The current pandemic has deeply influenced our social behavior in many ways, among the most obvious being that while physical interaction is way down, screen time is way up — some early estimates since March showed total web hits jumping up to 70%, and streaming content by at least 30% worldwide.
Members of NJIT's string, jazz and wind ensembles are showcasing their collective spirit with a new inspirational performance for the university community.
Student-musicians of NJIT’s Music Initiative have collaborated to digitally stage a performance of Journey's "Don’t Stop Believin’," featuring an original arrangement by Dave Rimelis, NJIT jazz ensemble conductor and artist-in-residence for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Even in the social distancing era, the show must go on for the art world. That includes the NJIT/Rutgers-Newark theatre arts community, which is soon returning to its audiences with a string of all-new virtual performances exploring art, click-based technology and social connections during physical isolation.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues upending life for countless people around the world, threatening public health while disrupting everything from basic home and work routines, to air travel and financial markets. But what has the global slowdown meant for the environment and sustainable living, and what could it mean if some of the radical changes in our everyday lifestyles and consumption habits persisted long-term?
As the great improv comic Robin Williams once said, “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Newark audiences were in for plenty of unique and entertaining moments, sparked with that little bit of madness, during the city’s annual celebration of improv theater.
From the Arctic Ocean to the shores of Hawaii, NJIT Distinguished Professor of philosophy and music David Rothenberg has long been traveling, clarinet in-hand, across the seas of the world — playing along to the tune of nature while recording the dramatic songs produced by whales from the ocean's depths.
Now, after a recent collaboration, those far-out sounds could make it into the music you hear during a night out this year.
NJIT’s very own Professor David Rothenberg is well-known for his music philosophy. Rothenberg has spent many years combining music and nature, to create music that features the natural world including birds, whales and insects. In fact, he has been referred to as an “interspecies musician.”
Recently, Rothenberg has collaborated with Pattern Radio, a project in partnership with Google and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to collect thousands of hours of whale songs.
Oct. 28, 2019 — NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced that Julie Ancis will join the Department of Humanities as professor of psychology and director of cyberpsychology.
J.K. Rowling. Ursula K. LeGuin. Connie Willis.
By the time NJIT humanities professor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry left the stage at Ireland’s Convention Centre Dublin on the evening of Aug. 18, she would share a certain place among such historic stars of science fiction literature.
Though, the distinction she now shares with them also makes her a “first” in that literary universe.
Like many young New Jersey commuters making the morning trek through the Lincoln Tunnel into New York City, Jenessey Amparo-Rosario Morel would shuffle through her phone’s music playlist to find familiar star names like Rihanna, Shakira and Jay-Z. However, for Morel, those particular popular artists would also become clients, and even her new boss, as she entered work for her first day of a three-month co-op role this past February.
