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Inculcating Ethics in Engineers

Monday, December 14th, 2020
J. Britt Holbrook, a philosopher who specializes in science policy, is designing an innovative course in engineering ethics that focuses on justice and societal impact. The goal of the course is to help engineering students better understand how their future actions and decisions as engineers can di...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 12/14/20-12/18/20

Monday, December 14th, 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...

IBM-4-Good Ideathon Registration Now Open for Students

Thursday, December 10th, 2020
To celebrate Computer Science Education Week #CSEdWeek, IBM Z is teaming with Goodwall, a youth-led social enterprise, to power its "What’s Your Coding Story" video challenge. What inspired you to learn to code? Why does computer science fire you up? Tell IBM Z and Goodwall and earn an opportunity ...

NJIT President Recognized with Technology Award for Boosting Innovation by TechUnited

Thursday, December 10th, 2020
In a virtual ceremony Dec. 9, NJIT President Joel S. Bloom was presented with the Martinson-Ballen Technology Supporter award by TechUnited. This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a significant impact and a long-standing contribution to New Jersey's technology and innovation industr...

Warm Holiday Wishes from President Joel and Dr. Diane Bloom

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
Season's Greetings! This may not be a traditional holiday season, but it remains a time to appreciate those things that bring true meaning to our lives — friends and loved ones, acts of caring for and supporting one another, and opportunities to positively affect the society and world in which we l...

"Spooky Interactions", Shocking Adaptations Discovered in Electric Fish of Brazil's Amazon

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
From Brazil's Amazon, researchers report “spooky interactions” among surface- and cave-dwelling electric fish, revealing shocking behavior of 300 blind cavefishes whose ancestors adopted life in darkness tens of thousands of years ago. A study of weakly electric fishes from a remote area of the Br...

Engineering Graduates Bring Tech Skills and Gwara Gwara to the Lone Star State

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
When Jeffrey Jude-Ibe ’20 flew to Dallas in September to begin work as a quality engineer at Texas Instruments, Kelvin Siebeng ’19, the person who put the semiconductor giant on his job-search horizon, picked him up at the airport. With 3 full-time offers from major corporations and another from the...

Lyzi Litwinko Selected America East Rookie of the Week

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Freshman guard Lyzi Litwinko has been selected America East Conference Rookie of the Week the league office announced on Monday. In a 1-1 week for the Highlanders, Litwinko averaged 6.5 points-per-game and 5.0 rebounds-per-game in two conference games, making 50% of her three-point shots. She scor...

NJIT Registers First America East Win, Stoll and Squier Lead All Scorers with 19 Points

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
NJIT captured its first America East Conference victory Saturday afternoon led by senior Ellyn Stoll and sophomore Kenna Squier's game-high 19 points en route to a 78-57 victory over New Hampshire at Lundholm Gymnasium in the conference opener for both teams. The win for NJIT is the first of the 20...

Hillier Design Professor Wins Awards for Augmented Reality Prototype

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Hannah Kum-Biocca, an assistant professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won two awards for an augmented reality project that she submitted to the EuroXR 2020 conference in Valencia, Spain. In her project, visitors to physical museums can wear a Microsoft Hololens headset to ...