Known as a chemical manufacturing by-product of many cosmetics and home cleaning products, the industrial solvent 1,4-Dioxane is now considered by the Environmental Protection Agency to be an “emerging contaminant” and “likely human carcinogen” that can be found at thousands of groundwater sites nationally — potentially representing a multi-billion dollar environmental remediation challenge.  However, it is the contaminant’s frequent co-existence with another toxic chemical — 1,1-Dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE) — that has been found to aid in 1,4-dioxane’s resistance to certain…

The last Wednesday of September 2018 is scheduled to bring an original concert performance to campus from Robert Argasinski — competition-winning virtuoso pianist, composer and NJIT Albert Dorman Honors College student. Argasinski will perform a rich collection of his own compositions, including Waltz Appassionata, The Tragedy of War, and The Hero’s Journey. The program will continue with a collection of short waltzes, including Chopin’s Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 as well as Shostakovich’s Second Waltz. The program will conclude with a short selection of world music,…

College Factual, a leading source of higher education analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT in the top 15 percent nationwide in the overall “Best Institution” category for 2019, a 61-place jump compared to 2018 rankings. NJIT is now ranked 251 out of a 1,779 institutions nationwide, and 5 out of 33 in N.J., a jump of three positions in the state. The “Best Institution” category looks at several specific factors to generate their score, including: student body caliber, educational resources, degree completion and post-graduation earnings. "NJIT's appreciating reputation is a testament to…

Associate degree students from Essex County College (ECC) are now able to seamlessly transfer into appropriate and/or corresponding bachelor’s degree programs at NJIT.    On Sept. 17, 2018, the neighboring institutions in Newark signed a three-year joint academic agreement designed to provide priority transfer into NJIT to qualified students enrolled at ECC. The agreement, effective fall 2018, serves to strengthen the academic and student support partnership between NJIT and ECC. Essex County Schools of Technology (ECST) are also participating in the agreement to benefit high…

This year’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) freshman class has already set records. The group is 43 percent female, includes 13 New Jersey Medical School students and boasts an average SAT score of 1475. Aside from these fantastic figures, the incoming class is noteworthy for its geography. A sizable number of students are coming to NJIT from outside New Jersey, some from as far away as California.   Let’s meet a few of ADHC’s newest out-of-state students. KRISTEN ABRAHAM Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Major: Chemical Engineering An AP Scholar with Distinction who…

As towering cranes and forklifts shuttled brightly colored containers from ships to trucks in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal last week, Cameron Bennett ’22 was also busy inside the port loading human-scale cargo to go back out to sea. Bennett, one of the 1065 freshmen to disperse across the Newark metro area on NJIT’s annual First Year Service Day, was packing beautiful hand-knit hats and scarves and toiletries into hand-sewn bags at the Seamen’s Church Institute, a nearly 200-year-old organization serving mariners dispatched across the globe. He was struck to learn that the…

Recently, NJIT announced that this fall it will begin offering New Jersey’s first Bachelor of Science program in forensic science. This first-of-its-kind degree program will fulfill a critically important and unmet need for New Jersey’s students and its forensic science community. The 120-credit degree will represent the only undergraduate program in the New York metropolitan region designed from its outset to meet the rigorous standards set by the leading accrediting body in this important field, the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC). Never has there been…

This week, from September 6-9, the city of Newark will play stage to one of the premier film festivals in the country — the Newark International Film Festival (NIFF). And this year, NJIT student-filmmakers will be part of the show.  For the first time, films created by NJIT student-filmmaking groups have been accepted into Newark International Film Festival and will debut before this year's audiences. The annual event is expected to attract more than 10,000 film and visual media enthusiasts from around the world for a weekend of indoor and outdoor film…

KARINA DSOUZA ’20 MAJOR: Biomedical Engineering HOMETOWN: New Milford, N.J.   MARY McGUINNESS ’20 MAJOR: Chemistry HOMETOWN: Spring Lake, N.J. MARY: “The Keck Center for Topological Dynamics [at NJIT] focuses on understanding the way vibrational energy propagates through different materials such as microtubules. We employ all kinds of different methods for doing this, from creating water channels to exciting fidget spinners. ... We studied the structure of the microtubule by reviewing literature and using the molecular structure analysis…