Nutrition Studies

“For this study, we often had to reach out to participants to ask what kind of meat they’d put in their sandwich, or whether their coffee had sugar in it.”

— Samantha Kleinberg, professor with Stevens’ School of Engineering and Science, speaking about the challenges of soliciting accurate responses about nutritional intake and how that affected her recent study, which revealed that over 90% of pregnant individuals may not be getting enough iron, calcium, folate and vitamins from their food.
The Journal of Nutrition, December 2024

Bad Bosses

“If you’re constantly guessing which boss will turn up — the good cop or the bad cop — then you wind up emotionally exhausted, demoralized and unable to work to your full potential.”

— Haoying Xu, assistant professor with Stevens’ School of Business, speaking about how “Jekyll-and-Hyde” leaders who swing between abusive and ethical management style do more damage to employees’ morale and performance than bosses who consistently display bad behavior.
Journal of Applied Psychology, October 2024

Misinformation Spread

“A disruption might be caused by a single false report of an unattended suitcase or a rowdy passenger on a train — but we’ve shown how that single bit of disinformation can ripple out to degrade performance across the PATH [train] network.”

— Jose Ramirez-Marquez, associate professor with Stevens’ School of Engineering and Science, describing how purposeful spread of misinformation can cause problems for the world’s public transport networks and how AI can help.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, March 2025

Quantum Gravity

“Our results show that single graviton signatures are within reach of experiments. In analogy to the discovery of the photo-electric effect for photons, such signatures can provide the first experimental clue of the quantization of gravity.”

— Igor Pikovski, assistant professor with Stevens’ School of Engineering and Science, speaking about his work on a method to detect gravitational particles — a task once thought impossible. His co-authored paper was the year’s most downloaded in physics in Nature Communications.
Nature Communications, August 2024