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Transforming Newark One Classroom, One Conversation, One Carrot at a Time

Sunday, September 9th, 2018
As towering cranes and forklifts shuttled brightly colored containers from ships to trucks in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal last week, Cameron Bennett ’22 was also busy inside the port loading human-scale cargo to go back out to sea. Bennett, one of the 1065 freshmen to disperse across...

NJIT Offers New Jersey's First Undergraduate Program in Forensic Science

Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
Recently, NJIT announced that this fall it will begin offering New Jersey’s first Bachelor of Science program in forensic science. This first-of-its-kind degree program will fulfill a critically important and unmet need for New Jersey’s students and its forensic science community. The 120-credit de...

NJIT Student-Filmmakers Take to the Screen at 2018 Newark Int'l Film Festival

Friday, August 31st, 2018
This week, from September 6-9, the city of Newark will play stage to one of the premier film festivals in the country — the Newark International Film Festival (NIFF). And this year, NJIT student-filmmakers will be part of the show.  For the first time, films created by NJIT stude...

Take Center Stage: NJIT Offers a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Technology

Wednesday, August 29th, 2018

Undergraduate Research Snapshot: Karina Dsouza and Mary McGuinness Examine Vibrational Energy

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
KARINA DSOUZA ’20 MAJOR: Biomedical Engineering HOMETOWN: New Milford, N.J.   MARY McGUINNESS ’20 MAJOR: Chemistry HOMETOWN: Spring Lake, N.J. MARY: “The Keck Center for Topological Dynamics [at NJIT] focuses on understanding the way vibrational energy propagates through different mat...

Research Lives! Undergraduates Take on Neurotoxins, Cave Disasters and Other Challenges

Monday, August 13th, 2018
A robotic fleet built to penetrate dark and narrow cave passages, cellular studies into alcohol’s role in hastening neurodegeneration in people with HIV, plants that absorb pernicious pollutants from the air and new methods for eliminating noise from data searches are a few of the research projects ...

NJ Digital Education Soars Under Future Ready Schools - New Jersey Initiative

Thursday, August 9th, 2018
Future Ready Schools - New Jersey (FRS-NJ)—New Jersey’s leading initiative to promote digital learning throughout its elementary and secondary public schools — has recently announced that the number of schools participating in the program has tripled statewide in 2018. The new figures indicate that...

NJIT's 11th International Undergraduate Research Symposium

Friday, July 27th, 2018
  Plants that absorb pernicious pollutants from the air itself? Ujjwala Rai ’19, a chemical engineering major, has spent the summer studying bacteria found in the root systems of plants that can remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs), industrial compounds emitted by ubiquitous products such ...

60+ Educators, 24 Campers and 1 Astronaut: A Special NJIT Pre-College Day

Friday, July 27th, 2018
July 19 was an especially busy day for NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP). Not only was CPCP overseeing its various summer offerings taking place across campus, it was also welcoming educators in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to a special forum that intertwined a...

NJIT-Led Research Team Records Blazing-Fast Changes of Metal Nanofilms

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Traditionally, many engineers and developers of solar cell technology have turned to crystalline silicon — a tried and tested material absorber capable of efficiently converting solar radiation to electricity at just four times the thickness of a strand of hair. At up to a 100th the thick...