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Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Ranked #9 in Nation

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked No. 9 in the country for its department of electrical and computer engineering, according to a U.S. News & World Report study of 2,165 universities worldwide. NJIT's top-ten result in the U.S. section of the global ranking is a point of pride fo...

For Fourth Straight Year, NJIT Professor Makes Global List of Highly Cited Researchers

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
A research paper on metal carbides and nitrides is paying dividends for NJIT’s Meng-Qiang Zhao — eight years after it was published. For the fourth straight year, Zhao, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, has made Clarivate’s list of...

Turing Laureate, Compiler Pioneer Jeffrey Ullman Visits NJIT for Data Science Lecture

Friday, November 18th, 2022
When a Turing Award winner speaks, NJIT faculty and students listen. Jeffrey Ullman, known as a father of the modern compiler at Bell Labs and Princeton University in the 1960-1970s, filled the largest lecture hall in NJIT's Guttenberg Information Technologies Center for his October 14 lecture on d...

NJIT Ranked Best Public School in Northeast for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importance o...

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...