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From Moon Landings to Drone Competitions, NJIT Celebrates 100 Years of Engineering

Monday, March 4th, 2019
Beginning this month, Newark College of Engineering (NCE) will kick off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary with a series of awards ceremonies, galas, historical tributes and engineering competitions to commemorate the school’s “Century of Public Service Through Engineering,” ...

Career Fair Draws Hundreds of Employers and Thousands of Jobseekers

Friday, March 1st, 2019
It was a cold and windy Wednesday, but the winter weather didn’t stop the more than 2,200 students and alumni in search of internships, co-ops and full-time jobs from packing the Wellness and Events Center Feb. 13. There, 212 employers were recruiting for a range of positions — and doling out swag —...

Laurent Simon, Engineer and Revered Mentor, is Called a Modern-Day Technology Leader

Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Laurent Simon, vice provost for undergraduate studies, was recently named a “Modern-Day Technology Leader” at the 33rd annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Global Competitiveness Conference in Washington, D.C. The award recogni...

First-Gen College Student Makes His Mark

Monday, February 25th, 2019
Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga was just 2 years old when he and his parents left their home in Bogota, Colombia, and migrated to the United States. They settled in Rockaway, N.J., with the aid of his aunt in nearby Parsippany and began a new life, far from the mounting violence triggered by their native count...

Standout Engineering Undergrads Compete in NJIT's "NCE First-Year Showcase"

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
On Friday, February 15, six teams of exemplary students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) put their outstanding engineering design research on display at this year’s “NCE First-Year Showcase” competition.  The competition’s student-teams — representing each of the college’s depar...

NJIT's Sagnik Basuray is Named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Monday, February 11th, 2019
Sagnik Basuray, an assistant professor of chemical engineering who develops novel sensors, diagnostic devices and drug delivery systems, has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Basuray is among 66 academic inventors elected to the inaugural class of NAI Senior Mem...

These 3 NJIT Students Are Now 2019 Governor's STEM Scholars

Monday, February 11th, 2019
Every year, hundreds of high school and college students throughout the Garden State apply for the honor to be a Governor’s STEM Scholar. Slots are limited and the competition is steep. For 2019, three Highlanders have been chosen to wear the mantle: Ricardo Garcia, Yasmine Ghattas and Kevin Pember...

Biosensor Co-Inventor Bharath Nunna Ph.D. '18 Joins Organ-on-a-Chip Research Team at Harvard Med

Thursday, January 31st, 2019
The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of cancers that advance stealthily with few symptoms. With a novel electrochemical biosensing device that identifies the tiniest signals these biomarkers em...

Pre-College Workshops Bring STEM to Educators and Families Alike

Thursday, January 17th, 2019
When Parsippany High School’s Kathy Effner heard about NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs’ (CPCP) Try Engineering! workshop for educators, she was intrigued — particularly since it featured a hands-on project at the university’s new 10,000-square-foot Makerspace. This past October she attended t...

NJIT Unveils New Jersey's First Cyberpsychology Program

Thursday, January 10th, 2019
This year, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced it will offer students a unique baccalaureate degree option in the emerging field of cyberpsychology. The new program — exploring the dynamics between modern technology and human psychology — is the first of its kind in New Jersey, ...
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