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New Veterans' Lounge Opens for NJIT Military Members

Monday, November 12th, 2018
Already ranked nationwide as a “Best Institution for Veterans” by College Factual, a leading source of higher education analytics and insights, NJIT has just unveiled a new veterans’ lounge to support military members in the NJIT community. The new lounge features computers with CAC card readers, a...

Estimating Financial Risk Using AI in FinTech

Monday, November 12th, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining ground in a broad spectrum of industries, with its potential in the financial services sector particularly at a tipping point. As part of the growing subsector known as FinTech (Financial Technology), which involves using algorithms and other technology tools ...

NJIT Tennis Hosts Grand Slam Series Event for Special Olympic Athletes

Saturday, November 10th, 2018
The NJIT men's and women's tennis teams hosted a Tennis Grand Slam Series Event for Special Olympic Athletes on Saturday, November 10, coordinated by the NJIT head coaches Ira Miller, Zaki Abdelrahman and Casey Henderson, the Coach Education and Sports Training Director at the La...

College Factual Ranks NJIT as a "Best College for Veterans"

Saturday, November 10th, 2018
College Factual, a leading source of higher education analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT in the top 10 percent nationwide in overall “Best Institution for Veterans” for 2019. NJIT is ranked 154 out of 1,820 institutions. The “Best College for Veterans” category looks at 24 different factors to...

NJIT Men's Basketball Brushes Off Colgate in Home-Opening Thriller

Friday, November 9th, 2018
Senior Reilly Walsh scored a career-high and game-high 21 points as NJIT outlasted Colgate University, 81-78, in overtime in the season-opener on Tuesday at the Wellness and Events Center (WEC). But it was another senior that sealed the win. Diandre Wilson scored NJIT's final six po...

NJIT Establishes New School of Applied Engineering and Technology

Friday, November 9th, 2018
An array of more than 100 technology-focused engineers, device designers and project managers, joined by NJIT alumni and elected officials, gathered on campus today to mark the establishment of NJIT’s School of Applied Engineering and Technology (SAET) within the university’s Newark College of Engin...

WATCH LIVE: TEDxNJIT on 'Reframing'

Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Watch the TEDxNJIT presentation on 'Reframing,' which brings together future leaders from business, academia and the arts to address a range of topics. Speakers will explore assumptions that limit solutions to social problems and broadening perspectives to find new opportunities for corss cutting ap...

NJIT Invited to Present at National HBCU Conference

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
In Washington D.C. in September, the U.S. Department of Education’s White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) held the 2018 National HBCU Week Conference, “HBCU Competitiveness: Aligning Institutional Missions with America’s Priorities.” Martin Tuchman School of M...

Architecture Alumnus Wins Medal at the London Design Biennale

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
The London Design Biennale 2018 Medal for the most outstanding overall contribution has been awarded to architectural historian and NJIT alumnus Mohamed Elshahed ’05, who curated “Modernist Indignation,” an Egyptian installation that pays homage to Al Emara, the first Arabic-language ...

Media Advisory: NJIT Announces the Creation of the School of Applied Engineering and Technology

Monday, November 5th, 2018
WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announces the creation of the School of Applied Engineering and Technology within the university’s Newark College of Engineering. Designed to meet spiraling demand in the job market for applied engineering technologists in industries reliant upon produ...