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The Grades Are In: Two Engineering Professors Earn an A+ for Teaching

Thursday, January 19th, 2017
There are top-notch teachers who expertly transmit what they know in class. But more influential still are the mentors who immerse their students so thoroughly in their subject matter they feel like they’ve lived it. Those experiences can be life-changing. Ronald Rockland, chairman of NJIT’s Departm...

NJIT Engineers Win an Edison Patent Award for Technology that Masks the Taste of Bitter Drugs

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Rajesh Davé, distinguished professor of chemical, biological and pharmaceutical engineering, and two of his former graduate students, Maxx Capece and Daniel To, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for developing a manufacturing process...

The Art of War: Engineering Protective Gear for 21st Century Soldiers

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Battle-inflicted head injuries are as old as war itself, evidenced by the copper helmets worn by Bronze Age soldiers to deflect blows from spears and axes. Over the ensuing millennia, as weapons evolved, so did armor. Today, the powerful explosive devices of 21st century warfare have once again rais...

NJIT Grad Talks Digital Design

Monday, January 16th, 2017
Pixar has been entertaining millions for over two decades with brilliant work like “Toy Story,” “The Incredibles” and “Up.” The American film animation studio also continues to inspire budding animation artists, like 2016 graduate Mark Sanna, to create their own art and stories.

Influential Scholar

Friday, January 13th, 2017
A Starr is Born It’s said that the most revolutionary ideas are often the result of spontaneous creativity. For Starr Roxanne Hiltz (Distinguished Professor Emerita of information systems at NJIT), a most-defining moment of genius struck in 1977 while spending a year as a National Science Foundati...

Course Spotlight: Behind the Scenes of the Incredible CoAD Superhero Studio

Friday, January 13th, 2017
During the 2015 fall semester, there was a collective of interior, digital and industrial designers and architects holed up in the Idea Factory on the lower level of Cypress Hall creating the legends of tomorrow. The widely-acclaimed Superhero Studio is a collaborative design workshop headed by Assi...

Distinguished Gentleman

Thursday, January 12th, 2017
For over a century, NJIT has produced ambitious leaders. Highlanders are encouraged to be boundary-pushing citizens with a strong sense of global awareness, ushered into the professional world to make a name for themselves. But for distinguished alumnus Ying Wu, the path to success led right back to...

From Industrial Engineer to Career Coach: Carla G. Jones '94

Thursday, January 12th, 2017
<p>Carla Jones ’94 did not always envision herself in the career-coaching profession per se, but as an NJIT student she was continually involved in activities where she was helping someone or improving something. And looking back on her decision to study industrial engineering, she even chose ...

Delving Deeper into the Circadian Rhythms of Life

Thursday, January 12th, 2017
The circadian rhythms that harmonize our behavior with the daily cycle of light and dark, and with seasonal change, are among the most powerful physiological forces that we experience each day — forces that are experienced not only by other mammals, but also by many other living organisms. The circ...

Is the Cooperative Economy Next in a Post-Consumer World?

Thursday, January 12th, 2017
For a significant part of the 20th century, the Manufacturing Economy generated unprecedented material prosperity in the United States. Then, as well-paying factory jobs migrated to corners of the world where labor is much less expensive, it was the Information Economy or the Service Economy that pr...