomez of Union City is the 2011 recipient of the Platinum Sponsors Outstanding Achievement Award from the Hispanic Business Council Scholarship Foundation of NJ, Inc. of Teaneck.
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Christopher Worthington and Wilton Arellano, both students in the Concrete Industry Management program at NJIT, have received the International Concrete Research Institute $1000 Award for academic year 2011-2012.
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NJIT's Department of Humanities announces the return of its literary arts journal, Newark Review, in an expanded capacity. >>
Ali N. Akansu, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, gave an invited plenary talk entitled "Electronic Trading: A Data Intensive Discovery" on July 6 at the International Conference on Mathematical Finance and Economics in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Silvestro Micera of the BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Institute of Automation, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, will discuss "Implantable Neural Prostheses To Restore Sensorimotor Functions in Disabled People" on July 26 at 11 a.m. in Fenster Hall Rm. 698.
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Mark Arnowitz of the Humanities Department and his Technical Writing class presented "Utopians at Play," a collection of games and models that were on display during the month of June at the Utopian Direction Gallery in Warwick, NY.
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Biomedical engineering students Angela Calderon, Bushra Hossain, Marieme Dembele, and Yamin Noor took third place in the Undergraduate Design Competition held at the ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference in Farmington, PA.
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NJIT Names New Dean of the NJIT School of Management
June 28, 2011
Pius J. Egbelu, PhD, professor of industrial engineering at Louisiana State University, has been appointed the new dean of the NJIT School of Management.
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Deborah Morales, producer and executive director, and Bobby Shepard, director of photography, will be present at the Newark Black Film Festival screening of "On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of" on July 20 at 7 p.m. at NJIT.
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Reginald C. Farrow and Zafar Iqbal, research professors at NJIT, were awarded a patent today for an improved method of fabricating arrays of nanoscale electrical probes.
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NJIT Research Professor Mike Jaffe's recent book chapter about sugar-based chemicals is topping the American Chemical Society (ACS) book series' must-read list.
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Angela Calderon, Bushra Hossain, Marieme Dembele, and Yamin Noor, all students in NJIT's Biomedical Engineering Department, placed in the top 6 in the Undergraduate Design Competition held at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference.
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Norman W. Loney, PhD, professor and chair of the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering at NJIT, visited the University of Technology in Jamaica as an External Examiner of their Chemical Engineering Program.
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Mathematical Sciences Department To Host Two Events
June 08, 2011
NJIT's Department of Mathematical Sciences will host two events: a Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp on June 11-12 and the 27th Annual Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop on June 13-17.
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Ali Akansu, PhD, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, organized and chaired a Special Session "Signal Processing Methods for Finance Applications" at the IEEE 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Bridge Engineering and Supply Company Headed by NJIT Alum Wins Prestigious Presidential Award
June 03, 2011
Acrow Corporation, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company headed by Bill Killeen ‘83, recently received the Presidential “E” Award for Exports from U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke at the Department's headquarters in Washington, DC.
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Maurie Cohen, PhD, associate professor and director of the Graduate Program in Environmental Policy Studies at NJIT, will discuss "The Paradox of Uneconomic Growth" at the 7th Annual Sparta Mountain Day event on June 5 in Edison Park.
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Aficionados of modern poured-concrete design were in for a rude awakening last month when they heard NJIT Assistant Professor Matt Burgermaster's presentation at the 64th annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians.
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Anthony D. Rosato, PhD, a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering, will give a talk entitled "Microstructure Evolution in Tapped Monodisperse Sphere Packings via Discrete Element Simulations" on June 3 at the University of Trento and on June 7 at the Polytecnico di Milano.
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NJIT Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Priscilla P. Nelson will deliver the keynote address at the 45th Annual Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium on June 26, 2011 in San Francisco.
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New Issue of NJIT Magazine Available Online
May 24, 2011
The Spring 2011 issue of NJIT Magazine is now available online. The issue's cover feature is “Finding the Right Cues,” which focuses on the tissue-engineering research of Associate Professor Treena Arinzeh and Assistant Professor Cheul Cho of the Biomedical Engineering Department.
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Nirwan Ansari, PhD, professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, will deliver a tutorial, "Next Generation Broadband Access: Passive Optical Networks", at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), on June 5, 2011 in Kyoto, Japan.
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The Humanities Department is pleased to announce the 2011 winners of the Enid Dame Poetry Competition. All winners will be honored in the fall semester and their work will be published in The Vector newspaper and the new online poetry magazine, Newark Review.
