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Honors College Archie 'Tech Queen' Makes 'Remote' a Verb

Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
Nicole Campos, a freshman in the Albert Dorman Honors College pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture at Hillier College, started on her path to NJIT even before she got to high school. Her interest in architecture started when she was a kid through a curiosity of meticulous exploration in eve...

NJIT Honors Exceptional Donors at Launch of the Colton Society

Thursday, October 29th, 2020
NJIT’s inaugural inductees into its new Colton Society represent an array of disciplines, including engineering, architecture, finance, education and technology. Each, however, shares something remarkable in common: lifetime contributions to the university that exceed half a million dollars. In tri...

A Newly Minted NJIT Engineering Professor is Named a Fellow of the Academy of Optometry

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering techno...

Honors College 25th Anniversary Celebrates Past, Looks to the Future

Monday, October 26th, 2020
In the first of a series of events honoring its 25th anniversary, the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT held a live, online celebration. Reflecting on the anniversary of the college that he endowed, NJIT alumnus Albert Dorman revisited his remarks from its inauguration, and they are as relevant t...

NJIT Intern for Cisco Systems Left Her Mark in Silicon Valley, Virtually

Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Aarati Srikumar, a junior computer science major from Edison and honors student at NJIT, made the best of her summer internship with networking giant Cisco Systems despite the pandemic changing her plans to experience Silicon Valley in person. Cisco adjusted their program to be fully remote, giving...

Firefighting, Fitness, and Furniture Design are Passions for Hillier Freshman

Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
When NJIT industrial design major Christopher Hasenkopf isn't in class this semester, it might be because he's out saving someone's home, office or even their life. His local volunteer fire station in New Providence practically didn't need a dalmatian for their mascot — "I've been going around the ...

New Admissions Option Will Increase Honors Student Enrollment

Friday, October 16th, 2020
Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architec...

Honors Students Learn to Merge Information Tech and Social Consciousness

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
Ying Wu College of Computing Assistant Prof. Michael Lee, in an effort to help informatics students consider social consciousness, began teaching a new course last spring, Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality, which will be offered again in spring 2021 due to its success. The course, I...

For TEDxNJIT, 'Intersections' Discusses Navigating the Road of Complex Societal Issues

Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Global challenges will be faced head-on Saturday Oct. 10 in this year’s TEDxNJIT. Whether it’s disruptive changes unearthed by a global pandemic afflicting every person, or advances in medical technology affecting just a few, the theme “Intersections” seeks to grasp where society is heading and unde...

McNair Students, Unfazed by Disadvantages or COVID, Target Graduate Study

Monday, September 28th, 2020
Zara Williams started working here 20 years ago, just after NJIT joined the federal McNair Scholars Program to help underrepresented students achieve graduate degrees, and has now seen 22 students complete their doctorates. "Seems like it went pretty quickly," said Williams, the program's assistant...