As a researcher, NJIT Adjunct Professor Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is fascinated by COVID-19, having just co-edited three books on the virus and its implications, with two more on the way, distinguishing himself globally as a prolific researcher on the topic. But his interest isn’t just professional. You see, Hussain is also COVID survivor who was hospitalized and connected to a ventilator for 25 days. At one point, his blood oxygen level was 54% (normal is 95-100%). He also lost track of time: when a nurse asked him the date, he was off by a month. So, Hussain knows first-hand the…

For all the convenience of our electronic devices, one inconvenient truth is that waste from our discarded tech is piling up — global e-waste could reach a whopping 74 million metric tons in 2030. NJIT alum Chao Yan’s new greentech startup, Princeton NuEnergy, is receiving national acclaim for their solution to a key aspect of the environmental dilemma — what happens to our smartphone and laptop batteries once we’re done with them? The Princeton University-based startup, founded in 2019, was awarded the 2021 U.S. National Grand Prize by CleanTech Open, the world’s largest clean…

Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week following its announcement last summer, as applications are now open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which researchers confront the challenges of creating successful startups and entrepreneurial ventures based on scientific and technological discoveries, kicks off Feb. 28 and runs through March 23 online. Funded with a 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation, the Hub brings together an initial eight of the region’s top…

The Board of Trustees of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Teik C. Lim as NJIT’s ninth president following a national search and a unanimous vote of the Board on January 5, 2022. President-elect Lim, who also will be appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will begin his NJIT tenure on July 1, 2022. “The appointment of Dr. Lim as NJIT’s next president is the result of his emergence from an exceptionally talented pool of candidates,” said Robert Cohen, chair of NJIT’s Board of Trustees. “Teik has incredibly…

Social distancing is nothing new in the time of COVID. But new research of the well-studied zebrafish (Danio rerio) has captured a previously undocumented behavior of the animal that takes such measures to the extreme — and the end result resembles the frenzy of a circle pit typically associated with heavy metal concert-goers. In the journal Frontiers in Physics, a student-faculty team of biologists and mathematicians at New Jersey Institute of Technology have described a collective social-avoidance behavior in larval zebrafish that occurs when their small, enclosed…

Scientists at NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) are joining a new research project, led by researchers at the University of Minnesota (UMN) with support from NASA, which will give volunteering citizen-scientists the chance to contribute toward our understanding of explosive activity on the Sun — all from the comfort of their own computers.  Through the project Solar Jet Hunter, participants will help to identify bursts of plasma from the Sun, known as solar jets, by analyzing thousands of images taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) over the last 11…

The world is at Samuel Carlos’ fingertips. Since coming NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College out of high school with an associates degree in math and computer science, he’s interned at Amazon, Google, and Facebook. He’s since added a third major - history with a focus on the history of computer science and is now planning to study Mandarin and Southeast Asian technology and politics at National Taiwan University in the spring and summer of 2022.  Carlos is the recipient of the 2021 National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship, which funds students to study foreign…

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. It’s no secret that jet lag and night-shift work can wreak havoc on the way our body’s internal clock syncs up our daily wake-sleep cycle, known as circadian rhythm, but now researchers say they are a step closer to understanding how the brain creates behavioral rhythms optimized for diurnal, rather than nocturnal, life. In…

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. NJIT students Daniil Ivanov ’21 and Harleen Oza ’21 (Dec.) recently joined with their faculty-mentor Zeyuan Qiu, an environmental economist and environmental science and policy professor in NJIT’s Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, to volunteer with the Princeton Environmental…

Burt Kimmelman, acclaimed poet, literary scholar and distinguished professor in NJIT’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, is receiving early praise for his new eclectic collection of essays, titled Visible at Dusk. The 15 essays are a diverse array of new and previously released material revised from its original form. In his introduction to the book, literary critic Edward Foster notes Kimmelman’s “enviable ability to unravel a range of complex subjects, speaking with equal authority on the diamond district in Antwerp, conceptualism in poetry, Czech culture, film noir and…