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Commencement and Credits for Housing, Meals Plans, and Parking

Friday, March 20th, 2020
NJIT Community Members, Allow me to provide you with updates regarding Commencement and credits for housing, meal plans, and parking. Commencement Our Commencement marks an annual highlight for the entire NJIT community and is particularly meaningful for the students who graduate that day, as wel...

An Amputee Acquires a Prosthetic Finger From an NJIT Capstone Team

Friday, March 20th, 2020
After a table saw severed the top of his right index finger, Adam Zanellato, a 20-year-old cabinet-maker at the time, had to relearn basic hand maneuvers, such as how to write and hold a fork. There were no affordable prosthetics on the market to help him regain dexterity. Several years later, he st...

Donald J. Reifer '69 To Receive NJIT Alumni Achievement Award

Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Donald J. Reifer ’69 is recognized as an agile thought leader and a leading figure in the fields of software engineering and management. He has more than 40 years of management experience in industry, academia and government. He is skilled in program/project/product management, development, metrics,...

Anthony Schuman To Receive NJIT Van Houten Award

Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Anthony Schuman is Professor of Architecture in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, where he has taught for 40 years. He typically teaches a design studio plus a seminar class each semester. He is currently leading an upper-year undergraduate “options” studio addressing three adjacent ...

NJIT Is Mad for Graduate Studies, With More Than 100 Academic Programs and Counting: Part 1

Thursday, March 19th, 2020
They represent a sizable segment of NJIT’s student population — about a quarter — and come from around the country and the world to attend the university and acquire advanced skills to secure successful professional careers. Indeed, graduate students are pursuing degrees in a range of academic disci...

COVID-19 - NJIT Classes, Commencement, and other important topics

Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
NJIT Community Members, This week, both state and federal governments have issued guidelines for social distancing that call for severe limits on the number of people gathering in a physical space at any one time throughout the next several weeks, or longer. These recommendations will be followed b...

Ying Wu Grad Students to Get Quantum Computing Course in Fall '20

Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
Quantum computing will be offered as a new course for computer science graduate students beginning next fall. This marks the first time the subject is available outside of a special-topics course or independent study in the Ying Wu College of Computing here at NJIT. Such computers process data bas...

NJIT a Top Graduate School for Engineering for the 17th Straight Year

Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2021 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university moved up two slots this year to No. 87 — up 24 slots in the past five years — and has been included on the di...

NJIT Robotics Club Qualifies for Vex World Championships Tournament

Thursday, March 12th, 2020
NJIT's robotics club just stamped its ticket to the world championships tournament of a top-level league, despite competing as underdogs this season after all of its top members graduated last year. Chief engineer Yichao Zhang and lead programmer Dale Nacianceno — the former a senior, the latter a ...

Women of Color Looking to the Past and Future for Diversity in Architecture

Thursday, March 12th, 2020
In the 1950s and 60s it was uncommon to see a black woman practicing architecture. Norma Merrick Sklarek, pictured above during her tenure at Gruen Associates, was an uncommon woman. She excelled in math and science despite having few peers at her predominantly white high school and virtually no rol...