Research

NJIT is taking new measures to minimize the spread and protect the health and safety of our community during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Beginning March 18 and until further notice, access to all on-campus research facilities will be limited to essential personnel necessary to maintain the long-term viability of the laboratory, equipment and other applicable resources (such as animals). All directors of research labs, centers and facilities should immediately prepare to discontinue all non-essential on-campus research activities by March 18.

Directors of research facilities must submit an Essential Research Operation (ERO) plan (in the format posted on the research website).  All EROs must be submitted to the appropriate department chair and college dean for approval by March 18.   Deans should forward all approved EROs to the senior vice provost for research by email.

EROs must include the strongest social distancing protocols for all essential personnel in on-campus facilities at all times.  Non-essential research activities must halt on-campus activity, but may continue remotely if possible.

The Office of Research will continue to operate with full functionality to the extent possible following the research continuity plan posted on the NJIT website.

Other latest updates on NJIT response to COVID-19 outbreak are posted at https://www.njit.edu/coronavirus

We greatly appreciate your cooperation in helping to keep our community safe during this challenging period of global crisis.

Research Expectations

All directors of research centers/laboratories and Principal Investigators (PIs) should immediately begin preparing for restricting on-campus research to activities only with minimal access to facilities for maintaining animals, unique reagents, and essential equipment and materials.

These restrictions will be disruptive to the scholarly activities and research productivity but are essential for the safety and health of everyone in the community. All researchers should plan to continue working on the grants and research projects remotely as much as possible and conduct meetings through WebEx and teleconferencing.

All research work involving human subjects must follow the social distancing protocols and suspend any in-person interactions minimizing the study-visits to absolutely essential needs. All changes to the research protocols still need to be reviewed and approved by the IRB except for changes necessary to eliminate immediate apparent hazards including those based on the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Changes implemented to eliminate immediate apparent hazards should be promptly reported to the appropriate IRB.

We will work together to minimize the potential disruptions and difficulties caused by the restrictions with on-campus activities and follow up with federal and other funding agencies as needed on the appropriate responses related to grant management and expectations. 


Research Lab Guidelines

The following guidelines should be strictly followed with immediate effect:

  • Access to research laboratories should be limited to only essential personnel. If there are any individual necessary to be in the lab, social distancing protocols must be fully observed. Researchers who can work remotely must do so to continue research work to the extent possible.
  • PI's should immediately identify essential research experiments that are at a critical phase, meaning that abandoning them would cause a major or irreversible loss in project viability. This high priority work should be a very limited set of the current laboratory bench-based experimentation.
  • PI's should also identify experiments that can be ramped down, curtailed or delayed, and accomplish that process immediately.
  • No new lines of research or experiments should be initiated at this time that require active and extensive use of lab resources in person.
  • Disinfection of common laboratory areas and touch points (e.g., doorknobs, sink handles, freezer doors, telephones) with 70% ethanol should occur at least twice daily.
  • Directors of research centers, laboratories and resources must develop appropriate plans to shut down equipment following due processes in case of university closure due to the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak. All PIs must also develop plans for maintaining laboratory viability (e.g. liquid nitrogen tank filling, animal support, maintaining shared computational equipment). Notify your departmental administrator as soon as possible about any issues related to laboratory facilities.  
  • External visitors should not be allowed in labs at this time.
  • Make sure you have access to contact information for your students, postdocs, and staff, and review contingency plans and emergency procedures within your group. 


Links to Agency-Specific Information

The following federal and agency guidelines should be reviewed to prepare plans to manage ongoing research grant activities.


Council on Governmental Relations


Office of Management and Budget


Department of Energy (3/12/20)


National Institutes of Health (3/12/20)

National Science Foundation (3/12/20):

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (3/10/20)

 

Research Administration and Compliance

The Office of Research will continue to provide assistance on proposal submissions, pre-award and post-award grant management, research compliance and operational protocols to the best of our abilities. It is expected that Streamlyne will remain operational for proposal submissions and the following email addresses will be monitored regularly:

All other research-related inquiries during an emergency should be submitted via https://research.njit.edu/researchtechnology-inquiry 

Updates and university-wide resources in response to COVID-19 outbreaks are posted on the NJIT website https://www.njit.edu/coronavirus

If you have any questions related to research, please contact the Office of Research.


Atam P. Dhawan​
Senior Vice Provost for Research
dhawan@njit.edu

We assist faculty to:

  • Identify key faculty awards
  • Review qualifications and requirements
  • Engage all key stakeholders and collaboratively work to develop nomination packages
  • Assist nominees and endorsers with drafting and editing reference letters
  • Provide submission support
  • Follow-up with awarding agency

Be Award-ready:

  • Maintain an up-to-date CV
  • Keep professional society memberships current
  • Volunteer with professional societies and mentor students
  • Be alert to emails about award opportunities
  • Plan ahead (3-5 years) and develop your profile

Fellows and Award Winners

Fellows and Award Winners

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National Awards Database

National Awards Database

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Professional Societies - Awards & Fellows Database

Professional Society Fellowship is an honor bestowed on the best of a profession by election. 

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About this initiative

Faculty awards and recognition are an important metric of the university’s performance.  The goal of providing institutional support to applicants is to streamline the application process and increase the efficacy and impact of applications to prestigious awards and fellowships.

The awards pipeline is continuously in development. Deans, chairs and other faculty members are encouraged to put forward nominations for fellowships and other prestigious awards.

