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NJIT Chemist Hunts for COVID-19 with a Smartphone-Linked Biosensor

Thursday, October 1st, 2020
A Q&A with chemist Omowunmi “Wunmi” Sadik Q: How do chemical sensors work? Chemical sensors are small devices coated in spots with specific compounds that react to, or recognize, targeted chemicals in the air, water and biological systems. The devices’ transducers convert the results to a meas...

ROI-NJ Honors Two More Influencers at NJIT: Treena Arinzeh and Angela Garretson

Thursday, October 1st, 2020
A month after ROI-NJ named five NJIT administrators Higher Education Influencers, the publication recognized Treena Livingston Arinzeh and Angela Garretson as 2020 ROI Influencers: People of Color. Treena Livingston Arinzeh Arinzeh is a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering known ...

Women's Soccer Earns Sixth United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
For the sixth time in program history (2012, 2014-16, 2019, 2020), the NJIT women's soccer team has been honored by the United Soccer Coaches (USC) with its annual Team Academic Award. The Highlanders were one of 889 total college teams (556 women, 333 men) to earn Team Academic Award accolades. Wi...

Men's Soccer Team Earns United Soccer Conference Academic Honor

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
The NJIT men's soccer team has been honored by the United Soccer Coaches (USC) with its annual USC Team Academic Awards for the 2019-20 academic year. This is the fifth season (2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020) the Highlanders earn the recognition. NJIT was one of 333 men's programs recognized for the...

NJIT Historian Rosanna Dent Awarded for Exploration of Brazil's Xavante

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
NJIT Assistant Professor of History Rosanna Dent's ongoing work exploring the history of research in Indigenous A’uwẽ-Xavante communities of Brazil has now earned her the 2020 John C. Burnham Early Career Award at this year’s History of Science Society’s Forum for the ...

School of Art + Design Adding Online Programs Beginning in Spring 2021

Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
NJIT's School of Art and Design will begin offering graduate study starting next semester. The school within Hillier College of Architecture and Design will offer four certificate programs starting in spring 2021 — Animation; Digital Arts; Game Design and Interactivity; and User Interface/User Expe...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 9/28/20-10/2/20

Monday, September 28th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

McNair Students, Unfazed by Disadvantages or COVID, Target Graduate Study

Monday, September 28th, 2020
Zara Williams started working here 20 years ago, just after NJIT joined the federal McNair Scholars Program to help underrepresented students achieve graduate degrees, and has now seen 22 students complete their doctorates. "Seems like it went pretty quickly," said Williams, the program's assistant...

Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education Ranks NJIT Top 25% in the U.S.

Monday, September 28th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology ranks in the top quarter of U.S. universities and colleges in the The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings for 2021. Numerically, NJIT is #193 out of 797 schools — up 52 slots from 2020 and 135 slots from 2019. In the two previous rankings, ...

Lecture Series Focuses on Responsibilities of Architects and Designers

Thursday, September 24th, 2020
This semester's lecture series from Hillier College of Architecture and Design emphasizes themes of responsibility for architects and designers in the context of current events such as COVID-19, economic inequality, global warming, political upheaval and social justice. Each lecture includes a pres...