NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 11/23/20-11/27/20

Monday, November 23rd, 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...

The Future of Architecture Education: Barriers and Shifts

Monday, November 23rd, 2020
Hillier College Dean Branko Kolarevic recently participated in several forums with a focus on access and diversity in architecture education and the recent shifts to online learning. At the August panel hosted by the American Institute of Architecture New Jersey chapter (AIANJ) speakers discussed wh...

Santasieri's Roadmap to Environmental Justice and Community Engagement

Monday, November 23rd, 2020
Colette Santasieri, Executive Director of the Center for Community Systems and her team have designed and conducted several webinars in recent weeks. Coming up November 24th is the third in a three part series on cleaning up brownfields, you can register to join here. Entitled, It Takes a Village - ...

Hillier College of Architecture and Design Seeks Candidates

Thursday, November 19th, 2020
Director, School of Art + Design Position Summary: The Director of the School of Art + Design (A+D) is the administrative and academic leader of the School. The Director is simultaneously a member of the faculty and administration in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD). The Directo...

Hillier College of Architecture and Design Alumni Hall Nears Completion

Thursday, November 19th, 2020
Weston Alumni Lecture Hall Chair Campaign As the Renovation Campaign for the Alumni Lecture Hall in Weston nears completion, think about starting your own legacy at NJIT. You can do so by adding your name — or that of your parents, loved ones, or favorite professor — to a chair in this new state-of-...

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 to mean...

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 every team ...

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 pres...