Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

NJIT Unveils VR Crime Scene Tech, Research at Nation's Largest Forensic Conference

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
NJIT’s forensics program made an impression at the 77th Annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences’ Conference in Baltimore’s Convention Center, unveiling new research and innovations that tackled this year’s conference theme, “Technology: A Tool for Transformation or Tyranny?” NJIT faculty and students presented on advances shaping the world of forensics, from research that could improve how forensic scientists estimate a person’s age at death, to technology demos of CSIxR — a virtual reality (VR) application developed at NJIT that simulates crime scenes scenarios to train crime scene...

Experts from NJIT, Carnegie Mellon Find the Pen is Mightier than the Data

Friday, March 14, 2025
Plenty of researchers already study how to tell if online writing bears the traits of artificial intelligence — but Michael Laudenbach, in the humanities and social sciences department at NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts, is studying what traits indicate that digital prose was crafted by analog humans. The risk of not knowing the difference is that if instructors and business managers too openly adopt AI writing tools, then children and college students might wrongly learn that AI writing is good writing, Laudenbach said. Even though some people are bad writers, at...

Gender's Role in Climate Change, AI Highlighted at NJIT Women's Tech Conference

Thursday, March 13, 2025
A keynote speaker at NJIT’s Women Designing the Future conference explained the imperative for holistic approaches to climate change policy, while another shared her tale of breaking through glass ceilings to develop innovative artificial intelligence software. The speakers — Rhiana Gunn-Wright, who orchestrated behind-the-scenes policymaking for the 2019 Green New Deal, and Danielle Feinberg, visual effects supervisor at Pixar — were on campus March 7 to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the NJIT Murray Center for Women in Technology, and also for Women’s History Month. “We had...

'Insect Isle' Selected as Winning Proposal in Honors College Biodiversity Initiative

Thursday, March 6, 2025
NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College held its First-Year Seminar Biodiversity Initiatives colloquium, in which six student-led proposals were presented to increase and sustain biodiversity through a campus planting. This year’s plan focused around a renovation near Faculty Memorial Hall.  These student-driven initiatives allow for the Urban Ecology Lab (UEL), ADHC, the Real Estate Development and Capital Operations (REDCO) and the Office of Sustainability to team up together to make NJIT’s campus into a more sustainable and biodiverse community. Dean of ADHC, Louis I. Hamilton,...

NJIT Mathematician to Help Map Earth's Last Frontier with Navy Grant

Thursday, March 6, 2025
We’ve mapped nearly all of Mars’ surface from orbit, yet we know less about Earth’s ocean floor — almost 75% remains unmapped in high resolution. This terrestrial blind spot is driving NJIT Mathematics Professor Eliza Michalopoulou’s latest research, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The project aims to improve how scientists explore the vast, uncharted ocean floor through sound. “Mapping the seabed is a challenging endeavor due to the extreme conditions,” said Michalopoulou, chair of NJIT’s Department of Mathematical Sciences. “The immense pressure is crushing at depths...

Expanding Housing: NJIT's Rebuild of Oak Hall Will More Than Double Its Beds

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology is rebuilding its second oldest residence hall to meet a burgeoning demand for housing at the growing public university. The new Oak Hall on Summit Street in Newark will contain 453 beds in 154 units — more than double the current totals. The units will take the form of apartments for either two or four students, complete with kitchens, living rooms and bathrooms. There will also be single units for resident assistants. The 15-story building will also feature an array of common areas, including a lounge for studying, a game room, conference rooms for...

NJIT Biologist Wins NSF CAREER Award to Explore Hidden Hydrological Factor to Forest Resilience

Wednesday, February 19, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology biologist Xiaonan Tai has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to investigate how landscape positions determine forest fate during extreme heat and drought — a factor that could help explain why some forests perish while others survive. The CAREER Award, among NSF’s most prestigious honors for junior faculty, includes a grant of $1,162,914 to support Tai’s project, “Unveiling the Role of Hillslope Hydrology in Mediating Ecosystem Response to Drought,” over the next five years. “This project bridges ecology and hydrology — two fields that...

NJIT's Grace Hopper AI Research Institute Launches with $1 Million in Research Proposals

Monday, February 17, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has taken a significant step in its commitment to advancing artificial intelligence by establishing the Grace Hopper AI Research Institute (GHRI). The institute is a key component of NJIT's $10 million AI Initiative aimed at enhancing the university's capabilities in AI research and applications. In its inaugural call for research proposals, GHRI received more than $1 million in funding requests. These proposals span a diverse range of departments and fields, including engineering, computer science, mathematics and university operations. This...

NJIT Maintains Highest Research Classification, Renews its R1 Status from Carnegie

Thursday, February 13, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has once again earned the prestigious R1 designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, reaffirming its standing as a top-tier doctoral university with very high research activity. This continued recognition reflects NJIT’s commitment to cutting-edge research, innovation and the advancement of knowledge. NJIT has demonstrated significant growth in key research metrics that contribute to the R1 designation. The university’s research expenditures have reached $165 million based on the Carnegie-measured three-year...

Most Facebook News Links Are Unread by Users Sharing Them, Study Finds

Thursday, January 30, 2025
What are the odds Facebook users read the news articles they end up sharing with the rest of the world? Only one in four, according to a recent study of our news sharing behavior spanning almost a full U.S. election cycle, which was published in Nature Human Behaviour. The study, which applied advanced machine learning to analyze more than 35 million public Facebook posts between 2017 and 2020, revealed that 75% of news links were blindly shared by users without checking the original news source attached to the post. The striking pattern was reflected in about 80 billion blind shares...

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