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NJIT Registers First America East Win, Stoll and Squier Lead All Scorers with 19 Points

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
NJIT captured its first America East Conference victory Saturday afternoon led by senior Ellyn Stoll and sophomore Kenna Squier's game-high 19 points en route to a 78-57 victory over New Hampshire at Lundholm Gymnasium in the conference opener for both teams. The win for NJIT is...

Hillier Design Professor Wins Awards for Augmented Reality Prototype

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Hannah Kum-Biocca, an assistant professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won two awards for an augmented reality project that she submitted to the EuroXR 2020 conference in Valencia, Spain. In her project, visitors to physical museums can wear a Microsoft Hololens headset to ...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 12/7/20-12/11/20

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Free Android Dev Course Will be Taught by NJIT Students in Spring 2021

Monday, December 7th, 2020
This spring semester, NJIT students will have the chance to participate in a free Android mobile app development course backed by major tech companies including Amazon, Cognizant, Facebook, and Microsoft, along with retail giant Walmart. The course is run by CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization t...

New NJIT Course Puts Students in Charge of Planning a Business

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Students in a new NJIT course that delivers the experience of planning a business on campus appreciate the latitude that instructors give them to make decisions. “They guide you and respond to specific questions, but they won’t tell you exactly what to do and how,” said Marina Arrese ’21, a bu...

Change to Winter Break Schedule and Early Closing

Friday, December 4th, 2020
NJIT Faculty and Staff, As part of our efforts to thank and support our NJIT colleagues, the university is adding an additional paid holiday to the winter break. This additional day is in recognition and appreciation of our faculty and staff, who have made extraordinary efforts to advance our ...

NJIT President Speaks on Innovation Goals and Receives Business Award

Friday, December 4th, 2020
NJIT President Joel S. Bloom joined a panel discussion about statewide innovation, and received an award for public service, at the New Jersey Business and Industry Association's virtual Public Policy Forum on December 1. The panel, "The Modern Innovation State: Challenges and Solutions for Driving...

NJIT Athletics to Offer Fan Cutouts for Wellness and Events Center

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
The NJIT Department of Athletics is pleased to offer a fan cut out program for the 2020-21 athletic season. All proceeds from this program will go to benefit the newly created Highlander Student-Athlete Health and Wellness Fund. "This is an unprecedented time in college athletics and now more than ...

Engineer Nick DeNichilo Creates Resilient Infrastructure for a Volatile Century

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Nicholas DeNichilo ’73, M.S. ’78 marveled as a child at the construction equipment that brought buildings, bridges and highways to life before his eyes. Decades later, he still feels that magic. Comments such as “green energy is so exciting” regularly punctuate conversations about his daily work. A...

NJIT Solar Physicists Take Spotlight at NASA's Int'l Supercomputing Conference

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
NJIT heliophysicists who have developed new ways to forecast explosive events from the interior of the Sun recently captured the attention of international space and computer science communities with their exhibit featured at NASA’s Virtual SC20 Supercomputing Conference. NJIT Ph.D. student-researc...