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CSI: NJIT On the Scene, Young Investigators Train Up in Crime Scene Forensics

Monday, December 9th, 2019
Where were you the night of Nov. 26th? Anyone exiting the Summit Street parking garage that evening would have most certainly been counted among the witnesses to a brightly-lit, taped-off scene surrounding a faded-white ’98 Chevy Lumina where an investigation was underway — carried out by a special ...

NJIT Opens State-of-the-Art Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility

Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Sagnik Basuray is developing a device the size of a dollar coin that will detect cancer biomarkers in patients in remission by sampling a tiny drop of blood with a dip stick. His sensor is groundbreaking not only in its simplicity, but also in its portability. It’s meant to be used at home. “Cancer...

NJIT Professor Emeritus Receives Presidential Award for Science, Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Howard Kimmel, professor emeritus in chemical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). He is one of 15 awardees nationwide and the only recipient in New Jersey this year. Be...

Pre-College STEM Forum Focuses on Forensic Science

Friday, October 18th, 2019
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...

NJIT Scientists Aim to Triple the Life of Batteries Used in Everyday Appliances

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
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...

Spotlight: Julia Lizik, Evidence of Bright Future for NJIT's First Forensic Science Freshmen Class

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
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 t...

NJIT's Dean Kevin Belfield Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Monday, July 15th, 2019
Kevin Belfield, dean of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, has earned the exclusive honor of being elected fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. With the ACS’s announcement, published in the July 15 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, B...

Road To Victory: Young Chemists Square Off at 34th Annual New Jersey Chemistry Olympics

Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
Engineering $200 fuel cells capable of powering windmills, designing high-performance sunblock from scratch, quantifying how much copper is used to coat a modern penny — these were among the many unusual, pressure-packed challenges that stood before 250 of New Jersey’s top high school chemists, all ...

Unprecedented Success for NJIT Students in National Scholarship and Fellowship Competitions

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Whether they’ll be soaking up cultures abroad in the coming year or advancing research in science, health care and other fields, all of the NJIT students receiving prominent and highly competitive scholarships and fellowships in 2019 are, in a word, impressive. In fact, two university records were a...

Senior Success: Award-Winning Journeys in Arts and Sciences at NJIT

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
While Spring Commencement is on the horizon for the Class of 2019, the first wave of year-end celebrations has already begun for a special group of award-winning seniors at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA).  This month, an exclusive band of graduating students took to the stag...