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Posted January 26th, 2012

Cooking Up Victories: FIRST LEGO League Competition at NYU-Polytechnic

Small knots of children knelt on the floor beside LEGO-built robots, as a pre-teen dressed as a chef led a handful of similarly outfitted classmates — oversized toques and all — through...

Posted January 17th, 2012

Protectress of the Wild West: A Profile of Suzanna Schmeelk

You've probably missed her on campus.  Between teaching online courses for the University of Maryland, volunteering at Weill Cornell Medical Hospital and working at LGS Innovations, Suzanna...

Posted January 10th, 2012

Expanding Minds and Networks: Justin Cappos Joins NYU-Poly

Sure there are many attractions in the computer science department at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), but professor Justin Cappos, who recently joined its faculty, has...

Posted December 19th, 2011

Warming Up: NYU-Poly Holds Open House at DUMBO Incubator

Last Thursday night, hopeful occupants of NYU-Poly’s second New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC)-supported incubator, located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO (Down...

Posted December 16th, 2011

Collaborative Effort Nets Award for Best Paper in Multimedia Communications

For the second time in only four years, the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have netted the Best...

Posted December 14th, 2011

Jonathan Viventi recipient of 2012 Taking Flight Award

Jonathan Viventi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected to receive a 2012 Taking Flight Award, which includes a $100,000 grant, from the Citizens United for Research in...

Posted December 9th, 2011

Patently A Step Ahead: NYU-Poly Alumnae Illustrate the Future of Women in Engineering

"Once you leave school and go out into the workforce, it's not always clear how you'll leverage what you've studied," Ruthie Lyle said after her presentation at last month's...

Posted December 5th, 2011

NYU-Poly Student Wins in Simulink Student Challenge

Last week, MathWorks announced the winners of the 2011 Simulink Student Challenge. Placing third is NYU-Poly graduate student Jared Alan Frank, whose video focused on iDevice Apps that control a...

Posted November 29th, 2011

New, but Familiar: NYU-Poly Professor Developing Bioplastic That Acts Like Regular Plastic

When people complained en masse that new biodegradable Sun Chips bags were too noisy, enough for the snack’s maker, Frito Lay, to scrap the bags altogether last year, it sent a signal: most...

Posted November 28th, 2011

PhD Candidate Jasmin Hume Finalist in Super Connector Search

Vote for Jasmin! “I’ve always wanted to be involved with teaching science and math to kids,” said Jasmin Hume about her motivation for entering Time Warner Cable’s (TWC) Super...