Graduate students Amir Goharpey and Prashanth Muralidhar have been named this year's Louis Berger Fellows at NJIT. “The 2016-2017 fellows represent an outstanding group of planners and engineers and are among the strongest group Louis Berger has welcomed so far — a fact due in no small part to the strong relationships we have cultivated with NJIT,” said Bob Nardi, Louis Berger senior vice president. >>

The Enterprise Development Center (EDC), an NJIT/NJII organization has received the Advancement of Invention & Process Award from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. The New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (NJIHoF) honors inventors, organizations, and others who have contributed to innovation in the Invention State. >>

Haisu Zhang, assistant professor of marketing and entrepreneurship in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, presented two research projects and received the Best Reviewer Award at the Annual PDMA Global Conference on Product Innovation Management. >>

Richard Sher, distinguished professor of history in the Federated History Department of NJIT and Rutgers University-Newark, has been appointed a Senior Warnock Fellow at Yale University for the 2016-17 academic year, while on sabbatical leave. >>

Oligarchy, Dissent and the Culture of Print in Georgian Britain by Professor Karl Schweizer, Department of History, has been awarded the Adelle Mellen Prize for distinguished scholarship. >>

NJIT's Enterprise Development Center will hold an investor forum to further the growth and advancement of tech and life science ventures on October 21, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. >>

New Jersey Institute of Technology's Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold a seminar for small-business owners outlining how to do business with the Corps. The event will be held Oct. 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Burlington County Library, 5 Pioneer Boulevard in Westhampton, N.J. >>

Small businesses interested in doing business or enhancing current business relationships with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Lakehurst, N.J., are encouraged to attend the Second Annual Small Business Industry Day, jointly sponsored by the Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Lakehurst Small Business Roundtable. The free event will be held Oct. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Ocean County Library, 101 Washington Street in Toms River, N.J. >>

New Jersey Institute of Technology's (NJIT) Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) will host two training events as part of a series focusing on the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS). FAR and DFARS are the rules for engaging in government contracting and subcontracting. Both events are free and will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Enterprise Development Center at NJIT, located at 211 Warren Street in Newark, N.J. >>

Street flooding caused by storms is much more than an inconvenience of urban life — it disrupts economic activity and hinders vital services provided by first responders. By stressing the capacity of sewers and water-treatment plants, flooding can also increase microbial threats to health. >>

The NJIT men's tennis team placed third at the Army Invitational after topping St. Bonaventure, 6-1, on Sunday to conclude the Invitational held at Lichtenberg Tennis Center and Malek Courts. >>

With a 6-1 win over Fairfield, the NJIT men's tennis team went 2-0 on day two of the Army Invitational held at Lichtenberg Tennis Center and Malek Courts. >>

NJIT junior Natalija Tasovac captured the Flight D Consolation title on day two of the 8th Annual Bill and Sandra Moore Invitational hosted by Navy on Saturday. >>

Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, a professor in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, presented two papers at the 25th meeting of PICMET '16 held in Honolulu, Hawaii. >>

A TEDxNJIT event will take place on September 28, 2016  in the Jim Wise Theatre on the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) campus and also via an accompanying live simulcast broadcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed "Innovation and Collaboration," and will feature leaders from business, academia and the arts, including Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, addressing a range of topics. >>

Team members from NJIT's Department of  BioMedical Engineering and the Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine (CIBM3) pictured at their exhibitor booth at the National Neurotrauma Society (NNS) Symposium in June. >>

NJIT men's tennis signed Aleksa Petrovic, an international student-athlete from Serbia, who will enroll and continue his academic and completive tennis career beginning in the Fall of 2016, head coach Ira Miller announced. >>

NJIT women's tennis coach Ira Miller announced the signing of Natacha Minc, a transfer from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, who will enroll and continue her academic and competitive tennis career in the Fall 2016 at NJIT. >>

Cesar Bandera, assistant professor of entrepreneurship in the Martin Tuchman School of Management at NJIT has been named South American Director of the Academy of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) for 2017. An intensive week-long boot camp for international university entrepreneurship students, the Academy, now in its second year, is held in conjunction with the World Conference of the ICSB, which students also attend. >>

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) selected 10 NJIT tennis players, seven men and three women, as ITA Scholar Athletes and both teams earned ITA Team Academic honors for the 2015-16 season, Dan Johnson of the ITA announced. >>

New Jersey Institute of Technology's (NJIT) Board of Trustees approved a 2 percent tuition and fee increase for in-state undergraduate students, adding $322 to tuition during the 2016-2017 school year as of July 21, 2016. >>

