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Architecture Professor Wins NSF Grant to Develop Design Tools for Residential Housing

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Taro Narahara, associate professor at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won a National Science Foundation I-Corps award for the development of flexible and intuitive design tools for multifamily residential housing. This project proposes a platform for users to visually study possible...

Experts at NJIT's Data Science Summit Propose New Paths in Hardware and AI

Monday, November 14th, 2022
New kinds of unconventional computer hardware, along with new ways of considering software responsibility, are both necessary if the next wave of data science will do anything more useful for the world than increase corporate profits. Such were two key messages expressed by experts from IBM and Goo...

NJIT Biologist Among Semifinalists in $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

Monday, November 14th, 2022
A U.S.-based team of scientists joined by NJIT biologist Eric Fortune is inching closer to the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest Competition’s grand prize for improving our understanding of rainforest ecosystems, having recently been named semifinalists. The five-year XPRIZE Rainforest Competition...

New Jersey Institute of Technology Hires a Leading Voice for Diversity

Monday, November 14th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology has tapped David E. Jones, a leading voice for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in higher education, to become its first chief diversity officer. Jones, who starts Dec. 1, joins from William Paterson University, where he has been chief diversity officer ...

Women's Basketball Premieres New Series, 'T'ed Up With Trinity Williams'

Friday, November 11th, 2022
NJIT Women's Basketball debuted a new series on Friday, "T'ed Up With Trinity Williams," featuring the Highlanders' second-year forward from Upper Black Eddy, PA. An idea that was created after her memorable appearance alongside NJIT's Mike Ventola last December, "T'ed Up" plans to have Williams sh...

Veterans Day

Friday, November 11th, 2022
Dear Highlanders, I write today to thank NJIT’s veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces for their service to our nation, and to ask the entire NJIT campus community to join me in recognizing their service and sacrifice. Thousands of our graduates and hundreds of our students, as well as many faculty and...

Scholarship-winning Student Veterans Talk Serving in the Military and Coming to NJIT

Friday, November 11th, 2022
Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to n...

HackNJIT, Back From Online Hiatus, Brings Creative Apps and Gadgets

Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Camping isn't the first hobby you associate with an urban campus, but the outdoors theme was a hit at HackNJIT this month, held fully in-person for the first time since 2019 because of the COVID pandemic. Approximately 200 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and from neighbors such as...

NJIT Trains State Staffers on the ABCs of Energy Management

Thursday, November 10th, 2022
The head of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design is teaching the basics of energy management to a group of more than two dozen staffers from state agencies. The staffers serve as energy managers at some 15 state entities and have different levels of expertise. As such, D...

DOE Grant Will Recalibrate Current Climate Change Data

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
Professors Aritra Dasgupta and Chase Wu from the Department of Data Science in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing are developing software to take more advantage of simulation data used to study climate science through a $145,972 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The project aims to im...