NJIT heliophysicists who have developed new ways to forecast explosive events from the interior of the Sun recently captured the attention of international space and computer science communities with their exhibit featured at NASA’s Virtual SC20 Supercomputing Conference.
In response to the societal call for diversity, inclusion and social justice, NJIT is embarking on a groundbreaking and comprehensive survey of its entire campus community to unlock what it takes to become a model for diversity in higher education.
Data from the campus climate survey will inform the steps that NJIT takes to heighten diversity within its student body, faculty and staff. The high-visibility initiative also reflects the university’s larger mission of being a preeminent polytechnic and community leader.
Undergrads Suzanne Hlinka ’21 and Nada Boules ‘21 have been applying the skills in game development and interior design that they’ve picked up at NJIT, and Mother Earth is thanking them for it. This past year, the pair of students began artistic projects promoting a more sustainable planet, and now, their creative talents have been recognized with the “Jim Wise Scholarship for Theatre: Communicating the Environment Through Art.”
The ALICE Training Institute has recertified NJIT in active threat and emergency response efforts, with 82% of its full-time staff and faculty completing online training that’s designed to safeguard the campus community in the event of an active threat.
To achieve recertification, NJIT’s Department of Public Safety also conducted a drill simulating an active threat and updated the NJIT Emergency and Continuity of Operations Plan that met the institute’s standards, Deputy Chief Kevin Kesselman said.
From discovering dinosaur-era ants with metal horns on their head, to swapping the
Donald “Will” Andrews, NJIT’s first-ever recipient of the Humanity in Action Fellowship, attributes his selection for the distinguished summertime program to his choice of study at the university: industrial engineering.
“There probably weren’t that many engineers that applied … so that made my application stand out from the start — like, ‘hey, look, we have an engineer from Kentucky applying for this social sciences fellowship in Europe,’” said Andrews laughingly.
In 2019, Owais Aftab was in search of a summer research project to meet his degree requirements for independent study. The biomedical engineering/pre-health Albert Dorman Honors College scholar, then a first-year student, found what he was looking for after a conversation with one of his teachers, John Vito d'Antonio-Bertagnolli ’16, M.S. ’17.
Exploring remote, exotic locations is a long-standing tradition among college students. For applied physics major Samantha Lomuscio ’20, that destination during her senior year has been Jupiter, nearly 390 million miles away.
Working with astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), where she began conducting high-energy astrophysics research last summer, her goal has been to detect the solar system’s largest planet in a way that has never been done successfully — through gamma-ray emissions.
