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January 23, 2008	Kudos to Professor Jaideep Vaidya, CIMIC and MS/IS who is awarded an NSF CAREER Grant on his research "Collaborative Optimization with Limited Information Disclosure". The award is in the amount of $450,000 over 5 years (2008-2012). The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education."
January 2, 2008	Professor Hui Xiong, CIMIC and MS/IS, has published a book Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, Springer, co-edited with Professor Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
December, 2007	Professor Hui Xiong, CIMIC and Management Science and Information Systems, has been awarded $60,000 by Michael Pazzani, Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education, to support a collaborative research study of data mining in mobile computing. Hui will be working with Professor Marco Gruteser of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Hui also is the recipient of this year's RBS Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
November 12, 2007	Rutgers CIMIC is now a member of the Emergency Communications Sector Group on New Jersey.
November 15, 2007	Rutgers CIMIC is a member of SMART Team (Strengthening the Mid-Atlantic Region for Tomorrow).
October 18, 2007	Rutgers CIMIC received a grant at the amount of $566,000 for two years from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through SAP Corp. The focus of the Research & Development work is IT issues related to Public security in Germany. Partners in the grant include six German organizations (universities and Corporations) with Rutgers CIMIC being the only non-German entity involved. Special permission had to be granted from the German government to include Rutgers CIMIC as a U.S. research entity.