Stories Tagged with "society" from 2016
2016 - 8 stories
2015 - 8 stories
2014 - 33 stories
2013 - 30 stories
2012 - 36 stories
2011 - 38 stories
2015 - 8 stories
2014 - 33 stories
2013 - 30 stories
2012 - 36 stories
2011 - 38 stories
The Beats Go On for the Holidays
November 22, 2016
The Giga Beats, NJIT's acapella group, are hosting their first annual Holiday Showcase and invite all in the NJIT community to enjoy an evening of music, dance and humor as an enjoyable prelude to the end of the semester.
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Drones - Icons of an Uncertain Future
November 01, 2016
Armed drones flying over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere have ignited intense debate about U.S. foreign policy and military tactics. Yet drone technology also offers significant promise for applications in commerce, public safety and environmental monitoring.
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Weathering the Storms in Newark
September 27, 2016
Street flooding caused by storms is much more than an inconvenience of urban life — it disrupts economic activity and hinders vital services provided by first responders. By stressing the capacity of sewers and water-treatment plants, flooding can also increase microbial threats to health.
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NJIT Biomedical Engineers Showcase Research at the National Neurotrauma Society Symposium
August 10, 2016
Team members from NJIT's Department of BioMedical Engineering and the Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine (CIBM3) pictured at their exhibitor booth at the National Neurotrauma Society (NNS) Symposium in June.
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NJIT Will Award Nearly 2,900 Baccalaureate, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees May 17, 2016
May 13, 2016
Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, to Deliver 2016 Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Science >>
It's the highest honor bestowed by a venerable engineering society, and one of NJIT's own is a recent recipient. Patrick Natale, P.E., '70, '75, an alumnus of NJIT's Newark College of Engineering (NCE) and today a member of NCE's Board of Visitors, has been named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
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The 2010 BP Oil Spill Disaster: What have we learned?
April 18, 2016
The 2010 BP offshore blowout in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people, released approximately 200 million gallons of oil, and contaminated hundreds of miles of shoreline. What have we learned from this disaster? Are we safer today? Are the impacts over?
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NJIT Students Tour Google's NYC Office
April 06, 2016
NJIT's Google ambassador, Chaitasee Pandya '16, recently organized a trip to Google's Chelsea headquarters in New York City for the graduate students in the Women in Computing Society.
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