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Researchers Develop Novel System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning To Improve Control Of Lower Limb

Tuesday, June 20th, 2023
A team of researchers has developed a new method for controlling lower limb exoskeletons using deep reinforcement learning. The method, described in a study published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, enables more robust and natural walking control for users of lower limb exosk...

How Video Games, a Support System and Becoming a Leader at NJIT Helped Me Manage My Mental Health

Monday, June 19th, 2023
Growing up, I was very quiet, shy and introverted. As I started to discover myself in my teenage years, I began coming out of the closet at age 12. Because of this, I felt isolated at the time and so I found solace in video games and online forums and communities. I have always struggled with my men...

Juneteenth Observance

Friday, June 16th, 2023
Dear Highlanders, NJIT is proud to observe Juneteenth, a federal and state holiday that commemorates the day (June 19, 1865) when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and declared that enslaved Black people in Texas were free, which officially ended slavery in the United States...

Computational Advance Will Help Researchers Model Climate With Higher Fidelity

Wednesday, June 14th, 2023
Increased computational power has dramatically improved climate modeling over the past several years, allowing scientists to better forecast long term climate evolution. Despite computers becoming faster and more efficient, cloud modeling was still a hazy prospect until a recent algorithmic imp...

Sun's Coldest Region Stores Secret to Heating Million-Degree Corona, Study Finds

Monday, June 12th, 2023
With data from Big Bear Solar Observatory’s Goode Solar Telescope, researchers discover intense wave energy in the coldest region on the Sun, the sunspot umbra, which is driving puzzling temperatures in the star’s upper atmosphere.     Nearly five thousand kilometers above the Sun’s surfa...

Amid the Wildfire Haze, NJIT Researcher Alexei Khalizov Explains What's in the Air

Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
The soot permeating the air in New Jersey and New York this month — courtesy of massive wildfires in Canada — is exactly what a New Jersey Institute of Technology professor is studying to determine its impact on climate change. Alexei Khalizov, an associate professor of chemistry and environmental ...

Uncharted Territory: NJIT Ecologist Investigates Forest Fate Amid Climate Change, Wildfire

Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Nearly a decade ago, a bark beetle infestation tore through southeast Wyoming's Snowy Range, transforming lush landscape of Medicine Bow National Forest into a tinderbox of dead lodgepole pine. In Sept. 2020 it ignited — what became known as the Mullen Fire raged beyond the parkland across 176,000 a...

National Academy of Construction Elects NJIT's Andrew Christ Amid Campus Transformation

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
Andrew Christ, senior vice president for real estate development and capital operations at New Jersey Institute of Technology, has been elected to the National Academy of Construction. The academy recognizes exceptional leaders from across the construction industry — including construction managers...

Men's Lacrosse's Liam Brown Selected As 2023 America East Man of the Year Finalist

Monday, June 5th, 2023
NJIT men's lacrosse senior Liam Brown has been named one of three finalists for the America East Conference's 2022-23 Man of the Year award, the league announced Thursday morning.  The America East Man and Woman of the Year awards recognize the conference's senior male and female stu...

Zhenlu Qin - ECE PhD Student of the Month - June 2023

Friday, June 2nd, 2023
Zhenlu Qin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His advisor is Prof. Qing Liu of the HPC Lab. His research interests are in HPC computing, data reduction and data compression. What ...