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Researchers Model Circadian Clock Neurons in a Day-Active Animal for the First Time

Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Researchers record and model the electrical activity of circadian clock neurons in a day-active animal for the first time — a breakthrough toward better understanding what makes the circadian biological clock in humans and...

NJIT Students and Faculty Help Save New Jersey's Old-Growth Forests

Monday, November 22, 2021
With world leaders recently in climate change talks at the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, NJIT students and faculty have been busy getting others to appreciate the value of the environment back home, and their efforts have helped save forest land in...
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NJIT-Led Team Wins a $1.25 Million Grant to Ensure Women Scholars Flourish as Inventors

Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Women’s ingenuity dots the human landscape, from the external fire escape, to the word processor, to the first dishwashing machine to replace scrubbers with water pressure, to Kevlar, the lightweight, but supremely strong fiber used in...

Streaming Data Analytics Has New Method Planned by NJIT, USC, Harvard

Monday, November 1, 2021
E-commerce sites, military planners and streaming media providers all want to analyze multiple sources of live data as quickly as possible, a holy grail of data science which is about to become possible through new software called...

NJIT Awarded NSF Grant to Open Undergrad Space Weather Research Program

Thursday, October 28, 2021
With a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), NJIT’s internationally-recognized Institute for Space Weather Sciences (ISWS) will now host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program site — offering unique summer...

NJIT's Basu Roy Integrates Humans and Computers to Optimize Tasks and Learn Facts

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

"Once-In-A-Generation" Tardigrade Fossil Discovery Reveals New Species in 16-Million-Year-Old Amber

Tuesday, October 5, 2021
They’ve famously survived the vacuum of space, and even returned to life after being frozen for decades in Antarctic moss. But as hard as it is to kill the bizarre microscopic animal, the tardigrade, it’s harder to find one fossilized.

An NJIT-Led Team Secures $3.7 Million to Tackle a Disabling, Concussion-Induced Eye Disorder

Monday, September 20, 2021
Nearly half of adolescents and young adults with lingering symptoms of concussion suffer from an eye coordination disorder that causes blurred and double vision, headaches and difficulties concentrating. There is no proven method for treating the...

NJIT's Dhawan Wins a Coveted IEEE Award for a Widely Used Cancer Detection Device

Friday, September 17, 2021
For a pioneering invention that enables doctors to use light to look beneath the outer layer of the skin to detect diseases such as early-stage skin cancers, NJIT’s Atam Dhawan was tapped this year to receive one of IEEE’s preeminent honors, the...

NJIT Honors College Creates Interdisciplinary Research Pipelines

Wednesday, September 8, 2021
There’s a formula for summer fun. For most undergraduates, it includes shore town getaways, hikes, Netflix, and general frolicking. At NJIT, research is the missing variable. It’s become a summer tradition, as much part of the culture as pizza...