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NJIT Recognizes Impactful Graduates with Alumni Achievement Awards

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
NJIT’s annual alumni weekend is a two-day extravaganza that is filled to the brim with events for returning NJIT graduates. One event in particular recognizes a select group of alumni who have achieved profound professional success: the Alumni Achievement Awards. This year’s class of awardees inclu...

Goldwater Scholarship Lights Undergrad's Research Path, from Tissue Engineering to Oral Biology

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Biochemistry undergrad Simone Bishara ’23 has spent the past year conducting research at NJIT that could one day improve the lives of those in need of tissue transplants — that work has helped earn her a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship that’s driving her closer to her career aspirations.  Th...

Welcome Reception for President-Elect Lim

Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
Please join us on Thursday, May 5 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on the Campus Center Terrace for a reception welcoming President-Elect Teik C. Lim to NJIT. Light refreshments will be served, and all are encouraged to attend as we celebrate the transition from the leadership of President Joel S. Bloom to ...

Design/Build Studio Helps Create Urban Oasis One Parklet at a Time

Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
‘Every architect should experience building a structure that they design’ – that is the motto behind the Design/Build options studio led by Professors Erin Pellegrino and Charlie Firestone. This semester their students are building a Parklet, in collaboration with the Hanini Group. The concept of th...

Interview with Andrew Whalley, Design Showcase 2022 Speaker

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Andrew Whalley OBE, Chairman of Grimshaw, delivered his lecture ZERO at the Design Showcase 2022. Known for designing net-zero-carbon buildings and considerations of the building life cycle performance in their designs, Grimshaw committed itself to operating as a net zero company. This commitment is...

NJIT-Designed Mobile Medical Unit Deployed In Queens to Tackle Rising COVID Cases

Monday, April 25th, 2022
A mobile medical care unit (M2CU) designed for COVID testing and vaccination is now seeing patients in a part of Queens where the infection rate is more than twice as high as in the rest of the borough. This month, Governor Kathy Hochul, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Martin Tuchman of the Tuchman ...

Informatics Professor Applies AI to Auto Traffic Simulation

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Assistant Professor Hua Wei is studying how to build more realistic models for traffic simulation, with the goal of improving predictions by closing the gap between just following traffic laws vs. how people actually drive. That gap can be significant, so Wei is using the latest in artificial ...

Mark Pothen, Mechanical Engineer, Working in Health Care

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Techies call it the hands-on imperative — that the best learning is by doing — and the concept is something Mark Pothen, a mechanical engineering major, takes to heart. Pothen worked part-time this academic year as a business analyst for health care startup Axuall Inc., where he'll become an associ...

NJIT Honors Students for Their Work at the National Cancer Institute and Siemens

Monday, April 25th, 2022
NJIT’s Career Development Services recognized both a graduate student and undergrad in its annual intern and co-op of the year awards. The grad student, Pooja Kittanakere Balaji ’22, is pursuing a master’s in computer science, while the undergrad, Rivka Farrell ’23, is majoring in biology. CDS hon...

No. 4 Women's Tennis Upsets No. 1 Northwestern State, Advances To Southland Championship

Sunday, April 24th, 2022
One. Win. Away.  A back and forth affair between the No. 4 seed NJIT women's tennis team and top seeded Northwestern State broke in favor of the Highlanders in a thrilling 4-3 semifinal upset Saturday afternoon at the University of New Orleans' University Tennis Courts.  The Highlanders ...