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Researchers record and model the electrical activity of circadian clock neurons in a day-active animal for the first time — a breakthrough toward better understanding what makes the circadian biological clock in humans and other diurnal species tick.

The NJIT women's basketball team moved back into the win column led by sophomore guard Lyzi Litwinko's career-high 16 points as the Highlanders held on for a 67-61 victory over visiting Saint Peter's Saturday afternoon in non-conference action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. NJIT, winners of the last four-out-of-five games, moves above .500 with a 4-3 record while Saint Peter's drops to 1-4 on the young season.

Miles Coleman scored a game-high 17 points and pulled down a career-best 10 rebounds for his first double-double as a Highlander on Wednesday as the NJIT men's basketball team held off visiting Fairleigh Dickinson 62-54 in a mid-week matinee at the Wellness and Events Center. NJIT (2-2) is now 7-0 all-time against FDU (0-4), including 6-0 as a Division I program.

Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan was recently added to the Board of Directors of the United State Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA). Kaplan was appointed to the Board alongside Washington and Lee Director of Athletic Communication Brian Laubscher.

A new course about the history of information systems will be offered by Ying Wu College of Computing this spring, where students will learn about everything from calculation methods of ancient and medieval times, through early visions of mechanical computer architecture in the Industrial Age, straight through to the pioneers of 20th-century solid-state electronics and digital networks.

With world leaders recently in climate change talks at the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, NJIT students and faculty have been busy getting others to appreciate the value of the environment back home, and their efforts have helped save forest land in Princeton, New Jersey in the process.

Students who developed software for game animation, package delivery, lecture transcription and wildlife sightings were all winners at HackNJIT this month.

The NJIT women's basketball team picked up its third straight win of the season, holding on for a 67-63 win at Central Connecticut State Sunday afternoon in women's basketball non-conference action at Detrick Gymnasium. NJIT, winners of three in a row, began its win streak with an upset win at Big Ten opponent Wisconsin (61-49) on Nov. 14, followed up with an home overtime victory against LIU (59-53) on Nov. 18 and held on for a 67-63 win against the Blue Devils.

For the fourth year in a row, a fresh crop of scholars at the Albert Dorman Honors College are nudging the campus towards a more biodiverse environment. Dozens of first-year scholars, armed with shovels, hoes, and mulch, uprooted a swath of landscaped invasive plant species on the sloped lawn outside Eberhardt Hall and replaced them with a diverse array of native plants.

A group of NJIT students studying cybersecurity outside the classroom learned that it's educational to pretend to be the bad guys, in order to design stronger defenses against them. SIGMAL — Special Interest Group for Malware — is a section born last year within NJIT's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, and their careful observations into the dark side of computer hacking are validated by experts around campus, from their faculty advisor to the university's own network security analyst.