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NJIT to Host National Town Hall Meeting on Gentrification in Black America

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a free and open-to-the-public town hall meeting Friday, April 5, to assess gentrification in major cities across America, including concerns in Newark, New Jersey. The town hall, which is part of a larger three-day gentrification summit hosted fro...

Interview with Dr. Donald H. Sebastian, President and CEO of New Jersey Innovation Institute

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Dr. Sebastian is also senior vice president of Technology & Business Development at NJIT. New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) is a non-profit corporation that is a new model for business innovation, serving key industrial clusters that anchor the State of New Jersey and national economy....

Fraud Alert: Notice to Vendors

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
NJIT wants to alert vendors to an active email scam involving “Requests for Quotation” and/or “Purchase Orders”.  While the university cannot prevent this illegal activity, we are actively working with law enforcement to investigate the origin of these fraudulent emails. Th...

NJIT Mourns Death of Former Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson

Monday, April 1st, 2019
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) community mourns the loss of one of its historic alumni, Kenneth A. Gibson, who died March 29. The 1962 graduate of the Newark College of Engineering (now NJIT) and recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater in 1977 was the first African-Amer...

Highlanders Split Saturday Doubleheader with Jacksonville

Monday, April 1st, 2019
NJIT split a doubleheader with Jacksonville Saturday, as the Dolphins took game one 5-2 while the Highlanders won the nightcap, 5-2, behind strong pitching from senior RHP Sean Lubreski and closer RHP Joe Georgini in ASUN Conference action at Somerset Patriots TD Ball Park Saturd...

School of Management Students Help Local and Foreign Startups

Monday, April 1st, 2019
Graduate students from Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), as well as Newark College of Engineering, worked with the CEOs of nine new ventures — seven in the Newark area, one from Manhattan and one from Finland — to help develop and execute their ventures’ go-to-market strategies. These eff...

Pedaling for Power on a Modified Bike in a Remote Haitian Village

Friday, March 29th, 2019
The technology that engineering students Matt Reda and Rudolph Brazdovic installed last year in the remote, hilly community of Milot, Haiti, was simple enough: a modified bicycle with a back wheel that turns a generator, producing 20 watts of electricity. What was less straightforward, they quickly ...

NJIT Ranks First in NJ Colleges to Study Animation, Top 40 Nationally

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked as one of the country’s top public colleges for animation in the 2019 Animation School Rankings published by Animation Career Review. The online resource for aspiring animators, digital designers and game designers ranked NJIT No. 28 ...

Watch: NJIT Mathematical Sciences Professor Releases Major League Baseball Predictions

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Mathematical Sciences Professor and Associate Dean Bruce Bukiet has published his model’s projections of how the standings should look at the end of Major League Baseball’s regular season in 2019. For more than 20 years, Bukiet has applied mathematical models to compute the number of regular season ...

NJIT to Host CIT Quarterfinals on Thursday, March 28

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
 The NJIT Highlanders will host their quarterfinal game of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) on Thursday, March 28 at the Wellness and Events Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. (Free Stream: WatchCIT.com) TICKETS: CIT Quarterfinals, NJIT vs. TBD | Thursday, Marc...