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NJIT Receives Ellucian Impact Award for Digital Transformation

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
 Ellucian, the leading higher education technology solutions provider, today announced that New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has won a 2021 Ellucian Impact Award. The university was honored for its successful digital transformation initiatives, which allowed it to pivot quickly to...

Student's Web Design Startup Helps Local Businesses in Pandemic

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic put an indefinite pause to how local bricks-and-mortar businesses serve their communities, an NJIT student and his friends stepped in to help small companies take the concept of shopping local online. Franklin Tan said his website development business, Tartan Technologies...

Novel LEDs Would Simultaneously Illuminate and Disinfect a Room

Monday, April 12th, 2021
Hieu Nguyen’s pandemic-inspired lighting would not only illuminate classrooms, offices and airport lobbies, but also disinfect them with invisible ultraviolet light that destroys pathogens such as the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. With three possible settings, his LED panels would emit visible lig...

Applications to Ying Wu College of Computing Increased 50% Since 2019

Monday, April 12th, 2021
Applications to study at Ying Wu College of Computing increased by 50% in the last two years. The college received 2,979 applicants this year which is also an increase of 19% from 2020. Computer science, human-computer interaction and web/information systems also experienced large increases as indi...

Highlanders Clinch Spot in America East Postseason Tournament

Monday, April 12th, 2021
Sophomore Alejandro Rabell scored the lone goal of the match and goalkeeper Samuel Reisgys combined for the shutout in the Highlanders 1-0 win over visiting UMBC to clinch a spot in the America East Conference Tournament on Friday evening at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. ...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 4/12/21-4/16/21

Monday, April 12th, 2021
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...

Researchers Explain Secret to How Birds Breathe Air in One Direction

Thursday, April 8th, 2021
Breathing in and out. It’s so simple we often forget we’re doing it, but birds have mastered an even more efficient trick that’s been long-shrouded in mystery — breathing so that the air in their lungs flows in one direction. A team of mathematicians and physicists now say they’ve come up with the e...

From Experts in Artificial Photosynthesis to Cell Therapy, NJIT Showcases its Newest Innovators

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
Their expertise ranges from technologies to improve infrastructure in some of the most urbanized regions on the planet to some of the remotest. Philip Pong, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, focuses on advanced sensing devices to enhance visibility, or “ey...

A One-Stop Shop Helps Cities Reap Value From Brownfields the Market Spurns

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
Newark Planning Officer Christopher A. Watson needs an inventory of every brownfield in the city. It is a tall order, considering there are hundreds of these parcels, some contaminated, that were abandoned when sheet iron, patent leather and electrical instrument manufacturers departed this former i...

Science Students Earn Intern, Co-op of the Year Honors at NJIT

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
The winners of this year's Interns and Co-ops of NJIT Contest stood out for how they embraced their initial responsibilities and earned advancements within their organizations, according to judges from Career Development Services.  Chemistry major Jennifer Mikulko ’23 earned intern of the...