Team members steer their “green” canoe into 11th place at the 2008 National Concrete Canoe Competition in Montreal. Sixty percent of the glass used in the canoe’s concrete mix was recycled from deposits made on NYU-Poly’s campus.
After winning first place at the Metropolitan Regional Concrete Canoe Competition in late August, NYU-Poly’s Student Chapter of the [read more]
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Students Return from National Concrete Canoe Competition
July 14, 2008 – 10:44 am
Randy Sofia Set to Wed in September, Polytechnic Plays Cupid (Sort Of)
July 14, 2008 – 10:43 am
Randy Sofia, Systems Engineer on the WebTeam, will wed Crystal Cook, a second grade teacher from Rochester, in September. And in a roundabout way, Polytechnic played the role of cupid in their story.
Last October, Randy attended the Higher Education Web Development conference in Rochester. His well-known lead foot got the best of him on the [read more]
Emeric Deutsch Delivers Speech at Conference in Tuscany
July 14, 2008 – 10:43 am
Professor Emeric Deutsch (retired) of the Mathematics department was one of four invited speakers at the 2008 GASCOM (Génération Aléatoire et exhaustive de Structures Combinatoires) conference June 16 - 19 in Bibbiena (Tuscany).
His talk was titled “Deco polyominoes.” The conference topic was “the random and exhaustive generation of combinatorial objects and bijective combinatorics with focus [read more]
Another Swimming Success for Allan Goldstein
July 14, 2008 – 10:42 am
Under a hot sun in 64 degree water, Allan Goldstein, Instructor of English/ESL, placed in the top six in his age group at the United States Master Swimming’s One-Mile Open Water National Championship on June 21. 300 competitors from across the country swam in the race, including Allan’s wife who came in first in her [read more]
Take a Look: Poly to NYU-Poly in Time-Lapse Video
July 14, 2008 – 10:42 am
Thank you to Ardis Kadiu and Lukasz Antkiewicz of the WebTeam and Jeremy Schaller and Antonio Ramirez, graduate IDMI students, for this video which is currently running on the new digital displays in Rogers Hall.
Join Pres. Jerry Hultin at a Cyclones Game; Mon. July 14
June 16, 2008 – 11:27 am
Jerry Hultin invites you, your immediate family and significant others, to be his guest for a Brooklyn Cyclones game. There will be food and beverages for all (free, by the way) and best of all, you’ll be in the company of your Poly teammates. There are 100 tickets and they will be distributed on a [read more]
Bagel Breakfast Wed., June 11
June 10, 2008 – 10:43 am
The Office of Human Resources cordially invites you to join your fellow faculty and staff members for a bagel/muffin breakfast.
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Time: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Location: Private dining room
Christopher Leslie Receives Fulbright Award UPDATED
June 10, 2008 – 10:24 am
Congratulations to Christopher Leslie, Instructor of Liberal Studies and New Media and Co-Advisor, Science and Technology Studies, for receiving a Fulbright Award to Postdam, Germany. Christopher will be teaching in the American Studies program at Postdam University for the 2008-09 school year.
The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange. Since [read more]
Lecture by Nobel Laureate Dr. Martin L. Perl ‘48, Wed. June 18
June 5, 2008 – 11:41 am
Developing Creativity in Engineering and Science, a Presidential Lecture by Dr. Martin L. Perl, 1995 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Pfizer Auditorium, Dibner Building, Brooklyn Campus (directions)
Please RSVP by June 16 to Dina Cruz-Cadiz: 718.260.3485; dcruz@poly.edu
Dr. Martin L. Perl graduated summa cum laude from Polytechnic with a bachelor’s [read more]
Spotlight on Successful Student Leadership: 2008 Student Activities Banquet
May 29, 2008 – 4:36 pm
On May 12, the Student Council and the Awards Committee recognized more than 170 students for exemplifying the leadership, dedication and support that participation in student clubs and organizations instills.
Members of Poly’s 35 student clubs and organizations — from PolyRadio and the Society of Women Engineers to the Polytechnic Reporter and the Society for Human [read more]