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NJIT Students Participate in International Intrapreneurship at AECOM for the Second Straight Year

Friday, July 6th, 2018
With $18 billion in revenue in 2017, the multinational engineering firm AECOM has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for three years running. In the spring semester of 2017, eight NJIT graduate students took part in AECOM’s first intrapreneurship competition....

NJIT Researchers Aim to Build Brain-Inspired Computing Systems

Friday, July 6th, 2018
Two NJIT researchers, working with collaborators from the IBM Research Zurich Laboratory and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have demonstrated a novel synaptic architecture that could lead to a new class of information processing systems inspired by the brain. The findings are an impo...

NJIT Directs the 2018 Academy of the International Council for Small Business in Taipei

Friday, July 6th, 2018
The Academy of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) is an intensive, weeklong entrepreneurship boot camp. Sponsored by ICSB, the world’s oldest academic organization dedicated to entrepreneurship, the Academy guides students through diverse aspects of entrepreneurship, including oppor...

Look Who's Back! Alumni Return to NJIT as Recruiters

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
The Spring 2018 Career Fair held this past February at NJIT’s new Wellness and Events Center (WEC) was alumna Whitney Randolph’s first time back on campus since she graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2017. The reason for her visit was not to look for ...

NJIT Hosts 6th Annual NY/NJ Conference of Computer Science Chairs

Monday, July 2nd, 2018
A yearly tradition of regional computer science department chairs sharing teaching methods, demonstrating new research and awarding high-quality teaching continued on the campus of NJIT in June. The conference, now in its sixth year, aims to increase the visibility of computer science education i...

Who's Who? NJIT's Atam Dhawan!

Friday, June 29th, 2018
Dr. Atam P. Dhawan, NJIT’s senior vice provost for research, received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who, the nearly 120-year-old publisher of biographies, for his leadership in the fields of engineering and higher education. The award recognizes people who ...

New Instruments and Funding Expand Views of the Sun at Big Bear

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
A solar telescope that captures images of the entire disk of the Sun, monitoring eruptions taking place simultaneously in different magnetic fields in both the photosphere and chromosphere, is now installed beside the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at NJIT’s California-based Big Bear Solar Observatory ...

NJIT alum expands the Brew-Watch Co. brand into sunglasses just in time for the summer

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

NJIT Management Grad Named Student of the Year

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Rashmi Ketha recently earned two new titles: NJIT Master of Science in Management (MSM) graduate and New Jersey Career Center Consortium (NJC3) Student of the Year for 4-Year Technical Institutions. As the former, she would like to apply her foundational knowledge gained at NJIT to pursue further ed...

NJIT Undergraduate Applications Jump 12 Percent Over Last Year

Monday, June 25th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is bucking an undergraduate admissions trend. While many universities are failing to hit recruitment targets and/or reducing their standards for admission due to sharp regional and national declines in the traditional college-aged population, NJIT has seen n...