NJIT Professor Awarded the IEICE Human Communication Award

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Taro Narahara, associate professor in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, has received the 2020 Human Communication Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Japan for his paper "What is the Key to Attract People in Apartments?: Constructio...

NJIT Named a Top 50 Undergraduate School for Entrepreneurship Studies by Princeton Review

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Ranked at No. 43, the university offers a unique entrepreneurial experience. For the second year in a row, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been cited by The Princeton Review as being among the best schools in the nation for students aspiring to become entrepreneurs. NJIT is ranked No....

Winners of Virtual HackNJIT Made Music, Chat App, Disease Detector

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Highlanders won the top three prizes at November's HackNJIT competition, with software allowing friends to remotely jam together, video chat with speech translations and even detect pneumonia in chest X-rays. The annual event was virtual this year due to COVID-19, which for a hackathon tends t...

NJIT's Hydrogen-Powered Hy-Lander Wins the Poster Competition in the Chem-E-Car Finals

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
NJIT’s Chem-E-Car team, developers of the self-driving, hydrogen-powered Hy-Lander, won first place this past weekend for their poster in the championship round of the international student competition. In the poster round, judges look for in-depth knowledge of the car’s mechanisms from e...

Mathematical Epidemiologist Sara Del Valle '00 '01 Welcomed Back at 2020 CSLA Awards

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Sara Del Valle, a two-time NJIT alumna who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) developing models for tracking and mitigating the spread of infectious diseases, gave the keynote address at the 2020 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards ceremony. CSLA Dean Kevin Belfield led the pre...

Remote-Only Instruction Begins November 30

Monday, November 16th, 2020
Members of the NJIT Community, I write today to thank you for your cooperation and support of NJIT’s pandemic recovery efforts and to announce that NJIT has made the decision to transition to fully remote instruction on November 30, following the Thanksgiving break. This mode of instruction wi...

Hillier College Professor Speaks on Social Inclusion at NYC Architecture Biennial

Monday, November 16th, 2020
Maria Hurtado De Mendoza spoke on questions of how social inlcusion can be expressed in physical spaces, at any scale.  Watch the full presentation here.  

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 11/16/20-11/20/20

Monday, November 16th, 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...

An NJIT Engineering Team Wins an Edison Patent Award for Sustainability

Sunday, November 15th, 2020
A team of NJIT engineers won a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in the sustainability category from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for a resilient water treatment system that can run on waste heat or low-grade energy. The team was among 60 honorees at the Council’s virtual...

Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) Call for Submissions

Friday, November 13th, 2020
The 2021 SimAUD conference is calling for submissions. The Deadline is November 22, 2020. This event will be of interest to faculty and students in Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, Engineering and Computing.  The 12th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (Si...