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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I then thought, because I was very good in math and science, perhaps I could become an engineer and design an airplane for others to pilot,” said Lim, who joined the NJIT in July 2022 as its ninth president and a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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Dr. Daniela Rus, MIT

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Russ research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and data science.

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Report: Journalism Jobs to Decrease in Years to Come Due to Industry Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More than a third of journalism jobs will be lost 2002-2031 from decades of decline primarily due to newspaper downsizing and closures, a Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) report found. Dr. Anthony P.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, Dr. Juan Gilbert, a 2002 Emerging Scholar, a decade later received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. White House Honoree, Jan. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2002, the Armory Foundation launched Armory College Prep (ACP) to help students training at the Armory Track attain a college degree at no cost to participants. Middle schoolers receive STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) curriculum and high school application guidance. “We

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Adaptation of the Chemical Engineering Laboratory 3 to online and hybrid teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Dani is a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (IMT). Introduction As hard as it seems to be to deliver a practical course fully online, this is exactly what we did in academic year 20/21 with C hemical Engineering Laboratory 3 (CEL3).

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University of Maryland president’s research will be reviewed for plagiarism

University Business

The article alleges that 1,500 words of a 5,000-word paper co-authored by Pines and published in 2002 were plagiarized from a tutorial website called “Surfing the Wavelets” that was last updated in 1996. Pines, a professor of aerospace engineering, was already part of the UMD faculty at the time his 2002 paper was published.