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The Class of 2020: Resilient and Adaptive Leaders

Thursday, June 25th, 2020
Resilience is often recognized as the ability to adapt and thrive despite difficult circumstances. The Class of 2020 has reached a major milestone in their lives and future careers, graduating in the midst of a pandemic, after having to adapt quickly to difficult circumstances and in many cases prod...

Littman Library Ramps Up Digital Research and Exhibits Among COVID Pandemic

Wednesday, June 24th, 2020
Students needing access to the Barbara & Leonard Littman Architecture, Art and Design Library while studying from off campus now have a variety of digital options available. Due to the impact of COVID-19, "In a very short time, we had to learn new tools and platforms, shift priorities, redevelo...

Allocating Limited Resources for Megaprojects on Deadline

Wednesday, June 24th, 2020
For much of her career, Oya Tukel, dean of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management and a professor of supply chain management, has researched problems in resource-constrained project scheduling that can cause significant delays, particularly for large, complex projects that require thousands of a...

NJIT Lecturer Helps Digitize Government Services in Zambia

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Zambia, a country in south-central Africa, is rich in natural resources but significantly lacking in technological and educational resources. This has made it difficult for the country to boost economic development, alleviate poverty and improve quality of life. Enter Keith Williams, NJIT universit...

Interior Design Student Nada Boules Zag Hotel Design Wins 2020 Green Voices Award

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Nada Boules is a rising senior in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design Interior Design Program and the winner of the 2020 Network of Executive Women in Hospitality (NEWH) Green Voice Design Competition. This competition “provides students with the opportunity to showcase their design skill...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 6/22/20-6/26/20

Monday, June 22nd, 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 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, i...

NJIT Mourns the Loss of Alumnus John J. Mooney, a Giant in the Fight Against Air Pollution

Friday, June 19th, 2020
The New Jersey Institute of Technology community notes with great sadness the passing of John J. Mooney MS ’60, an inspired engineer, renowned inventor and beloved alumnus of Newark College of Engineering who is best known for developing a catalytic converter for vehicles that filters three toxic ch...

A Message from the President: Supreme Court's DACA Decision

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
NJIT Students, Faculty and Staff, Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that, at least for the time being, preserves the residency status of those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program is available to any undocumented immigrant who came to t...

Honors Student Is the First at NJIT to Receive Prestigious Fellowship

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
Donald “Will” Andrews, NJIT’s first-ever recipient of the Humanity in Action Fellowship, attributes his selection for the distinguished summertime program to his choice of study at the university: industrial engineering. “There probably weren’t that many engineers that applied … so that made my app...

Online Shopping Study Can Help Explain the Internet's Social Connections

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
Studying the evolution and function of online shopping communities could teach computer science researchers about online community-making in general, experts at NJIT said in a series of recent papers.  The papers cover the methods and motivations of how shoppers interact with each other online...