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Two NJIT Students Win Prestigious Fellowships to Grow in their Fields of Study

Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Two NJIT undergraduates won prestigious fellowships. Olivia Kolakowski ’24 was awarded the Brooke Owens Fellowship, and Milan Patel ’23 has been selected as an Amgen Scholar at Columbia University.  The Fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable you...

4 Leaders from NJIT Named Higher Ed Influencers by ROI-NJ

Thursday, April 6th, 2023
The business publication ROI-NJ recognized four leaders at New Jersey Institute of Technology in its annual lists of higher education influencers, including President Teik C. Lim. Lim made a list of presidents of New Jersey universities and colleges and the others — Martin Tuchman School of Managem...

NJIT Hosts Conference Asking: 'How Can Artificial Intelligence Be a Force for Good?'

Friday, March 24th, 2023
How can we prevent artificial intelligence from exacerbating systemic discrimination and leverage it as a force for good to promote social and environmental justice? Policy experts from organizations such as the Innocence Project, prominent data scientists and others will discuss the profound, but ...

NJIT Names John Pelesko Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has selected John Pelesko to serve as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs after a nationwide search. Pelesko, currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), will start on Aug. 1. Pelesk...

Robotics Club Hosts Tourney, Qualifies for World Champs Again

Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
NJIT's Robotics Club took home gold at their first competition held here in Newark, besting the competition which included Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Seton Hall universities. The victory qualifies Highlander robotics for the World Championships, April 27-29 in Dallas. The club also qualified in 2020 b...

NJIT Career Fair Growth Fuels Changes, Innovations for Improved Experiences and Outcomes

Monday, February 27th, 2023
NJIT’s Career Development Services hosted its marquee event, again besting attendance and participation numbers over its previous career fair. Taking a page out of the logistics-improvement playbook of participating companies like UPS, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon and others, CDS implemented chan...

'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27th, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast ...

Monarchs & Milkweed Selected as Winning Proposal in ADHC First-Year Seminar Biodiversity Initiatives

Friday, February 17th, 2023
NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College held its First-Year Seminar Biodiversity Initiatives colloquium, in which four student-led proposals were presented to renovate the space near the Summit Street parking garage.  These student-driven initiatives allow for the Urban Ecology Lab, ADHC, the Real...

Startup Jobs Fair Connects NJIT Students to Local Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
NJIT's Entrepreneur Society hosts an annual startup job fair, providing students with the opportunity to pursue careers and meet directly with the founders of new local companies. Hundreds of students attend, many looking for the perfect match, while others were there to network or learn about the ...

Two Members of the NJIT Community are Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Alvarez was one of 169 inventors from 110...
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