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Two NJIT Students Are Among this Year's 128 Governor's STEM Scholars

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
NJIT students Aliya Laliwala and Mrunmayi Joshi have been selected to be part of this year’s Governor’s STEM Scholars class, which includes 128 scholars from 20 New Jersey counties — the program’s largest cohort ever. The Governor’s STEM Scholars program was created to engage the next generation of...

NJIT Ranked Best Public School in Northeast for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importa...

NJIT Biologist Among Semifinalists in $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

Monday, November 14th, 2022
A U.S.-based team of scientists joined by NJIT biologist Eric Fortune is inching closer to the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest Competition’s grand prize for improving our understanding of rainforest ecosystems, having recently been named semifinalists. The five-year XPRIZE Rainforest Competition...

NJIT Researchers Awarded $620k Grant to Study Climate Change Impact of Soot

Friday, November 4th, 2022
NJIT researchers have received a $620,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance our understanding of the way in which soot particles from combustion of fossil fuels are driving climate change in the Earth’s atmosphere. Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexei Khalizov and Associate P...

NJ Research Institutions Host Symposium to Tackle Climate Change and Planetary, Human Health

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Princeton and Stevens Institute of Technology joined to present respective research projects and explore potential areas of collaboration related to climate change, planetary and human health that would benefit the population of New Jersey and beyond. En...

Sustainability Front and Center as Bloomberg Businessweek Hosts Live Show on NJIT's Campus

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek hosts Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec took their show on the road and across the river to NJIT’s campus for a live panel show on sustainability. The Green Energy and Climate Adaptation Panel featured Jonathan Menard, chief research officer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab; D...

An Engineer and a Mathematician Win Honors at NJIT's 2022 Excellence in Research Ceremony

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
Engineer Michel Boufadel, one of the world’s chief experts on oil spills and a frequent consultant on cleanups, is the winner of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award for 2022. Denis Blackmore, a mathematician who specialized in measuring and modeling changes in a range of dynamic syst...

NJIT Alumna, Faculty Earn Prestigious Engineering Award

Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has bestowed on NJIT alumna General (retired) Ellen M. Pawlikowski the 2022 Arthur M. Bueche Award. Pawlikowski joins distinguished professor Louis Lanzerotti as the second Highlander to receive the award. Established in 1982 by the NAE, the Arthur M. Buech...

NJIT Alum Denise Richard Joins First Peace Corps Volunteers Overseas Since COVID

Thursday, October 13th, 2022
Transitioning back from a world of COVID lockdowns and restrictions has meant something different for everyone, but for Denise Richard and the Peace Corps, a “return to normal” will soon mean resuming humanitarian efforts more than 7,000 miles away in Africa. This month, the NJIT alumna is joining t...

College of Science and Liberal Arts Reaches Diversity Milestone, Enrollment Records

Thursday, October 6th, 2022
NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) is reporting a milestone on the way to all-new fall enrollment records — the college now has more female students than male students for the first time in its 40-year history. CSLA’s fall enrollment total of nearly 1,200 students represents a new hi...