Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

Researchers at NJIT and Universidad Carlos III of Madrid wanted to know if mixed-reality games could be improved by handing control to artificial intelligence software in the form of conversational language applications — it turns out they can, but the results may put players in danger. The question stems from an annual Halloween tradition of serious-yet-silly experiments by Assistant Professor Niccolo Pescetelli, of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts humanities department, researcher Manuel Cebrian of Carlos III de Madrid’s statistics department and Santander Big Data Institute,...

Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have captured the Oct. 14 solar eclipse in a way never seen before — recording the first radio images of an annular eclipse’s famous “ring of fire” effect. The eclipse was partially visible to much of the continental U.S. for several hours that Saturday, though the full “ring of fire” effect was only visible for less than five minutes, and only for those within its 125-mile-wide path of annularity. However, the new observations of the radio Sun’s eclipse — much longer in duration than...

The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) along with HISPA (Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement) celebrated Hispanic Heritage month at NJIT during HISPA’s Role Model Program Kick-off and Recruiting Event. HISPA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that mobilizes Hispanic professionals to eradicate one key reason why Hispanic youth do not pursue education – a lack of role models. Through the HISPA Role Model program, youth conferences and corporate visits, their volunteers emphasize the importance of academics and demonstrate that all students can overcome...

A New Jersey Institute of Technology forensic team’s crime scene reconstruction of a 1994 shooting in Queens, N.Y. has helped clear the names of two wrongfully convicted men who spent a combined 37 years in prison for murder. A long-awaited moment of vindication came for Armond McCloud (incarcerated for 29 years) and co-defendant, Reginald Cameron (incarcerated for eight years), when their convictions were recently vacated by a state Supreme Court judge in Queens after a joint motion was filed by the New Jersey Innocence Project at Rutgers University, the New York City Legal Aid Society...