NJIT women scientists and engineers use new information technologies to tackle isolation...( in social network complexity over time....)

in social network complexity over time. Nobody has tried to do this before, said Steffen-Fluhr, but if it works, it will provide a new method of measuring institutional climate change that can be used at universities across the country.

The first of NJITs Advance-funded research projects is a geospatial technology lab within which four women faculty members will work on a coastal water quality modeling project. Geospatial technologies provide an especially good medium for interdisciplinary collaboration because these technologies have many potential uses, including homeland security and global climate issues, Steffen-Fluhr said. In this project, the research team is using remote sensing data as a management tool to monitor and predict the spread of pollution in the Hudson/Raritan Estuary of New York and New Jersey. In subsequent years of the grant, NJIT Advance will provide seed-funding for collaborative projects in other research areas.

Steffen-Fluhr, of Newfoundland, Rockaway Township, an associate professor in the humanities department, teaches courses in gender and technology, science fiction and computer-mediated collaborative writing. She has chaired NJITs Committee on Womens Issues and is the author of NJITs 2005 Status of Women Faculty report.

Steffen-Fluhrs research explores the relationship between gender and technology as interdependent social constructs, with a special interest in how gender and sex are depicted in U.S. film and television. Her scholarly publications include essays on science fiction writers James Tiptree and H.G. Wells and the classic 1950s science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Steffen-Fluhr received her PhD from Brandeis University.

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Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
sheryl.m.weinstein@njit.edu
973-596-3436
New Jersey Institute of Technology
29-Nov-2006


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