The Albert Dorman Colloquium Series
Staying informed about all aspects of the world around you beyond your professional interests is an essential component of leadership.
Fall 2021
The Albert Dorman Colloquium Series focuses on the interface between Science, Technology and Society. Colloquia normally meet during university common hours each semester. They feature talks by - and conversations with - industry, academic, and government leaders on a wide range of topics. Field trips to corporate, scientific, cultural, and community organizations are also included. In addition, some important campus political and cultural events are co-sponsored by the Honors College and regarded as part of the Colloquium Series.
Dorman Scholars must attend at least 2 colloquia and Dean's Scholars must attend at least one colloquium each semester. Both cohorts are strongly encouraged to attend more than the required amount. Please click on the colloquia titles below for more details.
You are welcome to review past colloquia topics and speakers here.
2:30 pm - 3:50 pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Technology: How it Can Greatly Impact Non-Traditional Business Settings
Speakers: Haley Gwen Price, Maria Gronda, Thierry Demorre
Organized by JerseySTEM
How do you quickly pivot from the In-Person NYC Marathon to a 100% Virtual Event? How do you re-structure, build and roll-out new technology to quickly assist a traditionally non-virtual business like Healthcare or other office-based environments? The Pandemic has completely changed the way we do business, so please join us as we host 3 experts to explore case studies and solutions developed to keep business going strong in this new digital world.
City Leadership and Civic Engagement Track Colloquium
2:30 pm - 3:50 pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Life Beyond Engineering: A Conversation with Clifford Samuel '88H, '19 (Hon), member National Academy of Engineering
Speakers: Clifford Samuel
ADHC 25th Anniversary Colloquium
Clifford Samuel, Principal at PCMS1 Consulting, has 25+ years of commercial leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, with more than two decades at Gilead Sciences in leadership roles across sales, managed markets, and global commercial operations.
For the last five years, he served as Senior Vice President (SVP), Global Patient Solutions, with responsibility for more than 140 countries. Propelled by his mission to ensure large-scale access to Gilead’s life-saving medicines, Clifford identified market potential and enabled the delivery of medicines to millions in emerging markets, while increasing revenue by billions. He spearheaded Gilead’s entry into generic licensing agreements with companies in China, India and South Africa that created a competitive market for generic HIV and hepatitis B & C medicines. Executed, at dramatically reduced prices, his efforts deliver medicines to more than 15 million people in these resource-limited countries.
In devising and implementing innovative manufacturing, distribution, and go-to-market strategies, Clifford leverages his operational excellence skills, as well as his knowledge of the regulatory landscape and distribution network across the globe. He built multiple global strategic partnerships, including collaborations with governments, non-governmental organizations, and generic drug manufacturers.
Clifford’s successful strategies in resource-challenged, emerging markets drove both access to medicines and ROI in geographies spanning Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, South/Southeast Asia Pacific, and Eastern Europe.
Clifford has been recognized for pioneering new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, developing and implementing innovative approaches to engineering education. A graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, he received an Honorary PhD from his alma mater and sits as an NJIT Honor Program Board Member. He is also the recipient of an Edward F. Weston Medal for Professional Achievement and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineers in 2019.
2:30pm - 3:50pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Alumni Entrepreneurship
Speaker: Áine O'Dwyer, Enovate Engineering; Richard Schatzberg, NeST Technologies Inc.; Samir Saini, Mobility Insight
ADHC 25th Anniversary Colloquium
Áine is the Principal and CEO of Enovate Engineering, an Engineering and Construction Management Firm with offices in New York and New Jersey. Starting the company in 2017, Enovate specializes in public and private sector CM/PM, Transportation Engineering, and Surveying services. They have worked on monumental projects such as the new Moynihan Train Hall, JFK Redevelopment Project, Brooklyn Bridge and the new New York Islanders UBS Arena.
Prior to Enovate, Áine worked for a large privately held International infrastructure development and construction firm. There, she worked her way from a field engineer to Vice President, running Engineering globally for the firm. She has worked on both national and international development projects, such as the $2.3B Anaklia Deep Sea Port project in the Republic of Georgia.
