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NJIT Featured in 2018 I'm First! Guide to College

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Students who are the first in their family to pursue higher education or come from a low-income household continue to be severely underrepresented on college campuses, despite high educational aspirations. A 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences found tha...

Movement Towards March Madness Starts Monday

Monday, February 26th, 2018
The No. 4 seeded NJIT Highlanders (14-15, 7-7 ASUN) will host the No. 5 seeded North Florida Ospreys (13-18, 7-7 ASUN) in the ASUN Quarterfinals Monday night at the state-of-the art Wellness and Events Center (WEC) in Newark. The Highlanders closed the regular season with a 76-67 victory at USC Ups...

In the Heights Musical opens on Wednesday, February 28

Monday, February 26th, 2018
The Rutgers-Newark/NJIT Theatre and Arts Technology program presents “In the Heights”, a Tony Award- winning musical with lyrics by Lin Manuel Miranda, book by Quiara Alegria Hudes and directed by Michael Kerley, associate director of the theatre program. Using Afro Latino and rap music directed by...

NJII Tapped to Train Celgene Corporation Staff for Cell Therapy Manufacturing

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
The New Jersey Innovation Institute, an NJIT corporation, is collaborating with Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company, to train its workforce in the manufacture of a new generation of cell therapy technologies to be produced in Celgene’s facilities in Warren and Summit, NJ. Subjec...

NJIT Board of Trustees Adds Three New Members

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announces the appointment of three new members to its Board of Trustees, including two alumni. Joining the Board of Trustees are Robert Cohen '83, '84, '87, Diane Montalto '82 and Dennis M. Toft, Esq. “In addition to Robert and Diane being alumni of NJIT, t...

AI Helps Mine the Gold in B2B Digital Analytics

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Gaining insight into customer behavior through extensive data and advanced analytics holds great value for businesses, not only in marketing and selling to consumers but other businesses as well. Key to the process when it comes to business-to-business (B2B) interaction are machine learning and othe...

Governor Phil Murphy Visits NJIT, Announces Three New Cabinet Appointees

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
Governor Phil Murphy visited NJIT’s campus today to announce three new appointments to his cabinet. “What a treat to be back at NJIT. This is where, about 18 months ago, I laid out our vision for a stronger and fairer economy that would lift every New Jerseyan,” Murphy said. “This is an institut...

Capstone Project Leads to Instant Jobs for Computer Science Graduate Students

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
An entire team of ambitious graduate students from Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) received full-time job offers from New York City-headquartered IT and business consultancy company Net@Work, in recognition of the innovative technology solutions they developed last fall semester as part of a Cap...

NJIT Grad Student to Serve on National Board of AIAS

Monday, February 19th, 2018
Michael Chiappa ’18, a graduate architecture student in the College of Architecture and Design, has been elected to serve as northeast quad director on the 2018-2019 National Board of the American Institute of Architecture Students, becoming the first student from NJIT to do so in the organization...

Turf Wars: How Design is Used as a Weapon of Mass Exclusion

Monday, February 19th, 2018
A bench with armrests; “No Loitering” signs; cul-de-sacs; the Regional Contribution Agreement — all seemingly innocuous signs, objects, passages and policies that are used as weapons to restrict access to public spaces. “At a very fundamental level, architecture makes space for some people, communi...