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"Spooky Interactions", Shocking Adaptations Discovered in Electric Fish of Brazil's Amazon

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
From Brazil's Amazon, researchers report “spooky interactions” among surface- and cave-dwelling electric fish, revealing shocking behavior of 300 blind cavefishes whose ancestors adopted life in darkness tens of thousands of years ago. A study of weakly electric fishes from a remote area of the&nb...

Engineering Graduates Bring Tech Skills and Gwara Gwara to the Lone Star State

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
When Jeffrey Jude-Ibe ’20 flew to Dallas in September to begin work as a quality engineer at Texas Instruments, Kelvin Siebeng ’19, the person who put the semiconductor giant on his job-search horizon, picked him up at the airport. With 3 full-time offers from major corporations and another from the...

Lyzi Litwinko Selected America East Rookie of the Week

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Freshman guard Lyzi Litwinko has been selected America East Conference Rookie of the Week the league office announced on Monday. In a 1-1 week for the Highlanders, Litwinko averaged 6.5 points-per-game and 5.0 rebounds-per-game in two conference games, making 50% of her three-point s...

NJIT Registers First America East Win, Stoll and Squier Lead All Scorers with 19 Points

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
NJIT captured its first America East Conference victory Saturday afternoon led by senior Ellyn Stoll and sophomore Kenna Squier's game-high 19 points en route to a 78-57 victory over New Hampshire at Lundholm Gymnasium in the conference opener for both teams. The win for NJIT is...

Hillier Design Professor Wins Awards for Augmented Reality Prototype

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Hannah Kum-Biocca, an assistant professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won two awards for an augmented reality project that she submitted to the EuroXR 2020 conference in Valencia, Spain. In her project, visitors to physical museums can wear a Microsoft Hololens headset to ...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 12/7/20-12/11/20

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Free Android Dev Course Will be Taught by NJIT Students in Spring 2021

Monday, December 7th, 2020
This spring semester, NJIT students will have the chance to participate in a free Android mobile app development course backed by major tech companies including Amazon, Cognizant, Facebook, and Microsoft, along with retail giant Walmart. The course is run by CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization t...

New NJIT Course Puts Students in Charge of Planning a Business

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Students in a new NJIT course that delivers the experience of planning a business on campus appreciate the latitude that instructors give them to make decisions.“They guide you and respond to specific questions, but they won’t tell you exactly what to do and how,” said Marina Arrese ’21, a busi...

Change to Winter Break Schedule and Early Closing

Friday, December 4th, 2020
NJIT Faculty and Staff, As part of our efforts to thank and support our NJIT colleagues, the university is adding an additional paid holiday to the winter break. This additional day is in recognition and appreciation of our faculty and staff, who have made extraordinary efforts to advance our ...

NJIT President Speaks on Innovation Goals and Receives Business Award

Friday, December 4th, 2020
NJIT President Joel S. Bloom joined a panel discussion about statewide innovation, and received an award for public service, at the New Jersey Business and Industry Association's virtual Public Policy Forum on December 1. The panel, "The Modern Innovation State: Challenges and Solutions for Driving...