Learning is very much a hands-on experience for Nicole Andanar, Hannah Gattuso, Yasmine Ghattas and David Liptsyn, NJIT undergraduates enrolled in Albert Dorman Honors College who are working with Associate Professor Eric Fortune, Department of Biological Sciences, to explore the unknowns of how the brain uses sensory information to influence behavior. In Fortune’s Laboratory in the Central King Building, they’re advancing research that engages them, in a very personal way, with experiments involving fish that navigate by means of electric fields and birds that sing incredibly complex duets…

A Community in Crisis During his sophomore year while interning at Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s statewide advocacy and education organization for the LGBTQ community, Liem Ho ’17 would often overhear people calling in to give testimonials and ask for doctor recommendations. Inspired by a database journalism seminar he had recently attended, and using a list provided by GSE, Ho came up with a resourceful idea to create a service that helps connect patients with LGBTQ-friendly health care providers. “There are a lot of people who don’t have proper health care and who are very…

For over a century, NJIT has produced ambitious leaders. Highlanders are encouraged to be boundary-pushing citizens with a strong sense of global awareness, ushered into the professional world to make a name for themselves. But for distinguished alumnus Ying Wu, the path to success led right back to where he started. On May 16, NJIT trustees, overseers, Provost Fadi Deek, College of Computing Sciences (CCS) Dean Marek Runsinkiewicz, colleagues, students and friends assembled in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, where President Joel S. Bloom christened CCS the Ying Wu College of…