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Message from NJIT President Bloom

Monday, December 20th, 2021
Dear NJIT Community Members, As we prepare to depart campus and begin our winter break, I would like to express my most sincere thanks for the manner in which students, faculty, staff, and others worked together and sacrificed for one another to ensure a safe and successful Fall 2021 semester. The...

Computing Student Applied Neural Networks to Sound Waves as AMD Intern

Monday, December 20th, 2021
Bhargav Samineni loves applied math, and there are few better ways to see math in action than working on scientific computing problems with a mentor from a chip company like AMD. Samineni interned last summer at the University of California/Los Angeles - Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, ...

Algorithms Expert is First Woman at NJIT to Become IEEE Fellow

Friday, December 17th, 2021
Guiling (Grace) Wang, professor and associate dean for research in Ying Wu College of Computing, was recently named an IEEE Fellow, one of the electronic technology industry's highest honors. She is the first woman to earn the honor among several male recipients at NJIT and only the second current ...

Strong Themes Of Climate Action And Community Engagement Emerge At The Super Review

Friday, December 17th, 2021
The fall semester School of Architecture Super Review focused on the upper-level research and design conducted in the Options Studios and Master of Urban Design studio. Notable was the predominance of Newark based studios and the questions on program identity and self reflection raised. Ka...

Catalyzing Urban Master Planning with Creative Capital

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Prof. Darius Sollohub and his students have been researching and developing proposals for the improvements to the Newark Penn Station transportation hub and environs this semester. Their studio has been designing in anticipation of a $190 million investment by New Jersey Transit in these improvement...

Waste: From Not In My Backyard to Zero Waste Neighborhoods

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Waste comes in many forms; solid and aerosol, visible and invisible, and waste disposal practices, such as ocean dumping, happen at scales that are at once unimaginable and unsustainable. Transforming the paradigm of how the architecture and design community tackles waste, waste education and resear...

International Team Developing New Algorithms for Streaming Graph Data

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Four professors across the globe are collaborating to solve real-world problems in cybersecurity, health, and various areas of social science through a project called Streaming Graph Algorithms under the new Institute for Future Technologies, a partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technology ...

Solid Mechanics Expert Wins Coveted 'Young Investigator' Award

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
NJIT Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Shawn Chester won the coveted Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which recognizes special achievement in applied mechanics for researchers under the age of 41. Chester...

Surprise Finding: Zebrafish Break Out Into 'Panic Wave' Mosh Pits to Social Distance

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Social distancing is nothing new in the time of COVID. But new research of the well-studied zebrafish (Danio rerio) has captured a previously undocumented behavior of the animal that takes such measures to the extreme — and the end result resembles the frenzy of a circle pit typically asso...

Men's Volleyball Selected Second in 2022 EIVA Preseason Coaches Poll

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
NJIT has been selected second in the 2022 Preseason Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Coaches' Poll, according to the conference coaches the league office announced on Tuesday. NJIT, which was picked second for the second consecutive season, is led by 2021 Bob Sweeney EIVA Coach...