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Airport City Newark Coalition Awarded Fourth Round of Funding

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Led by the members of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, the Airport City Newark (ACN) coalition recently received a fourth round of funding from the Prudential Foundation to further investigate the feasibility of their Aerotropolis concept, a transit-oriented development in the vicinit...

NJIT Is No. 1 in New Jersey to Study Game Design, Top 20 in the East

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East. Housed within the Hiller College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game develo...

Making Change: Women Designing an Environmentally Just Future

Monday, March 21st, 2022
Libby Washburn, Special Assistant to the President for Native Affairs at the White House, will be the keynote speaker at the conference, Women Designing an Environmentally Just Future, to be held on the NJIT campus and virtually on March 25. The conference will focus on the communities hit first and...

Ali Emadi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - March 2022

Monday, March 21st, 2022
Ali Emadi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He works under the supervision of Professor Ali Abdi.  His research focuses on systems biology and is cross disciplinary at the in...

Vurpillat's Gem Leads NJIT to Shutout Victory vs. Hartford

Saturday, March 19th, 2022
Grant Vurpillat tossed eight shutout innings on Saturday to lead the NJIT baseball team to a 5-0 victory over visiting Hartford in America East Conference action at Jim Hynes Stadium. Vurpillat struck out eight and retired 16 straight Hartford hitters following a bunt single to lead off the ga...

Meissner Registers Career-Best 31 Kills to Lead No. 15 NJIT in Five Set Thriller Against Charleston

Saturday, March 19th, 2022
Junior Julian Meissner registered a career-best 31 kills to lead No. 15 NJIT in a 3-2 five set thriller over Charleston Saturday afternoon in EIVA Conference men's volleyball action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. NJIT, which is ranked No. 15 in the latest AVCA Coaches Top 15 po...

Build Back Better Regional Challenge Phase 2 Update

Friday, March 18th, 2022
Dear NJIT Community, On Tuesday evening, March 15, 2022 at 7:39 pm, our colleague from the City of Newark, Jolanda Williams, hit the "send" button to submit the Phase 2 Greater Newark Smart Port Regional Growth Cluster proposal in response to the United States Economic Development Authority's (USED...

IST Help Desk Moving to Van Houten Library, Forensics Lab Gets Former Spot

Thursday, March 17th, 2022
NJIT's Information Services and Technology help desk is relocating to Van Houten Library, which should give users a more constructive experience. The move is happening in the next few weeks, mutually motivated by IST's desire for a prominent, more modern facility and the library's role as a 21st-ce...

NJIT's Second Elementary STEM Challenge Conquered by 30 Local Schools

Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Wise Wolves, a team of fifth-graders from Morristown's Unity Charter School, won this year's Elementary STEM Challenge at an awards ceremony in the Campus Center ballroom on Monday. The event provides scientific and technical opportunities to students including girls, minorities, and underserved co...

With a Beam and Crane, NJIT Marks Milestone in Dorm Construction

Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
A gleaming white concrete beam was signed by well-wishers and lifted by crane to the roof of a new residence hall going up at New Jersey Institute of Technology to mark a milestone in a project that began with administrative conversations three years ago and will end this fall with the opening of Ma...