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Honors Team Taps Inventive Skills to Help Handi-capable Dancer

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
The call was put out to NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) this past spring and nine Dorman Scholars answered it. Their charge was to design and construct a tap-dance board for a handi-capable wheelchair user — a patient at Mount Sinai Health System in Manhattan who would be participating al...

Architecture Library Exhibit Shows Lessons From Studying Abroad

Monday, November 18th, 2019
Ali Chahine and Antonia Santoro were among nine NJIT architecture students who had eye-opening experiences while taking a semester in Austria last spring. Both are now fifth-year students who, along with their peers, gave presentations this week about their time at the University of Innsbruck and ho...

NJIT Students Come Together to Collect Water for Newark Community

Monday, November 18th, 2019
Spurred through competition amongst student organizations, NJIT's student senate started a water collection competition for the Newark community and challenged each other to try and collect the most bottled water. In total, roughly 300 cases of water were collected throughout the competition over t...

Men's Soccer Captures First ASUN Conference Tournament Title

Sunday, November 17th, 2019
NJIT's Regsan Watkins, the Most Valuable Player of the ASUN Conference Tournament, scored the game-winning goal in the 86th minute, leading the top-seeded Highlanders to its first-ever ASUN Conference Tournament title with a 2-1 victory over No. 2 FGCU Saturday evening at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon...

NJIT's Chrystoff Camacho Wins an Edison Patent Award for an Aerial Reforestation Device

Friday, November 15th, 2019
Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at NJIT, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his drone-deployed seed capsule. Camac...

Images from NJIT Big Bear Solar Observatory Peel Away Layers of a Stellar Mystery

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star’s upper atmosphere, heating it to 1 million degrees Fahrenheit and...

Data Science Expert Bader Looks to Fed Funding for Info Analysis

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Data science has reached a point where techniques such as deep learning can beat humans at recognizing objects, although experts are still figuring out how to make explainable predictions from massive data, NJIT distinguished professor David Bader said. Bader leads the university's Institute for Dat...

NJIT Men's Basketball Featured on SportsCenter's Top 10

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Shyquan Gibbs' heroic shot in the final second completed the 20-point comeback and lifted NJIT to its first victory of the season.

Save Time and Money, Two Degrees in Five Years with the BS-MS Program

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
For Elena Prokhorova, the decision to begin taking master’s level courses while still a computer science undergrad came down to personal interest, as she wanted more options than what was available in the undergraduate catalog. While reviewing potential classes for her senior year, she also skimme...

NJIT Professor Emeritus Receives Presidential Award for Science, Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Howard Kimmel, professor emeritus in chemical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). He is one of 15 awardees nationwide and the only recipient in New Jersey this year. Be...