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Men's Swimming and Diving Honored by CSCAA as Scholar All-America Team

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
The NJIT men's swimming and diving program was once again honored by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) as one of the 426 overall institutions and 110 Division I men's programs to earn Scholar All-America team honors for the spring semester. The Highlanders put...

NJIT Men's and Women's Tennis Join Southland Conference

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology has accepted an invitation from the Southland Conference and will join the NCAA Division I league as an associate member in the sports of men's and women's tennis, effective for the 2021-22 academic year. "We are very happy to welcome NJIT tennis to the Southland,...

1st and 3rd Place IIDA Awards to Second Year Interior Design Students

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
Interior design students Shela Picon placed 1st for Night Owl Cafe and Constance Chu for the Sprout: Wellness Center, work they completed in their second year interior design studio with Prof. Goldman. This is the first time the School of Art + Design has had a first place winner from the second yea...

Rethinking Building Design for Environmental Autonomy

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
Advances in building science to lower the carbon impact of the built environment continue to be made in architecture and construction; the use of smart and sustainable materials, renewable energy and efficient mechanical systems are consistently improving building performance and reducing the carbon...

NJIT Launches New Career-Prep Bootcamps in UI/UX Design, Full-Stack Development and Data Science

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is extending its partnership with HackerU to launch three additional career-prep bootcamps in UI/UX Design, Full-Stack Development, and Data Science and Analytics. These accelerated, non-credit training programs are designed to meet the needs of working prof...

Three NJIT Engineering Teams Showcase Their Research at the EPA's National Student Design Expo

Monday, June 21st, 2021
Three teams of student engineers are showcasing their applied research this week at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Student Design Expo, as they vie for a second round of funding from the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet program, which aims to spur new systems and technolo...

Taher Updates National Council for Architectural Registration Boards Curricula

Monday, June 21st, 2021
News post submitted by Dr. Rima Taher.  Dr. Rima Taher is a senior university lecturer at the Hillier College of Architecture & Design, at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and is a part-time instructor in the graduate program at the NJIT-Department of Civil & Environmental En...

Juneteenth Established as a Federal Holiday

Friday, June 18th, 2021
NJIT Community Members, Yesterday, President Biden signed legislation establishing June 19th as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is celebrated on this day because it was June 19, 1865, when Union Majo...

NJIT@JerseyCity Adds Two M.S. Degrees for Business Information Systems

Friday, June 18th, 2021
Ying Wu College of Computing at its NJIT @JerseyCity location will offer new master's degrees in information systems and business information systems this fall, to meet demand from local technology professionals for graduate-level education. The new degrees will bring the number of master’s program...

Vector Writer Levels Up With Prestigious Award for Video Game Review

Thursday, June 17th, 2021
Sabastian Fernandes, a writer for NJIT's Vector student newspaper, is the winner of a prestigious Society of Professional Journalists award for his Oct. 10, 2020 review of video games as a means of maintaining human bonds during the COVID pandemic. Fernandes won the organization's Mark of Exce...