Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

Math Success Initiative Celebrates First Graduates, Some to Attend NJIT

Monday, July 20, 2020
Last summer 35 11th-graders from four Newark high schools — Central, Malcolm X Shabazz, Science Park and Technology — participated in a seven-week enrichment program as part of the inaugural Math Success Initiative (MSI), an academic partnership between NJIT, the city of Newark and the Newark Board of Education (NBOE). During the past school year, 23 of the 35 completed either Math 110 or Math 111 as a student at the university. And come this fall, 17 of the 23 will be full-time Highlanders; another two will begin attending NJIT in spring 2021.  Beyond representing the first cohort of...

Leir Research Institute to Hold Timely Conference on Disruptive Technologies

Thursday, July 16, 2020
In this unprecedented era of the COVID-19 pandemic and many other disruptive occurrences, the landscapes of society, industry and academics have been and will continue to be reshaped. Resilience and sustainability have become more imperative than ever before, and leveraging innovative technology to embrace the new normal is a strategic necessity. Biotech, for example, has changed the practice of medicine dramatically over the years, with millions of patients worldwide benefiting from the discovery, development and delivery of innovative medicines that treat grievous illnesses, such as COVID-...

In Xavante Territory, the Researched Recruit the Researchers

Tuesday, July 14, 2020
By: Rosanna Dent, Assistant Professor of History Every year, with the dry season, come the researchers. They arrive with audio recorders, microscopes and glucose meters. They bring backpacks filled with GPS recorders, cameras and field notebooks. They ask endless streams of questions about how to live in the Cerrado of Central Brazil. The Xavante community members who receive and host us are long accustomed to these visits. My scholarship on the history of research in Xavante territory asks: What would it be like to be studied again and again? Why would a community consent to host...

Employers Touted for Student Engagement, Recruitment and Hiring

Thursday, July 2, 2020
More than 20 employers have been recognized by NJIT’s Career Development Services (CDS) as the university’s top recruitment partners, based on their 2019 hiring numbers. The honors mark the seventh consecutive year that CDS has paid tribute to employers for their engagement with and recruitment and hiring of students. “Each of the employers on this list has offered exciting and rewarding career opportunities to many NJIT students this year, and we truly could not achieve our mission without them,” noted Patrick Young, associate director of employer relations. “During this time of...

New Larger Than Life Imaging of Model Worm Digs Up Finer Details

Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Despite being such a tiny earth dweller, the roundworm species Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has become one of the biggest workhorses in the lab for biological researchers. Due in part to the organism’s transparent skin and compact size — just about the size of a comma at 1 mm in length — it’s the only animal to have successfully had a complete mapping of its connectome, or its neural circuitry comprised of 302 neurons and their 7,000 synaptic connections.  Boasting this comprehensive neural map has made the modest worm a popular model for exploring fundamental principles that...

The Show Goes On for New Jersey Chemistry Olympics

Friday, June 26, 2020
The New Jersey Chemistry Olympics (NJCO) has become an NJIT springtime tradition — for more than three decades, scores of young chemists prepare throughout the year for the competition, culminating on campus in a one-day test of wits among high school teams from across the state. Of course, this year's event saw a slight break in that tradition, but the 2020 class of nearly 100 ambitious Olympians wouldn't be denied from carrying forward the competition's torch and chasing gold-medal glory at the first-ever Virtual NJCO.  This year's Olympics, held online from June 1-11, recently...

NJIT's Mitra Deploys Nanoscopic Virus Killers in the Fight Against COVID-19

Monday, June 15, 2020
As medical researchers race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, an NJIT scientist who specializes in nanomaterials is developing new methods to slow its spread in the environment. Backed by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Somenath Mitra, director of the university’s Otto York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science, seeks to embed antiviral agents in a range of wearable gear and filtration systems, from personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and gowns, to air and water filters at healthcare facilities. His engineered agents would be...

At NJIT's 104th Commencement, Class of 2020 Urged to Make an Impact

Friday, June 12, 2020
“It is an unusual graduation, but what is extraordinary always is the work of this class,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker HON ’09, who began NJIT’s 104th Commencement with a pre-ceremony heartfelt greeting thanking the university’s 2020 graduates for their grit, hard work, sacrifice and struggle, and for epitomizing what “Jersey Strong” is all about. The senator’s message of congratulations was one of many during the June 12 ceremony, held virtually this year as the world continues to face disruption and devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Sen. Booker shared a meaningful story with...

Senior Success: Samantha Lomuscio, Cosmic Gamma-Ray Hunter

Monday, June 8, 2020
Exploring remote, exotic locations is a long-standing tradition among college students. For applied physics major Samantha Lomuscio ’20, that destination during her senior year has been Jupiter, nearly 390 million miles away. Working with astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), where she began conducting high-energy astrophysics research last summer, her goal has been to detect the solar system’s largest planet in a way that has never been done successfully — through gamma-ray emissions. With a billion times the energy of visible light, these emissions can...

Class of 2020 Outstanding Graduates Make Their Marks

Thursday, June 4, 2020
Thousands of students earned their degrees this year at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here is a collection of their stories, focusing on what they're doing next. Click on the headlines below to read more.   Charles Auriemma Is a Senior Audit Analyst at American Express For the latter half of 2019, Charles Auriemma was working double-time — spending 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as an audit analyst for Fidelity Investments in Jersey City, and evenings completing his degree in financial technology at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), through a full and final...

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