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PBS Conversations: NJIT's Michael Lee on Teaching the (Multicultural) World to Code

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
Michael Lee, an assistant professor of informatics who focuses on human-computer interaction, has invented a clever application to bridge the digital divide: a multi-level game called Gidget that teaches people of all ages and cultures to program by solving debugging puzzles. In a recent intervie...

Mamadou Guirassy Stands Out in MLS Combine Performance Tests

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
NJIT's Mamadou Guirassy placed in the top four in two-out-of-three categories in performance testing at the 2018 Adidas MLS Player Combine at Orlando City Stadium. Guirassy tied for fourth in the speed test (30-meter dash) at 3.93 seconds and power test (vertical jump) at 31.5 inches. Wh...

EPA Awards Multimillion Dollar Grant to Brownfield Cleanup Team

Friday, January 12th, 2018
NJIT is part of a team led by Kansas State University that has been awarded several million dollars by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide technical assistance nationwide and to all tribal governments interested in cleaning up brownfield sites. Since 2008, with funding provided by ...

Increase Your Potential With an Executive MBA at Martin Tuchman School of Management at NJIT

Friday, January 12th, 2018
The NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management Executive MBA Program NJIT’s 16-month accelerated Executive MBA Program provides STEM and management professionals alike a “bridge to leadership.” Whether your career goals include C-Suite, global executive management, tech entrepreneurship, foundin...

NJIT Joins Urban League of Essex County to Teach Kids How to Code

Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Come Jan. 20, 2018, 20 middle school students from Sussex Avenue Renew School in Newark will begin a free program to learn basic coding language and hear from guest speakers about coding careers. The initiative, called Newark Kids Code, is a pilot partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technolo...

Reversing Mining's Toxic Legacy on Tribal Lands

Friday, January 5th, 2018
When a federal inspection team inadvertently released three million gallons of heavy metal-laden waste from a century-old, defunct gold mine near Silverton, Colorado into the Animas River, Lucia Rodriguez-Freire was one of the first responders on the scene. “The gold plume was crossing the border f...

2017 at NJIT: A Look Back

Friday, January 5th, 2018
From ribbon-cuttings and rankings to appointments and awards and more, this past year saw many milestones and achievements at NJIT — with promise for a fruitful 2018. Here are just some of the university community's noteworthy accomplishments and happenings in 2017. JANUARY Academic and studen...

Science Olympiad for Middle and High School Students Returns to NJIT for the 12th Consecutive Year

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
On Jan. 12, 2018, NJIT will make science competitive yet fun when it hosts the 2018 New Jersey Regional Science Olympiad (NJSO), part of a national science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competition. The university will welcome to the event nearly 700 middle and high school students...

NJIT Alum Continues Downtown Newark Revival

Monday, November 20th, 2017
  Whole Foods Market, Chipotle and Hotel Indigo – Newark’s first boutique hotel – have all served as signifiers of urban revitalization in New Jersey’s largest city. And the establishments are also all housed in buildings rehabbed and developed by the Newark-based Hanini Group, a firm co-fo...

Studying Blind Cavefish for New Knowledge of Sight

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
  Since joining the Department of Biological Sciences in 2014, Assistant Professor Daphne Soares has asked probing questions about how brain circuits change over time. She does that by studying blind cavefishes and their closest living surface relatives in the Middle East, Asia and South Ameri...