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NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 7/20/20-7/24/20

Monday, July 20th, 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 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, i...

Hillier Faculty Building Energy Research Portfolio Growing

Monday, July 20th, 2020
Associate Professor Hyojin Kim has distinguished herself in a number of ways since she joined the Hillier College of Architecture and Design in fall of 2019. She came to NJIT with a research project funded by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) within the U.S. Depart...

Architecture Alums Redesign Historic Church for New Harriet Tubman Museum

Monday, July 20th, 2020
Cape May's new Harriet Tubman Museum, which is hosting virtual openings this year due to COVID-19 and plans to open conventionally in spring 2021, has a touch of Highlander inside. The museum in June 2019 hired Fulcrum Design Group, owned by Hillier College of Architecture and Design alum...

Math Success Initiative Celebrates First Graduates, Some to Attend NJIT

Monday, July 20th, 2020
Last summer 35 11th-graders from four Newark high schools — Central, Malcolm X Shabazz, Science Park and Technology — participated in a seven-week enrichment program as part of the inaugural Math Success Initiative (MSI), an academic partnership between NJIT, the city of Newark and the Newark Board ...

America East Fall Sports Competition Postponed for Duration of First Semester

Friday, July 17th, 2020
NEWARK, NJ – With the health and safety of its member institutions’ communities, the importance of successful institutional campus reopenings and the overall well‐being of its student‐athletes as its top priorities, the America East Conference Board of Presidents announced today a postponement,...

NJIT@JerseyCity Expands with New Graduate Programs in Computing

Friday, July 17th, 2020
Three master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs are now available to Ying Wu College of Computing students in the NJIT​ @​JerseyCity location. Programs at the Exchange Place location opened in fall 2019 offering a Master of Science in Data Science along with graduate certificates in b...

Leir Research Institute to Hold Timely Conference on Disruptive Technologies

Thursday, July 16th, 2020
In this unprecedented era of the COVID-19 pandemic and many other disruptive occurrences, the landscapes of society, industry and academics have been and will continue to be reshaped. Resilience and sustainability have become more imperative than ever before, and leveraging innovative technology to ...

Virtual Meetup Connects Business Owners and Entrepreneurship Experts

Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
When Mike Amegashie ’09, owner of Clyver Interview Prep, was invited to attend InnovateNJ’s inaugural “happy hour” for New Jersey entrepreneurs, he jumped at the opportunity to participate. “[I saw it as] a way to meet other aspiring entrepreneurs and exchange ideas on topics such as go-to-market s...

In Xavante Territory, the Researched Recruit the Researchers

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
By: Rosanna Dent, Assistant Professor of History Every year, with the dry season, come the researchers. They arrive with audio recorders, microscopes and glucose meters. They bring backpacks filled with GPS recorders, cameras and field notebooks. They ask endless streams of questions about how...

NJ Consortium Develops Mobile Medical Unit to Address Health Facility Shortage

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
In response to the extreme challenges to clinical capacity posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, three New Jersey institutions – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University Hospital in Newark and The Tuchman Foundation – are collaborating in a unique partnership on the development of modular, mo...