She is a licensed Professional Engineer in thirteen states. She is the recipient of the Engineering News Record (ENR) National 2018 Top 20 under 40, ENR New York 2018 Top 20 under 40, 2019 NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business and has received a Proclamation from the City of New York as well as a Citation of Merit from the Bronx Borough President for her achievements in Gaelic Football.
Hailing from her native Ireland, Áine graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from NJIT and a Master’s in Civil Engineering, also from NJIT. Whilst at NJIT, Áine played Division I basketball for 4 years and soccer for 2 years, actively involved in sports throughout all 5 of her years at NJIT. She sits on the Industry Advisory Board of the Civil Engineering Department and the Albert Dorman Honors College Board of Visitors at NJIT, and also sits on the National Board of the Professional Women in Construction (PWC) organization. She remains active locally on a number of initiatives and actively plays soccer, basketball, golf, hikes and snowboards in the winter months.
Richard is the Chief Commercial Officer of NeST Technologies, Inc., a global software services and business/knowledge process outsourcing (BPO/KPO) firm. In this capacity, he leads North American operations and provides sales and business development leadership in other global markets, including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Mr. Schatzberg is a technology entrepreneur, having founded various businesses that leverage technology to create positive social, economic and business impact, including the National Cloud Technologists Association (NCTA) that provides training, certification and services in the area of cloud computing, network security, and business continuity services. He was also the founder of Aequus Technologies, a company that leveraged technologies to provide access to employment, education and community for people with disabilities.
In addition to serving as the Chairperson of the Board of Visitors for the Albert Dorman Honors College at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Richard serves on various Boards, including Abilities, Inc. and the National Business and Disability Center (NBDC), both a part of The Henry Viscardi Center, and Ruh Global, a for-profit company providing accessibility and communication services for the community of people with disabilities. He has also served as Treasurer of The Abilities Fund, a non-profit organization providing seed capital to entrepreneurs with disabilities, as a founding Board member of Runway of Dreams, a non-profit providing adaptive clothing for people with physical disabilities, and as Business Advisory Chairperson for two federally funded grants supporting training and employment for people with disabilities.
Samir is the Chief Business Officer for Mobi, a software company providing the world’s first turnkey, AI-powered SaaS platform to reduce traffic congestion and optimize traffic flow across any road network.
Samir is an urban technology leader with a proven history partnering with business and governments leaders to build smart and connected cities that improve quality of life. He has over 23 years of IT expertise in the government, public housing, energy and hospitality sectors.
His career includes multiple CIO roles including the City of New York, City of Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson Int’l Airport, the Atlanta Housing Authority, MGM Resorts Int’l, and General Electric. He graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and currently serves on their Board of Visitors. Samir resides in Brooklyn, NY and enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time with his family in New Jersey.
11:00am - 12:20pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Make 103
Speaker: Justin Suriano
NCE/ADHC Joint Colloquium
Justin Suriano is the manager of the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s academic Makerspace, which opened December 2018. Prior to managing the NJIT Makerspace, Mr. Suriano could be found on the sets of major motion pictures and television shows in Los Angeles, working as a set lighting technician. He returned to school in the summer of 2014 for a bachelor’s and master's degree in mechanical engineering, completing both degrees at NJIT by December of 2020. Mr. Suriano's background is in additive manufacturing.
4:00pm - 6:00pm | Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Registration required)
Newark Cathedral Tour (Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart)
Speaker: Rev. Armand Mantia
Learn about the architecture and history of one of Newark’s most majestic buildings, the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Located at the edge of Branch Brook Park, the church was built in the French Gothic style and is the fifth largest cathedral in north America. The tour begins at 4:30 p.m. and will last approximately one hour.
The Rev. Mantia is the pastor of Saint Genevieve Parish, Elizabeth. He has been a tour guide at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart for more than 40 years.
Instructions for those participating in the tour: We will be walking from NJIT to the cathedral as a group. In order to arrive on time (the walk is about 20 minutes), we will be departing from the Warren Street entrance of the Honors College at 4:05 p.m. sharp! (We will also return together as a group.)
