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At NJIT, McNair Scholars Advance Research as Their Futures Unfold

Monday, July 24, 2023
NJIT’s McNair Scholars have been igniting their research efforts in campus labs this summer, and many are starting to see their career aspirations take shape in the process.

The Rise of a Climate-Triggered Neurotoxin in the Arctic Tundra

Monday, July 17, 2023
Climbing temperatures in the Arctic tundra are transforming inorganic mercury deposited by power plants and other industrial polluters, some of it inert for decades, into a neurotoxin that is accumulating in the region’s lake sediments, wetland...

NJIT Awarded $10 Million for Technical Assistance at Polluted Brownfield Sites Through EPA Grant

Wednesday, July 5, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been awarded $10 million by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a $315 million initiative from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of...

Sustainable Design: Mapping an Ancient Solution to a Modern Crisis

Thursday, June 29, 2023
*"Mapping an Ancient Solution to a Modern Crisis" is part of NJIT's 2023 Research Magazine*
Matthew Bandelt

Lab-Simulated Earthquakes Test the Mettle of 'High-Performance' Building Materials

Monday, June 26, 2023
*"Lab-Simulated Earthquakes Test the Mettle of 'High-Performance' Building Materials" is part of NJIT's 2023 Research Magazine*

Researchers Develop Novel System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning To Improve Control Of Lower Limb

Tuesday, June 20, 2023
A team of researchers has developed a new method for controlling lower limb exoskeletons using deep reinforcement learning.

Computational Advance Will Help Researchers Model Climate With Higher Fidelity

Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Increased computational power has dramatically improved climate modeling over the past several years, allowing scientists to better forecast long term climate evolution.

Sun's Coldest Region Stores Secret to Heating Million-Degree Corona, Study Finds

Monday, June 12, 2023
With data from Big Bear Solar Observatory’s Goode Solar Telescope, researchers discover intense wave energy in the coldest region on the Sun, the sunspot umbra, which is driving puzzling temperatures in the star’s upper atmosphere.    ...

Uncharted Territory: NJIT Ecologist Investigates Forest Fate Amid Climate Change, Wildfire

Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Nearly a decade ago, a bark beetle infestation tore through southeast Wyoming's Snowy Range, transforming lush landscape of Medicine Bow National Forest into a tinderbox of dead lodgepole pine. In Sept.

Amid the Wildfire Haze, NJIT Researcher Alexei Khalizov Explains What's in the Air

Wednesday, June 7, 2023
The soot permeating the air in New Jersey and New York this month — courtesy of massive wildfires in Canada — is exactly what a New Jersey Institute of Technology professor is studying to determine its impact on climate change.