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Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, PhD, an associate professor in the department of humanities and director of the Murray Center for Women in Technology, was honored recently by Soroptimist International of the Greater Westfield Area for helping women to succeed in academe.
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NJIT will have a strong presence at the IEEE Innovation Day 2011 on May 17 at NYU-Poly in Brooklyn, NY.
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Emergency Exercise To Be Held at NJIT
May 06, 2011
Information technology is playing an increasingly greater role in fighting crises born of terrorism, natural or manmade disasters. NJIT will join a nationwide practice emergency drill from May 16-19, 2011, to enable the US Department of Defense to better defend itself against such disasters.
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Zeyuan Qiu, PhD, associate professor in the department of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT, gave a keynote speech entitled “Precision Land Use Planning and Management for Managing Land Uses” at the 24th Annual New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Mapping Contest on April 21.
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Walid Saad, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, will discuss "Game Theory for Cooperative Networks" on May 10 at 5 p.m. in ECE 202.
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Shruti Parekh, a graduate student in pharmaceutical engineering at NJIT, is the 2011 winner of the Annual International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) New Jersey Chapter Student Poster Competition on April 21 at the Nutley facility of Hoffmann-LaRoche.
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Room 311 of Cullimore Hall may not fit the image of a techno band's garage studio, but to the dozen members of the NJIT Laptop Orchestra, who just released their first CD, it's perfecto.
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NJIT's Edwin Hou To Co-Chair 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium
April 29, 2011
Edwin Hou, PhD, associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, will serve as conference co-chair of the 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium on May 3-4 in Princeton.
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Engineering Education Society Names NJIT Professor Fellow
April 27, 2011
Ronald H. Rockland, PhD, chair of NJIT's Department of Engineering Technology, has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Rockland, of Parsippany, will receive the designation at the ASEE Annual Conference this coming June in Canada.
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Nirwan Ansari, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, will be the invited speaker at the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Induction Ceremony on April 29 at Hofstra University.
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Maurie Cohen, PhD, associate professor and director of the Graduate Program in Environmental Policy Studies at NJIT, will discuss "From Sustainable Development to Sustainable Well-Being" at the First Annual Brick Township Green Fair on April 30 at 11:30 a.m. at Brick Township High School.
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Third Brother Wins Gold at NJIT
April 25, 2011
America is often referred to as the land of opportunity. Faizan Naqvi, of Kearny, refers to NJIT as his “university of opportunity.”
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Two NJIT students recently released an iPhone app that is selling well on the iTunes App Store. The app, called Quotebook, was recently Apple's 15th best-selling app in the reference category.
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U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) congratulated NJIT students who participated last week in the EPA's P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. >>
Fluid Mechanics Seminar on April 25
April 20, 2011
Peichun Amy Tsai, PhD, of Princeton University will discuss "Wetting Transition, Drop Impact, and Micro-Flows upon Hydrophobic Microstructures" on April 25 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
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Daisy Gallegos of Jersey City, an NJIT track star and senior majoring in information technology at the College of Computing Sciences, was honored for her dedicated work as president of the NJIT student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) at a gala annual dinner in Newark.
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For the Sixth Straight Year, ASCE Steel Bridge Team Places First in Regional Competition
April 19, 2011
For the sixth straight year, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Steel Bridge team has taken first-place honors at the annual Metropolitan New York Region Steel Bridge Competition this past weekend.
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NJIT Professor Develops a Biologically-Inspired Catalyst, an Active Yet Inert Material
April 19, 2011
NJIT Associate Professor Sergiu M. Gorun is leading a research team to develop a biologically-inspired catalyst, an active yet inert material.
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Math Department and Math Club To Host Integral Bee and Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony
April 18, 2011
In recognition of Math Awareness Month, the Mathematical Sciences Department and the NJIT Math Club are hosting two events on April 20: an Integral Bee and an induction ceremony for Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honorary society.
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Statistics Seminar on April 21
April 18, 2011
Shuangge (Steven) Ma, PhD, assistant professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health, will discuss "Integrative Analysis of Cancer Genomic Data" on April 21 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Room 611 (Math Conference Room).
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Department To Sponsor Special Rail and Transportation Seminar
April 15, 2011
NJIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will sponsor a seminar on rail and transportation by Vinay Mudholkar, MS, MBA, director of railway programs at the Louis Berger Group, Inc. on April 18 at 6 p.m. in Kupfrian 107.
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Fluid Mechanics Seminar on April 18
April 15, 2011
Margarita Staykova, PhD, of Princeton University will discuss "Lipid Membranes under Forces: New Aspects of Membrane Behavior" on April 18 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611.