For those who wish to drive on their own and meet the tour group there, parking is available behind the cathedral. Please allot extra driving time since it will be rush hour, and traffic on Clifton Avenue at that time moves slowly.
The cathedral is located at 89 Ridge St., just past the entrance to Branch Brook Park.
City Leadership & Civic Engagement Colloquium
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11:00am - 12:20pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
The Professional Engineer: Tackling 21 st Century Challenges In Technology And Infrastructure
Speaker: Dr. Vatsal Shah
Theranos- Silicon Valley’s revolutionary blood testing startup; Flint, Michigan- the face of America’s aging infrastructure; and Volkwagen Auto Group- diesel technology gone bad. What do these three seemingly-different topics share in common? Engineers from all discliplines- biomedical, mechanical, and civil, for these examples, stand behind the innovations for the underlying technology and infrastructure that improve our society. Each contribution reinforces the public trust in our profession, but recent issues and loosening of regulations makes it easier to miss the line which separates a degreed graduate and a Professional Engineer.
This colloquium will discuss what it means to be an engineer in the 21st Century- from ethics, to professional licensure, and lessons learned. The colloquium will provide a preview of the Fall 2021 course to be taught by Dr. Shah in understanding the process of forensic engineering and learning through previously-documented failures. As many of the prospective students will be concurrently taking technical courses where design assumptions and judgement will be necessary, the course will be meant to help students understand the weight and importance of sound engineering judgement and the risks and consequences associated when improper standards of care, technical oversight, and miscommunication occur.
5:00pm - 6:20pm | Join the Webex Virtual Event Here
Saving Slave Houses: Jobie Hill in conversation with Gabrielle Esperdy
HCAD/ADHC Joint Colloquium
City Leadership & Civic Engagement Track Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Join the Webex Virtual Event
Mohamed Elshahed on his Recent Book: Cairo Since 1900 : An Architectural Guide
Speaker: Mohamed Elshahed
HCAD/ADHC Joint Colloquium
2:30pm - 3:50pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Stryker: MedTech, Innovation using 3D Printing
Speaker: Robert Cohen
Medical Humanities Colloquium
The world of medical device design is benefiting in amazing ways from new technologies. At Stryker, our R&D quest is to improve patient outcomes with the acceleration of innovation. 3D printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing, has allowed engineers to design and produce orthopedic implants in unique shapes with unique properties that conventional manufacturing processes of years past haven't allowed. Whether the 3D printing of polymers or metals, novel designs can now be considered that can provide enhanced function and better relate to the individual needs of a patient. This webinar will provide an overview of the Stryker competency for 3D printing product development and a glimpse into our internal production capability.
Mr. Cohen currently holds the position of President of Stryker’s Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technologies. He has worked in the medical device industry for over thirty-five years. Mr Cohen has focused on innovation that can improve patient outcomes and has managed R&D, manufacturing, regulatory, clinical research, quality and marketing functions. Prior to his current position, Mr. Cohen served as the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Joint Replacement division since rejoining Stryker in 2013 as part of the Mako acquisition. Prior to this, he held the position of Senior Vice President, Clinical and Market Development, for MAKO Surgical Corp., an orthopedic robotics company, as well as having the role of General Manager of their New Jersey implant R&D and additive- manufacturing facility. From 2007 until MAKO’s purchase of Pipeline Biomedical, a company founded by Mr. Cohen, he served as its Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Product Development for Implex Corp, a developer of advanced joint replacement and spinal implants fabricated from a novel porous metal biomaterial trademarked as Trabecular Metal. Following the acquisition of Implex Corp by Zimmer Inc, a large manufacturer and supplier of orthopedic implants in 2004, Mr. Cohen served as Zimmer’s General Manager of their New Jersey engineering and manufacturing operations through 2006. From 1984 to 1992, he held various engineering positions at Stryker’s joint replacement division Osteonics, including Director of Product Development. Mr. Cohen has over 25 patents and speaks globally at medical education conferences. He also serves on numerous boards and is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, a leading US polytechnic university with over 12,000 students. Mr. Cohen has been inducted as a Fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Mr. Cohen has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Engineering Management, all from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
11:00 am - 12:20pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
EVERY-01: Based on Everyman, a morality play
Speaker: Louis Wells
Death comes for Everyone. In the middle of a global pandemic in which our entire community has faced inconceivable sickness, the NJIT/Rutgers-Newark Theatre Program is proud to share our latest production, EVERY-01: Based on Everyman, a morality play. This adaptation brings together performance, animation, original music, and film for an original and contemporary retelling of medieval play, Everyman.
