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NJIT Student Senate Makes Historic, Morale-Boosting Gift to the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after ...

Historic Science Fiction Offers Lessons for Living With Pandemics

Monday, August 10th, 2020
Science fiction sometimes shows us the future, but really just shows us ourselves, asserts Associate Professor of Humanities and sci-fi aficionado Nancy Steffen-Fluhr. She was teaching the 2014 novel Station Eleven, about a troupe of actors and musicians struggling for normalcy after a global pande...

NJIT's Alvaro Gimeno to Represent Spanish National Volleybal Team

Friday, August 7th, 2020
NJIT men's volleyball rising senior Alvaro Gimeno will represent the Spanish National Team for the third straight summer. The national team will compete from August 30 to September 6 in Cyprus. The qualifier games will consist of three days of games, two days of rest and three more games ...

Attention Bibliophiles: Pick Up a Book by an NJIT Author

Friday, August 7th, 2020
Reading took center stage Aug. 9 when Book Lovers Day was celebrated throughout the country. The unofficial holiday honors reading and literature, and urges people to spend the day transported by a book. Many members of the NJIT community are published book authors, with works ranging from historic...

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of el...

Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure ...

New Fossil Discovery Shows How Ancient 'Hell Ants' Hunted with Killer Headgear

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
A fossil recently recovered from the age of the dinosaurs is giving scientists the most vivid picture yet of how one of the most enigmatic and fearsome groups of ants to exist once used their uncanny tusk-like mandibles and diverse horns to successfully hunt down victim...

Summertime Look Back: The Studies That Advanced NJIT's STEM Research

Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Research expenditures at NJIT for fiscal year 2019 were $161 million, with the university ranked as an R1 (“Very High Research”) institution by the prestigious Carnegie Classification. Our six-part retrospective continues with this fourth installment focusing on just a handful of the studies covered...

35 Professionals Graduate from NJIT's Inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Program

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Matthew Berdel, a systems engineer who tests software during the workweek, spent his Saturday mornings in NJIT’s Makerspace last semester immersed in engineering of a very different sort: constructing a working machine from fabricated parts. “I wanted to know more about hardware,” Berdel explained....

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 8/3/20-8/7/20

Monday, August 3rd, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...