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Meet David Fisher: NJIT's First Professor of Practice in Forensic Science

Monday, January 28th, 2019
This month, NJIT’s forensic science program welcomed David Fisher — an expert criminalist previously with New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) — to its faculty ranks. The announcement sees Fisher appointed as the university’s first-ever “Professor of Practice in Forensic Science”...

NJIT's David Rothenberg Honored For Achievement in Art and Science

Friday, January 18th, 2019
Acclaimed musician and NJIT Distinguished Professor of Humanities, David Rothenberg, has recently been named a 2019 Fellow by the Safina Center for his career contributions in the fields of philosophy, art and conservation science. The Safina Center — founded by writer and environmentalist Car...

Pre-College Workshops Bring STEM to Educators and Families Alike

Thursday, January 17th, 2019
When Parsippany High School’s Kathy Effner heard about NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs’ (CPCP) Try Engineering! workshop for educators, she was intrigued — particularly since it featured a hands-on project at the university’s new 10,000-square-foot Makerspace. This past October she attended t...

NJIT Unveils New Jersey's First Cyberpsychology Program

Thursday, January 10th, 2019
This year, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced it will offer students a unique baccalaureate degree option in the emerging field of cyberpsychology. The new program — exploring the dynamics between modern technology and human psychology — is the first of its kind in New Jersey, ...

New Walking Cavefish Study Explores Origins of Quadrapedal Walking

Wednesday, December 19th, 2018
A new research collaboration between New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Louisiana State University (LSU) and University of Florida is set to launch the first evolutionary study of the unique pelvic structure and walking mechanics of blind cavefish (Cryptotora thamicola) — the only living spe...

Electric Fish In Augmented Reality Reveal How Animals "Actively Sense" the World Around Them

Monday, December 10th, 2018
Bats and dolphins emit sound waves to sense their surroundings; like a battery, electric fish generate electricity to help them detect motion while burrowed in their refuges; and humans use tiny movements of the eyes to perceive objects in their field of vision.  Each is an example of “active ...

NJIT Launches A Potent Research Hub: The Institute for Space Weather Sciences

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Both on land and in space, Earth’s technology-centered civilization is increasingly vulnerable to the powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation, energetic charged particles and magnetized plasma known as space weather. As the complexity of engineered systems increases, as new technologies are inv...

Researchers Shine New Light on Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
When the West Nile virus (WNV) was initially isolated in two patients at a Queens, N.Y., hospital in the summer of 1999, it would have been hard to anticipate how quickly one common species of house mosquito, Culex pipiens, would help begin to spread the virus throughout the western hemisphere. Bit...

Thanks to Honors Grant, Yasmine Ghattas Taught Health Ed in Africa

Monday, November 26th, 2018

NJIT Mathematics Students Finish Finalists at 2018 NBA Hackathon

Monday, November 19th, 2018
In August, more than 700 teams comprised of statisticians, programmers, engineers and students from across North America applied to enter this year’s “2018 NBA Hackathon” — a data-driven competition to “build tools that solve important and challenging problems in the NBA.” It was then that a team o...