Department of Physics

NJIT Solar Physicists Take Spotlight at NASA's Int'l Supercomputing Conference

Tuesday, December 1, 2020
NJIT heliophysicists who have developed new ways to forecast explosive events from the interior of the Sun recently captured the attention of international space and computer science communities with their exhibit featured at NASA’s Virtual SC20 Supercomputing Conference. NJIT Ph.D. student-researchers John Stefan ’22, Andrey Stejko ’21 and Department of Physics Professor Alexander Kosovichev joined scientists from three NASA locations and select universities across the U.S. to present at this year’s virtual conference. The conference, which is among the most anticipated showcase events...

Mathematical Epidemiologist Sara Del Valle '00 '01 Welcomed Back at 2020 CSLA Awards

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Sara Del Valle, a two-time NJIT alumna who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) developing models for tracking and mitigating the spread of infectious diseases, gave the keynote address at the 2020 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards ceremony. CSLA Dean Kevin Belfield led the presentation at this year's ceremony, which continued its long tradition of awarding the outstanding achievements of students, faculty and staff across the college's diverse departments, from theater and history to physics and chemistry. The event is normally held in May but was instead held...

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...

Researchers Offer Unprecedented Look Into 'Central Engine' Powering a Solar Flare

Tuesday, July 28, 2020
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the “central engine” of a large solar flare accompanied by a powerful eruption first captured on Sept. 10, 2017 by the Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) — a solar radio telescope facility operated by New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR).  The new findings, based on EOVSA’s observations of the event at microwave wavelengths, offer the first measurements characterizing the magnetic...

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...

Senior Success: Awardees Shine at NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts

Thursday, May 28, 2020
Each spring around Commencement, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts holds its very own celebration, awarding its standout student and faculty stars from across the college’s diverse academic spectrum of art, history and humanities to physics, biology and chemistry. Among CSLA’s award winners this year, several graduating seniors took home 2020 CSLA Outstanding Student Award honors. Here, they share their unique university experiences, successes and plans after receiving their special recognition. Mary McGuinness ’20, B.S. in Chemistry [[{"fid":"7006","view_mode":"default...

NJIT Physics Team Provides Novel Swab Design, Free of Charge, to Augment COVID-19 Testing

Thursday, April 30, 2020
A team of NJIT physicists has developed a novel test swab that can be 3D printed using inexpensive, widely available materials and speedily assembled in a range of fabrication settings. To augment the nation’s testing capabilities, the inventors are making the swab’s design publicly available to large and small manufacturers, free of licensing fees, during the COVID-19 emergency.  The developers, from NJIT’s Additive Manufacturing Lab (AddLab), committed to the Open COVID Pledge and posted the design on the National Institutes of Health’s 3D Print Exchange website, which provides...

NJIT 2020 Goldwater Scholar Class Among Largest In U.S.

Thursday, April 16, 2020
NJIT undergrads continue to earn the nation’s top academic honors, the latest being a new university record of four students named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized among the country’s most prestigious for STEM undergraduates pursuing research careers. This year’s NJIT Goldwater Scholar class, doubling last year’s total, is the largest from any academic institution in New Jersey and equals second-most across the nation, beating out universities such as Columbia University (3),...

Ying Wu Grad Students to Get Quantum Computing Course in Fall '20

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Quantum computing will be offered as a new course for computer science graduate students beginning next fall. This marks the first time the subject is available outside of a special-topics course or independent study in the Ying Wu College of Computing here at NJIT. Such computers process data based on quantum physics, where a particle can be in multiple states at once, as compared to conventional transistors, where a circuit can only be on or off. Today's conventional computers have billions of transistors in their microprocessors, while quantum computers have a few dozen quantum bits...

The AIAA Taps Space Weather Pioneer Louis Lanzerotti for a Career Award

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Louis Lanzerotti, a distinguished research professor of physics best known for shedding light on the space environment around Earth and its impact on hardware in space and critical infrastructure on the ground, has been awarded the 2020 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) James A. Van Allen Space Environments Award. Named for the scientist credited with the discovery of the layers of charged protons and electrons held in place by Earth’s magnetic field – the Van Allen Radiation Belts – the award recognizes “outstanding contributions to space and...

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