In collaboration with Brown University School of Engineering, Mid-Ocean Studio has developed an approach to site-based art of adaptive biomimetic design. The design process uses computer models of natural forces such as weather, sunlight, geological change, and human activity. The site is seeded with wireframe tetrahedral algorithms and allowed to “grow” reactively to these models. The resulting structural matrix replicates natural phenomena. This collaboration is resulting in effective, computerized means to autogenerate large, increasingly complex works of art, and allowing for a long-anticipated development of the desire to create works that reflect and respond to the environment they are in.

Creativity and Cognition Conference 2005 proposal

Co-sponsored by the NJIT Speaker Forum

A combined trip and colloquium at the planetarium of the Newark Museum, in conjunction with the exhibit Solar Fireworks.

Learn about the newest project taking place at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California, an NJIT facility .

You must sign up via email by the end of the day February 11.  Limited to the first 60 students to sign up. Students will walk to the Museum on their own.  Take Central Ave to Washington Ave - Left  to 49 Washington Ave.

Co-sponsored by the NJIT Speaker Forum

Jane Lancaster, an independent public historian who specializes in women's history. She is the author of Making Time, a biography of Lillian Moller Gilbreth, the industrial engineer and mother of twelve celebrated in Cheaper by the Dozen. Gilbreth taught Industrial Engineering at Newark College of Engineering.

The Annual Lillian Gilbreth Symposium

Co-sponsored with the Murray Center for Women in Technology.

Ms. Cottingham-Streater's talk will combine her expertise in Japan's policymaking processes and US-Japan relations with NJIT's interest in technology.

Ms. Cottingham-Streater is the recipient of the Foreign Minister's Commendation in recognition of her longstanding work to strengthen US-Japan relations. She received her Juris Doctor from the National Law Center at George Washington University and is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College in Government and Asian Studies.

Moderator, Bruce Kirchhoff, NJIT School of Management.

How does an inventor move through the several steps from invention to commercialization?

Two presentations will be made by an inventor who has gone through the commercialization process and an Intellectual Property attorney.

Dr. Donald Louria, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UMDNJ, NJ Medical School, Newark.

Dr. Louria held the position of Chairman of the Department from 1969 to 1999. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees, both cum laude, from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, respectively.

Dr. Louria is convinced that before long people will regularly live to 110 or 120 years. What then? Will we have people excited about life, reasonably healthy, having a good quality of life… or will we have lonely, depressed, bored people, not very healthy, with not a good quality of life?

Directed by Tim Raphael

Followed by a talk with the Director.  Students must attend both the play and the talk to receive honors credit.

HONOR STUDENTS ONLY

You must sign up in advance by email by April 11.

Dr. Keith Wailoo, Professor of History, Rutgers University.

Dr. Wailoo is a historian of medicine interested in the relationship of disease and the biomedical sciences to questions of race, health politics, group identity, and 20th-century American culture.

Cosponsored by the NJIT/Rutgers Federated Department of History and the Rutgers/NJIT History Club.

The cost is just $25.00 per student (includes all transportation, accommodations and meals.) The purpose of the trip is to expose you to the federal policymaking process and to explore a range of professional fields in both the executive and legislative branches of our government.

Our host is Mr. Robert Cottigham, a long-time Washington veteran who will get us inside legislative and executive-branch offices and set up meetings with top policy-makers.

Space is limited, so if you would like to sign-up for the trip, please e-mail Ms. Chipepo as soon as possible. Be sure to include the following in your e-mail: name, year, major, address, SS# and DOB (for the security check). Sign-up as soon as possible.  If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Ms. C.

For a story on last year's trip, please go HERE.