Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top 'Colleges That Pay You Back'

Monday, February 12, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2018 edition of its annual guide, Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck. In order to make the list, institutions must demonstrate a strong academic program and affordability, and offer strong opportunities for career prospects after graduation. A return on...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Resolving Complex Fluid Flows

Monday, January 22, 2018
From large-scale weather or environmental disaster predictions and efficient design of vehicles and power generators, to understanding how bacteria propel themselves and how nutrients are delivered to different organs in our body at the cell level — researchers will need to find new ways of studying the complex flow of liquids, gases and plasmas that drive or characterize intricate climatic, transportation and biological systems. In his upcoming Technology and Society Forum presentation, Joseph Katz will demonstrate how today’s latest multidimensional high-speed flow visualization...

Research that Ranges from Pipelines to Proteins

Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The research that Assistant Professor of Physics Cristiano Dias is pursuing has the potential to expand our knowledge of phenomena that can affect the creation of dangerous obstructions in undersea pipelines transporting natural gas and the formation of protein-based fibers in the brain related to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Spanning disciplines and departments, it is work that underscores NJIT’s commitment to encouraging interdisciplinary investigation that promises not only to increase fundamental scientific knowledge, but which also offers the possibility of significant practical...

Students Search for Insights into the Brain and Behavior

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Learning is very much a hands-on experience for Nicole Andanar, Hannah Gattuso, Yasmine Ghattas and David Liptsyn, NJIT undergraduates enrolled in Albert Dorman Honors College who are working with Associate Professor Eric Fortune, Department of Biological Sciences, to explore the unknowns of how the brain uses sensory information to influence behavior. In Fortune’s Laboratory in the Central King Building, they’re advancing research that engages them, in a very personal way, with experiments involving fish that navigate by means of electric fields and birds that sing incredibly complex duets...

Delving Deeper into the Circadian Rhythms of Life

Thursday, January 12, 2017
The circadian rhythms that harmonize our behavior with the daily cycle of light and dark, and with seasonal change, are among the most powerful physiological forces that we experience each day — forces that are experienced not only by other mammals, but also by many other living organisms. The circadian behavioral imperatives programmed by evolution are also increasingly challenged by our culture. It’s why traveling quickly across multiple time zones causes jet lag, why shift work can affect our physical well-being, and why our mood and alertness in general can vary significantly in the...

From Cells to Science and Society — Kevin Belfield is Engaged Across a Broad Spectrum of Research

Thursday, January 5, 2017
As a researcher, Kevin Belfield is working at the forefront of medical innovation to develop a minimally invasive imaging technique that could revolutionize how wound healing and the growth of cancerous tissue are monitored. A professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Belfield is also dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA), and in this role he is helping to build the success of programs that span a very broad spectrum of research and education at NJIT. Belfield came to NJIT in 2014 from the University of Central Florida, where he chaired the...

Coastal Perspectives — Studying Forces That Affect Life Where Land and Water Meet

Thursday, January 5, 2017
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green. Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple blue from green. Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under, drawing it unperturbed around itself? Along the fine tan sandy shelf is the land tugging at the sea from under? — From “The Map” by Elizabeth Bishop In New Jersey, as in many other places on the globe with extensive coastlines, the complex interaction of natural forces and human activity has a profound effect on the quality of life. At a very basic...

From Combustion to Consumption — Researching the Atmospheric Mystery of Mercury

Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Mercury: We know that substantial amounts of this highly toxic element are released into the atmosphere through the burning of coal and petroleum for fuel and the incineration of our civilization’s garbage. We also know that mercury entering the atmosphere can eventually find its way into the soil and, especially, the world’s oceans, where it poses a threat to health by accumulating in many species of fish that we eat. But the chemical transformation of mercury released by combustion that takes place in the atmosphere as a precursor to dangerous contamination of soil and water is not...

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