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NJIT's Hydrogen-Powered Hy-Lander Wins the Poster Competition in the Chem-E-Car Finals

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
NJIT’s Chem-E-Car team, developers of the self-driving, hydrogen-powered Hy-Lander, won first place this past weekend for their poster in the championship round of the international student competition. In the poster round, judges look for in-depth knowledge of the car’s mechanisms from e...

Mathematical Epidemiologist Sara Del Valle '00 '01 Welcomed Back at 2020 CSLA Awards

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Sara Del Valle, a two-time NJIT alumna who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) developing models for tracking and mitigating the spread of infectious diseases, gave the keynote address at the 2020 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards ceremony. CSLA Dean Kevin Belfield led the pre...

Remote-Only Instruction Begins November 30

Monday, November 16th, 2020
Members of the NJIT Community, I write today to thank you for your cooperation and support of NJIT’s pandemic recovery efforts and to announce that NJIT has made the decision to transition to fully remote instruction on November 30, following the Thanksgiving break. This mode of instruction wi...

Hillier College Professor Speaks on Social Inclusion at NYC Architecture Biennial

Monday, November 16th, 2020
Maria Hurtado De Mendoza spoke on questions of how social inlcusion can be expressed in physical spaces, at any scale.  Watch the full presentation here.  

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 11/16/20-11/20/20

Monday, November 16th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

An NJIT Engineering Team Wins an Edison Patent Award for Sustainability

Sunday, November 15th, 2020
A team of NJIT engineers won a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award in the sustainability category from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for a resilient water treatment system that can run on waste heat or low-grade energy. The team was among 60 honorees at the Council’s virtual...

Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) Call for Submissions

Friday, November 13th, 2020
The 2021 SimAUD conference is calling for submissions. The Deadline is November 22, 2020. This event will be of interest to faculty and students in Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, Engineering and Computing.  The 12th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (Si...

Goldman Wins a First in the 2020 International Photography Awards

Friday, November 13th, 2020
The International Photography Awards winners were announced Tuesday October 27 and this year to his happy surprise, Prof. Glenn Goldman won first place (professional) in the category "Architecture/Abstract" for the photograph "Have a Ball". This photograph was taken in Barcelona,...

Veteran's Day Message from President Bloom

Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
On this Veterans Day, NJIT salutes all those who have served our country in the United States Armed Forces. We are especially proud of and grateful for the many NJIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni who have served our nation bravely. With enduring admiration, we thank you for the many sacrifice...

New Jersey Innovation Institute's BioCentriq Aims to Usher in a New Era in Cell and Gene Therapies

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
To overcome production hurdles for cell and gene therapies, a promising new class of biologic medications, NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) has opened clinical-scale centers that will work directly with drug developers to streamline the processing of new therapies and manufacture them i...