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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...

New Admissions Option Will Increase Honors Student Enrollment

Friday, October 16th, 2020
Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architect...

Former NASA Astronaut Bernard Harris Joins NJIT Forum on Post-COVID STEM Learning

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
On Oct. 8, NJIT welcomed former NASA astronaut and noted STEM education leader Bernard Harris at its annual STEM School Leadership Forum, sponsored by NJIT's Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) — an event that attracted scores of educators virtually for a discu...

NJIT Co-Partners to Host Newark's Virtual Call to Collaboration

Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Starting Thursday, Oct. 15, NJIT will co-partner to host Newark’s 2020 Virtual Call to Collaboration (C2C) — a city-wide, 4-day virtual meeting that “unleashes imaginative strategic thinking, powers individual leadership and responsibility, and strengthens personal and prof...

NJIT Chemist Hunts for COVID-19 with a Smartphone-Linked Biosensor

Thursday, October 1st, 2020
A Q&A with chemist Omowunmi “Wunmi” Sadik Q: How do chemical sensors work? Chemical sensors are small devices coated in spots with specific compounds that react to, or recognize, targeted chemicals in the air, water and biological systems. The devices’ transducers convert the results to a meas...

ROI-NJ Honors Two More Influencers at NJIT: Treena Arinzeh and Angela Garretson

Thursday, October 1st, 2020
A month after ROI-NJ named five NJIT administrators Higher Education Influencers, the publication recognized Treena Livingston Arinzeh and Angela Garretson as 2020 ROI Influencers: People of Color. Treena Livingston Arinzeh Arinzeh is a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering known fo...

NJIT Historian Rosanna Dent Awarded for Exploration of Brazil's Xavante

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
NJIT Assistant Professor of History Rosanna Dent's ongoing work exploring the history of research in Indigenous A’uwẽ-Xavante communities of Brazil has now earned her the 2020 John C. Burnham Early Career Award at this year’s History of Science Society’s Forum for the ...

Study Assesses 30 Years of Landmark Astronomical Advances at NSF, Highlights NJIT's Big Bear

Monday, September 21st, 2020
A new study highlighting some of the most influential technological breakthroughs that shaped astronomical research over the last 30 years includes recognition for NJIT-Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research’s Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) and its three generations of pioneering adapti...

NJIT Cyberpsychology Seminar Series Begins, Features Experts at Intersection of Psychology and Tech

Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Next week, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts’ new Fall 2020 Cyberpsychology Seminar Series is set to begin, featuring some of the nation’s leading experts at the emerging intersection of psychology and technology who will cover a diverse range of future-focused topics for the universi...

A Look Back: NJIT's Unusual Explorations of Nature

Friday, September 11th, 2020
From discovering dinosaur-era ants with metal horns on their head, to swapping the brains of “Frankenfish,” to joining whale musicians at sea, NJIT faculty have been part of some unusual explorations of nature, sometimes taki...