NJIT Adopts Test-Optional Admission Policy for Incoming Freshman Students

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
First-year students applying to New Jersey Institute of Technology for entry in the Fall of 2021 and Spring of 2022 can choose to not submit SAT or ACT scores. This does not apply to Albert Dorman Honors College or accelerated program applicants. “NJIT is committed to the highest standards in educat...

NJIT Appoints Kamalika Sandell as Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
Kamalika Sandell has been appointed as NJIT’s vice provost and chief information officer, effective July 27, Provost Fadi Deek announced in an email to the campus community. Sandell, previously deputy CIO at American University, replaces interim CIO Gregg Chottiner. “Kamalika will be the principal a...

Senior Success: Awardees Shine at NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts

Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Each spring around Commencement, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts holds its very own celebration, awarding its standout student and faculty stars from across the college’s diverse academic spectrum of art, history and humanities to physics, biology and chemistry. Among CSLA’s award wi...

Free College Persistence Mentoring Available to NJIT Students

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
Through the university’s partnership with Strive for College, an online college mentoring platform, NJIT students are invited to participate in a free pilot program over the next year aimed at helping them complete their courses, earn a degree and prepare for living-wage careers after college. Striv...

Senior Success: Biology Major Chloe Jelley is an Entomologist-in-the-Making

Thursday, May 21st, 2020
As a kid growing up in Omaha, Neb., Chloe Jelley ’20 had a major aversion to insects that many can relate with. “I was one of the more careful kids and I was not into bugs at all when I was young … actually, I was really afraid of all bugs,” recalled Jelley. That didn’t really change much by th...

NJIT Senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz Lands Merck R&D Internship to Work on Vaccines

Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Biochemistry senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz hasn’t wasted much time during her past three years at NJIT. Outside of class, she’s spent most of her free hours inside the university’s labs researching an aspect of time itself — our circadian clock, or the internal biological clock that helps takes us thr...

Senior Success: Sravya Vegunta Is Going to Medical School

Thursday, May 14th, 2020
“It’s a little bittersweet to have to leave without being able to say proper goodbyes to everyone,” lamented Sravya Vegunta, a senior Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) scholar, about graduating from NJIT during the coronavirus pandemic. “But I’m definitely glad to be moving on to that next stage, ...

Senior Success: Darius Singletary Answers Call of Duty at NJIT

Monday, May 11th, 2020
It isn't an easy balance between working and going to school — especially for students determined to excel in the challenging studies they take on at NJIT.   But even considering the double-life that many students endure to help pay their way while earning their coveted degree, Darius Sing...

Mental Health, COVID-19 & Our Tech: Q&A with NJIT Cyberpsychology Director Julie Ancis

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
The current pandemic has deeply influenced our social behavior in many ways, among the most obvious being that while physical interaction is way down, screen time is way up — some early estimates since March showed total web hits jumping up to 70%, and streaming content by at least 30% worldwide.&nb...

NJ Public Universities Join to Launch Initiative to 'Bring Students Home'

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Ten public universities and colleges in New Jersey have joined forces and issued a call for the over 100,000 state residents who attend higher education institutions out-of-state to return home, enroll in New Jersey institutions, and help rebuild the state as part the New Jersey Scholar Corps p...