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NJIT STEM Leadership Forum Inspires Educators to Bring 'Cutting-Edge STEM' into Classrooms

Friday, October 22nd, 2021
With students back in classrooms this fall, educators and superintendents across New Jersey were once again welcomed back to NJIT’s campus to network and discuss fresh ways they can enrich hands-on STEM learning in their schools at the university’s fifth annual STEM School Leadership Forum — “B...

Living with Trash: Dumps to Density and Recycling to Upcycling

Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Organized by AIA New York, Pratt Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, NJIT’s Hillier School of Architecture, and SOM, AIA New York and the Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place New York, are hosting Wast(ED): Living with Trash on Tuesday from 3-8pm. The two panels, Fr...

How the Largest African American Architecture Firm Walks the Talk

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Brian Tibbs ‘91 was recently named the managing partner at Moody Nolan, the largest African-American-owned architecture firm in the United States  and recognized by AIA as the 2021 Firm of the Year, its highest honor for an architecture office. Moody Nolan was founded in 1984 by Curtis Moody, F...

Humanoid Robot Makes Debut in International Competition

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
After eight years of development, the humanoid robot named TOCABI (Torque Controlled compliAnt BIped) is finally completed, making its debut at the international ANA AVATAR XPRIZE competition.  New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Mathew Schwartz began working on the design o...

NJIT's Basu Roy Integrates Humans and Computers to Optimize Tasks and Learn Facts

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
In the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, researchers scrambled to decipher the novel virus — its transmission pathways, its effects on the body, its vulnerabilities. Senjuti Basu Roy, a computer scientist, wondered in turn how lay people absorbed the reams of emerging information they recei...

Michael Rodriguez Takes A Winding Road to Success

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
Sometimes the road less traveled can lead to the most fertile grounds. Michael Rodriguez’s road led him to an internship, NJIT, construction management and back. College and a career don’t always follow neatly one after the other for him and for many NJIT students.  Rodriguez, 40, started clas...

What's Missing From Forest Mortality Projections? A Look Underground

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
You can’t see it happening. But what goes on below ground in a forest is very important in determining its fate. In a new study, scientists conclude that the sideways flow of water through soil can have an important impact on how riparian forests respond to climate change. Models used to predict th...

Ludvik Alkhoury - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2021

Monday, October 18th, 2021
Ludvik Alkhoury 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). Alkhoury works under the advisement of Professor Moshe Kam, Dean of Newark College of Engineering, in signal and image ...

Women's Soccer Blanks New Hampshire For First-Ever America East Road Win

Sunday, October 17th, 2021
It was not pretty, but like seeing the beauty in the struggle, something great came from the grind. The NJIT women's soccer team battled its way to the program's first-ever America East road victory Sunday afternoon, holding off the New Hampshire Wildcats, 1-0, at Wildcat Stadium. The victory moved...

New Methods Can Protect Data Privacy Against Quantum Computing

Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
NJIT Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Joerg Kliewer is looking to help preserve privacy by busting conventional wisdom about the future of computer security, which states that today's data protection measures, especially in Internet-of-things devices, stand absolutely no chance against ...