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NJIT Student's Nonprofit Helps Diverse Voices Dive Into Shark Science

Monday, July 25th, 2022
July’s annual Shark Week and SharkFest have become can’t-miss TV events for nature lovers, but for NJIT Ph.D. student Amani Webber-Schultz, getting up-close-and-personal with the ocean’s most famous apex predators is not just a year-round occupation — it’s a vehicle for social ch...

Two Law, Technology and Culture Majors Win Gilman Scholarships to Study in South Korea

Thursday, July 21st, 2022
Two NJIT undergraduates won the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad in South Korea. Kiaja Jones ‘23 and Destiny Adeleye ‘23, both from Newark, shared their experiences on the process that led them to pursue a Gilman Scholarship and how this award will shape their future car...

NJIT Honors Scholar Pursues PhD in Bioengineering at UMD

Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Next up for NJIT biomedical engineering graduate Amal Shabazz: the Ph.D. program in bioengineering at the University of Maryland. But first, the Albert Dorman Honors Scholar has a 10-week summer internship at Pfizer in Andover, Mass. Her four years in University Heights were filled with helpful men...

NJIT Hosts NJ's First Forensic Science Education Conference

Thursday, July 7th, 2022
While shows such as CSI and Dexter have made the world of forensic science a hit on television, the field is also quickly become a hit in classrooms as well, evidenced by the recent turnout at NJIT for the first-ever Forensic Science Education Conference held in Ne...

Teik C. Lim Begins Tenure as Ninth President of NJIT

Friday, July 1st, 2022
July 1 marks the first day of Dr. Teik C. Lim’s appointment as president of New Jersey Institute of Technology. “My wife, Gina, and I are ecstatic to be joining the NJIT community, and we are excited about the opportunities and challenges that await us,” said Dr. Lim. “It was an honor to be selecte...

NJIT Forensic Anthropologist Investigates New Leads to Identify the Nameless

Monday, June 27th, 2022
Ever since police ended the 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer and identified Joseph DeAngelo by uploading crime scene DNA to a popular genealogy website in 2018, advances in DNA forensics have sparked an explosion in once-unsolvable criminal cold cases being resurrected and cracked after a ge...

NJIT Researchers Unveil Particle Accelerator Region Inside a Solar Flare

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy — equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once — physicists still haven’t been able to answer exactly how these sudden eruptions on the Sun are able to launch particles to Eart...

NJIT's Award-Winning Grads Reflect on Successes, Share Future Plans

Monday, May 23rd, 2022
Alongside the wave of excitement at Commencement 2022, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts recently decorated their star students at its annual awards ceremony. Here, a diverse group of graduates who shared CSLA’s Outstanding Student Award look back on their NJIT journey ...

Eclectic NJIT Engineering Grad Will Andrews to Study International Development in Dublin

Thursday, May 19th, 2022
The bachelor’s that Donald “Will” Andrews earned at New Jersey Institute of Technology is in industrial engineering, but his heart is in international development. The 2022 graduate’s interest in global issues traces back to high school, when he participated in the Model United Nations, and acceler...

NJIT Professors Prime Jada Evans for UCLA School of Law

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
Jada Evans had a plan when she arrived at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2019 and achieved it – and then some – ­in just three years. Beyond a finding a major that matched her dual interests in law and technology and honing her skills as a writer, the Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar imm...