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NJIT Professor Norman Loney Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
April 14, 2011
Norman W. Loney, PhD, chair of the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering at NJIT, was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
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NJIT's Ronald H. Rockland Named ASEE Fellow
April 13, 2011
Ronald H. Rockland, PhD, chair of NJIT's Department of Engineering Technology, has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
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NJIT ECE Student Awarded Tau Beta Pi Scholarship
April 11, 2011
Julia Gayner, an electrical and computer engineering major with a 4.0 GPA, has been awarded a Tau Beta Pi Scholarship for 2011-12.
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Mark A. Snyder, PhD, the P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, will discuss "Hierarchical Nano-Manufacturing of Inorganic Nanomaterials Towards Reaction and Separations Applications" on April 18 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117.
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Sometimes engineering school really is fun. Just ask six Newark College of Engineering undergrads, three of whom recently made a remarkable road trip to Fort Worth, Texas to watch the “Flying Highlander” take fourth place in a notable aerospace international competition.
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Mathematical Biology Seminar on April 12
April 08, 2011
Ivan Iossifov of the Cold Spring Harbor Lab will discuss "Rare De Novo Variants Associated with Autism Perturb a Large Network of Genes Involved in Formation and Function of Synapses" on April 12 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
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Sissy Nikolaou, PhD, PE an associate of Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, will discuss “Seismic Ground Motions for the Challenging Geologic Conditions of New York” on April 11, 11:30-1 p.m. in Colton 416.
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NJIT doctoral students Daniel Boston and Manoop Talasila recently received honorable mention in the Microsoft 2011 Imagine Cup US competition.
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NJIT will be a unique contender in the upcoming April 16-17, 2011 P3 award competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, PhD, an associate professor in the department of humanities and director of the Murray Center for Women in Technology, will be honored by Soroptimist International of the Greater Westfield Area on April 14 for the work she has done to help women succeed in academe.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on April 8
April 05, 2011
Alexander Nepomnyaschy, PhD, a professor in the department of mathematics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, will discuss "Front Propagation in Anomalous Diffusion-Reaction Systems" on April 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II. >>
Mathematical Biology Seminar on April 5
April 04, 2011
Michael Schwemmer, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, will discuss "The Effects of Dendritic Properties on the Dynamics of Oscillatory Neurons" on April 5 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall 611.
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Aaron Cote, PhD, Engineering Director and Head of the Merck Crystallization Laboratory, Chemical Process Development and Commercialization, will discuss "A Novel Crystallization Methodology to Ensure Isolation of the Most Stable Crystal Form" on April 11 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Room 117.
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The IEEE-North Jersey Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters and NJIT will host a talk by EDS Distinguished Lecturer Fernando Guarín of the Semiconductor Research and Development Center at IBM on April 6 at 5 p.m. in ECEC 202.
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Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants should win their divisions, while the Atlanta Braves will take the wild card slot in the National League (NL), according to NJIT's baseball guru Bruce Bukiet.
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The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department will sponsor a guest lecture by Robert Prieto, senior vice president of Fluor Corporation, on April 4 at 11:30 a.m. in Colton 416.
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NJIT ASCE Student Chapter Reps Explain "What Is Civil Engineering?" To Fourth-Graders
March 30, 2011
Student representatives from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at NJIT visited a fourth-grade classroom in the Randolph school district, where they gave a presentation on “What Is Civil Engineering?” and conducted a hands-on activity using toothpicks and gumdrops to design and construct bridges.
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Karl A. Smith, PhD, Cooperative Learning Professor of Engineering Education at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, will discuss "Design and Implementation of Cooperative Learning" on April 4 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on April 1
March 28, 2011
Linda Smolka, PhD, an assistant professor of mathematics at Bucknell University, will discuss "Stability of a Planar-Extensional Flow and an Axisymmetric Thin Film Flow" on April 1 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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NJIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will host three Graduate Seminars on March 28, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
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Granular and Multiphase Flows Colloquium on April 4
March 24, 2011
Carl Wassgren, PhD, a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, will discuss "Modeling Uniformity in Particulate Coating Processes" on April 4, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in MEC 224.
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Helping others is an important part of NJIT life. Many students are the children of immigrants, some are even immigrants themselves. Problems and issues around the world hit home.
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Dan E. Dobry, vice president of Engineering at Bend Research, Inc. in Bend, OR, will discuss "Spray Drying of Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs for Bioavailability Enhancement: Formulation, Processing, and Scale-up" on March 28 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117.
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ACSE Meeting To Feature Guest Speaker on March 23
March 22, 2011
Eugenia K. Roman, PE, a senior engineer and vice president with Olson Engineering, will be the guest speaker at the ASCE meeting on March 23, 2:30-4 p.m. in Colton Room 416.
