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Walsh, Gibbs Selected to ASUN All-Academic Team

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
NJIT junior Reilly Walsh and sophomore Shyquan Gibbs have been named to the 2018 ASUN All-Academic Team, as announced by conference officials Saturday. Walsh, the only member on the eight-player list with a 4.0 GPA, was also one of just four unanimous selections. This marks the second-consecutive s...

Need for Women in Tech is Undeniable

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
Since 1987, our nation has celebrated Women’s History Month each March, taking time to recognize the impact of women on the betterment of our society and our world. Here, on the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) campus, we mark this month with a number of programs designed to highlight the c...

NJIT Receives Another Safe Campus Ranking

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
The National Council for Home Safety and Security, a trade association of home security professionals that advocates for safe communities and home safety, ranks NJIT among the Top 100 Safest College Campuses in America. The university joins five other Garden State institutions of higher education in...

ROI-NJ Names President Bloom, NJIT Execs Most Influential People in New Jersey Business

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
ROI-NJ, a publication that reports on New Jersey economic news, released its “ROI Influencers Power List” for 2018. Featured on the list are Joel S. Bloom, NJIT’s president; Donald Sebastian, president of New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT Corporation; and Tom Gregorio, NJII’s senior ex...

Makerspace Debut: A Custom-Designed Instrument for Energy Exploration

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
There is a potentially limitless supply of renewable, carbon-free energy within the Earth’s crust if we could only permeate the thick layers of crystalline rock that sit over it, barring access. So far, success in harnessing the Earth’s own heat has been mostly limited to tapping the boiling ho...

NJIT Featured in 2018 I'm First! Guide to College

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Students who are the first in their family to pursue higher education or come from a low-income household continue to be severely underrepresented on college campuses, despite high educational aspirations. A 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences found tha...

Movement Towards March Madness Starts Monday

Monday, February 26th, 2018
The No. 4 seeded NJIT Highlanders (14-15, 7-7 ASUN) will host the No. 5 seeded North Florida Ospreys (13-18, 7-7 ASUN) in the ASUN Quarterfinals Monday night at the state-of-the art Wellness and Events Center (WEC) in Newark. The Highlanders closed the regular season with a 76-67 victory at USC Ups...

In the Heights Musical opens on Wednesday, February 28

Monday, February 26th, 2018
The Rutgers-Newark/NJIT Theatre and Arts Technology program presents “In the Heights”, a Tony Award- winning musical with lyrics by Lin Manuel Miranda, book by Quiara Alegria Hudes and directed by Michael Kerley, associate director of the theatre program. Using Afro Latino and rap music directed by...

NJII Tapped to Train Celgene Corporation Staff for Cell Therapy Manufacturing

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
The New Jersey Innovation Institute, an NJIT corporation, is collaborating with Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company, to train its workforce in the manufacture of a new generation of cell therapy technologies to be produced in Celgene’s facilities in Warren and Summit, NJ. Subjec...

NJIT Board of Trustees Adds Three New Members

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announces the appointment of three new members to its Board of Trustees, including two alumni. Joining the Board of Trustees are Robert Cohen '83, '84, '87, Diane Montalto '82 and Dennis M. Toft, Esq. “In addition to Robert and Diane being alumni of NJIT, t...