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Men's Basketball Defends Its Way to Win in Non-Conference Finale vs. Morgan State

Tuesday, December 31st, 2024
The NJIT men's basketball team started its New Year's celebration early with a Block Party at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center on Sunday afternoon, blocking 14 shots en route to a 69-53 victory in its non-conference finale vs. Morgan State. Veteran big man Kjell de Graaf&nbs...

NJIT Grad Student Showcases 3D-Printed Innovation for Solar Eclipse Observations at AGU Meeting

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
NJIT physics graduate student Sam Granovsky presented groundbreaking findings on the solar corona during the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse at the Annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting in Washington, D.C., held December 9-13, 2024. Using a custom-built, 3D-printed spectrograph of his ...

NJIT Honors Faculty and Staff at Inaugural Nexus of Excellence Awards

Monday, December 23rd, 2024
NJIT hosted its inaugural Nexus of Excellence Awards celebration, a new tradition that unites several long-standing ceremonies into a singular event highlighting exceptional contributions to the university community. Held at the Jim Wise Theater, the event celebrated achievements in research, instru...

CME Alum Starts a Bright Future at Rutgers University

Friday, December 20th, 2024
Gennady Gor, associate professor of the Chemical and Materials Engineering department, was overcome with joy for the second time when his second undergraduate researcher, Nicholas Corrente defended his Ph.D. thesis at Rutgers University. Nick joined my group at NJIT in 2018 to work on thermodynamic...

NJIT Appoints Steve Saperstein '84 Chair of Foundation Board of Directors

Friday, December 20th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), an R1 polytechnic university, is pleased to announce that alumnus Steven B. Saperstein ’84 will become the chair of the NJIT Foundation Board of Directors on January 1, 2025. The Foundation Board is responsible for stewarding the university’s endowment and ...

NJIT's Honors College Scholars Present Research at Interdisciplinary Forum

Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Over 100 Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) scholars showcased their semester's research at the Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum, featuring work from three foundational courses: Introduction to Research Writing, Introduction to Research Methods and — new for this semester — Introduction to E...

Internships, Fellowships and a Co-Op: How An NJIT Honors Scholar Applies Her STEM Skills

Thursday, December 19th, 2024
As a sophomore at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Krishi Shah has already accomplished a lot. Last summer, the computer science major helped engineer software as an intern at PULLATracker while conducting research at the NJIT’s Undergraduate Research and Innovation Program. She also began an ap...

A Pioneer in Brain Imaging Wins NJIT's 2024 Excellence in Research Award

Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
Bharat Biswal, a pioneer in the field of neural imaging who developed a technique that sheds new light on brain-related diseases and injuries, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award. In the early 1990s, as scientists began mapping the brain with functional MRI (fMRI), Biswal p...

NJIT Robotics Expert Talks Drones as the University Researches Them

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
New Jersey has been abuzz with reports of unidentified drones flying in its skies, sparking public curiosity and raising questions about their origin and purpose. Amid the growing concern, Associate Professor Pramod Abichandani, director of the Robotics and Data Lab (RADLab) and the Advanced Air Mob...

Newark Design Collaborative Fellows Lead NJIT Students in Showcasing Talent at Zine Fest

Monday, December 16th, 2024
Students at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design showcased their work in the Newark Zine Fest, organized by Petia Morozov, Newark Design Collaborative fellow and publisher of Dense Magazine, was held at the Newark Art Museum. Zines, short for "magazines" or "fanzines," are typically sma...