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An NJIT Water Treatment Specialist Wins an Edison Patent Award

Monday, November 28th, 2022
In daily battles with pathogens, legacy chemicals from long disappeared factories and a growing array of micropollutants, water treatment systems are often handicapped by clogged membrane filters. Replacing them regularly is both laborious and expensive. “Membrane filters are easily clogged when ba...

NJIT's Rima Taher Works with Habitat for Humanity to Save a Veterans Memorial Hall in Passaic, NJ

Sunday, November 27th, 2022
Rima Taher, Senior University Lecturer at the Hillier College of Architecture & Design at NJIT, is working with Habitat for Humanity on a project in Passaic, NJ to rebuild Albert Lawson Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, which was deemed unsafe and forced to close in December of 2019. The ...

The Center for Community Systems at NJIT Helps to Build More Resilient Local Communities

Sunday, November 27th, 2022
The Center for Community Systems has received FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) funding through a subgrant from the NJ Office of Emergency Management (NJOEM), to create the Technical Assistance for Resiliency Program. NJIT TARP supports NJ’s vulnerable communities through capability- and ca...

Two NJIT Students Are Among this Year's 128 Governor's STEM Scholars

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
NJIT students Aliya Laliwala and Mrunmayi Joshi have been selected to be part of this year’s Governor’s STEM Scholars class, which includes 128 scholars from 20 New Jersey counties — the program’s largest cohort ever. The Governor’s STEM Scholars program was created to engage the next generation of...

Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Ranked #9 in Nation

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked No. 9 in the country for its department of electrical and computer engineering, according to a U.S. News & World Report study of 2,165 universities worldwide.   NJIT's top-ten result in the U.S. section of the global ranking is a point of pri...

For Fourth Straight Year, NJIT Professor Makes Global List of Highly Cited Researchers

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
A research paper on metal carbides and nitrides is paying dividends for NJIT’s Meng-Qiang Zhao — eight years after it was published. For the fourth straight year, Zhao, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, has made Clarivate’s list of...

Doga Emil Named to America East All-Rookie Team

Monday, November 21st, 2022
The America East announced its postseason women's volleyball awards on Thursday and for the third straight season, NJIT was represented on the All-Rookie Team. Freshman libero Doga Emil was one of seven student-athletes to be named to the All-Rookie Team. Emil played in and started 28 of the team'...

Five Double Figure Scorers Lead NJIT in Overtime Victory at Home Over Central Connecticut State

Saturday, November 19th, 2022
Kenna Squier and Trinity Williams registered double-doubles as five Highlanders scored in double figures in NJIT's 71-65 overtime victory over visiting Central Connecticut State Saturday afternoon in non-conference women's basketball action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. The win for the ...

Turing Laureate, Compiler Pioneer Jeffrey Ullman Visits NJIT for Data Science Lecture

Friday, November 18th, 2022
When a Turing Award winner speaks, NJIT faculty and students listen. Jeffrey Ullman, known as a father of the modern compiler at Bell Labs and Princeton University in the 1960-1970s, filled the largest lecture hall in NJIT's Guttenberg Information Technologies Center for his October 14 lecture on d...

NJIT Interior Design Student Haylee Merola Wins 2022 NEWH Green Voices Award

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Haylee Merola, 4th year interior design student at NJIT, is the undergraduate winner of the 2022 NEWH (Network of Executive Women in Hospitality) Green Voice Design Competition. The competition “provides students with the opportunity to showcase their design skills while utilizing the very best in s...