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Interview with Andrew Whalley, Design Showcase 2022 Speaker

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Andrew Whalley OBE, Chairman of Grimshaw, delivered his lecture ZERO at the Design Showcase 2022. Known for designing net-zero-carbon buildings and considerations of the building life cycle performance in their designs, Grimshaw committed itself to operating as a net zero company. This commitment is...

NJIT-Designed Mobile Medical Unit Deployed In Queens to Tackle Rising COVID Cases

Monday, April 25th, 2022
A mobile medical care unit (M2CU) designed for COVID testing and vaccination is now seeing patients in a part of Queens where the infection rate is more than twice as high as in the rest of the borough. This month, Governor Kathy Hochul, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Martin Tuchman of the Tuchman F...

Informatics Professor Applies AI to Auto Traffic Simulation

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Assistant Professor Hua Wei is studying how to build more realistic models for traffic simulation, with the goal of improving predictions by closing the gap between just following traffic laws vs. how people actually drive. That gap can be significant, so Wei is using the latest in artificial intell...

Mark Pothen, Mechanical Engineer, Working in Health Care

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Techies call it the hands-on imperative — that the best learning is by doing — and the concept is something Mark Pothen, a mechanical engineering major, takes to heart. Pothen worked part-time this academic year as a business analyst for health care startup Axuall Inc., where he'll become an associa...

NJIT Honors Students for Their Work at the National Cancer Institute and Siemens

Monday, April 25th, 2022
NJIT’s Career Development Services recognized both a graduate student and undergrad in its annual intern and co-op of the year awards. The grad student, Pooja Kittanakere Balaji ’22, is pursuing a master’s in computer science, while the undergrad, Rivka Farrell ’23, is majoring in biology. CDS honor...

No. 4 Women's Tennis Upsets No. 1 Northwestern State, Advances To Southland Championship

Sunday, April 24th, 2022
One. Win. Away. A back and forth affair between the No. 4 seed NJIT women's tennis team and top seeded Northwestern State broke in favor of the Highlanders in a thrilling 4-3 semifinal upset Saturday afternoon at the University of New Orleans' University Tennis Courts. The Highlanders will face ...

Track and Field Picks Up Two Wins, Two Records At Rider Invitational

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
A pair of event wins and new school records highlighted the NJIT track and field teams' trip to to Central Jersey tor Saturday's Rider University Invitational. HIGHLANDER VICTORIES Sydne Nance took first in the 200 meters, leading the field with a time of 25.35. Daniella Vito once again shined in ...

Women's Tennis Ends Season In Southland Conference Championship Match

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
The NJIT women's tennis team's magical run through its first Southland Conference Tournament came to a close Sunday afternoon as the No. 3 seed Highlanders were defeated by No. 2 seed Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 4-1, in the Southland Championship match. NJIT concludes its season with a 12-8 over...

NJIT Upsets No. 2 Seed Harvard, Advances to Conference Finals

Thursday, April 21st, 2022
Third-seeded NJIT is heading to the EIVA Conference finals for the second time in program history after upsetting second-seeded Harvard, 3-1, Thursday afternoon in the EIVA Conference semifinals inside Rec Hall. NJIT (17-10), which won its fourth straight match of the season, dropped the first set, ...

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...