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NJIT Turns Mobile Medical Care Prototype into Hub for COVID-19 Testing

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
NJIT has activated a prototype mobile medical care unit as a COVID-19 testing center for students, faculty and staff.  The mobile medical care unit (M2CU), which NJIT developed in partnership with University Hospital in Newark and The Tuchman Foundation and unveiled in July, is made from repur...

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Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
 

Int'l Study Uncovers Secret Surfing Life of Remoras Hitchhiking on Blue Whales

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
Sticking to the bodies of sharks and other larger marine life is a well-known specialty of remora fishes (Echeneidae) and their super-powered suction disks on their heads. But a new study has now fully documented the “suckerfish” in hitchhiking action below the ocean’s surface, uncovering a much mo...

A Newly Minted NJIT Engineering Professor is Named a Fellow of the Academy of Optometry

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering techno...

Researching the Effects of Online Misinformation and Realities of the Coronavirus

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Assistant Professor Cody Buntain, NJIT's expert on the science of understanding social media, is turning his trained eyes to the connections between online misinformation and public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using software that he co-developed in 2017 with University of Waterloo ...

Message from President Bloom: COVID-19 Update

Monday, October 26th, 2020
NJIT Community Members, With a deep concern for the health and safety of our campus community, and knowledge of the needs of many of NJIT's students as well as our applied and hands-on curriculum, we began the Fall semester on September 1, 2020. We did so with a comprehensive and multifaceted plan ...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 10/26/20-10/30/20

Monday, October 26th, 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...

School of Management Adds New Major in Financial Technology

Monday, October 26th, 2020
NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management will offer a new major next fall, a Bachelor of Science in Financial Technology, inspired by the pressing need of corporations on Wall Street and beyond to hire a new generation of workers who are skilled in the latest trends of applying computing to commer...

Honors College 25th Anniversary Celebrates Past, Looks to the Future

Monday, October 26th, 2020
In the first of a series of events honoring its 25th anniversary, the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT held a live, online celebration. Reflecting on the anniversary of the college that he endowed, NJIT alumnus Albert Dorman revisited his remarks from its inauguration, and they are as relevant t...

NJIT Intern for Cisco Systems Left Her Mark in Silicon Valley, Virtually

Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Aarati Srikumar, a junior computer science major from Edison and honors student at NJIT, made the best of her summer internship with networking giant Cisco Systems despite the pandemic changing her plans to experience Silicon Valley in person. Cisco adjusted their program to be fully remote, giving...