Since 2004, NJIT has celebrated student leaders with the Highlander Student Achievement Awards. The annual event recognizes student leaders and organizations for their talent and work to enhance the NJIT student experience. >>

NJIT is included in the 2017 revised and updated edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges, a selective, subjective and systematic look at over 300 of the best and most interesting colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and Britain. >>

Yi Chen, Henry J. Leir Chair in Healthcare and an associate professor in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, was invited to give a talk at Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland on June 22 about her research on mining health forums for Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) discovery.  >>

Twenty-two NJIT students have won first place in a student journalism contest on the environment. A cash prize was awarded for the winning entries, which were included in a collaborative investigative reporting project on the local effects of New Jersey's toxic environmental legacy and published on brickcitylive.com, a Newark website. Twenty-two NJIT students have won first place in a student journalism contest on the environment. >>

Michel Boufadel, Ph.D., is professor of civil engineering and director of director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection. He was a member of the National Science Foundation's Rapid Response Team of researchers studying the effects of Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Raritan Bay. >>

Durga Misra, a professor in NJIT's Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was invited to present his research on “Higher-k Gate Dielectrics for sub-14nm CMOS Technology: Processing and Reliability” at several universities and research labs including Nanoelectronics Materials Laboratory (NamLab) of Technical University of Dresden; The Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg; Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS-CHIPS); and at Furtwangen University (HFU) in Germany. >>

Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, a professor in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, and Melodi Guilbault, a senior university lecturer in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, presented “The Role of Alliance Diversity, Organizational and Human Capital in Building Alliance Capability–A Multi-Country Study of Small Biotechnology Companies" on June 3, 2016 at the 2016 EURAM conference in Paris. >>

NJIT's Edgardo Farinas, associate professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, is the recipient of a Salute to Excellence Award from the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society for his leadership in helping to make the New Jersey Chemistry Olympics a success for all participants. >>

NJIT senior Markus Schultz finished the 2015-16 season ranked 10th in the NCAA Division I Men's Northeast Region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), the ITA announced on June 8. >>

Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, a professor in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, was invited to Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain, to present her research on “Environmental Jolts and Strategic Alliances in the Aftermath of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.” >>

Sean Morrison, a veteran of more than two decades as an administrator in development, marketing, alumni affairs, and sports media relations, has joined NJIT as Director of Development for Athletics. >>

NJIT's #1 men's tennis player, senior Markus Schultz, was the ninth-best Swedish men's player in all of college tennis, according to the Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) system, the system's website declared over the weekend in an article entitled "Elite of College Tennis: The Swedes"; "The 10 Hottest Swedish Men and Women on Campuses Now". >>

NJIT graduate students Smruti Ragunath and Megha Thakkar won second and third place at the 101st Annual New Jersey Water Environment Association (NJWEA) Student Poster Competition, where students from New Jersey universities presented their research related to water. >>

The potential of mathematics to expand basic knowledge and meet real-world challenges will once again be the focus of plenary lectures, minisymposia and poster presentations when the Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM) conference convenes for 2016 on the NJIT campus June 3-4. >>

Every year, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education publishes lists of the Top 100 producers of associate, bachelor and graduate degrees awarded to minority students. The May edition of the publication focuses on Asian-American graduates in business administration, management and operations; education; engineering; and the social sciences. >>

In a joint collaboration for securing critical infrastructure, Israel and New Jersey will be holding a New Jersey-Israel Home Land Security Tech Summit on May 18 at NJIT in Newark, New Jersey. >>

Joseph T. Roman '99, president of Accelerant Sales Group, an adjunct professor in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management and a member of NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management Board of Visitors, published an article in the May 2016 issue of Tech News magazine. >>

It's the highest honor bestowed by a venerable engineering society, and one of NJIT's own is a recent recipient. Patrick Natale, P.E., '70, '75, an alumnus of NJIT's Newark College of Engineering (NCE) and today a member of NCE's Board of Visitors, has been named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). >>

Gov. Chris Christie toured NJIT's Central King Building, a former high school that -- thanks to state funding -- has been turned into a state-of-the-art science center where professors and students strive to answer some of life's most perplexing questions.  >>

NJIT President Joel S. Bloom today hosts New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as he tours Central King Building (CKB), speaks with students and faculty and makes a news announcement. >>

T. Homer Bonitsis, associate professor of finance at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, provided commentary to the international press prior to the recent Doha meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers on April 17, 2016. >>

Judith A. Sheft, associate vice president for Technology Development, and Raul Mercado, director of the Procurement Technical Assistance Center, both of NJIT, will make presentations for the first annual “Inside the Circl of Power Speaker Series,” to be broadcast during National Small Business Week, May 1–May 7, via live webcast available free to viewers nationwide.  >>

Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, a professor in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, has been named editor-in-chief of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research. >>

Two of New Jersey Institute of Technology's strongest supporters for manufacturing will be featured speakers at the NERETA Talent Pipeline Strategic Alignment Summit in Clinton, N.J. on April 27-29. The summit aims to help local professionals in higher education and both economic and workforce development to enhance workforce capabilities, increase manufacturing employment opportunities and create a collaborative environment for manufacturing employers. >>

Robert Brown, marketing specialist for NJIT's Procurement Technical Assistance Center, will join a panel of experts April 19 during the African American Chamber of Commerce (AACCNJ) "State of Black New Jersey" conference in Jersey City. >>

The NJIT women's tennis team notched its first Atlantic Sun Conference victory in program history, sweeping visiting USC Upstate 7-0 Saturday afternoon at The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. >>

Five students from NJIT spent their spring break not sunning themselves on a beach, but teaching technology in the mountains of South America. >>

The New Jersey Black Mayors Alliance for Social Justice (NJ-BMASJ), along with top-ranking school officials and administrators, met on April 7 at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to establish a statewide partnership and dialogue between their municipalities and schools to prepare students for education and work in the digital environment of the 21st century. >>

NJIT's Strategic Communications team has received gold, silver, bronze and merit winner status in the 2015 Collegiate Advertising Awards and the 31st Annual Educational Advertising Awards. The awards were for content and design in various media, including newspapers, brochures, radio and video. The award-winning projects were created in collaboration with CN Foundry, the branding arm of CN Communications International. >>

NJIT Humanities Professor Christopher Funkhouser will perform in "Open Plan: Cecil Taylor," an experimental five-part exhibition April 15-24, 2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. >>

The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold a one-day conference, “Women Designing the Future: Digital Realities, Today and Tomorrow,” on Friday, April 1, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the university's Campus Center Ballroom A. >>

The university will once again host the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp, a two-week, all-expenses-paid camp for bright students entering sixth, seventh or eighth grades in the fall of 2016. The camp promotes science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and supports historically underserved and underrepresented students. >>

Dan Reasoner of Chemical Abstracts Service and Bruce Slutsky of NJIT's Robert Van Houten Library will be in the lobby of Tiernan Hall Wednesday, March 23, from 1:00 - 4 p.m. to demonstrate SciFinder , a research discovery application that provides unlimited access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. >>

C. William “Bill” Kingsland, Assistant Commissioner of Transportation Systems Management in the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), will speak on Wednesday, March 23, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm in Lecture Hall 303 of the Central King Building on “Careers in Transportation Systems Management and Operations.” >>

On March 1, Martin Tuchman School of Management hosted the Shipping, Trade, & Transport Group from the University of Piraeus, Greece, at a symposium that covered maritime business issues. >>

NJIT men's tennis won their fifth straight match, 7-0 against Drexel on Sunday at the Naimoli Tennis Center. >>

The National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service, a program seeking proposals that address cybersecurity education and workforce development, recently awarded a $4,078,362 grant to NJIT's College of Computing Sciences. >>

T. Homer Bonitsis, associate professor of finance in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, provided commentary on the first-ever annual trade surplus with OPEC recorded by the U.S. in an article published on Feb. 8, 2016, in EnergyWire.   >>

Grounded in theory, D. Yvette Wohn, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the information systems department at NJIT's College of Computing Sciences, explores the relationship between humans and technology using fundamental research tactics. >>

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) President Joel S. Bloom announced the appointment of Edward J. Bishof, Sr. of Freehold, as NJIT's senior vice president for finance and chief financial officer (CFO) following a national search. >>

The NJIT women's tennis team picked up its first victory of the 2016 season with a 5-2 decision over LIU Brooklyn Sunday at The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. >>

The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation that applies the intellectual and technological resources of the state's science and technology university to challenges identified by industry partners, has announced that Hackensack University Medical Center (HackensackUMC) has become the first healthcare charter member of NJII and a partner in its Healthcare Delivery Systems Innovation Lab (iLab). HackensackUMC will also have a seat on the iLab's advisory board. >>

The NJIT men's tennis team concluded the two-day NJIT Winter Invitational with a 22-4 mark Sunday at The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. >>

Jun Liu, assistant professor of information systems in the College of Business & Information System at Dakota State University will give a talk on the semi-supervised article selection for medical systematic reviews Feb. 3. >>

Acclaimed architectural historian and NJIT Distinguished Professor Zeynep Çelik has been awarded the George Sarton Medal by the School of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University. >>

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