Students' Unique Platform for Face-Shield Production Hits Close to Home

Friday, May 15th, 2020
For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a mechanical engineering major at NJI...

Senior Success: Sravya Vegunta Is Going to Medical School

Thursday, May 14th, 2020
“It’s a little bittersweet to have to leave without being able to say proper goodbyes to everyone,” lamented Sravya Vegunta, a senior Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) scholar, about graduating from NJIT during the coronavirus pandemic. “But I’m definitely glad to be moving on to that next stage, ...

Senior Success: Greg Tanis to Join L3Harris as a Systems Engineer

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
As a third-generation Highlander, mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Greg Tanis looks forward to joining L3Harris as a systems engineer and takes a minute to reflect on his time at NJIT. Congratulations, Greg!

NJ Public Universities Join to Launch Initiative to 'Bring Students Home'

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Ten public universities and colleges in New Jersey have joined forces and issued a call for the over 100,000 state residents who attend higher education institutions out-of-state to return home, enroll in New Jersey institutions, and help rebuild the state as part the New Jersey Scholar Corps progra...

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 prestigiou...

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...