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NJIT Alum and 76ers Data Scientist on Joining the NBA's Data Revolution

Thursday, January 28th, 2021
With the NBA’s 2020-21 season now underway, the Philadelphia 76ers stand as a perennial playoff team with title aspirations, unrecognizable from the team they were during three of the bleakest seasons the NBA has ever seen. A 47-199 record from 2013-2016.  What changed? Among the many changes,...

U.S. News & World Report Commends NJIT Online Graduate Programs

Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Four of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities. While studying online became an important academic offering in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJIT has long offered both fully online and partial, or h...

Lyzi Litwinko Picks Up Fourth America East Conference Rookie of the Week Honor

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Freshman Lyzi Litwinko has been selected America East Conference Rookie of the Week for the fourth time this season, the league office announced. Litwinko picks up her second consecutive Rookie of the Week honor and fourth overall this season. For the week, the 5-foot-8 guard averaged 8....

Zach Cooks Scores Season-High 25 Points to Lead NJIT Past Stony Brook

Monday, January 25th, 2021
 Zach Cooks scored a season-high 25 points, while Miles Coleman and Antwuan Butler each added double-digit scoring performances off the bench as the NJIT men's basketball team defeated visiting Stony Brook 74-65 in America East Conference action on Saturday afternoon at...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 1/25/21-1/29/21

Monday, January 25th, 2021
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

NJIT String Ensemble's Winter Performance Celebrates Music Inspired From Around the World

Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Students and faculty of NJIT’s String Ensemble have released a digital production of their annual Winter Concert Series performance celebrating internationally-inspired music and diversity within the university community.  The performance, directed by NJIT music instructor Christine ...

NJIT's Guvendiren Develops 3D-Printed Biomaterials to Create Rejection-Proof Organs

Thursday, January 21st, 2021
There is no sustainable cure at present for osteoarthritis, the most common chronic musculoskeletal disorder of the joints. And while joint replacements are successful treatments for older patients with already reduced mobility, they hold less promise for younger patients, with failure in the long-t...

NJIT Research Partnership with BASF and United Way Taking Climate Action

Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Program, Christine Liaukus at the Center for Building Knowledge is heading a research team of Hillier College students, experts from BASF, industry contractors and the United Way. The project is called “Re-Side Right” and it’s testing the pe...

Radical Addenda: Redesigning Building Codes to Enable Climate Action

Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Hillier College architecture students in Christopher Gardner’s studio spent last semester applying their design skills to figuring out how to address climate action through building codes, with the codes themselves as the object of design. The students were asked to write a code or code addenda...

Industrial Design + Nudges from Friends + a Little Humility = Fulbright Scholarship

Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Daniel Meza, Albert Dormans honors scholar, industrial design alum ‘20 and Fulbright scholarship recipient, has some advice for the current cohort of industrial design students. “There are a lot more opportunities for research and innovation in industrial design than you might think. For the first t...