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Fluid Mechanics Seminar on March 21
March 21, 2011
Christopher R. Jacobs, PhD, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, will discuss "Primary Cilia as Cellular Mechanosensors" on March 21 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
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William Sasso '73, manager of IT Finance and Controls at PSEG, will discuss "Risk and Risk Management" at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar Series on March 21 at 7 p.m. in Kupfrian 107.
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Pavol Rajniak, principal scientist of Pharmaceutical Commercialization Technology at Merck in West Point, PA, will discuss "Mechanistic Models for Development and Scale-up of Pharmaceutical Unit Operations" on March 21 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 117.
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A talk by Balagangadhar G. Bathul, PhD, of Columbia University previously scheduled for March 30 at 5 p.m. in 202 ECEC has been cancelled.
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High school student teams will present their projects from the current season's work at the ACE Mentor Program Final Presentation Night on March 22, 4-8 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom.
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Priscilla Nelson, PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering at NJIT, will discuss "Tunnel Construction and Engineering" on March 21 at 6 p.m. in Kupfrian 107.
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A faster, better and cheaper desalination process enhanced by carbon nanotubes has been developed by NJIT Professor Somenath Mitra.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on March 25
March 11, 2011
Michael Schatz, PhD, associate professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech, will discuss "Characterizing Spatio-Temporal Complexity in Fluid Flow using Computational Homology" on March 25 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Eight teams of 3-4 students representing New York and New Jersey high schools will compete for prizes in the New Jersey Web Design Competition on March 15, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Fleisher Athletic Center.
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Statistics Seminar on March 10
March 08, 2011
Qianxing Mo, PhD, a research biostatistician in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will discuss "A Fully Bayesian Hidden Ising Model for ChIP-seq Data Analysis" on March 10 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall I.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on March 11
March 07, 2011
Jay Tang, PhD, assistant professor of physics at Brown University, will discuss "Swimming Bacteria Meet Applied Math and Physics at Fluid Boundary" at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on March 11, 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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"The BP Oil Spill: Containment Efforts and Ethical Considerations," a paper by Martha Molinini, a student majoring in electrical and computer engineering, has been accepted for presentation at the American Society for Engineering Education Middle Atlantic Section Conference on April 29 in Farmingdale, NY.
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Priscilla P. Nelson, PhD, professor in the NJIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will receive a notable civil engineering award next month as a leader of the design and construction industry who has improved peoples' lives around the world.
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How Do Your Habits Work For You? NJIT Assistant Professor Michael Brownstein Will Explain at ADHC Colloquium
March 02, 2011
Michael Brownstein, PhD, assistant professor in NJIT's Department of Humanities, will discuss "How Your Habits Work for You: An Ethics of Automatic Behavior" at the Albert Dorman Honors College Colloquium Series on March 7, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom A.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on March 4
February 28, 2011
Marc Garbey, PhD, professor of computer science at the University of Houston, will be the guest speaker at the Spring 2011 Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series on March 4 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Information Technology Seminar on March 9
February 28, 2011
John Liuzzi, director of Security Risk Management at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), will discuss "Information Technology and Security: Enabling the Mission of the IRS" on March 9, 2:30-4 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom B.
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Granular and Multiphase Flows Colloquium on March 7
February 28, 2011
Christine Hrenya, PhD, an associate professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will discuss "'Stokes's Cradle' and Beyond: Using Toys to Probe the Physics of Wetted-particle Agglomeration" on March 7, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the MEC 224.
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Treena Arinzeh Appears on Fox TV Tonight
February 25, 2011
Set your television dial tonight to Fox 5 News at 10:30 p.m. to watch NJIT's Treena Arinzeh in an interview explain to the nation the future of adult stem cells and her research, in particular.
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Support for NJIT takes many forms and some are literally concrete. In the case of the The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility, it's steel and a host of other materials, including concrete. >>
ECE Department and IEEE Communications Society-North Jersey Chapter To Sponsor Seminar
February 24, 2011
"Stochastic Internet Privacy: Who Gathers Data and How and What Can Be Done About It" is the topic of a seminar by Balachander Krishnamurthy, a member of the technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research, on March 3 at 5 p.m. in 202 ECEC.
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Biomedical Engineering Department Seminar on Feb. 25
February 22, 2011
Larry Chickola, vice president and chief of Corporate Engineering at Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, will discuss “Roller Coasters, Bio-Dynamics, and Engineering Careers” on Feb. 25 at 11:30 a.m. in the Central King Building Rm. 204.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Feb. 25
February 21, 2011
Ethan Akin, PhD, professor and chair of the department of mathematics at the City College of New York, will discuss "Good Measures on Cantor Space" on Feb. 25 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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If you're looking for a different angle on Black History, speak to NJIT Assistant Professor Allison Perlman.
