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February Address From President Bloom

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
Dear NJIT Students, Faculty, and Staff, Today marks the start of the fifth week of our spring semester and the third week of in-person instruction. I am pleased to report that our campus community is vibrant and thriving, with students and faculty in classrooms and labs, an abundance of activities ...

Royal Society of Chemistry Awards Fellow Status to NJIT's Kevin Belfield

Monday, February 14th, 2022
Kevin Belfield, dean of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, has been named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). RSC is the world’s oldest professional society of chemists, founded in 1841, and has grown to over 54,000 members around the world. The society awards fellow statu...

NJIT Promotes from Within to Fill New Bursar & Associate Treasurer Role

Monday, February 14th, 2022
NJIT's Conrad Corpus has assumed the new role of university bursar and associate treasurer. Corpus, a longtime university employee, previously was director of Financial Systems and Innovation (FSI). He has been with NJIT since 2006. In his new role, Corpus will manage the ...

Women's Basketball Records 12th Win of the Season in 69-52 Win at Hartford

Saturday, February 12th, 2022
The NJIT women's basketball team recorded its 12th win of the season in a 69-52 win at Hartford behind four double-figure scorers paced by Lyzi Litwinko's team-best 16 points Saturday afternoon in America East Conference women's basketball action at Chase Family Arena. The 12 wins for NJI...

Men's Volleyball Extends Win Streak to Six, Feldthus Paces NJIT with 15 Kills in Win Over Princeton

Saturday, February 12th, 2022
The NJIT men's volleyball team extended its win streak to six, defeating visiting Princeton, 3-1, in EIVA Conference men's volleyball action Saturday afternoon inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center.  NJIT, winners of the last six, which started with a 3-0 home victory over Purdue Fort Wayne...

Norma Clayton Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Friday, February 11th, 2022
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected co-vice chair of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Board of Trustees Norma Clayton ’81 as a new member. The culmination of a yearlong process, Clayton is part of a new cohort of 111 national and 22 international members, bringing the ...

New Research Shows How 2D Layouts Can Be Popped Up into 3D Structures

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
Imagine designing an inexpensive, flat and strong structure that bends perfectly into Spaceship Earth from Disney's EPCOT theme park. NJIT's Przemyslaw Musialski, associate professor of computer science, believes his latest research is a step in the right direction, sitting at the intersection of a...

Chemical Engineering Solves Problems with Computer Simulation

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
Gennady Gor is becoming a go-to expert at combining the power of chemistry and computers to protect our bodies. Gor's specialty is molecular simulation of fluids and their interactions with porous materials. "I am interested in coupling between surface chemistry and mechanics. This is the main focu...

NSF Appoints NJIT's Wenda Cao to Its Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee

Monday, February 7th, 2022
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has appointed Wenda Cao, physics professor and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) of NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR), to its Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC).  The AAAC is comprised of 1...

Miles Coleman's Late Three-Pointer Pushes NJIT Past Stony Brook

Monday, February 7th, 2022
Miles Coleman's three-pointer with 2.0 seconds remaining broke a 62-62 tie and lifted the NJIT men's basketball team to a 65-62 victory over preseason America East favorite Stony Brook on Saturday evening at the Wellness and Events Center. "That felt great, but then I looked at the clock and r...