Here Comes the Prize

For the third consecutive year, the NYIT de Seversky Mansion received the Bride’s Choice Award from online portal WeddingWire for being one of the top wedding venues in North America. The honor was determined by reviews from more than 1.2 million newlyweds. Built in 1916, the NYIT de Seversky Mansion hosts weddings, corporate events, conferences, and other activities in Old Westbury, N.Y.

Management Garners Silver Achievement

NYIT is the only educational institution in New York to receive the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce’s (MCC) silver partnership designation. It is the second consecutive year the chamber awarded the honor to NYIT.

Modernists Take Manhattan

Nearly 100 scholars attended NYIT’s interdisciplinary conference, Modernist Manhattan, on March 2. The conference, organized by faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences, featured presentations on the Modernist visual arts, literature, society, and politics of New York.

Augmented Reality Check

In collaboration with Texas A&M University, NYIT students and faculty are using Motorola Solutions’ Golden-i headset computer to introduce augmented reality technology into the construction field. Sponsored by Motorola Solutions and IPS Technology, their work is helping to improve productivity by infusing augmented reality into the operations of Consolidated Construction Company, an international construction firm based in Europe and the Middle East. The team is developing an application that will allow users to interact with the environment using 3-D imagery, facial detection and recognition, hand gestures, graphic overlays, and more.

Teaching a New Generation

NYIT students and faculty members visited the USS Intrepid as part of the Intrepid’s Girls in Science and Engineering weekend on March 2-4. A team from the College of Osteopathic Medicine demonstrated NYIT classroom technology, such as “Stan,” a wireless robot, to more than 100 young people, while students and faculty from the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences presented LEGO and VEX robots that can climb stairs and sort colors as well as showed how sensors can teach robots to lift objects.

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