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Architecture Alumnus Named AIA Fellow

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Robert Cozzarelli ’79 has spent nearly 30 years as a professional, award-winning architect and planner specializing in health care, educational, recreational, institutional and residential design for federal, state, municipal, international and private-sector clients. His extensive expertise with ne...

NJIT Math Prof. Shang Seeks Proof For Why Machine Learning Works

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Programmers can tell you what machine learning does and how it works, but they can't really prove why it works. Enter the mathematicians. The what and how of machine learning are well documented — it's software that examines big data to find meaning and possibly suggest actions, based on looking fo...

Honors Team Taps Inventive Skills to Help Handi-capable Dancer

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
The call was put out to NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) this past spring and nine Dorman Scholars answered it. Their charge was to design and construct a tap-dance board for a handi-capable wheelchair user — a patient at Mount Sinai Health System in Manhattan who would be participating al...

Architecture Library Exhibit Shows Lessons From Studying Abroad

Monday, November 18th, 2019
Ali Chahine and Antonia Santoro were among nine NJIT architecture students who had eye-opening experiences while taking a semester in Austria last spring. Both are now fifth-year students who, along with their peers, gave presentations this week about their time at the University of Innsbruck and h...

NJIT Students Come Together to Collect Water for Newark Community

Monday, November 18th, 2019
Spurred through competition amongst student organizations, NJIT's student senate started a water collection competition for the Newark community and challenged each other to try and collect the most bottled water. In total, roughly 300 cases of water were collected throughout th...

Men's Soccer Captures First ASUN Conference Tournament Title

Sunday, November 17th, 2019
NJIT's Regsan Watkins, the Most Valuable Player of the ASUN Conference Tournament, scored the game-winning goal in the 86th minute, leading the top-seeded Highlanders to its first-ever ASUN Conference Tournament title with a 2-1 victory over No. 2 FGCU Saturday evening at Lubetkin Field at Mal ...

NJIT's Chrystoff Camacho Wins an Edison Patent Award for an Aerial Reforestation Device

Friday, November 15th, 2019
Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at NJIT, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his drone-deployed seed capsule. Cama...

Images from NJIT Big Bear Solar Observatory Peel Away Layers of a Stellar Mystery

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics:  how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star’s upper atmosphere, heating it to 1 million degrees Fahrenhei...

Data Science Expert Bader Looks to Fed Funding for Info Analysis

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Data science has reached a point where techniques such as deep learning can beat humans at recognizing objects, although experts are still figuring out how to make explainable predictions from massive data, NJIT distinguished professor David Bader said. Bader leads the university's Institute for Da...

NJIT Men's Basketball Featured on SportsCenter's Top 10

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Shyquan Gibbs' heroic shot in the final second completed the 20-point comeback and lifted NJIT to its first victory of the season.