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Black History Month Look Back: NJIT Celebrates Alumni

Friday, February 25th, 2022
As Black History Month comes to a close, we celebrate several NJIT alumni who have made their mark as Highlanders. Read their stories below, and submit your own! Robert Barney Newton, NJIT's first African-American student, ar...

Message from President Bloom regarding Ukraine

Thursday, February 24th, 2022
Dear NJIT Community Members, We have watched today, in sadness and horror, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. This invasion has claimed the lives of many Ukrainian citizens and raised tensions throughout Europe and around the world. Ukraine is a representative democratic republic wh...

An NJIT Tissue Engineer Joins the Ranks of National Academy of Inventors Fellows

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Treena Arinzeh, a biomedical engineer who combines bioactive materials and human cells in novel architectures to regenerate nerve and bone tissue, was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Arinzeh focuses on tissues that do not repair themselves naturally, such as nerve tissu...

Two NJIT "Rising Stars" are Named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Murat Guvendiren, a chemical and materials engineer who designs biomaterials that train stem cells to differentiate in the proper sequence to form functioning organs and tissues, and Mengyan Li, a microbiologist who develops sustainable water remediation techniques to biodegrade persistent industria...

Women's Tennis Dominates Binghamton, 7-0

Saturday, February 19th, 2022
The NJIT women's tennis team picked up its third straight victory with a dominant 7-0 shutout against Binghamton Saturday afternoon at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. The win - NJIT's first of the spring and second of the year after shutting out Southeastern Louisiana in Nove...

NJIT Slugs Past Bellarmine to Improve to 2-0

Saturday, February 19th, 2022
The NJIT baseball team used a six-run seventh inning to come from behind and defeat Bellarmine 9-3 in a neutral site contest hosted by Gardner Webb on Saturday. The rally turned a 2-1 deficit into a comfortable 7-2 lead for the Highlanders, which will now take a 2-0 record into a Sunday morning sho...

"Abstract Geometries" Exhibit Debuts in Hillier College Gallery

Friday, February 18th, 2022
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design Gallery at NJIT opened its doors to its spring exhibition featuring professional artists Gianluca Bianchino and Kati Vilim. The works consist of abstract geometric paintings and wall reliefs in the manner of assemblage or multimedia sculpture. Curated ...

NJIT Welcomes First Assistant Director of Sustainability

Friday, February 18th, 2022
NJIT is introducing a new staff member who will be crucial to the future of ecological sustainability at the school — Assistant Director of Sustainability Prabhakar Shrestha.  Dr. Shrestha, who is in his first month at NJIT, comes to New Jersey from the University of Nebraska where he has serv...

Urban Design Studio for Newark Federal Campus a Model for Agency Collaboration

Thursday, February 17th, 2022
In the fall of 2021, Professor Georgeen Theodore led her Urban Design students in a collaboration with the Newark-based federal offices of the General Services Administration. Located at 970 Broad Street, the federal building is named after U.S Representative Peter Rodino, and is home to the offices...

Jorge Medina - ECE PhD Student of the Month - February 2022

Thursday, February 17th, 2022
Jorge Medina 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). His research focus is on the optimization of networked communications systems, network programmability, and blockchain under the adv...