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Innovation Day 2018

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
An interdisciplinary engineering team developing an enzyme-blocking drug designed to reduce levels of LDL, or “bad cholesterol,” was the winner of this year’s TechQuest challenge, announced this week at NJIT’s sixth annual Innovation Day. Senior Victoria Harbour, a chemical engineering major, and j...

Martin Tuchman School of Management: A Force for Salesforce

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
For the past year and a half, Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) has been collaborating with Salesforce, a widely used customer relationship management (CRM) and cloud-computing platform. It’s a partnership that has enabled NJIT students to not only become trained in the platform — adding va...

Fake News, Cyberbullying, #MeToo: Law, Technology and Culture Director on Living in the Digital Age

Monday, April 9th, 2018
Since 2017, NJIT students, faculty and administrators have gathered for “Talking Back to Hate,” a teach-in about ways to understand and overcome evolving challenges in the expanding digital media landscape, such as misinformation, cyberbullying, trolling and more. “Fake news is false information th...

NJIT's Justin Etts Drives in Game-Winning Run in Ninth; Highlanders Tops No. 22 FGCU

Monday, April 9th, 2018
NJIT junior Justin Etts drove in the game-winning run as visiting NJIT topped No. 22 FGCU, 4-3, to conclude the three-game ASUN Conference series at Swanson Stadium Sunday afternoon. NJIT (12-12, 2-4 ASUN) scored single runs late in the game, delivering runs in the seventh, eighth and nin...

Come Meet NJIT's Undergraduate Inventors

Monday, April 9th, 2018
Innovation Day is a showcase of cutting-edge, student-led research that includes inventions that improve lives, novel business ideas, computer games and fundamental scientific research. This year, nearly three dozen student projects – from mapping applications for the transportation industry, to hum...

NJIT Makerspace to Host 3D-Printed Prosthetics Build-a-Thon May 5

Thursday, April 5th, 2018
Makerspace at NJIT, a training-focused, rapid prototyping facility, will host an event to build and assemble hand prosthetics to help children and young adults in need. The 10,000-square-foot space operates equipment ranging from small 3D printers to large industrial machining centers, such as...

Eight-Year-Old Gavin Brady Signs with NJIT Men's Lacrosse

Thursday, April 5th, 2018
Eight-year-old Gavin Brady, from Pompton Plains, became the newest addition to the NJIT men's lacrosse team roster with the help of Friends of Jaclyn Foundation held at the Wellness and Events Center Wednesday afternoon. Friends of Jaclyn aims to improve the quality of life for children battling pe...

NFL Star Justin Tuck Visits NJIT, Inspires Young Students to Tackle College and Career Dreams

Thursday, April 5th, 2018
On April 3, Newark-area high school students and teachers arrived at NJIT in anticipation of meeting two-time Super Bowl champion and New York Giants Hall of Fame inductee, Justin Tuck. Justin and Lauran Tuck, co-founders of the nonprofit Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy, appeared as special guest...

Undergraduate Ecosystems: Engineering Tissues with 3D Printers

Thursday, April 5th, 2018
INSTRUCTIVE BIOMATERIALS AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING LABORATORY Despite significant efforts, the lack of organs and tissues for transplantation poses a major hurdle in medicine. The Instructive Biomaterials and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (IBAM-Lab) develops novel approaches to address this ga...

Undergraduate Ecosystems: In Cyberspace with Social Bots

Thursday, April 5th, 2018
Social Interaction Laboratory The Social Interaction Lab is an interdisciplinary research hub that combines psychology, communication, computing and design to understand how people interact with technology. The lab focuses in particular on studying technologies that are social, such as mobile-healt...