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NJIT Forensic Anthropologist Investigates New Leads to Identify the Nameless

Monday, June 27th, 2022
Ever since police ended the 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer and identified Joseph DeAngelo by uploading crime scene DNA to a popular genealogy website in 2018, advances in DNA forensics have sparked an explosion in once-unsolvable criminal cold cases being resurrected and cracked after a ge...

NJIT Researchers Unveil Particle Accelerator Region Inside a Solar Flare

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy — equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once — physicists still haven’t been able to answer exactly how these sudden eruptions on the Sun are able to launch particles to Eart...

NJIT's Award-Winning Grads Reflect on Successes, Share Future Plans

Monday, May 23rd, 2022
Alongside the wave of excitement at Commencement 2022, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts recently decorated their star students at its annual awards ceremony. Here, a diverse group of graduates who shared CSLA’s Outstanding Student Award look back on their NJIT journey a...

Eclectic NJIT Engineering Grad Will Andrews to Study International Development in Dublin

Thursday, May 19th, 2022
The bachelor’s that Donald “Will” Andrews earned at New Jersey Institute of Technology is in industrial engineering, but his heart is in international development. The 2022 graduate’s interest in global issues traces back to high school, when he participated in the Model United Nations, and accelera...

NJIT Professors Prime Jada Evans for UCLA School of Law

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
Jada Evans had a plan when she arrived at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2019 and achieved it – and then some – ­in just three years. Beyond a finding a major that matched her dual interests in law and technology and honing her skills as a writer, the Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar imme...

NJIT's Class of 2022 Urged to Seize the Opportunities Presented by Crises

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Crisis presents opportunity, and given the pandemic, war in Ukraine, structural racism, climate change and questions around the world’s supply of energy, food and water, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson called on the Class of 2022 at New Jersey Institute of Technology t...

Senior Success: Sreya Sanyal Is Off to Become an NIH Researcher

Monday, May 16th, 2022
Sreya Sanyal ’22 is right where she wants to be in the fight against cancer — at the cutting-edge of medical research. She’ll soon be using the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, often described as “genetic scissors”, to study human disease as a post baccalaureate researcher with the ...

College of Science and Liberal Arts Celebrates 40 Years at 2022 Awards Ceremony

Monday, May 9th, 2022
On May 4, celebratory glasses were raised at the signature year-end awards ceremony for NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA), where the incredible milestone of the college’s 40th anniversary served as backdrop to the festivities. It was an afternoon full of recognition for this year’s s...

Biology Graduate Xavier Reyes Embarks on an Organic Farming Mission

Thursday, May 5th, 2022
For biology graduate Xavier Reyes, his decision to hang up his lab coat in exchange for overalls to become an organic farmer is the best way he can move the needle on sustainability. The Albert Dorman Honors College student had come to NJIT with the idea that he would pursue a career in ecological r...

Creating a More Sustainable NJIT: Biodiversity + Alternative Energy + Carbon Neutrality

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
In class, on campus grounds and in Newark, students at NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College are working toward creating a greener, more sustainable urban environment in keeping with the university’s broader push toward sustainability. The students are acting locally even while they think globally abo...