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Hillier College Studio To Propose Improvements to Newark Penn Station

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Working closely with New Jersey Transit staff, municipal planners, and other stakeholders, a fall studio at HCAD taught by Darius Sollohub will conceptually investigate both the interior and exterior areas of Newark Penn Station. The studio will serve as a design vanguard that anticipates a $190 mil...

Prof. Goldman's Award Winning Photography Comes Full Circle

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Professor Glenn Goldman is known for his many talents as an educator and innovator, and for his many contributions to the School of Art + Design. Another wonderful talent and powerful expression is visible in his award winning photography featured in this year's AIA West Jersey calendar.&n...

NJIT and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra To Bring Classical Music into the Digital Age

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Music lovers know that there is nothing like a live performance, but the COVID-19 pandemic inspired Newark's New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to challenge Ying Wu College of Computing faculty and students to investigate better ways to present virtual concerts using mixed-reality technology. The orches...

Newark's 1st Precinct Building Reimagined by Community and Students

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
On behalf of Newark’s Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Junius Williams, the city’s historian and chair of the Museum Advisory Committee (MAC), with a team of students from NJIT, is leading the effort to transform the 1st  Precinct police building, an historic symbol of oppression, into a communit...

Theodore C. Landsmark Gives Address to Hillier College Class of 2021

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
The graduating Class of 2021 was honored and feted in all of the ways possible; they walked across the stage in caps and gowns and were acknowledged in person by remarks from the Dean followed by a return to Weston Hall for a reception and balloon release, and then joined again for a virtual celebra...

NJIT and Sustainable Energy Development Firm Ørsted Announce Partnership

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Ørsted, the world leader in offshore wind development, lays the foundation for a partnership that will provide new needs-based support for undergraduate scholarships and pre-college STEM programs at ...

Hillier College Professor Schuman Gets High Marks and Dual Honors

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Hillier College Prof. Tony Schuman is being recognized again this year with the Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence. Originally awarded last year, celebrations and the official award were postponed until this year. Schuman has also earned the 2021 designation of Master Teacher fr...

NJIT, Israeli Researchers Use AI and Computer Vision to Predict Space Weather

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
It's not your typical five-day forecast, as researchers with the Institute for Future Technologies, a joint venture of NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, are improving solar weather prediction by adding data visualization techniques to their existing artificial intelligence method...

NJIT Experts Work with City and State on Regional Development

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Prof. Darius Sollohub, who serves on the New Jersey Committee of the Regional Plan Association, and has advised the Newark NJ administrations of Cory Booker and Ras Baraka on airport, housing, parking, and rapid transit policies; and Dr. Colette Santasieri, who is Executive Director of the Center fo...

Hillier College Research Team on Community Based Design Programs

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
The recently formed Newark Design Collaborative (NDC) is engaging four students in a research project to study how other schools of architecture across the country have structured their community design engagement initiatives, from issues of scope and mission to practical details like funding and li...