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NJIT's Priscilla Nelson To Be Invited Speaker at Diversity Symposium
February 11, 2011
Priscilla Nelson, PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering at NJIT, will be an invited speaker next month at the Blackboard Jungle 4 Symposium at the University of Vermont.
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Fluid Mechanics Seminar on Feb. 14
February 11, 2011
Kevin Connington, PhD, a research associate at The Levich Institute, City College of New York, will discuss "Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Particle Transport in Flexible Tubes via Peristalsis" on Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
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NJIT's Atam Dhawan To Speak at Physics Department Seminar
February 10, 2011
Atam P. Dhawan, PhD, distinguished professor and associate dean of the Albert Dorman Honors College, will be the guest speaker at a Physics Department Seminar on Feb. 23, 2:30-4 p.m. in Faculty Memorial Hall Room 408.
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NJIT Named an American Concrete Institute University
February 08, 2011
NJIT has been named an Outstanding University for 2010 by the American Concrete Institute.
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Biomedical Engineering Department To Host Seminar on Feb. 11
February 08, 2011
"Tissue Engineering: Scaffold, Bioreactor and Cell" will be the topic of a Biomedical Engineering Department Seminar by Eun Jung (Alice) Lee, PhD, of Yale University on Feb. 11 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall III.
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium on Feb. 11
February 08, 2011
Guillaume Bal, PhD, professor of applied mathematics in the department of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia University, will discuss "Inverse Elliptic Problems with Internal Controls and Applications to Hybrid Imaging" on Feb. 11 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Lecture Hall II.
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Mathematical Biology Seminar on Feb. 15
February 07, 2011
Horacio G. Rotstein, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT, will discuss "Subthreshold Resonance in a Stellate Cell Model: Part II" on Feb. 15 at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
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Memorial Service To Be Held for Distinguished Professor Timothy N. Chang
February 04, 2011
A remembrance and visitation to honor the memory of Distinguished Professor Timothy N. Chang will be held on Saturday, February 26, 2011 from 2-6 p.m. at the Parsippany Funeral Service, 60 North Beverwyck Road, Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034.
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NJIT Mourns Passing of Distinguished Professor Timothy N. Chang
February 02, 2011
NJIT mourns the loss of Distinguished Professor Timothy N. Chang, who died on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at home. He was 52. >>
JAMA Features NJIT Biomedical Engineer Helping Stroke Patients
February 01, 2011
The Journal of the American Medical Association ("Medical News & Perspectives", Jan. 19, 2011) featured the research of NJIT Associate Professor Sergei Adamovich, a biomedical engineer.
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NJIT Mechanical Engineering Professor To Speak at Fluid Dynamics Seminar on Feb. 7
February 01, 2011
Pushpendra Singh, PhD, a professor in NJIT's department of mechanical and industrial engineering, will discuss "Manipulation of Particles Trapped at Fluid-Liquid Interfaces" on Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall Rm. 611.
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NJIT's Dept. of Biomedical Engineering To Host Spring Biotech/Life Sciences Industry Forum
January 24, 2011
NJIT's Department of Biomedical Engineering in collaboration with the Division of Career Services will host the Spring Biotech/Life Sciences Industry Forum on Feb. 9, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Fenster Hall Rm. 698. >>
NJIT's Department of Public Safety, the Campus Center, Inter Fraternity Sorority Council and Spectrum will be sponsoring a presentation "Cyber-Bullying in a College Environment" on Jan. 26 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom A.
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NJIT's Nirwan Ansari Co-Edits Two Special Issues
January 10, 2011
Nirwan Ansari, PhD, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has recently completed co-editing two special issues covering the state of the art in communications and networks.
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NJIT's Sotirios Ziavras Chairs IEEE International Conference
January 06, 2011
Sotirios G. Ziavras, PhD, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing Laboratory at NJIT, co-chaired the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering last month in Hong Kong.
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NJIT's Priscilla Nelson To Receive Award from ASCE
January 04, 2011
Priscilla P. Nelson, PhD, a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at NJIT, has been selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers to receive the 2011 Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research.
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NJIT Professor Named Associate Provost for Graduate Studies
January 04, 2011
Marino Xanthos, PhD, a professor in NJIT's Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, has been named Associate Provost for Graduate Studies. His appointment will be effective Feb. 1, 2011.
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