Free Spring Cultural Event Series - NJIT, Newark

“Creative Diversity” will be the theme of this Spring’s 2012 NJIT Technology and Society Forum, http://tsf.njit.edu a series of free events open to the public and scheduled from February 22, 2012 - April 13, 2012 on the NJIT campus.   The presentations invite participation in diverse creative experiences.  This year’s presentations have been made possible by support from AT&T and Hewlett Packard.

The unique sound of the Klang String Quartet opens the series February 22, 2012 in a performance in the Campus Center Atrium from 3 pm - 4:30 pm.  “Klang” means “sound” in German, and bringing their distinctive blend of musical interests and influences to NJIT will be Matthew Goeke (cello), Gregor Kitzis (violin), Rieko Kawabata (violin), and Yi-Ping Yang (viola).

The individual members of this exciting ensemble have performed with early music groups such as the Arcadia Baroque Ensemble, the New England Bach Festival and the Grand Tour Orchestra, with major symphony orchestras, and with rock, jazz and pop icons ranging from David Bowie, Enya, David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Mixx 22 to Don Byron, Anthony Braxton and the George Gee Swing Orchestra.  They have also recorded on various labels, and their TV appearances include Saturday Night Live and the David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Rosie O'Donnell and Jay Leno shows.

Members of the quartet have had careers as solo performers and with other ensembles for many years.  After numerous appearances that include national and international chamber music and jazz festivals, they have united to greet audiences together with a resounding, appealing Klang! 

NJIT Professor David Rothenberg moderates a panel discussion about survival of the beautiful among scientists and artists on Friday, February 24, 2012, also in the Campus Atrium from 11:30 am – 1 pm.  Two groups will face off in a panel talk on the aesthetics of evolution.

“The Story That’s Under Your Nose: Performance, Poetry and the Dialogue Arts Project” will be investigated on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 from 2 pm -4 pm in the Campus Center Ballroom when Adam Falkner, executive director of the Dialogue Arts Project takes the podium.   

The 2012 Lillian Gilbreth Colloquium Speaker Santosh Kurinec, a professor in the Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Microelectronic Engineering, Kate Gleason College of Engineering, will discuss using creativity to motivate engineering education on March 28, 2012 from 3 pm - 4:30 pm in the Campus Center Atrium.  The discussion caps the festivities on campus for Women’s History Month.

George Hart, chief of content at the Museum of Mathematics, will be on stage on Friday, April 13, 2012 from 3 pm - 4:30 pm in the Campus Center Atrium.

NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, enrolls more than 9,558 students pursuing bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 120 programs. The university consists of six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, College of Computing Sciences and Albert Dorman Honors College. U.S. News & World Report's 2011 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT in the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is internationally recognized for being at the edge in knowledge in architecture, applied mathematics, wireless communications and networking, solar physics, advanced engineered particulate materials, nanotechnology, neural engineering and e-learning. Many courses and certificate programs, as well as graduate degrees, are available online through the Office of Continuing Professional Education.