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WATCH LIVE: TEDxNJIT on 'Reframing'

Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Watch the TEDxNJIT presentation on 'Reframing,' which brings together future leaders from business, academia and the arts to address a range of topics. Speakers will explore assumptions that limit solutions to social problems and broadening perspectives to find new opportunities for corss cutting ap...

NJIT Invited to Present at National HBCU Conference

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
In Washington D.C. in September, the U.S. Department of Education’s White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) held the 2018 National HBCU Week Conference, “HBCU Competitiveness: Aligning Institutional Missions with America’s Priorities.” Martin Tuchman School of M...

Architecture Alumnus Wins Medal at the London Design Biennale

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
The London Design Biennale 2018 Medal for the most outstanding overall contribution has been awarded to architectural historian and NJIT alumnus Mohamed Elshahed ’05, who curated “Modernist Indignation,” an Egyptian installation that pays homage to Al Emara, the first Arabic-language ...

Media Advisory: NJIT Announces the Creation of the School of Applied Engineering and Technology

Monday, November 5th, 2018
WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announces the creation of the School of Applied Engineering and Technology within the university’s Newark College of Engineering. Designed to meet spiraling demand in the job market for applied engineering technologists in industries reliant upon produ...

Women's Basketball Opens 2018 Season Tuesday at Saint Peter's

Monday, November 5th, 2018
NJIT will open the 2018-19 season on the road Tuesday, November 6 at Saint Peter's.  Tip is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Jersey City, New Jersey. With a win on Tuesday… --Head Coach Mike Lane will register his first win at NJIT --NJIT will begin the season 1-0 for the first time sin...

2018-19 Men's Basketball Season Preview

Monday, November 5th, 2018
The third-year of the "BK Era" at NJIT could very well be described as an episode of the Young and the Restless. Head Coach Brian Kennedy possesses a roster composed of seven (50 percent) underclassmen, yet features five seniors (36 percent) who are looking to guide the Highlanders t...

NJIT Among Nation's Top-Ranked Colleges for Biology in 2019

Monday, November 5th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been ranked among the best colleges for biology students in the U.S., according to College Factual’s recently released “2019 Best Biology Colleges” rankings. The new rankings indicate that NJIT’s degree programs in biology place in the top 15 percent of all ge...

Minds Matter at NJIT: Raising Awareness of Mental Health

Monday, November 5th, 2018
Across campus, students clad in lime-green T-shirts gave out ribbons, stickers and brochures, and in the Central King Building, an important discussion open to the NJIT community was held. Both activities marked NJIT’s observance of World Mental Health Day, Oct. 10. They also represented the first p...

Meet Ying Wu College of Computing's New Department Chairs

Friday, November 2nd, 2018
This fall, NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) welcomed two new department chairs: Frank Biocca, chair of the informatics department, and Baruch Schieber, chair of the computer science department. Biocca and Schieber bring a vast array of experience and knowledge to NJIT. “I am delighted to...

Physicist Ken Chin Wins an Edison Patent Award for Next-Generation Solar Cell Technology

Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Physicist Ken Chin, a scientist, author and inventor, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award last night from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his work on a promising new method for advancing sustainable energy production: next-generation solar cells. Chin focuses on impr...