Online posting of the play will be on Wednesday, March 3rd at 7:00 pm. The play will remain on the NJIT website for the semester, here.
Honors Colloquium Talk-back will be on Friday, March 5th at 11:00 Common Hour.
11:30am - 1:00pm | Webex Event (Register Here)
(New! There is also an option to join us in Ballroom A of the Campus Center to watch the event on the Big Screen and share a free lunch with fellow students!)
MAKING CHANGE—moving from facts to political action on climate change and environmental justice
Speaker: Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt Institute & Neil Maher (moderator), Professor, NJIT Federated Department of History
Women With STEAM Colloquium; Murray Center for Women in Technology/ADHC Co-sponsored Colloquium
Learn from an architect of the Green New Deal how the climate crisis and the racial inequality crisis are intertwined. Brainstorm specific tactics to challenge the systemic power imbalances that drive enviornmental degradation.
2:30pm - 3:50pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Sickle Cell Disease, Equity, and Justice: A Stagnant History
Speaker: Dr. Melissa Creary
Medical Humanities Colloquium
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped focus many people's attention on racism as a crisis in public health. But how exactly do public policy, ideas about race, and human lived experiences intersect? This colloquium will discuss racism in public health through an examination of sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD is a genetic blood disorder that is often ascribed to African ancestry, but is in fact a marker for heritage from a geographic location where malaria is or was prevalent. Its association with Blackness opens up deeper conversations about race, racism, and health equity. This talk will use SCD to illustrate three levels of racism in public health and medicine—institutionalized, personally-mediated, and internalized. It will discuss how social movements, institutions, and community-based organizations have historically attempted to attain justice for people with SCD, but continually fall short.
In Q and A, students will have a chance to learn about diverse career paths and forms of research and advocacy in the field of Public Health.
Bio:
Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH is the Senior Director of the Office of Public Health Initiatives for the American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (focusing on Health, History, and Culture) at the Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA) and Masters in Public Health at Emory University. Over a nine-year career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Blood Disorders, she helped create and lead the first national program and data collection system for sickle cell disease (SCD) at the agency. Dr. Creary’s research and teaching interests broadly include how science, culture, and policy intersect. Through a health equity lens and using historical and ethnographic methods, she investigates how national policy for SCD is influenced by race and other notions of belonging. Her research also interrogates how inclusion and knowledge production are at odds with structural barriers. In her most recent project, she analyzes how equity-based scientific and public health policies are incongruent to the very justice they are trying to produce. She speaks on topics of justice, racism and anti-racism in health and biomedicine, COVID-19, identity politics in health, and bioethics. She has published work in Social Science and Medicine, Genetics in Medicine, The American Journal of Bioethics, and The Huffington Post.
11:30am - 1:00pm | Webex Event (Register Here)
Equitable Access to a Safe Home
Speaker: Vincent J. Reina, Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics, Faculty Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn
City Leadership & Civic Engagement Colloquium; Medical Humanities Colloquium; HCAD/ADHC Co-Sponsored Colloquium
Vincent J. Reina is an Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and the Faculty Director of the Housing Initiative at Penn. His research focuses on urban economics, housing policy, and inequality. Dr. Reina work has directly informed local and national housing policy. Dr Reina was the Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Professor at Penn Nursing, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, a Lincoln Institute for Land Policy Scholar, and the recipient of the Rising Scholar award by the Associate of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
The author will present a paper “Association Between Structural Housing Repairs for Low-Income Homeowners and Neighborhood Crime” that was co-authored with Professor Eugenia C. South and John MacDonald. This paper looks at the question: Are targeted investments in structural repairs to homes of low-income owners associated with reduced crime in Black urban neighborhoods? This talk will frame this paper within a broader discussion about racial inequality in public and private investments in housing and neighborhoods.
