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"Doing More with Less" Conference Explores Innovative Responses to Environmental Sustainability

Friday, March 16th, 2018
The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold a one-day Women Designing the Future conference—“The Environment: Doing More with Less”—on Friday, March 23. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the university’s Campus Center Ballrooms A and B. Confere...

New Jersey Innovation Institute's Cell & Gene Therapy Center Launches Biopharma Training Program

Friday, March 16th, 2018
The New Jersey Innovation Institute, (NJII) an NJIT Corporation, has announced that its Cell and Gene Therapy Development Center has launched a training program to upgrade the knowledge and skills of biopharmaceutical professionals in the processing of new, breakthrough classes of biologic therapies...

Power Up: Computing Student Publishes Hand-Drawn Game on Google Play

Friday, March 16th, 2018
Prior to taking the game modification development course taught by University Lecturer D.J. Kehoe last spring, computer science major Angela Vitaletti ’18 had never developed or programmed a videogame before. “I would always bite off more than I could chew, and never finish,” said Vitaletti, w...

Leading T.Y. Lin International: Alvaro Piedrahita '73

Thursday, March 15th, 2018
For more than 40 years, in a career that has included awards and special recognition for innovative design and successful delivery of major infrastructure projects, Alvaro J. Piedrahita, P.E. has successfully led technical design professionals on multi-million dollar transportation infrastructure pr...

Women's Tennis Sweeps Hofstra

Thursday, March 15th, 2018
The NJIT women's tennis team swept visiting Hofstra, 7-0, Saturday afternoon in The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. NJIT, which picks up its second straight win, improves to 6-5 on the season, earning the doubles point with wins at second and third doubles and sweeping the six si...

NJIT to Make a Splash With Community Outreach Event

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
Hundreds of high school students from Newark and around the state will visit New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) March 24 for NJIT Splash, a one-day enrichment program taught by NJIT students. The program, which debuted at NJIT last year and continues as an annual event, will run from 9 a.m. t...

A Passion for Promoting STEM

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
As the Chief Information Officer at CDPHP, Neil Brandmaier is integrating IT with the business and developing scale, agility and new capabilities leveraging cloud computing. He is re-architecting CDPHP’s systems by shifting from B2B to B2C with micro-segmentation, enabling new risk sharing pricing m...

Alumnus Robert Cohen Offers an Insider's View of the High-Tech World of Joint Replacement Surgery

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
Robert Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, a biomedical engineer and entrepreneur who specializes in orthopedic joint replacement implants, years ago envisioned the convergence of advanced materials, new fabrication methods and robotic-assisted surgery to maximize motion restoration. In 2010, his New Jersey compan...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT a Top 50 School to Study Game Design

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
NJIT has earned a No. 33 ranking on The Princeton Review's just-released list saluting the top 50 undergraduate schools for game design for 2018. The Princeton Review chose the schools based on its 2017 survey of 150 institutions in the U.S., Canada and abroad offering game design degree programs o...

NJII Awarded Contract to Plan Northeast Sustainable Communities Workshop

Monday, March 12th, 2018
For the fourth consecutive year, the Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast (BCONE) has awarded the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT Corporation, a contract for the Planning and Coordination Services for the 2018 Northeast Sustainable Communities Workshop to be held at the New Jer...