NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/3/21-5/7/21

Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.

CSLA Virtual Awards Ceremony — College of Science and Liberal Arts

Please join us virtually Thursday, May 6 at 4 p.m. for the 2021 CSLA Awards Ceremony, during which we will recognize the remarkable accomplishments of our colleagues, students and alumni. This year’s guest speaker will be Dr. Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals. Dr. Thorp is also former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former provost of Washington University in St. Louis, in addition to being a prominent biochemist and accomplished musician. You may contact the Office of the Dean of the College of Science & Liberal Arts at csla@njit.edu with any questions regarding the event.

Leir Research Institute (LRI) Weekly Seminar Series  — Martin Tuchman School of Management

From 1–2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5, the LRI will host a special session on the Python programming language. The session is open to students and faculty who are new or are interested in doing research with data online utilizing Python. The session will go over data scraping and basic text analysis, with the codes and results to be shown. To join, go to https://njit.webex.com/meet/zyan.

New Library Hours — Robert W. Van Houten Library

From now until Thursday, May 13, the Van Houten Library will be open until 2 a.m. Mondays-Thursdays. Regular hours will remain for Fridays (8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.), Saturdays (10 a.m.-6 p.m.), and Sundays (1 p.m.-9 p.m.).