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Students' Unique Platform for Face-Shield Production Hits Close to Home

Friday, May 15th, 2020
For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a mechanical engineering major at NJI...

Senior Success: Greg Tanis to Join L3Harris as a Systems Engineer

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
As a third-generation Highlander, mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Greg Tanis looks forward to joining L3Harris as a systems engineer and takes a minute to reflect on his time at NJIT. Congratulations, Greg!  

Senior Success: The Skyline Soars on Engineer Niyam Shah's Horizon

Friday, May 8th, 2020
For his senior capstone project, Niyam Shah went big: The civil engineering major and his teammates designed a 40-story commercial tower with a thick concrete core and X-patterned steel bracing for an empty lot on Manhattan’s building-jammed West Side. “The core supports the building, but the highe...

NJ Public Universities Join to Launch Initiative to 'Bring Students Home'

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Ten public universities and colleges in New Jersey have joined forces and issued a call for the over 100,000 state residents who attend higher education institutions out-of-state to return home, enroll in New Jersey institutions, and help rebuild the state as part the New Jersey Scholar Corps p...

May 5 Is Deadline for Ordering Commencement Regalia

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
Class of 2020 graduates have until this Tuesday, May 5, to order their Commencement regalia and have it shipped to them. Wearing Commencement regalia is necessary to participate in NJIT’s virtual Commencement ceremony, to be held Friday, June 12. Students are urged to visit the Commencement website...

Engineering Student Lands J&J Co-op, Named NJIT's Intern of the Year

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
When Jeremy Bedient was navigating Career Development Services’ (CDS) Spring 2019 Career Fair, seeking a co-op with Johnson & Johnson was nowhere on his radar. But at the moment he passed by the company’s supply-chain booth and saw there was no line, he figured “why not” and took advantage of th...

Computer Science Alum Leads Mask-Making Effort in Morris County

Friday, April 17th, 2020
A team of teachers in Morris and Essex counties, looking to do their part to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, has produced almost 500 face masks, 700 face shields and 1,400 ear guards, led by NJIT alumna Jessica Liatys of the class of 2010. Liatys teaches technology education at Chatham Middl...

NJIT 2020 Goldwater Scholar Class Among Largest In U.S.

Thursday, April 16th, 2020
NJIT undergrads continue to earn the nation’s top academic honors, the latest being a new university record of four students named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized among the country’s most prest...

NJIT Security Expert Applies Startup's Tech to COVID-19 Tracing

Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
The healthcare process of identifying who traveled close to contagious patients, known as contact tracing, typically assumes a lack of privacy — but NJIT cybersecurity expert Kurt Rohloff said his software is a good match to fix this. Rohloff is known in the computer security field for his work in ...

With an NSF RAPID Grant, NJIT Engineers Build a New Model to Track COVID-19

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
A team of environmental engineers at NJIT is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed, temperature and social distancing. To date, modelers are l...
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