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This Information Systems Graduate Has a Clear Vision For His Future

Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
Agrim Sachdeva ’18 received a master’s degree in information systems from NJIT this spring, but he isn’t making a big deal about it. While many recent graduates are thinking about relaxing a little, maybe taking a vacation, Sachdeva is still spending time at NJIT. He’s continuing to work with the un...

Jheryl Wilson: NJIT Basketball Legend, NBA Digital Media Globetrotter

Monday, July 16th, 2018
When Edward Jheryl Wilson graduated from NJIT in 2011, he did so in heroic fashion — etching his name in university lore by leading the Highlanders to their first winning season since joining the elite ranks of Division I basketball in 2006 — and becoming NJIT’s first Division I 1,000-point scorer i...

Honors College Debuts Program Promoting Undergraduate Research

Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Chemical engineering major Jennifer Callaghan is spending her summer on the NJIT campus working to help define the next generation of ballistic materials. Laura Gould, an architecture student, is also at the university during the summer break, using Google Street View to study the correlation betwee...

Women's Fencing Standout Up for NCAA Woman of the Year Award

Thursday, July 12th, 2018
  Julia Garcia '18, who completed her four-year college women's fencing career in May, has been named a nominee for the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Garcia graduated from NJIT with a bachelor's degree in business administration and currently works as an investment banki...

Former Astronaut Bernard Harris to Speak at NJIT STEM Forum and Meet With Summer Science Campers

Thursday, July 12th, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: Bernard Harris, the first African-American astronaut to walk in space, will visit NJIT to speak with educators at STEM School Leadership Forum 2018: Building STEM Partnerships, as well as meet with middle school students attending the 2018 Bernard Harris Summer STEM Camp (...

Amazon-Sponsored Voice Tech Summit Comes to NJIT July 24-26

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

NJIT Lecturer Uses Grant From Oculus to Study Virtual Learning Environments

Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
A group of 11th graders traveled from their chemistry class at Dwyer Technical Academy in Elizabeth, N.J. to the center of atoms and molecules. Eager to explore this foreign dimension environed by electron orbits, the voyagers clutched atoms, felt them vibrate and got up close and personal with par...

Fiske Guide to "Best and Most Interesting" Colleges Features NJIT

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
NJIT, one of the few public polytechnic institutes in the Northeast, is once again included in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges — a subjective and selective reference tool that systematically reviews over 300 colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. For more than 30 years, million...

Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center of NJIT Hosts Workshop

Monday, July 9th, 2018
The Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center (SABOC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the Ontology Quality Assurance Grant Workshop 2018, a two-day seminar on medical informatics research, on June 25 and 26. SABOC at NJIT is devoted to exploring structural issues in bi...

NJIT Students Participate in International Intrapreneurship at AECOM for the Second Straight Year

Friday, July 6th, 2018
With $18 billion in revenue in 2017, the multinational engineering firm AECOM has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for three years running. In the spring semester of 2017, eight NJIT graduate students took part in AECOM’s first intrapreneurship competition....