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These 3 NJIT Students Are Now 2019 Governor's STEM Scholars

Monday, February 11th, 2019
Every year, hundreds of high school and college students throughout the Garden State apply for the honor to be a Governor’s STEM Scholar. Slots are limited and the competition is steep. For 2019, three Highlanders have been chosen to wear the mantle: Ricardo Garcia, Yasmine Ghattas and Kevin Pember...

Dispelling Popular "CSI" Myths With NJIT's David Fisher

Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
In 2012, CBS’s crime-fiction television drama, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” reached the zenith of primetime television ratings. That year, the show’s estimated 63 million viewers across five continents earned it the title of “most watched television show in the world” for the fifth time in the ...

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” ...

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 s...

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

Monday, November 26th, 2018

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...

Professor of Neurobiology Awarded for Research Excellence

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

From Euthanasia to Gene Editing: A Q&A With Bioethics Expert Arthur Caplan

Thursday, October 18th, 2018
In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian controversially brought the issue of physician-assisted dying to the forefront of a conversation at the crossroads of medicine, technology, law and morality — known as bioethics.  That conversation has only become more complex today, as scientific advances continue ...

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will featur...