Computing Professor Explores Mixed-Reality Cure for Zoom Fatigue

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
Looking to reduce the stress that confronts people who videoconference too much — widely known as Zoom fatigue, following the work-from-home trend of the COVID pandemic — one expert from NJIT is working on new approaches to augmented and virtual reality systems. Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski ...

Ying Wu College of Computing Achieves Record Incoming Class and Enrollment for Fall 2021

Monday, September 27th, 2021
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is proud to welcome a record-breaking 1,150 new students at all levels of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral study for the fall 2021 semester, a new high at 11% greater than the previous year, and representing 31% of the total NJIT student body. “It is not sur...

NJIT Board of Trustees Honors Baseball and Fencing Teams in Historic Season

Monday, September 27th, 2021
NJIT President Dr. Joel Bloom and the Board of Trustees recognized two programs Thursday, Sept. 23, inside the Campus Center. NJIT's baseball team had a historic 2021 season, which culminated with an NCAA Tournament berth and a trip to the NCAA Fayetteville Regional, and NJIT's men's and women's fen...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 9/27/21-10/1/21

Monday, September 27th, 2021
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...

Bryan C. Lee Jr. '08 Named 2021 Cooper Hewitt Emerging Designer

Friday, September 24th, 2021
Bryan Lee ‘08 and his firm Colloqate have been dismantling systemic racism in the broader social arena and in the practice of architecture for some time now. In his keynote lecture during the Hillier College 2020 Design Showcase, Lee describes how, through the process and outcomes of design, designe...

NJIT Alumni Make ROI-NJ's List of 2021 ROI Influencers: People of Color

Friday, September 24th, 2021
ROI-NJ recognized two alumni of New Jersey Institute of Technology as “difference makers” in its list of 2021 ROI Influencers: People of Color. The honorees, Elisa Charters and Marjorie Perry, remain connected to NJIT via board service. Charters is a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, Hi...

For the Class of 2025, Resiliency and Help are the Keys to Success

Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
“Stay resilient in everything you do,” NJIT civil engineering alumna Gabrielle Grompone encouraged members of the Class of 2025 during the university’s annual Convocation, held in NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. “Resiliency brought me here,” said Grompone ’17, ’20, who e...

NJIT Grads Land Jobs from Internships They Found at Career Fair

Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s next career fair will connect students with more than 165 employers offering some 1,000 jobs, internships and cooperative educational experiences. Participating employers include GE, Verizon, Moody’s, Merck, UPS, New York Life, the FBI and the U.S. Patent and Tra...

NJIT's David Bader Selected to Receive the 2021 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) has named David Bader as the recipient of the 2021 Sidney Fernbach Award. Bader is a distinguished professor and founder of the Department of Data Science, and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science, at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Established...

NJ Higher Ed Presidents Pen Letter to Congress Advocating Pell Grant Increases

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
To the New Jersey Congressional Delegation Dear Members of Congress: On behalf of our institutions—and, more important, on behalf of students of modest means throughout New Jersey and across the country—we write to urge your support for doubling the maximum Pell Grant award as you develop and vo...