News

News

Senior Success: Awardees Shine at NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts

Thursday, May 28, 2020
Each spring around Commencement, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts holds its very own celebration, awarding its standout student and faculty stars from across the college’s diverse academic spectrum of art, history and humanities to...

Senior Success: Biology Major Chloe Jelley is an Entomologist-in-the-Making

Thursday, May 21, 2020
As a kid growing up in Omaha, Neb., Chloe Jelley ’20 had a major aversion to insects that many can relate with.“I was one of the more careful kids and I was not into bugs at all when I was young … actually, I was really...

NJIT Senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz Lands Merck R&D Internship to Work on Vaccines

Thursday, May 14, 2020
Biochemistry senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz hasn’t wasted much time during her past three years at NJIT.

Mental Health, COVID-19 & Our Tech: Q&A with NJIT Cyberpsychology Director Julie Ancis

Wednesday, May 6, 2020
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...

NJIT 2020 Goldwater Scholar Class Among Largest In U.S.

Thursday, April 16, 2020
NJIT undergrads continue to earn the nation’s top academic honors, the latest being a new university record of four students named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and...

With an NSF RAPID Grant, NJIT Engineers Build a New Model to Track COVID-19

Tuesday, April 14, 2020
A team of environmental engineers at NJIT is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed,...

NJIT Faculty Joins Int'l Forum on Future of Sustainability Post-COVID-19

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
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.

Simulated 'Frankenfish Brain-Swaps' Reveal Senses Control Body Movement

Monday, March 23, 2020
Plenty of fictional works like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein have explored the idea of swapping out a brain from one individual and transferring it into a completely different body. However, a team of biologists and engineers has now used a...
Coding for MTSM Social Security research

Faculty-Student Team Explores Social Security Benefit Valuation and Risk

Monday, March 2, 2020
Social Security benefits continue to make up a substantial portion of most Americans’ retirement portfolios. With many people depending on this program during their golden years, understanding the associated value and risks of future Social...
Photo Credit: NASA

NJIT Researchers Ready Follow-Up Investigation Bound for Int'l Space Station

Thursday, February 20, 2020
NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission...