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Explosive solar events such as flares and coronal mass ejections can disrupt terrestrial communications and power infrastructure in addition to other effects.

Putting Students Closer to Explosive Solar Events

Thursday, April 6, 2017
NJIT has a long-established reputation as a leader in researching phenomena originating on the star closest to Earth — the Sun.
Ph.D. student Andrey Stejko speaking about his heliophysics research at SC16. The image on the screen is a detailed computer-generated visualization of the Sun’s magnetic field.

Taking a High-Res 3D Look at the Sun

Thursday, January 26, 2017
Taking a High-Res 3D Look at the Sun
Technician in protective suit

Contaminants in Water: Challenges of Detection and Removal

Tuesday, January 17, 2017
The first Technology and Society Forum of 2017 will focus on a major threat to public health and the ecosystem — contamination in various bodies of water in New Jersey and elsewhere in the nation. 
Diverse Hands image

Is the Cooperative Economy Next in a Post-Consumer World?

Thursday, January 12, 2017
For a significant part of the 20th century, the Manufacturing Economy generated unprecedented material prosperity in the United States.
Casey Diekman

Delving Deeper into the Circadian Rhythms of Life

Thursday, January 12, 2017
The circadian rhythms that harmonize our behavior with the daily cycle of light and dark, and with seasonal change, are among the most powerful physiological forces that we experience each day — forces that are experienced not only by other...
Eric Fortune and students

An Explorer on the Frontier of Behavior

Thursday, January 5, 2017
Associate Professor Eric Fortune, a member of the Department of Biological Sciences since 2012, is an explorer whose research is focused on finding answers to questions at the frontiers of human physiology and behavior.
Nancy Jackson Brazil

Coastal Perspectives — Studying Forces That Affect Life Where Land and Water Meet

Thursday, January 5, 2017
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edgesshowing the line of long sea-weeded ledgeswhere weeds hang to the simple blue from green.Or does the land lean down to...
Breaking Wave

What the Ocean Says — Research for National Defense, Environmental Insight

Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Since coming to NJIT in 1994, Professor Eliza Michalopoulou has been listening to the world’s oceans, researching how new knowledge about sound propagation in the marine environment can enhance the U.S. Navy’s antisubmarine defenses.
Space Station

Sparking Research in Space

Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Lego building blocks and a chance conversation at a scientific conference have led to a discovery about water droplets on the International Space Station (ISS) with down-to-earth applications that could range from the production of better inkjet...
Assistant Professor Alexei Khalizov with instrumentation he is developing to study atmospheric mercury contamination.

From Combustion to Consumption — Researching the Atmospheric Mystery of Mercury

Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Mercury: We know that substantial amounts of this highly toxic element are released into the atmosphere through the burning of coal and petroleum for fuel and the incineration of our civilization’s garbage.