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NJIT Awarded $6 Million from the National Science Foundation to Commercialize Campus Inventions

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
NJIT has secured a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to translate science and engineering discoveries into market-ready technologies that will improve quality of life in areas ranging from health care, to sustainable energy, to data privacy. Awarded by the agency’s Directo...

Registration Open for NJIT's Spring Career Fair

Friday, January 19th, 2024
NJIT’s spring career fair is right around the corner and registration is now open for students on the Handshake platform. Career Development Services biannual career fair has become one of the most anticipated events for students. The fall semester fair, held last September, was the largest-ever pa...

Middle and High School Students Compete in Regional Science Olympiad at NJIT

Friday, January 19th, 2024
Dozens of teams of middle and high school students came to New Jersey Institute of Technology last week for a regional round of the annual New Jersey Science Olympiad hands-on learning competition. NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs, along with the university’s Newark College of Engineering, se...

Professor Xianqin Wang Awarded Catalysis Research Award

Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Professor Xianqin Wang has been honored by the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York with the 2023 Excellence in Catalysis Award. This recognition underscores Professor Wang's outstanding contributions to the field of catalysis and her dedication to advancin...

National Science Foundation Funds NJIT Professor Investigating Next-Gen Energy Storage

Friday, January 5th, 2024
From laptops to cars, society has come to rely on rechargeable batteries — and the demand is only growing. This surge means researchers are racing to figure out the most efficient ways to manage this type of energy storage.  While current designs utilize microparticle-based technology, it’s in...

VROOM Brings AMIA 2023 Conference into the Center of Ontologies

Thursday, December 21st, 2023
You are here. This familiar phrase to guide finding a more expedient and less complicated direction can now be applied to the complex world of medical ontologies, thanks to research on a project led by the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Professor Jim Geller and Assistant Professor Margarita Vinnikov...

Grace Wang Joins NJ State Court Artificial Intelligence Committee

Friday, December 15th, 2023
New Jersey court officials are turning to NJIT’s Grace Wang, director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, as their technology expert for a new committee to help judges and lawyers understand AI’s role in the legal system. “Artificial intelligence is a tool that we are s...

New NJIT Committee Tackles Gender Imbalance in Faculty

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
A new committee aims to accelerate gender equity among faculty members at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Women Faculty Advisory Committee, chaired by Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, will hold peer forums to examine key issues based on the testimony of junior faculty members. It also intends to poll w...

First-Year Engineering Majors Bond in Classrooms and Rocket Flights

Thursday, November 30th, 2023
Hundreds of students in NJIT’s introductory engineering course, Fundamentals of Engineering Design 101, are having a greater shared experience during the fall 2023 semester than any incoming class since the 1990s. Back then, Newark College of Engineering began customizing the FED syllabus for each ...

HackNJIT Matches Pre-Pandemic Participation, Map-Hunting Game Impresses Judges

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pa...
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