An NJIT Engineer Proposes a New Model for the Way Humans Localize Sounds

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person’s ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals – from lizards to humans – to pinpoint the location of danger, prey and group members. In modern times, finding a lost cell phone by usin...

NJIT Sits at the Top of the ASUN, Cubero Scores Pair of Goals in NJIT's 2-1 Road Win at FGCU

Monday, October 28th, 2019
Junior transfer Gerald Cubero scored a pair of goals in NJIT's 2-1 road win at FGCU in ASUN Conference men's soccer action at the FGCU Soccer Complex Saturday evening. With the win at FGCU, NJIT moves to the top of the ASUN standings with 12 points and controls its own destiny for the ASUN Conferen...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Environmental Health and Hurricane Impacts

Monday, October 28th, 2019
There are over 200 hazardous waste sites in Puerto Rico, including 24 Superfund sites, causing significant contamination of water resources. Air pollution from refineries, power plants, motor vehicles, and large ships at ports is also very high. Puerto Ricans stand out as the most health-disparate H...

NJIT Announces Appointment of Inaugural Director of Cyberpsychology

Monday, October 28th, 2019
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 he...

New publication on consequences of neural activity generated in two places in the same nerve cell

Friday, October 25th, 2019
In a new publication from the labs of Profs. Dirk Bucher and Farzan Nadim, Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Nelly Daur and former PhD student Dr Yang Zhang show that in a single motor neuron, action potential generation in the central nervous system is suppressed by action potentials generated in the peripher...

Planting With Purpose: Honors Students Foster Biodiversity on Campus

Friday, October 25th, 2019
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 milk...

Prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest Coming to NJIT

Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Hundreds of college students from throughout the Northeast will descend on NJIT on Oct. 27 to participate in a prestigious international programming competition. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), will host its Greater New York Region competition on NJIT’s campus this Sunday. ...

NJIT Faculty in the Spotlight at United Nations Urban Planning Conference

Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Experts supported by the United Nations wanted to know about the impact of digital technology on public spaces, and two NJIT professors had a seat at the table. Gernot Riether co-organized the conference, The Power of Public Space in a Digital Age, at U.N. headquarters in New York last week. Riether...

New Books From Architecture Faculty Cover Cultural, Social, Tech Influences

Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Three faculty members from NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) published new books this year, covering the intersection of public spaces and technology, millenials in architecture, and the impact of automobiles on American city design. The books are Urban Machines: Public Space ...

NJIT Biologist Explores Ant Colonies, Human Migration With DARPA Award

Thursday, October 24th, 2019
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 th...