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Scholarship Recipients are Winners in Community Service

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
Volunteerism continues to be part of the foundation of NJIT. In 2019 alone, the university’s students contributed more than 67,000 hours of community service and gave their time to over 300 community-based organizations. Among the many volunteers worthy of recognition are the recipients of Career D...

Meeting the Demand: Honors Scholars Produce Hundreds of Personal Protective Equipment

Thursday, April 9th, 2020
It all started with an email sent by NJIT/Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) alumnus, Biren Bhatt, M.D., to Louis Hamilton, ADHC dean, as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading with lightning speed throughout the New York-New Jersey area. Dr. Bhatt, an attending emergency physician at Hackensack Me...

Simulated 'Frankenfish Brain-Swaps' Reveal Senses Control Body Movement

Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Plenty of fictional works like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein have explored the idea of swapping out a brain from one individual and transferring it into a completely different body. However, a team of biologists and engineers has now used a variation of the sci-fi concept, via computer s...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top Schools with 'the Best ROI'

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2020 edition of its an...

Biological Sciences Faculty Member Brooke Flammang Featured in Scientific American Podcast

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Federated Department of Biological Sciences faculty member Brooke Flammang was featured on an episode of the podcast "60-Second Science" hosted by Scientific American. Dr. Flammang and colleagues recently discovered a previously unknown receptor in remora – fish that are uniquely adapted to hitchhik...

Discovery Reveals How Remora Fishes Know When to Hitch a Ride Aboard Their Hosts

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
Remoras are among the most successful marine hitchhikers, thanks to powerful suction discs that allow them to stay tightly fastened to the bodies of sharks, whales and other hosts despite incredible drag forces while traveling through the ocean. But how do these suckerfish sense the exact moment whe...

CSI: NJIT On the Scene, Young Investigators Train Up in Crime Scene Forensics

Monday, December 9th, 2019
Where were you the night of Nov. 26th? Anyone exiting the Summit Street parking garage that evening would have most certainly been counted among the witnesses to a brightly-lit, taped-off scene surrounding a faded-white ’98 Chevy Lumina where an investigation was underway — carried out by a special...

NJIT Opens State-of-the-Art Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility

Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Sagnik Basuray is developing a device the size of a dollar coin that will detect cancer biomarkers in patients in remission by sampling a tiny drop of blood with a dip stick. His sensor is groundbreaking not only in its simplicity, but also in its portability. It’s meant to be used at home. “Cancer...

Students Win Awards at Entomological Society of America Meeting

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
Three students within the Federated Department of Biological Sciences spanning NJIT and Rutgers–Newark recieved President's Prize awards for their presentations at the Entomological Society of America conference in St. Louis last week. PhD students Megan Wilson and Christine Sosiak re...

16-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows Springtails Hitchhiking on Winged Termite

Monday, November 25th, 2019
When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that many animals face is dispersal — being able to pick up and leave to occupy new lands, find fresh resources and mates, and avoid intraspecies competition in times of overpopulation.  For birds, butterflies and other winged creatu...