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High Schoolers Come to NJIT to Learn About Virtual Reality and Research

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Students from the Hunterdon County Computer Science and Applied Engineering Academy came to NJIT on Nov. 22 to participate in a study of the impact of virtual reality (VR) on learning and knowledge retention.. The event, organized by NJIT professor Lori Watrous-deVersterre, had two goals. First, to...

NJIT to Launch New Programs in Cell and Gene Therapy

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in collaboration with New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation, has announced it will soon offer both a Professional Science Masters (PSM) degree program and professional graduate certificate in the rapidly expanding field of cell and gene...

NJII Leadership Change

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
NJIT/NJII community members, I am writing today to announce a reconfiguring of the leadership and structure of the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) and VentureLink at NJIT. NJII will serve as the umbrella organization within which VentureLink will be housed, and Simon Nynens will assume ...

NJIT Gets Chapter of Google Developer Student Club

Monday, December 9th, 2019
NJIT now has a chapter of the Google Developer Student Club. Google formed the international organization two years ago to teach real-world information technology skills that aren't necessarily taught in college classrooms. It's also a way for the software giant to promote its products and recruit ...

NJIT Extends Win Streak to Three, Tunstall and Bajic Post Double-Doubles

Monday, December 9th, 2019
NJIT extended its win streak to three behind three double-figure scorers and two double-doubles from Danielle Tunstall and Milena Bajic in the Highlanders 61-52 victory over Hartford in women's basketball non-conference action at the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion. NJIT, w...

Men's Swimming and Diving Repeats As ECAC Winter Champions

Monday, December 9th, 2019
For the second year in a row and the fourth time overall, the NJIT men's swimming and diving team has earned the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Winter Championship title.   The Highlanders wrapped up their latest championship performance Sunday afternoon at the Nassau County Aquat...

CSI: NJIT On the Scene, Young Investigators Train Up in Crime Scene Forensics

Monday, December 9th, 2019
Where were you the night of Nov. 26th? Anyone exiting the Summit Street parking garage that evening would have most certainly been counted among the witnesses to a brightly-lit, taped-off scene surrounding a faded-white ’98 Chevy Lumina where an investigation was underway — carried out by a special...

Communication Networks Pioneer Nirwan Ansari is Named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Sunday, December 8th, 2019
Nirwan Ansari ’82, a pioneer in the field of communications whose research on telecoms networks formed part of the backbone for broadband access and later FIOS networks, has been named a 2019 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Ansari, a distinguished professor of electrical and comp...

NJIT@JerseyCity Officially Launched with Expectation of Rapid Growth

Friday, December 6th, 2019
NJIT welcomed 35 data science students to its newly opened NJIT@JerseyCity location this semester, with a goal of doubling that number in the spring and reaching 500 students in three years, Ying Wu College of Computing Dean Craig Gotsman said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony held December 5 at the ne...

NJIT Opens State-of-the-Art Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility

Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Sagnik Basuray is developing a device the size of a dollar coin that will detect cancer biomarkers in patients in remission by sampling a tiny drop of blood with a dip stick. His sensor is groundbreaking not only in its simplicity, but also in its portability. It’s meant to be used at home. “Cancer...