Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

NJIT Chemist Hunts for COVID-19 with a Smartphone-Linked Biosensor

Thursday, October 1, 2020
A Q&A with chemist Omowunmi “Wunmi” Sadik Q: How do chemical sensors work? Chemical sensors are small devices coated in spots with specific compounds that react to, or recognize, targeted chemicals in the air, water and biological systems. The devices’ transducers convert the results to a measurable signal. They can provide a one-time yes or no answer or deliver continuous information as they monitor changes in the environment or the body. I got my start at the Environmental Protection Agency developing environmental immunosensors that employ antibodies that bind with PCBs — toxic...

NJIT Historian Rosanna Dent Awarded for Exploration of Brazil's Xavante

Wednesday, September 30, 2020
NJIT Assistant Professor of History Rosanna Dent's ongoing work exploring the history of research in Indigenous A’uwẽ-Xavante communities of Brazil has now earned her the 2020 John C. Burnham Early Career Award at this year’s History of Science Society’s Forum for the History of the Human Science.   As part of the prize, Dent will submit her research essay to Wiley’s Journal of the History of the Behavioral Science (JHBS), titled “Bureaucratic Vulnerability: Possession, Sovereignty, and Relationality in...

Study Assesses 30 Years of Landmark Astronomical Advances at NSF, Highlights NJIT's Big Bear

Monday, September 21, 2020
A new study highlighting some of the most influential technological breakthroughs that shaped astronomical research over the last 30 years includes recognition for NJIT-Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research’s Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) and its three generations of pioneering adaptive optics technologies, which have significantly advanced ground-based exploration of the Sun.  The study closely links the impact of breakthroughs with their federal support from more than 500 grants from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technologies and...

NJIT Cyberpsychology Seminar Series Begins, Features Experts at Intersection of Psychology and Tech

Thursday, September 17, 2020
Next week, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts’ new Fall 2020 Cyberpsychology Seminar Series is set to begin, featuring some of the nation’s leading experts at the emerging intersection of psychology and technology who will cover a diverse range of future-focused topics for the university community. Such topics will include current dilemmas and phenomena related to online disinformation, problematic gaming, online racism and the use of virtual reality to examine racial bias, and the rise of telehealth during COVID-19.  “Our program is excited to launch...

A Look Back: NJIT's Unusual Explorations of Nature

Friday, September 11, 2020
From discovering dinosaur-era ants with metal horns on their head, to swapping the brains of “Frankenfish,” to joining whale musicians at sea, NJIT faculty have been part of some unusual explorations of nature, sometimes taking them to distant corners of the world. Here, we look back on some of them. Resurrecting Vlad the Impaler and the “Hell Ants”  [[{"fid":"8346","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"...

NJIT's Vanessa Velez Awarded for Quarantine-Inspired Folk Artwork

Friday, September 4, 2020
NJIT Department of Humanities staff member Vanessa Velez has shown that not only is art her true calling, but it's a potent form of therapy, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, Velez’s quarantine-inspired artwork was awarded at the “nation’s largest annual celebration of handmade craft,” American Craft Week, observed virtually this year. The event annually features an artist contest that attracts submissions in the folk tradition from around the nation — spanning paintings and embroidery to...

WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate it all because, at the end of the day, the goal is to just stay healthy,” said Emmanuel Odekunle, a biology major and student in the Albert Dorman Honors College. The challenge, he added, is to stay focused amid the necessary changes. Or as he put it, to “make sure that I don’t relent, that...

WATCH NOW: Virtual Convocation Welcoming the Class of 2024

Monday, August 31, 2020
Virtual University Convocation Program  WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2024 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WHEN: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 3 p.m WHERE: The Convocation ceremony will take place virtually and will be streamed starting at 3 p.m. It can be viewed here once it begins.  WHO: NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and Provost and Executive Vice President Fadi P. Deek will preside over...

Study of Asia's Hillstream Loaches Reveals Keys to Fish Family's Unusual Land-Walking Abilities

Tuesday, August 25, 2020
A new genetic and morphological study of South Asia’s hillstream loach (Balitoridae) family is shedding new light on the fishes’ unusual land-walking capabilities, including that of the family’s strangest relative — Cryptotora thamicola — a rare, blind cavefish from Thailand with an uncanny ability to walk on land and climb waterfalls using four limbs that move in salamander-like fashion.  In a study published in the Journal of Morphology, a team of researchers from New...

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021

Thursday, August 20, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college. Additionally, NJIT appears as a Top 50 College for Undergraduate Game Design and Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Studies. The Princeton Review chooses the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from administrators at hundreds of...

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