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NJIT's Bipin Rajendran is Named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
Bipin Rajendran, an engineer who develops computing systems that aim to match the efficiency seen in nature by studying the organizational principles of the brain, has been elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and...

NJIT Professor Receives Facebook Research Award for Data Science

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
The director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science has received an award from Facebook to support real-world analytics research. The research aims to develop faster learning patterns to make it easier for companies to extract actionable information from extremely large data sets. Institute Direc...

Pre-College 40th Anniversary Alumni Profile: Stephanie Iring Is Pursuing Biomedical Research

Monday, August 12th, 2019
Stephanie Iring grew up in a working-class community in New Jersey, where, she says, social status and educational inequality were closely related and opportunities for success were limited. “Fortunately, my grammar school teacher recommended me to the Center for Pre-College Programs [CPCP] [at NJI...

NJIT's Educational Opportunity Program Has a New Director

Thursday, August 8th, 2019
Crystal Smith has been appointed director of NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), effective July 1, 2019. Smith is responsible for EOP’s overall administration and supervision, which involves collaborating and coordinating with many universitywide departments and offices. She also sees to p...

NJIT Management Students Win Big at Avanade Conference

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
A contingent from NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), which included new dean Oya Tukel, crossed the country in June to attend the Avanade FUEL Innovation, Leadership, and Technology Conference in Pomona, Calif. Among those invited to the prestigious event were 30 Avanade Scholars fro...

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's "Best 385 Colleges" Guide for 2020

Monday, August 5th, 2019
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 385 Colleges," a designation only 13% of America’s four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeas...

How Using Virtual Reality Helps to Make Real-World Roads Safer

Friday, August 2nd, 2019
Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community. So when the North Jersey Transit Planning Authority (NJTPA) recommended replacing a few traffic lights and sto...

Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: NJIT Invests in Faculty and Student Startups

Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Last year, a vision therapy device invented at NJIT with potential as a biomarker for concussion was recognized as “most innovative breakthrough” at the Augmented World Expo Europe. Despite the international accolade, getting VERVE (Virtual Eye Rotation Vision Exercises) out of the lab and into the ...

Voice Summit 2019: World of VOICE Technology Returns to NJIT 

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
“The Largest Voice Tech Event of the Year.” That was the official event billing that stirred a groundswell of attention from technology leaders and innovators, global brands and thousands more at the 2019 VOICE Summit held July 22-25 at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).  Nearly doubl...

An NJIT-based Vision Therapy Startup Secures Major Backing from NJ Health Foundation's Venture Arm

Monday, July 29th, 2019
A campus-based health care startup with a device that employs virtual reality gaming to correct a vision dysfunction – technology designed and developed by a professor and a team of students, now alumni, in a biomedical engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) – has received a $5...