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Posted July 10th, 2007

Promise fund gala featured on front page of Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Find out more about Polytechnic’s Annual Promise Fund Scholarship Dinner

Posted July 9th, 2007

Prassas decides when traffic signals are warranted

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Elena Prassas is someone who can stop traffic -- literally. Last spring, funded by a $200,000 grant from the National Research Council’s Transportation...

Posted July 5th, 2007

Trustee Alexander joins board of biotechnology concern

Ralph C. Alexander ‘77 ‘78, deputy chairman of the Polytechnic Board of Trustees, has joined the board of directors of Amyris Biotechnologies of Emeryville, Calif. Alexander, who holds...

Posted June 27th, 2007

Today's outstanding graduates: Tomorrow's Nobel laureates?

Jelena Culic-Viskota has been named Polytechnic University’s 2007 Outstanding Graduate for her exemplary combination of academic achievement and her involvement in a wide array of...

Posted June 26th, 2007

Learning by doing: Poly profs nurture and encourage young innovators

Last week, the Urban Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young Women held its Spring Portfolio Roundtables, in which sixth grade students presented their work and explained what they learned...

Posted June 22nd, 2007

Promise Fund Gala Raises $1 Million for Scholarships

Glamour, celebrities and the legendary jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli lit up the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel at the 19th Annual Promise Fund Scholarship Dinner, which raised more...

Posted June 22nd, 2007

Erkip and Yuksel consider wireless communication and its discontents at IEEE 2007

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Elza Erkip, along with doctoral student Melda Yuksel, has made another contribution to the burgeoning field of cooperative wireless communications. A...

Posted June 18th, 2007

Poly's Associate Provost Hosts New Radio Show in Westchester

Andres Fortino, associate provost of Polytechnic University’s Westchester campus, and a world-renowned specialist in information technology and technology management, is hosting a new radio...

Posted June 18th, 2007

Cheers, Energy, Excitement Fill City Center as Class of 2007 Urged to Stay Ahead of Innovation Curve

Left to right: William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering; Padmasree Warrior, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Motorola Inc.; Jerry M. Hultin, president,...

Posted June 13th, 2007

Tapiero's "Risk"-y new venture

How is risk defined, measured, analyzed, valued and managed? This is a question with which Poly’s Charles Tapiero and his colleague from the University of Texas at Dallas, Alain Bensoussan,...