NJIT’s very own Professor David Rothenberg is well-known for his music philosophy. Rothenberg has spent many years combining music and nature, to create music that features the natural world including birds, whales and insects. In fact, he has been referred to as an “interspecies musician.” Recently, Rothenberg has collaborated with Pattern Radio, a project in partnership with Google and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to collect thousands of hours of whale songs. Rothenberg…

Oct. 28, 2019 — NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced that Julie Ancis will join the Department of Humanities as professor of psychology and director of cyberpsychology. Ancis — who holds fellow status in two divisions within the American Psychological Association (APA) through her scholarly contributions that span nearly 25 years in the field of psychology — comes to NJIT from her role as associate vice president of institute diversity, equity and inclusion at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she has been responsible for advancing the university’s…

Equipped with shovels and spades, and tape measures and topsoil, first-year Dorman Scholars gathered behind Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) on a sunny weekend morning in early October to plant a variety of native species: New Jersey tea, blazing star, New England aster, lady fern, butterfly milkweed and coneflower. They were beautifying the ADHC grounds to be sure, but more importantly, they were continuing a project started by last year’s first-years to increase biodiversity on the NJIT campus. The project is part of the Honors First-Year Seminar. “Biodiversity has many different layers…

Can ants help predict the complex dynamics of future humanitarian crises, such as when and where large populations might move during disease outbreaks or armed conflicts? It’s a question that has been posed by Simon Garnier, assistant professor of biological sciences at NJIT, who recently joined the exclusive company of up-and-coming researchers in the nation with a prestigious 2019 Young Faculty Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  The DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) recognizes “rising stars” in junior faculty positions at academic…

NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) hosted its third annual STEM School Leadership Forum Oct. 3 on the university’s campus. The free networking event brings together superintendents and other education professionals to discuss how best to expand and enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instruction in secondary schools. Following breakfast and welcome remarks from CPCP Executive Director Jacqueline Cusack, attendees heard from keynote speaker David Fisher, a former forensic scientist at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, and now professor…

Scientists at NJIT have developed high-capacity, printable-on-demand batteries for everyday appliances that are designed to last nearly three times as long as those currently on store shelves. Traditional AA and AAA cells have capacities of around 300 milliampere hours per gram (mAh/g), a measure of how long a battery will hold a charge. In results published earlier this year in the journal Energy Storage Materials, researchers Zhiqian Wang and Somenath Mitra demonstrated capacities as high as 750 mAh/g. The difference, they say, is that the material used in conventional batteries – zinc…

According to NJIT Career Development Services’ most recent annual report, almost one-fifth of undergrads from the Class of 2018 who reported full-time employment indicated an NJIT career fair as their source. That figure certainly demonstrates the value of students attending the fair, to both mingle with prospective employers and leave a lasting impression on recruiters. But vital to the mix in landing a position is preparedness. With the Fall 2019 Career Fair just around the corner — Wednesday, Oct. 2, at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center — these Highlanders, who scored internships through…

J.K. Rowling. Ursula K. LeGuin. Connie Willis. By the time NJIT humanities professor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry left the stage at Ireland’s Convention Centre Dublin on the evening of Aug. 18, she would share a certain place among such historic stars of science fiction literature.  Though, the distinction she now shares with them also makes her a “first” in that literary universe. “Hi, my name is Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and I'm the first deafblind woman to win a Hugo,” said Sjunneson-Henry as she began her acceptance speech at the 2019’s Hugo Awards — the most prestigious…

Walking through NJIT’s green spaces and residence hall courtyards Labor Day week, it’s not uncommon to hear pockets of conversation burst to life among the campus’s bright-eyed freshman newcomers, often of the different roads they’ve traveled to begin their collegiate journeys here at the start of the fall semester. Among them is Julia Lizik. A four-hour drive up I-95 with her mother from their home in Frederick, Maryland, was Lizik’s road to NJIT, though the reasons behind her arrival are part of a rather new academic experience at the university.  It was the launch of the university’…

Payscale has released its 2019 College Salary Report and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has placed #53 out of over 4,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. in the mid-career salary rankings. In addition, NJIT is #1 for state schools in mid-career salary. “NJIT students are in high demand and our alumni enjoy remarkable success, because we specialize in preparing graduates to thrive in what is unquestionable a tech economy,” said NJIT President Joel S. Bloom. “Every major global industry, at its core, is driven by technological advancement. That’s why our students average…