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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&n...

New publication on consequences of neural activity generated in two places in the same nerve cell

Friday, October 25th, 2019
In a new publication from the labs of Profs. Dirk Bucher and Farzan Nadim, Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Nelly Daur and former PhD student Dr Yang Zhang show that in a single motor neuron, action potential generation in the central nervous system is suppressed by action potentials generated in the peripher...

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...

Bio-inspired Disk Mimics Remora's Suction Ability, Gives Insight Into Fish's Evolution

Thursday, August 29th, 2019
Remora fishes are famed hitchhikers of the marine world, possessing high-powered suction disks on the back of their head for attaching themselves in torpedo-like fashion to larger hosts that can provide food and safety — from whales and sharks to boats and divers. Key to the remora’s adhesion are t...

NJIT Student-Faculty Team Collaborates to Raise Prehistoric "Hell Ants" to Life

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
Ants. Sure, most are harmless and inconspicuous. Though, there are always exceptions. Army ants, bulldog ants and fire ants are a few living members of the family Formicidae that nature television viewers might recognize from any number of “World’s Deadliest” countdown shows that populate the airwa...

Reflections from the Class of 2019

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Meet the 2019 gonfalon carriers! The six seniors chosen to represent their schools at NJIT's Commencement reminisce about life on campus, while they begin to envisage what lies beyond.   Newark College of Engineering Olivia Hadlaw Major: Electrical Engineering wit...

Unprecedented Success for NJIT Students in National Scholarship and Fellowship Competitions

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Whether they’ll be soaking up cultures abroad in the coming year or advancing research in science, health care and other fields, all of the NJIT students receiving prominent and highly competitive scholarships and fellowships in 2019 are, in a word, impressive. In fact, two university records were a...

Senior Success: Award-Winning Journeys in Arts and Sciences at NJIT

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
While Spring Commencement is on the horizon for the Class of 2019, the first wave of year-end celebrations has already begun for a special group of award-winning seniors at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA).  This month, an exclusive band of graduating students took to the stag...

Senior Success: Siri Uppuluri Looks Forward to Medical School

Monday, May 13th, 2019
Sitting just outside the Campus Center on a sunny, breezy Tuesday afternoon, Siri Uppuluri reflects on her upcoming graduation from NJIT. “I feel like I’ve reached a milestone, so while it’s bittersweet to be leaving campus, I also feel like I’ve been prepared by my professors academically. And in ...