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Celebrating NJIT Scholarships: Student, Alum Thank Donors for Support

Friday, April 30th, 2021
A generous scholarship enabled Charu Arya to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology, and her professors helped solidify her career path. Indeed, both financial assistance and academic support fueled her success. Arya ’21 reflected on that fruitful journey during NJIT’s annual Scholarship Brunch,...

NJIT Student Earns Top Prize in Statewide Business Pitch Competition

Thursday, April 29th, 2021
A computer science major at New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned the top prize in a statewide collegiate competition that judges pitches for innovative business ideas. The student, Yashwee Kothari ’22, pitched a mobile application for tracking the symptoms of people recovering from traumat...

NJIT Athletics Hosts 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic June 7

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Register for the 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic  NEWARK, NJ--The Department of NJIT Athletics will hold its 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic, presented by ikon.5 architects on Monday, June 7, 2021, at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township, N.J. The Highlanders Golf Classic is one...

Researchers Creating Drones with Artificial Intelligence to Help Firefighters

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Human-computer interaction researchers at NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University are exploring how AI-enabled drones could communicate with people at the scene, so that firefighters can save more lives and property. Firefighters already use drones because they can go where people can't, while huma...

NJIT and the Newark Airport City Coalition Partner with Cities and Airports

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
April 30th, from 8:15am - 4pm NJIT and the Newark Airport City Coalition are hosting a one-day virtual conference focused on how cities can work together with their airports to optimize economic, societal, and environmental benefits in support of job generation and equitable, inclusive growth. ...

NJIT Selected as EPA Region 2 Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities Provider

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
NJIT has been chosen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide training and technical assistance to communities in EPA Region 2, which comprises New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, under the Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Program. Much of th...

Interior Designers Palacio and des Lauriers Win Awards and Recognition

Monday, April 26th, 2021
Nicole Palacio and Okhyun Des Lauriers were both awarded scholarships for interior design by the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality (NEWH).  Palacio is a 3rd year design student who submitted work she completed in 2nd year with Prof. Goldman. Des Lauriers is also a third year interior d...

Transdisciplinary Designs for a Sustainable Future

Monday, April 26th, 2021
The spring Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design (eLCAd 2021) symposium brought together experts and practitioners working in life cycle assessment with architects and designers, with the goal of establishing shared language, tools and applications across disciplines and scales. The American...

Learning and the Design of Equitable Education

Monday, April 26th, 2021
Mark Thaler, M.Arch ‘94, is co-leading Gensler’s Global Education Practice, where they have set out to address the inequities in education and reimagine learning. Using research and the tools of design they are working with educators, administrators, school districts and students to distinguish how ...

Hillier College Welcomes New Director to the School of Architecture

Monday, April 26th, 2021
Kelly Hutzell, an urban designer and licensed architect, brings fifteen years of teaching and academic program development experience to her role as director of the School of Architecture at NJIT. Her academic career has been bolstered by more than a decade of practice, including at Machado and Silv...