Architecture Students Innovate Precast Concrete for Affordable Housing Micro-Units

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Architecture professor Gernot Riether has teamed up with engineering professor Mohamed Mahgoub to develop the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI) Research Studio as part of a four-year grant from the PCI Foundation. The key components of the grant include industry partnership, new precast concrete curr...

Design and Life Cycle Assessment – eLCAd' 22 Recap

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Consideration of Cradle to Grave environmental impacts plays an increasingly important role in product design and development across the industrial spectrum. This aspect of architecture and design was the focus of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design 2022 (eLCAd 2022), a three-day internati...

NJIT Professor Wins Prized Fellowship to Explore Newark's Environmental Justice History

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Neil Maher, NJIT master teacher and professor of history, has been named fellow for The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. The fellowship traditionally attracts outstanding scholars, writers and visual artists from around the world. Fellows colla...

NJIT Expert Evaluating Self-Driving Car Behavior at Yellow Lights

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
There's Musk-level hype about autonomous vehicles, and then there's NJIT Associate Professor Joyoung Lee working through painstaking and vital research of how self-driving systems should behave at stop lights. He studies transportation systems as a whole, not self-driving cars specifically, but his...

NJIT Baseball Highlighted by Likely Draft Pick Marcano and MLB's Leiter Jr.

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
NJIT Highlander baseball had an exciting spring, with star player Julio Marcano putting his name among the school home run record books, and team alumnus Mark Leiter Jr. making it back to the majors for the Chicago Cubs. Marcano, a second baseman and outfielder, blasted his 23rd career homer M...

Professor Glenn Goldman Exhibit at the Littman Library

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Professor Glenn Goldman’s exhibition Color and Composition, The (Mostly Architectural) Photography of Glenn Goldman at the Littman Library opened on February 14th. The exhibit features photographs that were mostly taken over the last six years, and have been cited or received awards at various compe...

Sara Ghasvarianjahromi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - April 2022

Monday, April 18th, 2022
Sara Ghasvarianjahromi is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT. She is working as a member of the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP) under the supervision of Professor Joerg Kliewer. Her research focuses on Authent...

Men's Volleyball Earns 3-1 Win Over St. Francis Brooklyn on Senior Night

Friday, April 15th, 2022
The NJIT men's volleyball team earned a 3-1 EIVA Conference home victory over St. Francis Brooklyn on Senior Night Friday evening inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. In pregame ceremonies, NJIT honored its six graduating seniors – Derek Evans, Will Andrews, Jens Feldthus, ...

Fischer Improves to 5-0 in America East Starts as NJIT Cruises to 8-2 Win Over UMBC

Friday, April 15th, 2022
Ryan Fischer took the mound for the fifth time in America East Conference action this spring and improved to 5-0 in those starts as the NJIT baseball team cruised to a 8-2 victory over visiting UMBC at Jim Hynes Stadium. The Highlanders (15-13, 9-4 AE) scored the first five runs of the game an...

NJIT Hosts 'Rock the Vote' Event in Wellness and Events Center

Thursday, April 14th, 2022
City officials and community leaders hosted a “Rock the Vote” event at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center, complete with a DJ, dance competition, artists, rappers and — most importantly — voter registration forms. Droves of students from the Newark area were able to take an afternoon off from their ...