Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

NJIT Ranked Best Public School in Northeast for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 15, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importance of training students to become innovators who can positively impact society. It includes a jump of three spots to No. 4 among all Northeast schools, and up four spots to No. 30 nationally. "It validates the changes that we've made to the program, because whenever you make an improvement to...

NJIT Biologist Joins Semifinalists in $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

Monday, November 14, 2022
A U.S.-based team of scientists joined by NJIT biologist Eric Fortune is inching closer to the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest Competition’s grand prize for improving our understanding of rainforest ecosystems, having recently been named semifinalists. The five-year XPRIZE Rainforest Competition was launched in 2019 to spur innovation of technologies used for better assessing biodiversity in remote rainforests that have yet to be extensively studied before, ultimately aiding in conservation efforts. The 25-member group Fortune is part of, “Team Waponi,” is one of just 15...

NJIT Researchers Awarded $620k Grant to Study Climate Change Impact of Soot

Friday, November 4, 2022
NJIT researchers have received a $620,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance our understanding of the way in which soot particles from combustion of fossil fuels are driving climate change in the Earth’s atmosphere. Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexei Khalizov and Associate Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering Gennady Gor will lead the project, “A Multiscale Model for Restructuring of Atmospheric Soot Particles”. Researchers say the new three-year project aims to improve ways of describing soot nanoparticles in atmospheric models, while advancing...

NJ Research Institutions Host Symposium to Tackle Climate Change and Planetary, Human Health

Thursday, November 3, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Princeton and Stevens Institute of Technology joined to present respective research projects and explore potential areas of collaboration related to climate change, planetary and human health that would benefit the population of New Jersey and beyond. Environmental scientists, engineers, experts and government officials were invited to present and speak on a wide variety of subjects related to climate change ranging from nuclear winter and flood mitigation, to measuring community resilience and nanotechnology strategies for agriculture. Also in...

Sustainability Front and Center as Bloomberg Businessweek Hosts Live Show on NJIT's Campus

Thursday, October 27, 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek hosts Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec took their show on the road and across the river to NJIT’s campus for a live panel show on sustainability. The Green Energy and Climate Adaptation Panel featured Jonathan Menard, chief research officer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab; Dena Prastos, founder of Indigo River, an environmental consulting firm; and Dr. Som Mitra, distinguished professor of chemistry and environmental science at NJIT. Click here to listen to the panel The group discussed climate change initiatives and outlooks, which included topics such as...

An Engineer and a Mathematician Win Honors at NJIT's 2022 Excellence in Research Ceremony

Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Engineer Michel Boufadel, one of the world’s chief experts on oil spills and a frequent consultant on cleanups, is the winner of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award for 2022. Denis Blackmore, a mathematician who specialized in measuring and modeling changes in a range of dynamic systems, was honored posthumously with the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award. Atam Dhawan, NJIT’s interim provost, called the two awardees “path-breaking researchers” who are esteemed and influential in their respective fields, but also enthusiastic collaborators...

NJIT Alumna, Faculty Earn Prestigious Engineering Award

Wednesday, October 19, 2022
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has bestowed on NJIT alumna General (retired) Ellen M. Pawlikowski the 2022 Arthur M. Bueche Award. Pawlikowski joins distinguished professor Louis Lanzerotti as the second Highlander to receive the award. Established in 1982 by the NAE, the Arthur M. Bueche Award honors an engineer who has shown dedication in science and technology, as well as active involvement in determining U.S. science and technology policy, promoting technological development, and contributing to the enhancement of the relationship between industries, government, and...

NJIT Alum Denise Richard Joins First Peace Corps Volunteers Overseas Since COVID

Thursday, October 13, 2022
Transitioning back from a world of COVID lockdowns and restrictions has meant something different for everyone, but for Denise Richard and the Peace Corps, a “return to normal” will soon mean resuming humanitarian efforts more than 7,000 miles away in Africa. This month, the NJIT alumna is joining the first wave of Peace Corps volunteers to restart overseas service since the agency’s global evacuation at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The journey is almost three years in the making for Richard, a New Hampshire native who graduated from NJIT in 2016 with a master’s degree in...

College of Science and Liberal Arts Reaches Diversity Milestone, Enrollment Records

Thursday, October 6, 2022
NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) is reporting a milestone on the way to all-new fall enrollment records — the college now has more female students than male students for the first time in its 40-year history. CSLA’s fall enrollment total of nearly 1,200 students represents a new high-water mark for the second consecutive year, with female student population jumping from 46% to 53% of the college’s total student population in that time, according to a report from NJIT’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness (OIE). “I am extremely proud of our Fall 2022 enrollment figures...

NJIT Researchers Unlock a New Method for Testing Protein-Based Drugs

Monday, September 26, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) researchers have unveiled a new lab technique they say represents a “paradigm shift” in how pharmaceutical laboratories test and produce new protein-based drugs, such as therapeutic monoclonal antibodies being developed to treat a variety of diseases, from cancers to infectious diseases.   Researchers say their electrochemistry-based approach, described in the journal Analytical Chemistry, could allow for safety and quality testing of up-and-coming biotherapeutics to be done at a fraction of the time required by conventional...

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