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Engineering Professor Helps Invent New Methods of Data Management

Friday, March 25th, 2022
Reflect for a moment on how you'd manage your terabyte-scale hard drive if the data were literally one million times bigger. Then you'd be working with exabytes, which is the reality for supercomputer users at federal laboratories across the country, one of which is relying on Assistant Professor Q...

Hillier College Students Share Their Experiences on Amazon College Tour

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
The New Jersey Institute of Technology is the first college in New Jersey to be featured in The College Tour, an Amazon Prime TV series produced by Emmy-nominated producer Lisa Hennessy and hosted by Alex Boylan. Each 30-minute episode provides a unique video tour of one US university, offering...

Design Showcase 2022 Presents Creativity, Practicality, Innovation and Design Process

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Hillier College signature fundraising event Design Showcase 2022 will be held on Thursday, April 7 from 4:30 to 7:30pm in Weston Hall at NJIT. . As always the event will present top students and alumni work. In its 16th year now, the idea of a fundraising event was percolated from a c...

Taro Narahara Receives National Institute of Informatics Excellence Award

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Taro Narahara, associate professor at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, has received the Excellence Award at the Informatics Research Data Repository (IDR) User Forum 2021 from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Japan. The awarded work ‘Prediction and analysis of living comfo...

Hawk Watch: Livestream Life Inside NJIT's Rare Red-Tailed Hawk Nest

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
NJIT has landed some unexpected residents recently, and they’ll be getting plenty of “airtime” as they settle into their new home. In fact, they’ll have their own channel where you can check them (and their new crib) out, 24/7.  Two red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) have begun a rare urban ...

The Practice of the Future: an Interview with Vivian Lee

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Vivian Lee, FAIA, LEED AP, is the New York Studio Executive Director at Woods Bagot. With 30 years of experience, she has led award-winning projects in Europe, Asia, and the US. In 2020, Lee was elevated to the College of Fellows by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She is on the Board of ...

Airport City Newark Coalition Awarded Fourth Round of Funding

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Led by the members of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, the Airport City Newark (ACN) coalition recently received a fourth round of funding from the Prudential Foundation to further investigate the feasibility of their Aerotropolis concept, a transit-oriented development in the vicinit...

NJIT Is No. 1 in New Jersey to Study Game Design, Top 20 in the East

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East. Housed within the Hiller College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game develo...

Making Change: Women Designing an Environmentally Just Future

Monday, March 21st, 2022
Libby Washburn, Special Assistant to the President for Native Affairs at the White House, will be the keynote speaker at the conference, Women Designing an Environmentally Just Future, to be held on the NJIT campus and virtually on March 25. The conference will focus on the communities hit first and...

Ali Emadi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - March 2022

Monday, March 21st, 2022
Ali Emadi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He works under the supervision of Professor Ali Abdi.  His research focuses on systems biology and is cross disciplinary at the in...