SIGMA XI - NJIT CHAPTER          

and

NJIT TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY FORUM

launch a new activity:

NJIT-Sigma Xi Research Café

with meetings scheduled at the 

Faculty Dining Area, 3rd Floor, NJIT Campus Center

This will provide a venue where engineers and scientists of different disciplines can discuss issues and topics of common interest, in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.  Research café meetings are open not only to faculty and students but also to interested people in nearby industry, medical centers and laboratories. Surely, the research café concept fits well into Sigma Xi's motto: "Companions in Zealous Research". It falls into the general concept of Science Cafés, promoted by Sigma Xi in collaboration with WPBS NOVA Science Now (http://www.sciencecafes.org/) and has been successful at several other Sigma Xi chapters (see http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/public/cafe.shtml).

As a starter, three research café meetings have been scheduled. Dates and moderators are listed below. During each meeting, the moderator will present a brief overview of the topic, followed by informal discussion. If you wish, you may order from the Pub's or the Center's cafeteria menu (at your own expense) and bring it over to the faculty dining area.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.: 

Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, NJIT:

STEM CELLS: THEIR ORIGINS AND APPLICATIONS BEING EXPLORED AT NJIT For details, click here.


Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.: 

Don Louria, MD, Chair Emeritus, Department of Preventive Medicine, New Jersey School of Medicine, UMDNJ:

THE SOCIETAL CONSEQUENCES OF CREATING EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY AND THE LOOMING MEDICARE CATASTROPHE: A SYSTEM APPROACH For details, click here.

 

Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.: 

Reginald Farrow, PhD, Research Professor, Physics Department, NJIT:

SELF-ASSEMBLED CARBON NANOTUBES AND NANO-DEVICES For details, click here.

 

 

 

For questions, contact Dr. Jay Kappraff at 973-596-3490 or at kappraff@adm.njit.edu

Information and directions to NJIT are also available on the Web at http://www.njit.edu/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php