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This spring, NJIT students will have the opportunity to gain a richer picture of the complex history and politics of the Middle East that continue to shape today’s headlines, drive foreign policy debates and affect global stability.

A new course opening next semester, “Middle East Conflicts: State Building, Regional Tensions, Peace Processes,” will be taught by Doron Shultziner, an associate professor at Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College and visiting scholar in NJIT’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The kinetic sculptures were supposed to spin gently when the girls turned on their hair dryers. But as soon as the first creation twirled into motion — foil shimmering, ribbons fluttering — the whole room lit up. A crowd of elementary-aged girls leaned in, laughing as their sculptures wobbled, spun or rocketed more wildly than expected.

When Jaimee Diogo launched the New Jersey chapter of STEM Like a Girl in October 2024, she wasn’t simply organizing workshops, she was creating the environment she wished she’d had growing up. 

As this month’s string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant aurorae that lit up skies across an unusually wide swath of the globe — from northern Europe to Florida — researchers at NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) captured a less visible, but crucial, record of the storm’s impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere.

World War II has been revisited countless times in books and films. But NJIT professor Laura Montanari set out on a unique songwriting project to bring to life overlooked voices in the Allied fight against fascism — heroines of Italy’s underground resistance.

Her new collection of “archival songs”— blending original music with interviews from female partisans (partigiane) who resisted the Nazi occupation and Fascist Italian Social Republic in the 1940s — has gained international recognition.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) today announced the launch of PureTrace Labs, a startup created to bring NJIT-developed technology for rapid detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to market.

The company marks the first official launch from NJII’s Venture Studio, supported by an investment of up to $1 million.

Researchers from four universities, including New Jersey Institute of Technology, are expanding a network of ham radio operators in North America to better track how the earth’s upper atmosphere is impacted by natural phenomena such as geomagnetic storms and lightning.

In a new article featured in Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), NJIT Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis explores how cyberpsychology — the study of the two-way relationship between people and technology — is reshaping modern computing.

Eliza Michalopoulou, a mathematician who develops acoustic techniques to reveal uncharted features of the ocean and the movements of its inhabitants, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Foundation Excellence in Research and Innovation award.

Her field, geoacoustic inversion, uses signal processing and mathematical models to transform underwater sound waves into detailed information about the location of sources such as submarines and whales, and characteristics of the seabed. She studies how physical properties of the ocean shape the way sound travels beneath the surface.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the second annual Nexus of Excellence Awards Oct. 8 in the Campus Center Atrium, celebrating the university’s faculty and staff whose achievements exemplify NJIT’s mission and values.

Building on last year’s inaugural ceremony, the 2025 event recognized honorees across categories that reflect NJIT’s Innovation Nexus 2030 Strategic Plan — spanning excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, research, diversity and community engagement.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been officially recognized as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, joining a growing network of colleges, universities and communities committed to creating healthy, sustainable habitats for pollinators.