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I would like to express my most sincere condolences, on behalf of the NJIT community, to the family, loved ones, colleagues and constituents of former New Jersey State Senator Ronald L. Rice, who passed away yesterday. Senator Rice’s legacy is that of service, protecting and lifting others up while empowering his community.

Tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere can have a big impact on climate. But understanding exactly how these aerosol particles form cloud drops and affect the absorption and scattering of sunlight is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in climate models. Ogochukwu (Ogo) Enekwizu, a postdoctoral research associate in the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, is trying to tame that complexity. “Our task is to mimic what happens in the atmosphere by making a cloud in the lab,” she said.

Imagine a digital system that could predict physical and mental health conditions among college students based on early symptoms and quickly connect them to counseling and psychological services on campus. While a seemingly obvious application of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, the implementation of such a system would need to avoid exposing and storing sensitive health data along the way, which could run afoul of relevant federal laws and compromise user privacy.  A system developed by NJIT researchers and Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

NJIT Ph.D. physics student John Stefan has new findings about earthquake-like events on the Sun that have recently shaken up the world of space science during one of the biggest international conferences for high-performance computing of the year — the SC22 Supercomputing Conference.

Research on trustworthy AI and machine learning earned a Best Paper award for Ying Wu College of Computing assistant professor Hai Phan at the prominent Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence annual conference in Washington last month.

Twenty-five high school girls brought their sleeping bags to NJIT’s campus to experience a visit much more involved than a standard campus tour. The students, all who have been accepted to NJIT, were invited through You @NJIT. The overnight campus experience is jointly run by NJIT’s Office of Admissions and the Murray Center for Women in Technology, a university-wide network that connects women students and faculty to each other and to the resources they need to succeed. The program pairs each highschooler with a current female NJIT student.

All the hard work and sacrifice was finally rewarded in the win column. Led by a four-point performance from Jack Bowie and standout efforts by the defensive and faceoff units, the NJIT men's lacrosse team picked up its first win of the season and first of the Eric Wolf era in a 10-8 victory over the Wagner Seahawks Saturday afternoon at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.

The risks of negative side effects from online privacy laws are being studied by researchers in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management and Ying Wu College of Computing, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon and Cornell universities, based on $1.2 million in National Science Foundation grants. They want to examine assertions from news and media companies that privacy regulations are hurting ordinary users, because the regulations hamper publishers' financial viability, resulting in lower quality content or even the prospect of none at all.

Ranyang Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Prof. Shaahin Angizi at ACAD Lab in the ECE Department at NJIT. Before joining NJIT, he was an M.S. student at George Washington University in D.C. His research interests include Processing-in-Memory and Row Hammer Attack Mitigation.