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NJIT's Fall Career Fair Becomes a Fully Online Experience

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities. More than ...

WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate ...

WATCH NOW: Virtual Convocation Welcoming the Class of 2024

Monday, August 31st, 2020
Virtual University Convocation Program WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2024 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WHEN: W...

Computing Professor's App Manages NJIT Converged Learning

Thursday, August 27th, 2020
As students return to campus this fall, NJIT and universities around the country face the challenge of adhering to COVID-19 preventative measures such as social distancing and mask use, while also maximizing the usage of the available resources and learning spaces on campus. One of the techniques de...

State Business Publication Lists NJIT Officials Among Top Education VIPs

Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
Five NJIT executives are featured in ROI-NJ's inaugural list of higher education influencers, which debuted this week. On the academic side, the statewide business publication featured President Joel S. Bloom, Provost Fadi Deek and Newark College of Engineering Dean Moshe Kam. For industry relation...

NJIT Student Senate Makes Historic, Morale-Boosting Gift to the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after ...

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of el...

Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure ...

35 Professionals Graduate from NJIT's Inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Program

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Matthew Berdel, a systems engineer who tests software during the workweek, spent his Saturday mornings in NJIT’s Makerspace last semester immersed in engineering of a very different sort: constructing a working machine from fabricated parts. “I wanted to know more about hardware,” Berdel explained....

Model Cars With Human Drivers Take to the Streets of a Miniaturized Newark

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
In a robotics lab spilling over with 3D-printed parts, engineering students are gutting toy trucks, SUVs, sedans and two-door Mini Coopers and refitting them with custom-designed systems: laser-cut side mirrors, wheels that can parallel park and a braking system that employs algorithms to control an...