In Xavante Territory, the Researched Recruit the Researchers

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
By: Rosanna Dent, Assistant Professor of History Every year, with the dry season, come the researchers. They arrive with audio recorders, microscopes and glucose meters. They bring backpacks filled with GPS recorders, cameras and field notebooks. They ask endless streams of questions about how...

Employers Touted for Student Engagement, Recruitment and Hiring

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
More than 20 employers have been recognized by NJIT’s Career Development Services (CDS) as the university’s top recruitment partners, based on their 2019 hiring numbers. The honors mark the seventh consecutive year that CDS has paid tribute to employers for their engagement with and recruitment and ...

New Larger Than Life Imaging of Model Worm Digs Up Finer Details

Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
Despite being such a tiny earth dweller, the roundworm species Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has become one of the biggest workhorses in the lab for biological researchers. Due in part to the organism’s transparent skin and compact size — just about the size of a comma at 1 mm in length — it’...

The Show Goes On for New Jersey Chemistry Olympics

Friday, June 26th, 2020
The New Jersey Chemistry Olympics (NJCO) has become an NJIT springtime tradition — for more than three decades, scores of young chemists prepare throughout the year for the competition, culminating on campus in a one-day test of wits among high school teams from across the state. Of course, this ye...

NJIT's Mitra Deploys Nanoscopic Virus Killers in the Fight Against COVID-19

Monday, June 15th, 2020
As medical researchers race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, an NJIT scientist who specializes in nanomaterials is developing new methods to slow its spread in the environment. Backed by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Somenath Mitra, director of the univers...

At NJIT's 104th Commencement, Class of 2020 Urged to Make an Impact

Friday, June 12th, 2020
“It is an unusual graduation, but what is extraordinary always is the work of this class,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker HON ’09, who began NJIT’s 104th Commencement with a pre-ceremony heartfelt greeting thanking the university’s 2020 graduates for their grit, hard work, sacrifice and struggle, and fo...

Senior Success: Samantha Lomuscio, Cosmic Gamma-Ray Hunter

Monday, June 8th, 2020
Exploring remote, exotic locations is a long-standing tradition among college students. For applied physics major Samantha Lomuscio ’20, that destination during her senior year has been Jupiter, nearly 390 million miles away. Working with astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History (AM...

Class of 2020 Outstanding Graduates Make Their Marks

Thursday, June 4th, 2020
Thousands of students earned their degrees this year at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here is a collection of their stories, focusing on what they're doing next. Click on the headlines below to read more.   Charles Auriemma Is a Senior Audit Analyst at American Express For the latte...

Senior Success: Mary McGuinness is Off to Study Oceanography

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Chemistry student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Mary McGuinness will graduate this semester and will continue her academic career as a master's student at University of Connecticut studying oceanography. Congratulations, Mary!  

NJIT Researchers Develop Easier and Faster Way to Quantify, Explore Therapeutic Proteins

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology in collaboration with Ohio University and Merck & Co. Inc. recently developed a new efficient method for targeted protein analysis — one they say could speed up processes for disease testing, drug discovery and vaccine development. The research,&...