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NJIT String Ensemble's Winter Performance Celebrates Music Inspired From Around the World

Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Students and faculty of NJIT’s String Ensemble have released a digital production of their annual Winter Concert Series performance celebrating internationally-inspired music and diversity within the university community.  The performance, directed by NJIT music instructor Christine ...

Computing Sophomore Wins Application Developer Pitch Competition

Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Vrushti Dalal, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Sayreville, won the new University Innovation Challenge, a pitch-style competition sponsored by the Guardian Life Insurance Company. For young entrepreneurs, pitch competitions are a popular way to present concepts, ho...

Computer Science Student Wins Business Challenge With Health Care App

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Yashwee J. Kothari, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Parsippany, placed first among student competitors at this year’s New Business Model Competition for her innovative work supporting patients living with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The annual competition was host...

NJIT President Speaks on Innovation Goals and Receives Business Award

Friday, December 4th, 2020
NJIT President Joel S. Bloom joined a panel discussion about statewide innovation, and received an award for public service, at the New Jersey Business and Industry Association's virtual Public Policy Forum on December 1. The panel, "The Modern Innovation State: Challenges and Solutions for Driving...

NJIT Team Wins Award at International Entrepreneurship Competition

Monday, November 30th, 2020
A team of NJIT entrepreneurs was among those recognized by TiE Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship around the world, at the organization’s second annual TiE University Pitch Competition this fall, which included 13 teams representing TiE chapters from India, Isr...

Winners of Virtual HackNJIT Made Music, Chat App, Disease Detector

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Highlanders won the top three prizes at November's HackNJIT competition, with software allowing friends to remotely jam together, video chat with speech translations and even detect pneumonia in chest X-rays. The annual event was virtual this year due to COVID-19, which for a hackathon tends t...

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...