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.

my-test In the final year of the undergraduate programs at the College of Architecture and Design (CoAD), industrial design students, interior design students, digital design students and architecture students assemble in a collaborative design studio, tasked to work together—across disciplines—toward a common goal: to design our future.

Tim Daudelin graduated in May with a degree in biology and a ticket to the Ivy League: He has been accepted at Columbia University’s Dental School. Daudelin, an Albert Dorman Honors College grad who finished with a 3.98 GPA, considered attending medical school but chose dental school instead since "dentistry has more of an artistic element," he says

​At a ceremony last June at the Women in Military Service Memorial, Ellen M. Pawlikowski '78, was promoted to the rank of four-star general in the U.S. Air Force.

A team of medical personnel, emergency management specialists and drone technology experts, including from NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), will conduct the first ship-to-shore drone delivery in the U.S. on June 23 on the New Jersey coastline.

More than 300 NJIT alumni gathered on campus this weekend (May 20-22) to collect awards, listen to tech talks, receive university updates and hear from Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, an NJIT alumna who as a four-star general in the U.S. Air Force is one of the most powerful women in the United States.

How do organisms without brains make decisions? Most of life is brainless and the vast majority of organisms on Earth lack neurons altogether. Plants, fungi and bacteria must all cope with the same problem as humans – to make the best choices in a complex and ever-changing world or risk dying – without the help of a simple nervous system in many cases.

Tech innovator and international entrepreneur Ying Wu earned his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from NJIT in 1988. Wu was born and grew up in Beijing where he now lives with his wife Yalan Wu ’87 MS CE, an NJIT alumna.

Marino Durán was born in a poor village in the Dominican Republic. When he was 5-years old, his family immigrated to the United States -- none of them knowing a word of English. Yet later this summer, he'll begin working as an engineer for General Motors, one of the world’s largest corporations.

It’s not everyday you find a course that dissects the symbolism of hair—at a technology university, no less. But twice a week at NJIT, on the third floor of the Central King Building, adjunct professor Patti O’Brien-Richardson teaches “HAIR: Culture, Politics and Technology,” a senior seminar offered by the humanities department in the College of Science & Liberal Arts.