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NJIT Math Prof. Shang Seeks Proof For Why Machine Learning Works

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Programmers can tell you what machine learning does and how it works, but they can't really prove why it works. Enter the mathematicians. The what and how of machine learning are well documented — it's software that examines big data to find meaning and possibly suggest actions, based on looking for...

Images from NJIT Big Bear Solar Observatory Peel Away Layers of a Stellar Mystery

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics:  how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star’s upper atmosphere, heating it to 1 million degrees Fahrenhei...

NJIT Professor Emeritus Receives Presidential Award for Science, Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Howard Kimmel, professor emeritus in chemical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). He is one of 15 awardees nationwide and the only recipient in New Jersey this year. Be...

NJIT's Brooke Flammang Wins 2019 Young Investigator Award

Monday, November 11th, 2019
Brooke Flammang, assistant professor of biological sciences at NJIT, has been named winner of the 2019 Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award by the scientific journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. Flammang is the third-ever winner of the international award, started in 2017 i...

NJIT Professor Wins Fulbright Award, Joins Int'l Circadian Clock Research Project

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Casey Diekman, associate professor of mathematics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been named recipient of a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to the United Kingdom in Mathematical Biology.   With the announcement of his&nb...

Professor David Rothenberg & His Orca-stra for Humpback Whales

Monday, November 4th, 2019
NJIT’s very own Professor David Rothenberg is well-known for his music philosophy. Rothenberg has spent many years combining music and nature, to create music that features the natural world including birds, whales and insects. In fact, he has been referred to as an “interspecies musician.” Recently...

NJIT Announces Appointment of Inaugural Director of Cyberpsychology

Monday, October 28th, 2019
Oct. 28, 2019 — NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced that Julie Ancis will join the Department of Humanities as professor of psychology and director of cyberpsychology. Ancis — who holds fellow status in two divisions within the American Psychological Association (APA) through he...

Planting With Purpose: Honors Students Foster Biodiversity on Campus

Friday, October 25th, 2019
Equipped with shovels and spades, and tape measures and topsoil, first-year Dorman Scholars gathered behind Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) on a sunny weekend morning in early October to plant a variety of native species: New Jersey tea, blazing star, New England aster, lady fern, butterfly milk...

NJIT Biologist Explores Ant Colonies, Human Migration With DARPA Award

Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Can ants help predict the complex dynamics of future humanitarian crises, such as when and where large populations might move during disease outbreaks or armed conflicts? It’s a question that has been posed by Simon Garnier, assistant professor of biological sciences at NJIT, who recently join...

Pre-College STEM Forum Focuses on Forensic Science

Friday, October 18th, 2019
NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) hosted its third annual STEM School Leadership Forum Oct. 3 on the university’s campus. The free networking event brings together superintendents and other education professionals to discuss how best to expand and enhance science, technology, engineering...