NJIT Lecturer Uses Grant From Oculus to Study Virtual Learning Environments

Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
A group of 11th graders traveled from their chemistry class at Dwyer Technical Academy in Elizabeth, N.J. to the center of atoms and molecules. Eager to explore this foreign dimension environed by electron orbits, the voyagers clutched atoms, felt them vibrate and got up close and personal with par...

Fiske Guide to "Best and Most Interesting" Colleges Features NJIT

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
NJIT, one of the few public polytechnic institutes in the Northeast, is once again included in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges — a subjective and selective reference tool that systematically reviews over 300 colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. For more than 30 years, million...

Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center of NJIT Hosts Workshop

Monday, July 9th, 2018
The Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center (SABOC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the Ontology Quality Assurance Grant Workshop 2018, a two-day seminar on medical informatics research, on June 25 and 26. SABOC at NJIT is devoted to exploring structural issues in bi...

NJIT Students Participate in International Intrapreneurship at AECOM for the Second Straight Year

Friday, July 6th, 2018
With $18 billion in revenue in 2017, the multinational engineering firm AECOM has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for three years running. In the spring semester of 2017, eight NJIT graduate students took part in AECOM’s first intrapreneurship competition....

NJIT Researchers Aim to Build Brain-Inspired Computing Systems

Friday, July 6th, 2018
Two NJIT researchers, working with collaborators from the IBM Research Zurich Laboratory and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have demonstrated a novel synaptic architecture that could lead to a new class of information processing systems inspired by the brain. The findings are an impo...

NJIT Directs the 2018 Academy of the International Council for Small Business in Taipei

Friday, July 6th, 2018
The Academy of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) is an intensive, weeklong entrepreneurship boot camp. Sponsored by ICSB, the world’s oldest academic organization dedicated to entrepreneurship, the Academy guides students through diverse aspects of entrepreneurship, including oppor...

Look Who's Back! Alumni Return to NJIT as Recruiters

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
The Spring 2018 Career Fair held this past February at NJIT’s new Wellness and Events Center (WEC) was alumna Whitney Randolph’s first time back on campus since she graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2017. The reason for her visit was not to look for ...

NJIT Hosts 6th Annual NY/NJ Conference of Computer Science Chairs

Monday, July 2nd, 2018
A yearly tradition of regional computer science department chairs sharing teaching methods, demonstrating new research and awarding high-quality teaching continued on the campus of NJIT in June. The conference, now in its sixth year, aims to increase the visibility of computer science education i...

Who's Who? NJIT's Atam Dhawan!

Friday, June 29th, 2018
Dr. Atam P. Dhawan, NJIT’s senior vice provost for research, received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who, the nearly 120-year-old publisher of biographies, for his leadership in the fields of engineering and higher education. The award recognizes people who h...

New Instruments and Funding Expand Views of the Sun at Big Bear

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
A solar telescope that captures images of the entire disk of the Sun, monitoring eruptions taking place simultaneously in different magnetic fields in both the photosphere and chromosphere, is now installed beside the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at NJIT’s California-based Big Bear Solar Observatory ...