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Mathematical Epidemiologist Sara Del Valle '00 '01 Welcomed Back at 2020 CSLA Awards

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Sara Del Valle, a two-time NJIT alumna who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) developing models for tracking and mitigating the spread of infectious diseases, gave the keynote address at the 2020 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards ceremony. CSLA Dean Kevin Belfield led the pre...

New Jersey Innovation Institute's BioCentriq Aims to Usher in a New Era in Cell and Gene Therapies

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
To overcome production hurdles for cell and gene therapies, a promising new class of biologic medications, NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) has opened clinical-scale centers that will work directly with drug developers to streamline the processing of new therapies and manufacture them i...

Technology VIPs, Including an Internet Pioneer, Visit NJIT for Inspiration

Friday, October 30th, 2020
TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat. The group's members, through exposure to w...

NJIT Chemist Hunts for COVID-19 with a Smartphone-Linked Biosensor

Thursday, October 1st, 2020
A Q&A with chemist Omowunmi “Wunmi” Sadik Q: How do chemical sensors work? Chemical sensors are small devices coated in spots with specific compounds that react to, or recognize, targeted chemicals in the air, water and biological systems. The devices’ transducers convert the results to a meas...

Leir Research Institute to Hold Timely Conference on Disruptive Technologies

Thursday, July 16th, 2020
In this unprecedented era of the COVID-19 pandemic and many other disruptive occurrences, the landscapes of society, industry and academics have been and will continue to be reshaped. Resilience and sustainability have become more imperative than ever before, and leveraging innovative technology to ...

The Show Goes On for New Jersey Chemistry Olympics

Friday, June 26th, 2020
The New Jersey Chemistry Olympics (NJCO) has become an NJIT springtime tradition — for more than three decades, scores of young chemists prepare throughout the year for the competition, culminating on campus in a one-day test of wits among high school teams from across the state. Of course, this ye...

NJIT's Mitra Deploys Nanoscopic Virus Killers in the Fight Against COVID-19

Monday, June 15th, 2020
As medical researchers race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, an NJIT scientist who specializes in nanomaterials is developing new methods to slow its spread in the environment. Backed by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Somenath Mitra, director of the univers...

Senior Success: Mary McGuinness is Off to Study Oceanography

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Chemistry student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Mary McGuinness will graduate this semester and will continue her academic career as a master's student at University of Connecticut studying oceanography. Congratulations, Mary!  

NJIT Researchers Develop Easier and Faster Way to Quantify, Explore Therapeutic Proteins

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology in collaboration with Ohio University and Merck & Co. Inc. recently developed a new efficient method for targeted protein analysis — one they say could speed up processes for disease testing, drug discovery and vaccine development. The research,...

Senior Success: Awardees Shine at NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts

Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Each spring around Commencement, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts holds its very own celebration, awarding its standout student and faculty stars from across the college’s diverse academic spectrum of art, history and humanities to physics, biology and chemistry. Among CSLA’s award w...