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For the Class of 2025, Resiliency and Help are the Keys to Success

Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
“Stay resilient in everything you do,” NJIT civil engineering alumna Gabrielle Grompone encouraged members of the Class of 2025 during the university’s annual Convocation, held in NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. “Resiliency brought me here,” said Grompone ’17, ’20, who ...

NJIT Grads Land Jobs from Internships They Found at Career Fair

Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s next career fair will connect students with more than 165 employers offering some 1,000 jobs, internships and cooperative educational experiences. Participating employers include GE, Verizon, Moody’s, Merck, UPS, New York Life, the FBI and the U.S. Patent a...

NJIT's David Bader Selected to Receive the 2021 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) has named David Bader as the recipient of the 2021 Sidney Fernbach Award. Bader is a distinguished professor and founder of the Department of Data Science, and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science, at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Establishe...

NJ Higher Ed Presidents Pen Letter to Congress Advocating Pell Grant Increases

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
To the New Jersey Congressional Delegation  Dear Members of Congress:  On behalf of our institutions—and, more important, on behalf of students of modest means  throughout New Jersey and across the country—we write to urge your support for doubling the  maximum Pell Grant award...

University Learning Center Renamed to Honor Alumna Norma Clayton

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology yesterday officially recommissioned the university's tutoring laboratory as the Norma J. Clayton '81 Learning Center, in honor of the alumna and benefactor of the university, who earned a B.S. in industrial administration here, spurring an accomplished leadership c...

More Students Than Ever Attend NJIT, Most Diverse First-Year Class in History

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
NJIT is starting the 2021 academic year by setting records with its largest and most diverse student body ever. Total enrollment is up 25% over the last 10 years and this fall hit its highest mark yet at 11,901 students. The NJIT first-year class makes up a sizable part of that growth, with 25% more...

2021 Virtual New Jersey Chemistry Olympians Tackle COVID Vaccines, Chemical Pollution

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
This summer, the 2021 Virtual New Jersey Chemistry Olympics (vNJCO) once again became the grounds for a fierce two weeks of competition between young chemists from high schools around the state. By the end, more than 130 attendees joined the competition’s award ceremony live — tuning in from England...

TODAY: NJIT 2021 Convocation Ceremony and Faculty Award Presentation

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2025 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WHEN: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 3...

NJIT Continues Rankings Climb in Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, Top 25% in the U.S.

Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology ranks in the top quarter of U.S. universities and colleges in the The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings for 2022. For the second year in a row, NJIT has earned a spot in the top 25% of universities, jumping another 16 spots from the 2021 ...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 9/20/21-9/24/21

Monday, September 20th, 2021
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...