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Experts at NJIT's New AI Research Center to Study Theory and Applications

Friday, October 1st, 2021
Members of NJIT's new Center for Artificial Intelligence Research will look to expand knowledge of the theory, data and applications of their field, which director Grace Wang said is quickly evolving from experimental to practical status. The center will rely heavily on external grants, such as fro...

Rene White and Regsan Watkins Named Candidates for 2021-22 Senior CLASS Award

Thursday, September 30th, 2021
NJIT fifth-year seniors Rene White and Regsan Watkins join a list of 60 NCAA men's and women's student-athletes selected as the 2021-22 Senior CLASS Award candidates. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable...

Women's Soccer Defeats Defending America East Champion Stony Brook

Thursday, September 30th, 2021
"We need to have a lot of heart this season in order to beat these really talented opponents that we know are very hard to face from last season." Those were fifth year Yasmeen Malik's words back in late August as the NJIT women's soccer team was in the midst of a trying four-game season-...

NJIT Business Incubator Offers New Programs to Minority Newark Residents

Thursday, September 30th, 2021
Minorities and underserved residents in Newark will soon have unique opportunities to establish high-tech businesses, based on three new programs from the VentureLink arm of NJIT's New Jersey Innovation Institute. Great ideas can come from anywhere, but too often there aren't enough resources avail...

Digital Archive of Newark Architecture Goes AR

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
There is nothing outwardly special about the old brick building on State Street and Broadway. To the layperson, it’s just another pile of bricks near a highway entrance. Through a phone app and a camera lens, the NJIT Littman Architecture Library’s Digital Archive of Newark Architecture (DANA) will ...

Computing Professor Explores Mixed-Reality Cure for Zoom Fatigue

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
Looking to reduce the stress that confronts people who videoconference too much — widely known as Zoom fatigue, following the work-from-home trend of the COVID pandemic — one expert from NJIT is working on new approaches to augmented and virtual reality systems. Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski...

Ying Wu College of Computing Achieves Record Incoming Class and Enrollment for Fall 2021

Monday, September 27th, 2021
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is proud to welcome a record-breaking 1,150 new students at all levels of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral study for the fall 2021 semester, a new high at 11% greater than the previous year, and representing 31% of the total NJIT student body.  ...

NJIT Board of Trustees Honors Baseball and Fencing Teams in Historic Season

Monday, September 27th, 2021
NJIT President Dr. Joel Bloom and the Board of Trustees recognized two programs Thursday, Sept. 23, inside the Campus Center. NJIT's baseball team had a historic 2021 season, which culminated with an NCAA Tournament berth and a trip to the NCAA Fayetteville Regional, and NJIT's men's and w...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 9/27/21-10/1/21

Monday, September 27th, 2021
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Bryan C. Lee Jr. '08 Named 2021 Cooper Hewitt Emerging Designer

Friday, September 24th, 2021
Bryan Lee ‘08 and his firm Colloqate have been dismantling systemic racism in the broader social arena and in the practice of architecture for some time now. In his keynote lecture during the Hillier College 2020 Design Showcase, Lee describes how, through the process and outcomes of design, designe...