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One Year In, East Orange Shines as 'Future Ready' Exemplar of Digital Learning

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
Paulette Salomon distinctly recalls April of 2016 as a critical point in her school district’s journey to provide the right digital learning resources and opportunities to the students of East Orange, New Jersey — a district where she has been an educator for 22 years, and has served as the educatio...

NJIT Volleyball Sweeps EIVA Conference Weekly Honors

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
Alvaro Gimeno and Luca Berger were named Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Offensive Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week, respectively, the EIVA Conference announced Monday afternoon. Gimeno, the Highlanders newcomer, notches his first EIVA Of...

Free Faculty Jazz Concert at NJIT

Monday, March 19th, 2018
The NJIT-Rutgers Theatre Program, co-sponsored by the Jim Wise Archive for Music Endowment and the Albert Dorman Honors College, presents their annual jazz concert featuring faculty and guest professionals. Featuring: Dave Rimelis, conductor of the jazz ensemble at NJIT through the Music ...

NJIT to Host Professional Communication and Interviewing Seminar for Engineers

Monday, March 19th, 2018
Newark College of Engineering (NCE) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a professional seminar on March 28 featuring industry speakers, a panel discussion and a networking session. Keynoting the seminar is Greg Sauter. Sauter has 30 years in the engineering industry and is the fo...

NJIT's Online MBA Program Ranked 26th in Nation

Monday, March 19th, 2018
BestColleges.com has ranked NJIT’s online Master of Business Administration (MBA) program among the best in the country. At No. 26, NJIT joins only one other New Jersey higher-education institution cited in the Top 50. According to BestColleges.com, the MBA “is one of the most highly sought-after g...

He's Chasing Genius: Peter Ma '07

Friday, March 16th, 2018
Peter Ma is co-founder of Doctor Hazel, an AI that detects skin cancer in real time.  He’s part of the Intel Software Innovator program, which supports innovative, independent developers who display an ability to create and demonstrate forward-looking projects.  A software developer for mo...

"Doing More with Less" Conference Explores Innovative Responses to Environmental Sustainability

Friday, March 16th, 2018
The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold a one-day Women Designing the Future conference—“The Environment: Doing More with Less”—on Friday, March 23. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the university’s Campus Center Ballrooms A and B. Confere...

New Jersey Innovation Institute's Cell & Gene Therapy Center Launches Biopharma Training Program

Friday, March 16th, 2018
The New Jersey Innovation Institute, (NJII) an NJIT Corporation, has announced that its Cell and Gene Therapy Development Center has launched a training program to upgrade the knowledge and skills of biopharmaceutical professionals in the processing of new, breakthrough classes of biologic therapies...

Power Up: Computing Student Publishes Hand-Drawn Game on Google Play

Friday, March 16th, 2018
Prior to taking the game modification development course taught by University Lecturer D.J. Kehoe last spring, computer science major Angela Vitaletti ’18 had never developed or programmed a videogame before. “I would always bite off more than I could chew, and never finish,” said Vitaletti, w...

Leading T.Y. Lin International: Alvaro Piedrahita '73

Thursday, March 15th, 2018
For more than 40 years, in a career that has included awards and special recognition for innovative design and successful delivery of major infrastructure projects, Alvaro J. Piedrahita, P.E. has successfully led technical design professionals on multi-million dollar transportation infrastructure pr...