Please allow at least 6 weeks lead time on nominations. Package requirements and deadlines vary. Some deadlines are rolling with nominations accepted throughout the year. Interested deans, chairs and individual faculty should contact Dr. Shivon Boodhoo for help with nominations, general questions, and in-depth assistance with package preparation

General Streamlyne Content

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Conflict of Interest (COI)

Proposal Development and Submission

♦  How to Initiate a Proposal

♦  How to Input Proposal Budget

♦  How to Add a Sub-Award Budget

♦  How to Process Approvals

♦  How to Upload Proposal Attachments

♦  How to Search for a Proposal That Is In Route

♦  How to Search for an Opportunity ID

♦  Difference Between "Prime Sponsor Code" and "Sponsor Code"

♦  How to Select an RR Budget, RR Sub-Award Or Modular Budget

♦  How to Add a Student/Summary

♦  How to Add Other Organizations

♦  Participant Support Categories

♦  Supplies Specific Category Materials

♦  How to Create a Modular Budget

 


Start-ups or Working for a Licensee by Faculty or Staff
 

We are to help you start your entrepreneurial journey! The Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing Office can connect you with a wealth of resources for inventors looking for help starting a company.

NJIT can provide NJIT inventors assistance with all facets of the startup process – from writing a business plan, to meeting like-minded entrepreneurs and investors, to attracting board members, to securing funding to demonstrate an invention's commercial viability. We even have our own business incubator where you can rent a desk, private office or dry or wet lab, see VentureLink for more information.

Please note that we do not negotiate or review consulting agreements on behalf of inventors. If a potential licensee is interested in having an inventor consult with the company, negotiations would be directly between the inventor(s) and the company.

If an inventor is planning to remain at NJIT while consulting with a company, the inventor should familiarize themselves with the policies of NJIT and their school relevant to consulting activities. The inventor is expected to ensure that the terms of the consulting arrangement are consistent with University policies, including those related to IP ownership and employment responsibilities.

Visit the University Policies site for the different policies for faculty, staff and students. Faculty should also refer to the requirements for faculty consulting activities and agreements at the Office of Ethics website ethics@njit.edu.

As State employees, NJIT faculty are bound by the State of New Jersey’s Conflicts of Interest Law which imposes standards for public employees’ conduct in order to preserve confidence in public institutions and their employees.

NJIT developed its Supplemental Code of Ethics to provide clear guidance to employees working in a scholarly capacity on consulting, development of commercial enterprises and other outside professional activities, in accordance with State ethics regulations. These activities provide an important means of continuing education for the faculty and grant experience in aspects of their professional fields outside the context of NJIT itself. These activities can also provide a mechanism for the transfer of knowledge from the University to the public good.

NJIT's Supplemental Code of Ethics guides employees on balancing their primary professional responsibility to NJIT against potentially conflicting outside activities and concerns. The parameters set forth in NJIT’s Supplemental Code of Ethics are intended to strike a fair balance between the University faculty’s professional responsibility to NJIT and outside activities, serve to safeguard the interests of both parties, and comply with State ethics regulations.

As such, employees are required to disclose outside activities for ethics review and approval on a regular basis in accordance with State ethics regulations. As part of the ethics review, the university’s Ethics Liaison Officer will assist faculty in determining and managing any potential conflicts of interest.

Any questions on NJIT’s policy and/or the State ethics regulations may be directed to ethics@njit.edu.

 

 

The Office of Research provides institutional support and services, as well as fosters new opportunities to enhance NJIT research and scholarship enterprise engaging faculty, staff, students, external collaborators and partners for developing strong leadership and synergy. We are committed to providing interdisciplinary research and scholarship with the utmost professional integrity. 

Foundation Board of Directors Excellence in Research Prize and Medal

The Excellence in Research Prize and Medal is awarded in recognition of a sustained record of contributions that have enhanced the reputation of NJIT.

The NJIT Foundation Board of Directors is proud to award Bharat Biswal, distinguished professor of biomedical engineering.

 

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NJIT Research Magazine

An overview of our growing materials science and engineering cluster, where engineers, physicists, mathematicians and chemists collaborate on projects that blur the borders of all of these disciplines.

Read the magazine   |   View our research publications   |   Research News

Research is an integral part of a strong academic experience and a critical priority in NJIT’s 2025 Strategic Plan. The university aims for national and international prominence in research through new discoveries in areas ranging from medical sensors and devices to robotics, to nanotechnology, to cybersecurity, to next-generation materials, among other topics of vital importance in basic, applied and translational research. 

Our research enterprise is comprised of core and transdisciplinary basic, applied and translational research interests through five research clusters:

Bioscience and Bioengineering

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Data Science and Management

Data Science and Management

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Environment and Sustainability

Environment and Sustainability

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Material Science and Engineering

Material Science and Engineering

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Robotics and Machine Intelligence

Robotics and Machine Intelligence

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National Academy of Inventors Chapter at NJIT

National Academy of Inventors Chapter at NJIT celebrates the outstanding innovation and invention contributions of faculty, staff, and students. To quote NAI President Dr. Paul Sanberg, “NAI is proud to have NJIT, a true innovation powerhouse, as part of our membership. [NJIT has] created an environment where research and innovation flourish in such diverse fields as bioengineering, chemistry, medicine, computer science, and much more.” As a Member Institution of the NAI, NJIT has the exclusive opportunity to recognize active researchers and faculty with success in patents, licensing and commercialization at the national level through the Fellows and Senior Members Program.

Research with NJIT

Research with NJIT is a collaborative effort by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education (OSHE) to forge stronger connections between New Jersey’s research universities and industry.

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Department of Physics provided me with skills and resources to perform and present research in four different countries.

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