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Students in NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) summer offering saw first-hand what a career in STEM looks like thanks to Stryker opening its doors to its medical technology and manufacturing facility. Stryker showed off its half-million square-foot Mahwah campus and the innovation within developed by its engineers and technologists: new-material implants getting people back on their feet in hours instead of days, additive-manufacturing processes unlocking the full potential for design and its state-of-the art Mako surgical robot. “Students cannot fully appreciate science,…

NJIT welcomed its Class of 2027 during this year’s University Convocation, where first-year students from all schools were in attendance. The new academic year has kicked off with a record number of students enrolled. Helping to fuel the new high water mark are 1,805 first-year students— an increase of 23% from the previous year — as of Sept. 1. This year’s incoming freshman class is the largest and most diverse in school history.  “We’re truly happy to have you join this community of learners, scholars, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs,” said NJIT President Teik C. Lim. “In…

New Jersey Institute of Technology is the second-highest ranked public university in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 list of the Best Colleges in the U.S. At No. 19 nationally, NJIT is second only to the University of Florida among public universities nationally and to Princeton University among colleges and universities in New Jersey.  The new list replaces the former WSJ/Times Higher Education ranking with some similar methodology components. It uses a much larger survey, however, and places more emphasis on student outcomes and feedback from students and alumni. It’s also…

NJIT Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Omowunmi Sadik has earned the exclusive distinction of being named Fellow by one of the largest scientific organizations globally, the American Chemical Society (ACS). Sadik's “outstanding contributions to science, the profession, and ACS” over her 30-year career earned her selection into ACS's 2023 class of 42 fellows, which was recently recognized at the Society’s Fellow Ceremony in San Francisco. ACS established its Fellows Program in 2008 to annually recognize members for exemplary professional achievements and service to the Society. Of its…

A little-known R&D facility, operated by NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute with the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal for its primary client, is beginning to thrive one year after moving off-campus. The facility is called COMET — Collaborative Operationalized Manufacturing Engineering and Training — located about 30 miles northwest of NJIT’s Newark campus, close to Picatinny, which is the Army headquarters for conventional weapons development. COMET hosts students and faculty throughout the year, not just from NJIT but from various institutions, who all share civic and scientific…

An estimated 10 quintillion insects are alive on the planet, a staggering number that is at the center of a data crisis for entomologists. Researchers are struggling to understand historic shifts taking place among insect populations amid climate change and other environmental threats, from deforestation to pesticide use. Nearly 40% of all insect species are declining globally while a third of them are now considered endangered. And yet, some deadly populations are on the rise. Associate Professor of Physics Benjamin Thomas is developing new laser-based instruments to better study what…

Stuti Mohan, a senior biomedical engineering student, was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Her project sought to identify a non-invasive yet precise method to diagnose the tapping foot of a subject. Mohan’s research area in the Sensorimotor Quantification and Rehabilitation Lab (SQRL) is the ongoing pursuit of improving concussion management.  “Concussion management can be a pretty subjective process. We are leveraging objective approaches like sensorimotor quantification and…

Unique projects in fields such as computing, healthcare and social media stood out at New Jersey Institute of Technology's High School Summer Research Internship program this year. Thanushri Serweswaran, a rising senior at Edison's J.P. Stevens high school, won first place for her work in creating virtual models of exoskeletons. The models are part of wider research from NJIT and the University of Delaware into the strain on human joints when lifting heavy objects. Serweswaron said she hopes to be admitted into NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College, either as a biology or biomedical…

There aren’t many better places in the region to be than NJIT if you’re an undergraduate student aspiring to become a medical professional, and the numbers are backing it up. This year’s entire graduating cohort from NJIT’s Pre-health Program has been accepted and is matriculating into graduate health professional programs of their choice, according to NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA).  The success of 2023’s class of 33 pre-health majors marks the first time the program has reported a perfect acceptance rate since being established under CSLA’s Department of Biological…

During the pandemic, Alixs Pujols ’24 read an article that inspired her to become an undergraduate research assistant at the Laboratory of Endocrine Disruption & Chemical Biology (EDC Lab). That article showed how researchers had found nanoplastics in the placenta, which caught Pujols’ attention.  Funded by the Undergraduate Research and Innovation (URI) Fellowship, Pujols investigated the effects of nanoplastics on ovarian function by measuring their hormone levels. Her studies focused on preconception. Pujols’ work aims to measure how hormones behave before a woman decides to get…