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Scholarship Winners and Donors Come Together in Special Celebration

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
The 35th annual Scholarship Brunch took place April 12, bringing together generous benefactors who have created scholarships at NJIT with the students benefiting from their support. The event humanizes and demonstrates the impact of giving back and removing a financial burden to those who need it m...

NJIT Undergraduate Researchers Secure Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Monday, April 15th, 2024
From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, two NJIT students — Danna Valentina Sanchez Hernandez and Owen West — have been named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized as among th...

NJIT Engineers Muffle Invading Pathogens with a 'Molecular Mask'

Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Vaccines remain the gold standard of protection against dangerous pathogens, but take considerable time and vast resources to develop. Rapidly mutating viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can blunt their effectiveness and even render them obsolete. To address these gaps, a multi-university team led by New J...

Young Minds Bring Health, Wellness Innovation to NJIT's eSTEM Challenge

Thursday, March 28th, 2024
The excitement was palpable at NJIT’s fourth annual Elementary STEM Challenge (eSTEM) — an event that recently brought scores of 3rd-5th grade students to campus to show off tech innovations they’ve been designing for weeks to enhance health and wellness in their communities.  There was plenty...

Celebrating NJIT's Women's Leadership and Employee Resource Group

Thursday, March 28th, 2024
NJIT has established employee resource groups (ERG) that meet regularly and encourage faculty and staff to connect outside of their direct working relationships. This month, NJIT is celebrating its Women’s Leadership and Employee Resource Group and publishing an employee spotlight on one of its memb...

NJIT Research Team Discovering How Fluids Behave in Nanopores with NSF Grant

Thursday, March 28th, 2024
A research team from New Jersey Institute of Technology is uncovering mysteries surrounding fluids in nanoporous materials, and has been recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support this research. The research is focused on the elasticity, or compressibility, of fl...

NICC Climbs Higher Across the Competition

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
The NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club (NICC), the budding student run organization with a mission to give students real-time, practical experience in information security and cybersecurity, has been rising in the ranks of CTF competitions across the nation and abroad. The club recently placed ...

Chief Engineer of Port Authority NY/NJ Rizwan Baig Visits NJIT

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Rizwan Baig, chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, visited NJIT to give a presentation on building the 21st-century transportation system. His talk, covering the architectural, design, construction and asset management aspects of the agency, highlighted the agency’s plan t...

Two NJIT Research Groups Awarded as Part of $1.2M EPA P3 Program

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Two NJIT projects have been awarded as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program. The $1.2 million program funded 16 different student-based projects throughout the country to research and develop innovative solutions that address enviro...

NJIT Conference: How Can Artificial Intelligence Work for All of Us?

Thursday, March 14th, 2024
What are the latest innovations around artificial intelligence, how will it change the way we work and what safeguards are needed to address systemic inequities? Data scientists, policy experts and the head of a state commission will examine these issues and more at “Intelligent Uses of Artificial ...