Throughout the year, NJIT researchers focus on unsolved problems in areas such as medical science, energy sustainability and cybersecurity and test new methods to tackle them. Each spring, at the annual Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase, they step out of their labs to present their progress to the campus community.
The university’s six primary research clusters, which are all represented at the event, encompass Bioscience and Bioengineering, Data Science and Management, the Environment and Sustainability, Materials Science and Engineering, Robotics and Machine Intelligence and Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
In Jonathan Grasman’s Tissue Innervation and Muscle Mimetics Laboratory, for example, a team develops technologies to boost muscle regeneration following major tissue loss. Arjun Venkatesan’s Emerging Contaminants Research Laboratory analyzes wastewater from the state’s treatment facilities to identify pesticides and look for chemical evidence that these substances have entered the human body – a critical step toward understanding the implications for health. To read the full story.