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NJIT Undergraduate Researchers Secure Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Monday, April 15th, 2024
From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, two NJIT students — Danna Valentina Sanchez Hernandez and Owen West — have been named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized as among th...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Inn...

Chief Engineer of Port Authority NY/NJ Rizwan Baig Visits NJIT

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Rizwan Baig, chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, visited NJIT to give a presentation on building the 21st-century transportation system. His talk, covering the architectural, design, construction and asset management aspects of the agency, highlighted the agency’s plan t...

'Green Brick City' Selected as Winning Proposal in Honors College Biodiversity Initiative

Friday, March 1st, 2024
NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College held its First-Year Seminar Biodiversity Initiatives colloquium, in which six student-led proposals were presented to renovate an area next to Kupfrian Hall.  These student-driven initiatives allow for the Urban Ecology Lab (UEL), ADHC, the Real Estate Devel...

Ingenuity of NJIT's Budding Engineers Spotlighted at NCE Showcase

Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Recently, the ingenuity of Newark College of Engineering’s brightest first-year students was on full display at the 2024 NCE First Year Engineering Design Showcase. Forty-two teams featured in this year’s showcase to present a wide range of innovative engineering projects originating from their fal...

NJIT Featured on Amazon Prime Video Series 'The College Tour en Español'

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology is featured in the premiere season of “The College Tour en Español,” a new series from Emmy-nominated producers, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Hosted by Lorena Segura, “The College Tour en Español” travels the country, showcasing colleges and univer...

Remarkable Sibling Duo Volunteer at Saint Michael's While Attending NJIT

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
This story is republished with permission from Saint Michael's Medical Center By the time she was in seventh grade, Pooja Datir’s teachers ran out of grade-level material to give her. Her teachers suggested she start taking college courses. Her brother Rohit maxed out in fifth grade and also start...

Registration Open for NJIT's Spring Career Fair

Friday, January 19th, 2024
NJIT’s spring career fair is right around the corner and registration is now open for students on the Handshake platform. Career Development Services biannual career fair has become one of the most anticipated events for students. The fall semester fair, held last September, was the largest-ever pa...

Middle and High School Students Compete in Regional Science Olympiad at NJIT

Friday, January 19th, 2024
Dozens of teams of middle and high school students came to New Jersey Institute of Technology last week for a regional round of the annual New Jersey Science Olympiad hands-on learning competition. NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs, along with the university’s Newark College of Engineering, se...

Social Media Star, Milad Mirg, Explains His NJIT Connections and Work Ethic

Thursday, January 18th, 2024
Milad Mirghahari, a social media influencer known publicly as Milad Mirg, has more than six million followers each on TikTok and YouTube and is a first-generation NJIT student, Albert Dorman Honors College member and computer science major. Just like NASA astronaut Wally Schirra and Chicago Cubs pi...