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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 s...

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 of...

New Heights, New Goals for NJ's "Future Ready" Schools at Workshop 2018

Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Last month, New Jersey educators and stakeholders met at the Atlantic City Convention Center for New Jersey School Boards Association’s “Workshop 2018” — the state’s largest annual professional development conference for school leaders. The conference staged a record turnout of “Future Ready” certif...

NJIT Among Nation's Top-Ranked Colleges for Biology in 2019

Monday, November 5th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been ranked among the best colleges for biology students in the U.S., according to College Factual’s recently released “2019 Best Biology Colleges” rankings. The new rankings indicate that NJIT’s degree programs in biology place in the top 15 percent of all gen...

Physicist Ken Chin Wins an Edison Patent Award for Next-Generation Solar Cell Technology

Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Physicist Ken Chin, a scientist, author and inventor, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award last night from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his work on a promising new method for advancing sustainable energy production: next-generation solar cells. Chin focuses on impro...

NJIT Pre-Law Student Sets Out to Be Crowned Miss New Jersey USA

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
What had been a typical summer this past August all changed for Alisa Scivetti ’19 after she came across a social media advertisement browsing through her Snapchat story. The open-call advertisement encouraged applications for a chance of entering a highly selective, once-in-a-lifetime competition ...

Professor of Neurobiology Awarded for Research Excellence

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018