The COVID-19 pandemic continues upending life for countless people around the world, threatening public health while disrupting everything from basic home and work routines, to air travel and financial markets. But what has the global slowdown meant for the environment and sustainable living, and what could it mean if some of the radical changes in our everyday lifestyles and consumption habits persisted long-term?
While shares in foreign firms known as American depositary receipts (ADRs) can help diversify investors’ portfolios and fetch high returns, they also pose risk in countries where protections for investors are limited and firms’ information environments – the quality, quantity and timing of earnings releases – are unpredictable or opaque.
Finance researchers Zhipeng (Alan) Yan and Xinyuan (Stacie) Tao are examining how the stock-price activity of ADRs, which are traded in the U.S. financial market and denominated in U.S. dollars, reflect these uncertainties.
For much of her career, Oya Tukel, dean of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management and a professor of supply chain management, has researched problems in resource-constrained project scheduling that can cause significant delays, particularly for large, complex projects that require thousands of activities.
Plenty of fictional works like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein have explored the idea of swapping out a brain from one individual and transferring it into a completely different body. However, a team of biologists and engineers has now used a variation of the sci-fi concept, via computer simulation, to explore a core brain-body question.
NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission on Mar. 7.
From the Arctic Ocean to the shores of Hawaii, NJIT Distinguished Professor of philosophy and music David Rothenberg has long been traveling, clarinet in-hand, across the seas of the world — playing along to the tune of nature while recording the dramatic songs produced by whales from the ocean's depths.
Now, after a recent collaboration, those far-out sounds could make it into the music you hear during a night out this year.
As the editor-in-chief of the South Asian Journal of Business Studies, Professor of Management Shanthi Gopalakrishnan (above, far right) was invited to be on an Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) panel titled, “High Quality Publishing,” held at Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli, Jan. 2-4, 2020. INDAM is the premier management conference in India with over 650 delegates in attendance.
The concert of motion that fish schools are famous for isn’t merely an elaborate display of synchronized swimming. Their seemingly telepathic collective movement is part of a time-tested strategy for improving the group’s chances for survival as a whole, from defense against predators to food-finding and mating.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has once again lauded William V. Rapp, the Henry J. Leir Professor of International Trade and Business and director of the Leir Center for Financial Bubble Research at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, for his economic forecasting acumen.
Remoras are among the most successful marine hitchhikers, thanks to powerful suction discs that allow them to stay tightly fastened to the bodies of sharks, whales and other hosts despite incredible drag forces while traveling through the ocean. But how do these suckerfish sense the exact moment when they must “stick their landing” and board their speedy hosts in the first place?
A team of biologists at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Friday Harbor Labs at University of Washington (FHL-UW) and The George Washington University (GWU) now offers an answer.
