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NJIT Leaders Featured on NJBIZ Business Influencer List 'The Power 100'

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Joel S. Bloom, president of NJIT, and Donald H. Sebastian, president and chief innovation officer of New Jersey Innovation Institute, have again each earned a spot on The Power 100, NJBIZ’s annual ranking of the most powerful people in New Jersey business. NJBIZ praised Bloom for leading NJIT’s eff...

NJIT's David Rothenberg Offers Ocean of Possibility to Music-Makers

Monday, February 17th, 2020
From the Arctic Ocean to the shores of Hawaii, NJIT Distinguished Professor of philosophy and music David Rothenberg has long been traveling, clarinet in-hand, across the seas of the world — playing along to the tune of nature while recording the dramatic songs produced by whales from the ocean's de...

NJIT Salutes Its Students With a Week of Special Festivities

Monday, February 17th, 2020
It’s here! Feb. 17-21 marks the annual Student Appreciation Week at NJIT. Dozens of activities, giveaways and events will take place across campus as part of the 2020 celebration. Here, many of NJIT’s schools, centers, offices and programs express their appreciation for the students of NJIT. &nbsp...

Nick Hussey's 3-Run Blast Propels NJIT to Extra Inning Win

Sunday, February 16th, 2020
 Nick Hussey's three-run home run in the top of the 10th inning broke a 5-5 tie and lifted the NJIT baseball team to an 8-5 victory over Bucknell in a neutral site contest on Sunday. The victory was NJIT's second of the young season and earned the squad a split in their four-game, se...

Love Is in the Air: Matches Made at NJIT

Friday, February 14th, 2020
They all came to NJIT for their education, but wound up moving on with more than their degree. While some knew they had met “the one” during their time at the university, others came to this life-changing realization soon after graduating. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, these alumni couples sha...

NJIT SAAC to Hold Project Life Movement Swab Drive

Thursday, February 13th, 2020
The NJIT Athletic Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) is teaming up with Project Life Movement on February 18-19 to hold a Swab Drive in support of increasing the number of potential bone marrow donors nationwide. The Swab Drive will be held Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 fro...

PSEG's Ralph Izzo Talks Climate Policy at NJIT

Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Ralph Izzo ’10 HON, chairman, president and CEO of PSEG, New Jersey’s largest energy provider, argued at a forum on campus this week that the country’s climate policies are ineffectual and, in some instances, even counterproductive. “There is a lot of work to do, but we’re not moving in t...

Game Jam Brings Together Art, Computer Science, Design Students

Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Broken droids, space rodents and unethical relationship therapists have one thing in common — they're all protagonists in video games developed at the NJIT edition of the annual Global Game Jam earlier in February. As in a musical jam, the purpose of this event is to improve technical skills a...

Makerspace Evolving With More Room, Additional Labs, New Training

Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Changes are afoot in the campus makerspace, with plans coming together for adding new equipment and laboratories, provisioning the 10,000-square-foot expansion and developing more kinds of training. The main space opened in December 2017, replacing an older facility known at various times as Campus...

With the Goal to Help Women and Girls, This Business Competition Winner's Concept Is Blossoming

Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
LeShannon Wright was stunned. She had just learned that she placed first in the 2019 New Business Model Competition (NBMC), a contest sponsored by the New Jersey Acceleration Center at NJIT — this after making her first pitch for a business concept she had never talked about publicly before. “I jus...