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NJIT Names State Deputy Treasurer as University Sr. VP and CFO

Thursday, August 26th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has named Catherine Z. Brennan as the university’s Senior Vice President (SVP)/Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She will begin her NJIT tenure on September 20, 2021. As NJIT’s SVP and CFO, Brennan will maintain responsibility for the university’s financial ma...

NJIT Joins NSF Research Hub With Princeton, Rutgers, Delaware

Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology today joined other area universities as part of a new regional research hub, funded by a $15 million National Science Foundation grant and led by Princeton University, to help faculty and students convert federally sponsored research into successful businesses. St...

NSF Continues Funding NJIT's Future Defenders of Government Computing

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
NJIT this month won its second grant from the National Science Foundation's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, in which students studying toward master's degrees receive up to three years of free tuition and generous stipends, in exchange for working at government cybersecurity jobs af...

NJIT Alumna and Trustee Norma B. Clayton Appointed to Nucor Board of Directors

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer in the United States, has announced that Norma Clayton ’81 has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Clayton, co-vice chair of NJIT’s Board of Trustees, brings decades of experience to the international steel manufacturer and will begin her tenure o...

NJIT is an International 'Best Maker School' in Inaugural List by Make: and Newsweek

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is in rarified air as it has been recognized as one of 200 colleges and universities named a Best Maker School in Higher Education by Make: magazine and Newsweek. Across the university, NJIT houses facilities that encourage engineers, architects, designers, and sc...

Marco Matteucci Tabbed as NJIT Men's Tennis Head Coach

Monday, August 23rd, 2021
Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan has announced the hiring of Marco Matteucci as NJIT's next Head Coach for men's tennis. Matteucci replaces former Head Coach Ira Miller, who recently stepped down following seven seasons in charge of the Highlanders' program....

US DOE Funds NJIT/BASF 'Opportunistic Retrofitting' Sustainability Project

Monday, August 23rd, 2021
A partnership between NJIT’s Center for Building Knowledge and BASF’s Center for Building Excellence to develop sustainable home retrofit materials continues to bear fruit. Their project, “Renew-Wall,” is one of 44 across 20 states that will share an $82.6 million round of funding from the U.S. Depa...

Alumna Afrida Kabir to Study Advanced Energy Solutions at Aalto University

Monday, August 23rd, 2021
Society consumes too much energy. Industry takes an especially large slice of the energy pie, and Afrida Kabir, a process engineer and 2016 NJIT chemical engineering graduate, is heading to Finland to study technologies that would curb industry’s energy appetite. Kabir recently joined the Advanced ...

A New Brand of Ethics: NJIT's New Center Trains Tomorrow's Responsible Researchers

Friday, August 20th, 2021
Amid the many new lab facilities that have recently risen across NJIT’s campus, Associate Professor of Philosophy Britt Holbrook is laying the groundwork for an initiative he contends will be just as vital in driving impactful research and innovation at the university and beyond for years to come — ...

Highlander Chess Club at NJIT: Competitive, Challenging and Victorious

Thursday, August 19th, 2021
Players on the Highlander Chess Club at NJIT offer different reasons for the game’s appeal — its competitiveness, the mental challenge, the feeling of control — but are united on the ultimate reason: the thrill of victory. “It feels good when you deliver a checkmate,” explained Lucas Scalora ’22, t...