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New Heights, New Goals for NJ's "Future Ready" Schools at Workshop 2018

Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Last month, New Jersey educators and stakeholders met at the Atlantic City Convention Center for New Jersey School Boards Association’s “Workshop 2018” — the state’s largest annual professional development conference for school leaders. The conference staged a record turnout of “Future Ready” certif...

NJIT Among Nation's Top-Ranked Colleges for Biology in 2019

Monday, November 5th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been ranked among the best colleges for biology students in the U.S., according to College Factual’s recently released “2019 Best Biology Colleges” rankings. The new rankings indicate that NJIT’s degree programs in biology place in the top 15 percent of all ge...

Physicist Ken Chin Wins an Edison Patent Award for Next-Generation Solar Cell Technology

Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Physicist Ken Chin, a scientist, author and inventor, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award last night from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his work on a promising new method for advancing sustainable energy production: next-generation solar cells. Chin focuses on impr...

NJIT Pre-Law Student Sets Out to Be Crowned Miss New Jersey USA

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
What had been a typical summer this past August all changed for Alisa Scivetti ’19 after she came across a social media advertisement browsing through her Snapchat story. The open-call advertisement encouraged applications for a chance of entering a highly selective, once-in-a-lifetime competition ...

Professor of Neurobiology Awarded for Research Excellence

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

From Euthanasia to Gene Editing: A Q&A With Bioethics Expert Arthur Caplan

Thursday, October 18th, 2018
In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian controversially brought the issue of physician-assisted dying to the forefront of a conversation at the crossroads of medicine, technology, law and morality — known as bioethics.  That conversation has only become more complex today, as scientific advances continue...

Distinguished Professor of Physics Awarded for Research on Solar Flares

Friday, October 12th, 2018

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will featur...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: City Resilience

Monday, October 8th, 2018
In the face of both natural and man-made threat to city infrastructure, greater pushes have been made toward the planning and design of “resilient cities” — cities positioned to protect and enhance urban life through development of components necessary to respond to terrorism, earthquakes, coastal ...

A Neurobiologist, a Solar Physicist and a Chemical Engineer Are Awarded for Research Excellence

Friday, October 5th, 2018
Faced with a formidable list of nominees for the annual Excellence in Research Prize and Medal, the Board of Overseers opted this year for its own brand of novelty and innovation: the prize committee picked three. The sector-spanning winners, all at the forefront of their fields, included a solar ph...