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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 busi...

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...

Aiming Higher, NJIT Launches Unprecedented Survey of Diversity on Campus

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
In response to the societal call for diversity, inclusion and social justice, NJIT is embarking on a groundbreaking and comprehensive survey of its entire campus community to unlock what it takes to become a model for diversity in higher education. Data from the campus climate survey will inform th...

NJIT Team Wins Award at International Entrepreneurship Competition

Monday, November 30th, 2020
A team of NJIT entrepreneurs was among those recognized by TiE Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship around the world, at the organization’s second annual TiE University Pitch Competition this fall, which included 13 teams representing TiE chapters from India, Isr...

NJIT Tops NJBIZ Reader Ranking for Third Consecutive Year

Monday, November 30th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been named a top company in NJBIZ Magazine’s annual reader ranking surveys in the “Life Sciences” and “Business Incubator” categories. The annual ranking by the business journal surveys its readership to nominate and vote for companies in over 50 different cat...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 11/30/20-12/4/20

Monday, November 30th, 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...