11:00am - 12:20pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Inspiring Future Women in STEM
Speaker: Dr. Camelia Prodan, Dr. Antje Ihlefeld, Dr Penelope Georges
In honor of Women’s History Month, this colloquium will focus on female educators in STEM and their journeys as women in STEM. The speakers presenting will be Dr. Camelia Prodan, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Dr. Antje Ihlefeld Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Dr. Penelope Georges, formerly a professor of Biomedical Engineering at NJIT and current Assistant Director of STEM education at Princeton University. All three speakers will discuss their inspirations for their careers, their journey to their current positions, careers before joining NJIT, their research, and the inspiration behind becoming an educator. The achievements and applaudable paths conveyed will serve as an inspiration, motivating the student body. With their guidance, students can work towards careers as engineers and scientists!
7:00pm - 9:00pm | NJIT Jim Wise Theatre, Kupfrian Hall (Registration for the talk-back is required - seating is limited) (Tickets for the performance can be purchased through this link)
Theater Performance & Talk-back - Chasing the Ghost
New Jersey premiere
Chasing the Ghost by Ashley Lauren Rogers
CoProduced by Step 1 Theatre Project
Directed by Janelle Zapata Castellano
In person, live performance. Talk-back following performance (Students should remain in the theater after curtain call; the author, director, cast, and some crew will then come to the stage to answer questions.)
Masks are Required.
Kurt was a vlogger in the early days of YouTube where he screamed about video games he hated. But he's left that behind him, finding a wife and keeping his character's anger in check. Until one night where he is visited by a shadow person...who won't stop tickling his feet.
4:00pm - 5:20pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Innovations in Synthetic Chemistry at Merck: Striving for the Ideal Commercial Manufacturing Process
Speaker: Kevin Campos
CSLA/ADHC Joint Colloquium, Medical Humanities Colloquium
At Merck, we believe that innovation in synthetic chemistry is pivotal to our goal to invent, develop, and commercialize important new medicines “better and faster” than ever before. While there appears to have been a trend over the last decade toward viewing synthetic chemistry as a mature science, our experience and intent is completely opposite to this. At, Merck we see massive opportunity for innovation and impact in synthetic chemistry, and this is central to our mission in Process Research & Development: to launch every new product, regardless of molecular complexity, with the best conceivable chemistry, converting easily sourced commodity materials into the active pharmaceutical ingredient with a chemical synthesis that is lowest cost, easiest to run, safe, efficient, and environmentally sustainable. This presentation describes our strategy to achieve this goal, using a recent example from our labs.
Biosketch: Kevin Campos received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in 1993. In 1999, he obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from Harvard University and joined the Department of Process Research at Merck as a Senior Research Chemist. Over the last 20 years, Kevin has established himself as a leader in both drug discovery and development, and an advocate for Diversity and Inclusion. In 2007, he was the recipient of the ACS Young Industrial Investigator's Award and in 2008, he was the recipient of the Marcy Garb Award for Education and Training at Merck for his continued passion for development and training of employees across MRL. This passion ultimately led to a rotational assignment well outside his comfort zone, reporting to the NJ Discovery Site Head, providing operational oversight for all discovery programs in New Jersey and leading the renovation of K-15, a one-million square foot Discovery research facility in Kenilworth, NJ. He is currently Associate Vice President and Head of Small Molecule Process Research and Development, where he manages a group of 250 scientists, including experts in synthetic chemistry, chemical engineering, catalysis, biocatalysis, protein engineering, automation, flow chemistry, and radiolabeled synthesis. Together, they are responsible for the Merck Small Molecule pipeline, shepherding programs from Discovery into pre-clinical development, to the clinic and on to commercialization. Under his leadership, several commercial manufacturing routes for novel therapies have been launched, including ZEPATIER™, PREVYMIS™, PIFELTRO™, ZERBAXA™ and RECARBRIO™. Kevin has a track record of developing diverse talent and building diverse and inclusive teams. He is a sponsor and mentor in the Merck Women’s Network, the Process R&D Continuing Education Team, the head of the RY Site Coordination team, responsible Rahway’s annual Bring Your Child to Work Day, and executive sponsor of NJ State Science Day. After serving as a member for several years, Kevin was recently appointed to chairman of the R&D Council of New Jersey.
