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Student-Led Rooftop Therapy Garden Fosters Biodiversity, Supports Improved 'Green Rating'

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
When you visit the rooftop at the Campus Center, students are now invited to relax and enjoy a holistic healing experience from the Newark Rooftop Therapy Garden.  Students at NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College are working toward creating a greener, more sustainable urban environment in keepi...

New Jersey Institute of Technology Receives Transformative $3M Donation

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
Pioneering venture capitalist John Martinson is donating $3 million to New Jersey Institute of Technology to broaden and deepen the curriculum and real-world experiences for top scholars at its Albert Dorman Honors College and throughout the university. The largest single gift in the 27 years of AD...

Convocation Speakers Share Advice with Class of '26, Most Diverse Ever

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Jennifer Hensley 15, who majored in chemical engineering and now works for Merck helping determine long-term strategies for cancer immunotherapy drugs, told the incoming class at NJIT convocation yesterday that networking and time management were the most important skills you can learn outside of th...

Newark Campus Comes to Life as Students Return, Fresh Ambitions in Hand

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students arrived on campus en masse today, with a record 1,600 new students leading the way, plus thousands more sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students excited to start a new semester fully in-person for the first time since fall 2020. Underrepres...

Kaily, Nyssa and Oluwanifemi: Meet the 2022 Mayor's Honors Scholars at NJIT

Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Oluwanifemi Fuwa fabricated face masks to protect people from COVID-19. Kaily Peixoto volunteered at a senior center and handed out scarves to homeless individuals at Newark’s Penn Station.  Nyssa Nixon volunteered at Isaiah House shelter through Jack and Jill of America and tutored peers as ...

NJIT Rises to No. 75 on Forbes' 2022 List of America's Top Colleges

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology jumped 114 places to No. 75 on Forbes’ 2022 list of America’s Top Colleges.  The national ranking is based primarily on return on investment and outcomes for students. “Schools placed well if their students graduated on time, secured high salaries and low deb...

Goldwater Scholar Creates Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring System to Implement in Newark

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
Vishva Rana ‘23, a Goldwater Scholar, has always been interested in addressing sustainable issues. The mechanical engineering major, minoring in innovation and entrepreneurship, has been working on a real-time air quality monitoring system and hopes to see it implemented in Newark’s Ironbound. Last...

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 388 Colleges' Guide for 2023

Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
At NJIT, students  are  “learning  on  an  Ivy  League  level,”  getting  “practical  career-focused  education”  at  “a  fairly  affordable  price.” - The Princeton Review New Jersey Institute of Technology has again b...

Highlander Foundry Showcase Gives Students Opportunity to Present their Startups

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
After concluding their eight-week summer program, NJIT students presented their startups, giving them an opportunity to experience entrepreneurship and business creation. The Highlander Foundry program is a summer startup incubator that helps NJIT students and alumni grow with the same techniques a...

From Disease Detection to Criminal Forensics, Student Inventions Energize NJIT's Summer Campus

Monday, August 1st, 2022
A rapid point-of-care device with a unique electrode structure designed to identify toxin molecules in human fluids was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium. Designer Aditi Sathe, a sophomore at Lehigh...