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Hillier College Professor Schuman Gets High Marks and Dual Honors

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Hillier College Prof. Tony Schuman is being recognized again this year with the Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence. Originally awarded last year, celebrations and the official award were postponed until this year. Schuman has also earned the 2021 designation of Master Teacher fr...

NJIT, Israeli Researchers Use AI and Computer Vision to Predict Space Weather

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
It's not your typical five-day forecast, as researchers with the Institute for Future Technologies, a joint venture of NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, are improving solar weather prediction by adding data visualization techniques to their existing artificial intelligence method...

NJIT Experts Work with City and State on Regional Development

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Prof. Darius Sollohub, who serves on the New Jersey Committee of the Regional Plan Association, and has advised the Newark NJ administrations of Cory Booker and Ras Baraka on airport, housing, parking, and rapid transit policies; and Dr. Colette Santasieri, who is Executive Director of the Center fo...

Hillier College Research Team on Community Based Design Programs

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
The recently formed Newark Design Collaborative (NDC) is engaging four students in a research project to study how other schools of architecture across the country have structured their community design engagement initiatives, from issues of scope and mission to practical details like funding and li...

Girls Who Code Alum DeMatos Completes NJIT Degree, Lands Job at Facebook

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Just about everyone in college has a Facebook account, uses their Instagram service, or knows someone who does, but Ying Wu College of Computing new graduate Catarina DeMatos is going to work there. DeMatos, of Chatham, first interned at Facebook as a rising junior in summer 2019, so she had an inr...

2021 America East Baseball Playoff Preview: Head Coach Robbie McClellan

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
The NJIT baseball team has won a program-record seven-straight games and Dave Popkin came to the Highlanders' Newark campus to chat with Head Coach Robbie McClellan about the winning streak and preview the upcoming America East Playoffs. Popkin and McClellan discuss what has been going ri...

NJIT Completes Series Sweep of UMBC on Senior Day, Highlanders Have Won Seven Straight

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Senior Day Photo Gallery  2021 Senior Day Ceremony NJIT swept Saturday's doubleheader from visiting UMBC for the second straight day, defeating the Retrievers 13-6 in game one before winning the nightcap 8-1 to complete the four-game series sweep at Jim Hynes Stadium in America East Conferenc...

An Aspiring Technology Leader's Next Educational Stop is STEM Powerhouse ETH Zurich

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Roberto Adamson, an aspiring technology leader who aims to create AI-driven convenience and efficiency for peoples’ homes and workplaces, will begin the next stage of his professional journey at one of the world’s preeminent STEM universities.  Named the “Outstanding Senior” for the Depar...

Neutrinos and Fantastic Creatures: NJIT's Fulbright Awardees Discuss Their Studies

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
By Andrew McMains and Tracey Regan Two New Jersey Institute of Technology students who earned Fulbright awards this year will continue their studies in Canada on decidedly different paths. Kaylin Wittmeyer ’21 is pursuing a graduate certificate in digital creature animation at Sheridan College in ...

Historic Gift from Profeta Foundation Launches New Real Estate, Entrepreneurship Centers at NJIT

Monday, May 24th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology will soon launch two new education and research centers focused on real estate and entrepreneurship, made possible by a historic gift from The Paul V. Profeta Foundation, Inc.  Paul V. Profeta, president of the Foundation, alongside NJIT President Joel S. Blo...