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Experts at NJIT's Data Science Summit Propose New Paths in Hardware and AI

Monday, November 14th, 2022
New kinds of unconventional computer hardware, along with new ways of considering software responsibility, are both necessary if the next wave of data science will do anything more useful for the world than increase corporate profits. Such were two key messages expressed by experts from IBM and Goo...

Scholarship-winning Student Veterans Talk Serving in the Military and Coming to NJIT

Friday, November 11th, 2022
Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to n...

HackNJIT, Back From Online Hiatus, Brings Creative Apps and Gadgets

Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Camping isn't the first hobby you associate with an urban campus, but the outdoors theme was a hit at HackNJIT this month, held fully in-person for the first time since 2019 because of the COVID pandemic. Approximately 200 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and from neighbors such as...

NJIT Researchers Awarded $620k Grant to Study Climate Change Impact of Soot

Friday, November 4th, 2022
NJIT researchers have received a $620,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance our understanding of the way in which soot particles from combustion of fossil fuels are driving climate change in the Earth’s atmosphere. Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexei Khalizov and Associate P...

NJ Research Institutions Host Symposium to Tackle Climate Change and Planetary, Human Health

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Princeton and Stevens Institute of Technology joined to present respective research projects and explore potential areas of collaboration related to climate change, planetary and human health that would benefit the population of New Jersey and beyond. En...

From NJIT to NASA, Roberto Saenz Wants to Inspire Future Generations with His Story

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Roberto Saenz, winner of the first-ever Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) scholarship, wants to one day be an administrator at NASA and design his own spacecraft. Saenz, a first generation Mexican-American from Union City, N.J., is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Appl...

An Engineer and a Mathematician Win Honors at NJIT's 2022 Excellence in Research Ceremony

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
Engineer Michel Boufadel, one of the world’s chief experts on oil spills and a frequent consultant on cleanups, is the winner of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award for 2022. Denis Blackmore, a mathematician who specialized in measuring and modeling changes in a range of dynamic syst...

Murray Turoff: A Pioneer of Instant Messaging

Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Long before social networks, instant messengers, web forums, Internet Relay Chat, AOL, Compuserve, and dial-up bulletin board systems, there was EIES – Electronic Information Exchange System, pronounced like the word eyes.  Developed by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Murray Turoff back in 19...

Students Will Design Hacking Apps, Hardware Exploits to Gain Experience

Thursday, October 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students are forming a pair of computer security groups this semester, with the mutual goal of preparing students to hone their skills beyond the classroom. One group is NICC — NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club — and the other is the Association for Computin...

NJIT's Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council Gives First-Ever Scholarships

Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) held Café y Conexiones to kick off this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations at NJIT.  Launched in January 2022, Café y Conexiones brings together NJIT’s Hispanic and Latinx students with HLLC members, alumni, and business and civic lead...
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