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An Amputee Acquires a Prosthetic Finger From an NJIT Capstone Team

Friday, March 20th, 2020
After a table saw severed the top of his right index finger, Adam Zanellato, a 20-year-old cabinet-maker at the time, had to relearn basic hand maneuvers, such as how to write and hold a fork. There were no affordable prosthetics on the market to help him regain dexterity. Several years later, he st...

NJIT Is Mad for Graduate Studies, With More Than 100 Academic Programs and Counting: Part 1

Thursday, March 19th, 2020
They represent a sizable segment of NJIT’s student population — about a quarter — and come from around the country and the world to attend the university and acquire advanced skills to secure successful professional careers. Indeed, graduate students are pursuing degrees in a range of academic disci...

NJIT a Top Graduate School for Engineering for the 17th Straight Year

Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2021 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university moved up two slots this year to No. 87 — up 24 slots in the past five years — and has been included on the di...

NJIT Robotics Club Qualifies for Vex World Championships Tournament

Thursday, March 12th, 2020
NJIT's robotics club just stamped its ticket to the world championships tournament of a top-level league, despite competing as underdogs this season after all of its top members graduated last year. Chief engineer Yichao Zhang and lead programmer Dale Nacianceno — the former a senior, the latter a ...

New York Times Data Scientist Tells Students to Prioritize Client Communications

Thursday, March 5th, 2020
Chris Wiggins, chief data scientist at The New York Times, presented on his field Feb. 25 at the Jersey City branch of the Ying Wu College of Computing. Technology is important, but to be a good data scientist it's more important to understand communications skills, explained Wiggins, who holds a P...

NJIT's ChemE Students Aim for Diversity and Success, Dazzle on Both Scores

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
At the American Institute of Chemical Engineering’s (AIChE) inaugural ChemEsports Competition in Orlando last November, Alexander Olowniuk’s eyes were fixed on the bubbling chemicals in his team’s distillation tower, a cylindrical vessel used in plants to separate volatile liquids into their pure fo...

Highlander Esports Team Looks to Level Up into Regional Powerhouse

Monday, February 24th, 2020
Leaders of NJIT's esports team, which is among the most successful collegiate videogame groups in the region and one of the top programs nationwide at games such as Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch, said they see the next few years as a time of critical evolution for their two-year-old club and fo...

NJIT Students Make Em' Laugh at Newark Improv Festival 2020

Friday, February 21st, 2020
As the great improv comic Robin Williams once said, “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Newark audiences were in for plenty of unique and entertaining moments, sparked with that little bit of madness, during the city’s annual celebration of improv theater. The Rutg...

NJIT Helps Recruit Israeli Companies to Garden State for Tech Links

Friday, February 21st, 2020
Choose New Jersey, a nonprofit organization advocating for business investments in the Garden State, included an NJIT representative in its delegation visit to Israel this month. The organization sent 16 representatives from academia, business and government to meet their peers and pitch New Jersey...

NJIT Researchers Ready Follow-Up Investigation Bound for Int'l Space Station

Thursday, February 20th, 2020
NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission on Mar. 7. NJIT’s Boris Khusid, professor of chemic...