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Elevating Academic Careers One Internship at a Time

Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
With the help of NJIT’s Career Development Services (CDS), some ambitious students have been able to elevate their academic careers through internships at big-name companies like Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan & Chase and Cisco Systems. CDS reported a sharp increase in the number of co-op and...

Science Olympiad Spotlights Collaboration and Competition

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Despite the drizzle, hundreds of middle school and high school students from throughout northern New Jersey roamed the NJIT campus Jan. 12 in pursuit of scientific victory. As participants in the 2018 New Jersey Regional Science Olympiad, coordinated by the university’s Center for Pre-College Progra...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Resolving Complex Fluid Flows

Monday, January 22nd, 2018
From large-scale weather or environmental disaster predictions and efficient design of vehicles and power generators, to understanding how bacteria propel themselves and how nutrients are delivered to different organs in our body at the cell level — researchers will need to find new ways of studying...

Matson and Sampaio Capture Single Titles at NJIT Winter Tennis Invitational

Monday, January 22nd, 2018
Freshman Holly Matson and junior Rafaella Sampaio captured the singles title in their respected flight on day two of the NJIT Winter Tennis Invitational at The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. Matson, from Taupo, New Zealand, captured the Singles Draw B title with a straight set v...

Engineer Peter Engler Relives the WWII Shanghai Ghetto in the New PBS Series, "We'll Meet Again"

Monday, January 22nd, 2018
Peter Engler was four years old when his family fled Berlin in the wake of Kristallnacht, the infamous “Night of Broken Glass.” Stateless, their passports stamped “J” for Juden by the Nazis, the Englers made their way to Shanghai, one of the only free ports in the world at the time. Soon after arriv...

NJIT and Tech Workforce Help Make Newark a Top Candidate for Amazon's HQ2

Friday, January 19th, 2018
Newark is a top 20 finalist for Amazon's HQ2, which would add to the list of corporations--like Panasonic, Audible and Mars Wrigley--taking advantage of what the city has to offer.   ​ "We have the talent," said Joel Bloom, speaking to NJ.com. "We're the pipeline, we know that at least nearl...

NJIT's Online Graduate Programs Ranked by U.S. News & World Report

Thursday, January 18th, 2018
U.S. News & World Report ranks New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) graduate computer information technology programs 17th among the “Best Online Programs” offered by universities throughout the country — up 21 slots since last year. NJIT also offers other online programs that were mentio...

PBS Conversations: NJIT's Michael Lee on Teaching the (Multicultural) World to Code

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
Michael Lee, an assistant professor of informatics who focuses on human-computer interaction, has invented a clever application to bridge the digital divide: a multi-level game called Gidget that teaches people of all ages and cultures to program by solving debugging puzzles. In a recent intervie...

Mamadou Guirassy Stands Out in MLS Combine Performance Tests

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
NJIT's Mamadou Guirassy placed in the top four in two-out-of-three categories in performance testing at the 2018 Adidas MLS Player Combine at Orlando City Stadium. Guirassy tied for fourth in the speed test (30-meter dash) at 3.93 seconds and power test (vertical jump) at 31.5 inches. Wh...

EPA Awards Multimillion Dollar Grant to Brownfield Cleanup Team

Friday, January 12th, 2018
NJIT is part of a team led by Kansas State University that has been awarded several million dollars by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide technical assistance nationwide and to all tribal governments interested in cleaning up brownfield sites. Since 2008, with funding provided by ...