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NJ Research Institutions Host Symposium to Tackle Climate Change and Planetary, Human Health

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Princeton and Stevens Institute of Technology joined to present respective research projects and explore potential areas of collaboration related to climate change, planetary and human health that would benefit the population of New Jersey and beyond. En...

Sustainability Front and Center as Bloomberg Businessweek Hosts Live Show on NJIT's Campus

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek hosts Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec took their show on the road and across the river to NJIT’s campus for a live panel show on sustainability. The Green Energy and Climate Adaptation Panel featured Jonathan Menard, chief research officer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab; D...

An Engineer and a Mathematician Win Honors at NJIT's 2022 Excellence in Research Ceremony

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
Engineer Michel Boufadel, one of the world’s chief experts on oil spills and a frequent consultant on cleanups, is the winner of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award for 2022. Denis Blackmore, a mathematician who specialized in measuring and modeling changes in a range of dynamic syst...

Artificial Intelligence Pushes Internet Device CPUs Outside the Box

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
The energy usage of 75 billion Internet-connected devices could be reduced 1,000-fold if those devices could do more thinking for themselves rather than constantly asking cloud servers for help, computer engineering Assistant Professor Shaahin Angizi believes. Artificial intelligence will be the ap...

NJIT Ranked No. 10 Nationally in Money's 'Best College for Engineering Majors'

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is a top 10 Best College for Engineering Majors in the U.S., according to Money. The universities in the top 10, which also include MIT, Princeton University and Georgia Institute of Technology, emerged from Money’s 2022 list of Best Colleges, which ranked NJIT No...

NJIT's Class of 2022 Urged to Seize the Opportunities Presented by Crises

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Crisis presents opportunity, and given the pandemic, war in Ukraine, structural racism, climate change and questions around the world’s supply of energy, food and water, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson called on the Class of 2022 at New Jersey Institute of Technology t...

Students Earn High Marks in a Return to Engineering Competitions

Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
Students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering have earned first, second and third place recognitions across steel bridge, chemical car and concrete canoe events held for inter-institutional competition. The steel bridge regional competition made its return for the first time since COVID restri...

Leader of the House Sees STEM in Action at NJIT

Thursday, April 28th, 2022
The Assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives visited New Jersey Institute of Technology to get a closer look at how STEM education and research fuels the economic mobility of the city, region and country. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-MA-05, toured NJIT’s Makerspace — the largest in the sta...

NJIT Expert Evaluating Self-Driving Car Behavior at Yellow Lights

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
There's Musk-level hype about autonomous vehicles, and then there's NJIT Associate Professor Joyoung Lee working through painstaking and vital research of how self-driving systems should behave at stop lights. He studies transportation systems as a whole, not self-driving cars specifically, but his...

For Jennifer and Dominic, Scholarships Opened the Door to Science and Engineering at NJIT

Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Scholarships enabled Jennifer Cabral and Dominic Bosi to overcome financial hurdles and study science and engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Cabral and Bosi are both first-generation students from working-class families. As such, they needed help to afford college. Generous donors s...