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Tune In Podcast Fans: Check Out These NJIT Podcasters Making Waves

Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
Got a can’t-miss podcast idea that could be next Serial, Pod Save America or Ricky Gervais Show?  There’s a growing student-podcasting community for aspiring broadcasting personalities at NJIT thanks in part to a new podcasting production course launched this past spring by...

NJIT's David Rothenberg Joins the Cicada Musical Reunion Tour, 17-Years in the Making

Thursday, June 10th, 2021
The date is May 11, 2004.  The TV sitcom Friends just aired the finale of its 10th and final season, Usher’s hit single "Yeah!" is giving way to Maroon 5’s “This Love” atop the Billboard Top 100 and Massachusetts is about to become the first U.S. state to leg...

Duetting Songbirds 'Mute' the Musical Mind of Their Partner to Stay in Sync

Monday, May 31st, 2021
Art Garfunkel once described his legendary musical chemistry with Paul Simon, “We meet somewhere in the air through the vocal cords ... .” But a new study of duetting songbirds from Ecuador, the plain-tail wren (Pheugopedius euophrys), has offered another tune explaining the mysterious connection be...

Neutrinos and Fantastic Creatures: NJIT's Fulbright Awardees Discuss Their Studies

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
By Andrew McMains and Tracey Regan Two New Jersey Institute of Technology students who earned Fulbright awards this year will continue their studies in Canada on decidedly different paths. Kaylin Wittmeyer ’21 is pursuing a graduate certificate in digital creature animation at Sheridan College in ...

Award-Winning NJIT Grads Reflect on Their Journeys to Jobs, Grad Programs

Friday, May 21st, 2021
Among the honorees at this year’s College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards at NJIT were seven members of the Class of 2021 who earned the Outstanding Undergraduate Award. We caught up with four of them, who reflected on their unique experiences and accomplishments over the past four years and...

NJIT Graduates 3,000 Who Excelled Despite COVID-19 Pandemic

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology formally graduated more than 3,000 students today, in a hybrid in-person and virtual ceremony due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Kimberly Bryant, founder and CEO of Black Girls Code, delivered this year’s commencement address. Black Girls Code is a non-profit...

Two Enterprising Undergraduate Researchers Win Goldwater Scholarships

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
Two biology students involved in high-level research on novel therapies for COVID-19 and other diseases were named 2021 Goldwater scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized as the country’s most prestigious for STEM und...

Senior Success: NJIT's Jaime Felice Is Poised to Become a U.S. Air Force Pilot

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
After four years at NJIT, career prospects for Jaime Felice ’21 are about to take off, and the sky is the limit — literally. Felice has definitely taken a path less traveled at NJIT, joining four other cadets this year in the graduating class of NJIT’s decorated Air Force Reserve Off...

CSLA Awards '21: NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts Unites for Night of Celebration

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
With the spring semester nearly in the rearview, standout students, faculty, staff and alumni of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) gathered virtually for a night of due recognition and positive reflection at the college’s annual year-end celebration, the 2021 CSLA Awards. At th...

Student Volunteers Put a Smile on a Vaccination Super Center

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Engineering professor Chang Yaramothu ’13H, ’14, ’17, Abigail Varughese ’22, Rita Vought ’21 and FEMA’s Marc K. Raoul ’09 are some of the NJIT students, past and present, contributing engineering, emergency management and healthcare skills to the massive effort. When a frail, elderly woman ref...