Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

NJIT Undergraduate Applications Jump 12 Percent Over Last Year

Monday, June 25, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is bucking an undergraduate admissions trend. While many universities are failing to hit recruitment targets and/or reducing their standards for admission due to sharp regional and national declines in the traditional college-aged population, NJIT has seen noteworthy growth this year in both applications and the average SAT score of those applicants. In fact, NJIT's applications for undergraduate admission for Fall of 2018 have grown 12% over last year (33% among out-of-state students) and the average SAT score for the incoming class...

A Gathering of Go-getters: NJIT Celebrates 2017-2018 Scholarship Recipients

Friday, June 15, 2018
The competition for scholarships and fellowships grows fiercer every year. Still, there’s good news: At NJIT, students are increasingly receiving notable awards that provide opportunities to do research, study abroad (both, in certain cases) and more. Just as the spring 2018 semester was coming to a close, a small reception was held in Eberhardt Hall to congratulate the university’s scholarship and fellowship recipients over the past year. While some have completed their assignments, others are either in the midst of or preparing for them. Here, we meet a few of the winners. Axel...

Author and Artist Michael Benson On Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", and Fusing Science and Art

Monday, June 11, 2018
In 1964, legendary director Stanley Kubrick met with legendary science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke to embark on one of the most ambitious films ever made — “2001: A Space Odyssey”.  In a 141-minute cinematic spectacle that would take four years to produce, the two artists uniquely blended aspects of science and art to create a groundbreaking futuristic mythology that is still studied in film schools and debated by global audiences today. Half a century later, contemporary writer, filmmaker and artist Michael Benson, has authored a new and critically acclaimed account of...

Ariana Ruggiero Finds Her Calling Within the Montclair Art Museum

Friday, June 8, 2018

NJIT Offers New Jersey's First Undergraduate Forensic Science Program

Wednesday, June 6, 2018
This fall, NJIT has announced it will launch its highly anticipated Forensic Science Bachelor of Science degree program — a unique program designed for undergraduate students interested in the rapidly expanding fields of forensic science and crime scene investigation.  The 120-credit degree will represent New Jersey’s only undergraduate forensic science degree, and the first baccalaureate degree program in the New York metropolitan region designed from the outset to achieve approval by the main accrediting body in college-level forensic science academics, the Forensic...

Evan Pietronico Employs New Tech to Shoot Horror Film

Friday, June 1, 2018

New Jersey's Future Chemists Compete for Glory In Thirty-Third Annual Chemistry Olympics

Thursday, May 31, 2018
On May 22, 2018, NJIT hosted more than 300 of Northern New Jersey’s most exceptional high school chemists as they competed for academic glory in the Thirty-Third Annual New Jersey Chemistry Olympics. The Olympics — organized by NJIT's Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science and the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society (NJACS) — brought together more than 28 student teams from 18 high schools, meeting to match wits in an afternoon of competitive research events, science communication challenges and live lab competitions. Additional funding was...

Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array Reveals New Insights into Solar Flares' Explosive Energy Releases

Thursday, May 24, 2018
Last September, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun’s surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic fields produced a series of potent solar flares, causing turbulent space weather conditions at Earth. These were the first flares to be captured, in their moment-by-moment progression, by NJIT’s recently expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA).  With 13 antennas now working together, EOVSA was able to make images of the flare in multiple radio frequencies simultaneously for the first time. This enhanced ability to peer...

NJIT Grad is Now a Medicolegal Death Investigator

Tuesday, May 22, 2018
For some, the work of a professional “death investigator” might sound like something straight out of “Law & Order” and “CSI.”  However, for Carly Berdan ’18, that job will soon be a very real career. With her graduate coursework completed, Berdan will soon wrap up her master’s thesis at NJIT this summer, leaving with a M.S. in biology and advanced expertise in forensic science.  That experience and training has helped land Berdan the distinct and important role of medicolegal death investigator, examining suspicious and unusual deaths for the Northern Regional State...

Graduates Share Diverse Success Stories Across Science and Liberal Arts

Tuesday, May 22, 2018
This spring, NJIT’s 2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards honored an exclusive group of its undergraduate and graduate seniors with the CSLA Outstanding Student Award — a distinction annually given to students who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence in their field. We caught up with four of the college’s most exceptional senior students selected for the award to let them reflect on their time at NJIT and share what the future holds for them after graduation. Meet CSLA’s 2018 “Outstanding Student” Seniors: Xinglei Liu ’18, Ph.D. in Chemistry Where...

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