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May 5 Is Deadline for Ordering Commencement Regalia

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
Class of 2020 graduates have until this Tuesday, May 5, to order their Commencement regalia and have it shipped to them. Wearing Commencement regalia is necessary to participate in NJIT’s virtual Commencement ceremony, to be held Friday, June 12. Students are urged to visit the Commencement website ...

Engineering Student Lands J&J Co-op, Named NJIT's Intern of the Year

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
When Jeremy Bedient was navigating Career Development Services’ (CDS) Spring 2019 Career Fair, seeking a co-op with Johnson & Johnson was nowhere on his radar. But at the moment he passed by the company’s supply-chain booth and saw there was no line, he figured “why not” and took advantage of th...

Theater Returns to NJIT: Virtual Series Explores Quarantine Life, Zoom As Stage

Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
Even in the social distancing era, the show must go on for the art world. That includes the NJIT/Rutgers-Newark theatre arts community, which is soon returning to its audiences with a string of all-new virtual performances exploring art, click-based technology and social connections during physical ...

Scholarship Recipients are Winners in Community Service

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
Volunteerism continues to be part of the foundation of NJIT. In 2019 alone, the university’s students contributed more than 67,000 hours of community service and gave their time to over 300 community-based organizations. Among the many volunteers worthy of recognition are the recipients of Career De...

NJIT 2020 Goldwater Scholar Class Among Largest In U.S.

Thursday, April 16th, 2020
NJIT undergrads continue to earn the nation’s top academic honors, the latest being a new university record of four students named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized among the country’s most prest...

With an NSF RAPID Grant, NJIT Engineers Build a New Model to Track COVID-19

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
A team of environmental engineers at NJIT is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed, temperature and social distancing. To date, modelers are la...

Meeting the Demand: Honors Scholars Produce Hundreds of Personal Protective Equipment

Thursday, April 9th, 2020
It all started with an email sent by NJIT/Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) alumnus, Biren Bhatt, M.D., to Louis Hamilton, ADHC dean, as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading with lightning speed throughout the New York-New Jersey area. Dr. Bhatt, an attending emergency physician at Hackensack Me...

Six Highlanders Earn EIVA All-Conference Honors

Monday, April 6th, 2020
Six Highlanders were recognized to the 2020 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) All-Conference team, headed by Uvaldo Acosta Memorial Co-Player of the Year Alvaro Gimeno and Freshman of the Year Julian Meissner the league office announced Tuesday after...

NJIT Designers Fabricate Masks, Shields and Swabs to Battle COVID-19

Monday, March 30th, 2020
As emergency response teams in the region scramble to acquire dwindling medical supplies to combat the surge in COVID-19 (coronavirus) infections, diverse members of the NJIT community – from engineers to physicists to advanced manufacturing speciali...

Daniel Meza, Hillier's First Fulbright Scholar, Works in Slime Mold

Thursday, March 26th, 2020
Students applying for Fulbright scholarships often see their work described as advanced, insightful, sophisticated or any number of similar platitudes -- but for senior industrial design major Daniel Meza the word was also slimy. Meza, who plans to graduate in December from Hillier College of A...