10:00am - 11:00am | Ballroom, Campus Center, NJIT (Full)
NAI-NJIT Chapter Workshop and President’s Forum - Sustainable Societies: Global Environment and Climate Change - Innovations to Global Solutions
In Conjunction with NJIT 2021 Faculty Research Showcase
Sponsored by:
National Academy of Inventors
NJIT Office of Research
Carbon Group Global
NJ Commission of Science, Innovation and Technology
YouTube Live Streaming at https://youtu.be/6glZj1hhWkw
Event Website: https://research.njit.edu/nai/events
Climate change is no longer a distant apocalypse, but an emerging reality experienced on
the ground by regions around the globe. The recent spate of natural disasters – from forest fires,
to searing temperatures, to drought, to hurricanes – injects urgency into the search for
sophisticated data, near-term technological solutions and strategies for coping in an altered
world. Indeed, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted, “Many of the changes
observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years,
and some of the changes already set in motion—such as continued sea level rise—are
irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years.”
Sustained reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases are a top strategic priority that
will require the involvement of communities around the globe and the participation of problem-
focused partnerships among academia, industry, government and private and non-profit policy
advocates. Societal gaps in knowledge about the severity and implications of climate change
within individual countries and the political will to undertake coordinated global policies present
real challenges. This workshop is designed to bring together key stakeholders with an eye toward
developing an integrated approach toward the problem that focuses on education, research,
innovation and technology translation.
This event is a part of the NAI-NJIT Chapter Workshop Series on “Innovations to Global
Solutions” and the President’s Forum is a featured event in the Albert Dorman Honors College
Colloquium Series and is made possible in part by the generous support of the DeCaprio Family.
4:00pm - 5:20pm | Register for the Virtual Event
“Ask for it!” (You're Worth It)--a Workshop on Women and Negotiation
Speaker: Marybeth Boger
This colloquium is on negotiation and creative risk-taking in our careers. The pandemic has been particularly devastating for women economically—especially for women of color—but crisis also creates opportunity for change; and that’s the conversation we want to jump-start in this series: creating a genuinely new ‘New Normal’ for women, individually and collectively.
On Monday, April 5 from 4:00-5:30, the Murray Center and Dean of Students Marybeth Boger are co-sponsoring a hands-on workshop featuring internationally-known expert in negotiation, Sara Laschever— hosted by Diane Montalto, Co-Vice Chair of the NJIT Board of Trustees.
11:30am - 1:00pm | Virtual Event (Register Here through Handshake)
Inspire Innovation through a Public Sector Career (Virtual)
Join us for a panel discussion which will introduce the great value of public sector careers. NJIT's Career Development Services will host a panel of mid-high level professionals from various disciplines which align with students' values and occupational interests. These include global warming, energy, health, the environment, individual rights, politics, housing, food security, education, social media and social justice.
Co-sponsored by ADHC and Career Development Services
2:30pm - 3:50pm | Register for the Webex Virtual Event
Women With Steam: HearstLab Panel
Speaker: Tea Fougner, Editorial Director, Comics, King Features; Carla Silva, Vice President & General Manager, Global Head of Licensing, King Features; Denitza Ouzounova, Senior Director, Head of Product Specialists, Fitch Solutions
11:00am - 12:20pm | Join the Webex Virtual Event
The Sustainable Campus: ADHC First-Year Seminar Biodiversity and Sustainability Initiatives
Speaker: Andrew Christ, Senior Vice President, Real Estate Development and Capital Operations
ADHC First-Year Scholar Finalists