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For Jennifer and Dominic, Scholarships Opened the Door to Science and Engineering at NJIT

Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Scholarships enabled Jennifer Cabral and Dominic Bosi to overcome financial hurdles and study science and engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Cabral and Bosi are both first-generation students from working-class families. As such, they needed help to afford college. Generous donors s...

Design Showcase Celebrates Work of Students, Alumni in Hillier's Biggest Event of the Year

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) transformed its gallery and packed its lecture hall for the college’s highly-anticipated signature event that celebrated student and alumni work, and hosted a presentation and Q&A by architect Andrew Whalley, chairman of Grimshaw. The S...

Computing Students Provide Real-World Solutions for Bank of America in Capstone Project

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Capstone projects, done in collaboration with companies, are a requirement for every senior in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), but two teams of students have exceeded expectations with a pair of solutions that Bank of America (BofA) counts as mor...

GirlHacks Participants Build Apps for Wellness and the Environment

Monday, April 11th, 2022
GirlHacks, an annual event produced by NJIT's Women In Computing Society, partially returned to campus this spring and continued emphasizing its openness to minorities rather than only females. The event, in which most entrants develop mobile applications, was last held virtually in October 2020 wh...

Track and Field Ends Metropolitan Outdoors With Seven More Medals

Saturday, April 9th, 2022
The NJIT track and field teams traveled back to Icahn Stadium in full force on Saturday for the final day of the Metropolitan Outdoor Championships.The two-day meet ended with the Highlander women taking seventh place overall (40 pts) and the Highlander men placing eighth (45 points). SCORING BREAK...

Computing College Helps Non-Profit Build Public Data Access Tools

Thursday, April 7th, 2022
DataSourceNJ, as a startup and non-profit organization aiming to democratize access to local public data, is turning to NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing for technical expertise in data access, organization, analysis and visualization. The organization is led by entrepreneur Michael Goldstein, da...

NJIT's Vector Captures Numerous Awards at College Media Contests

Thursday, April 7th, 2022
NJIT’s student newspaper, The Vector, continues making its journalistic voice heard — the paper is the recipient of several awards from U.S. college media contests recently. The Vector was named the Corbin Gwaltney Award winner for “Best All-Around Student Newspaper” (among large universi...

NJIT Names Academic Learning Studio in Honor of Kalafer Family

Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
Steve Kalafer was a tireless advocate and ambassador for NJIT, and as a member of the Board of Overseers and a longtime benefactor of the university, he generously shared both his time and resources. To honor his commitment to NJIT, the university has recommissioned the athletic department’s academi...

New NJIT-Led Center Wins Pharma Backing to Improve Drug Design, Shorten Development Times

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
Swallowing a pill is simple. Developing one the body will absorb into the bloodstream and deliver to the precise location, at the right concentration and in the optimal sequence is complex. The vast majority of pills are composed of powders, materials with properties of both solids and liquids, and ...

The Hylander Requiem Motors for Glory Before a Hometown Crowd

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
The Hylander Requiem, a technology-filled cart atop mini monster wheels that is powered by self-generated hydrogen, will attempt to motor to victory this weekend at the regional round of the annual Chem-E-Car Competition. This year, Highlander Nation will be cheering loudly – and collectively – as ...