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Message from President Bloom: 9/11 Remembrance

Friday, September 11th, 2020
NJIT Community Members, Today is a solemn date when we honor the lives and memories of the thousands who perished on September 11, 2001, in hijacked airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Washington, DC; and a field in rural Pennsylvania, thanks to the ...

NJIT president: STEM programs are worth New Jersey's investment | Opinion

Friday, September 11th, 2020
By Joel S. Bloom In today’s world, technology is both indispensable and inescapable. Just about every facet of our society is changing rapidly due to technological innovation. Whether in healthcare or communication or finance or transportation or any other market sector, all major business enterpri...

A Look Back: NJIT's Unusual Explorations of Nature

Friday, September 11th, 2020
From discovering dinosaur-era ants with metal horns on their head, to swapping the brains of “Frankenfish,” to joining whale musicians at sea, NJIT faculty have been part of some unusual explorations of nature, sometimes taking them to distant corners of the world. Here, we look back on some of them...

New CIO Wants College Info-Tech to be More Responsive to Modern Needs

Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Kamalika Sandell, who started earlier this summer as NJIT's chief information officer and vice provost, is settling into her role and looking to make a positive impact. Sandell was previously deputy CIO at American University. She's worked in the information technology field since the 1990s, spent ...

Acceleration & Deceleration: the 2020 IABSE Future of Design Symposium

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
This International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering symposium is for architects, engineers, urban planners and future focused students no matter your discipline. The line of inquiry is relevant to all; are changes in practice moving faster than changes in industry and how do we adap...

At Convocation, NJIT Alum Asks First-Year Students, 'Will You Be a Helper?'

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Quoting Fred Rogers and poet Audre Lorde, NJIT alumna Gabrielle Rejouis urged members of the Class of 2024 to be helpers and foster communities during the university’s annual convocation, which was held online on Wed., Sep. 9, 2020. “You all have a contribution to make,” said Rejouis ‘15, an Alber...

NJIT Ranks #74 Nationally in QS USA 2020 Rankings, #3 in NJ

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked third in New Jersey and 74th nationally in a Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking® USA 2020 list, placing NJIT in the top 10% of universities nationwide. Over 700 universities were evaluated according to 17 metrics falling into...

NJIT Athletics to Honor 2019 ASUN Men's Soccer Champions in Ring Ceremony September 16

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
The NJIT Department of Athletics will honor the 2019 men's soccer team with a ring ceremony on Wednesday, September 16 on Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium to commemorate the team's ASUN Conference Championship this past November. The championship ring ceremony will begin at 3pm, which will be s...

CyberCorps Graduate Student Offers Insight to Security of Video Chat Apps

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
The year 2020 will be remembered in software circles as the time when video conferencing became mainstream because of health risks associated with COVID-19, so NJIT graduate student Ramon Salvador decided to learn about video conferencing security for his final project, a requirement of Ying Wu Coll...

New Residence Hall to Feature Single Bedrooms and Sustainable Construction

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
NJIT's new 500-bed apartment-style residence hall, announced early this year for the southwest corner of Warren and Wickliff streets, will emphasize single-occupancy bedrooms and will be constructed with environmentally-friendly methods. The community is scheduled for its groundbreaking in the seco...