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Former Astronaut Bernard Harris to Speak at NJIT STEM Forum and Meet With Summer Science Campers

Thursday, July 12th, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: Bernard Harris, the first African-American astronaut to walk in space, will visit NJIT to speak with educators at STEM School Leadership Forum 2018: Building STEM Partnerships, as well as meet with middle school students attending the 2018 Bernard Harris Summer STEM Camp (...

Amazon-Sponsored Voice Tech Summit Comes to NJIT July 24-26

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

NJIT Lecturer Uses Grant From Oculus to Study Virtual Learning Environments

Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
A group of 11th graders traveled from their chemistry class at Dwyer Technical Academy in Elizabeth, N.J. to the center of atoms and molecules. Eager to explore this foreign dimension environed by electron orbits, the voyagers clutched atoms, felt them vibrate and got up close and personal with par...

Fiske Guide to "Best and Most Interesting" Colleges Features NJIT

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
NJIT, one of the few public polytechnic institutes in the Northeast, is once again included in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges — a subjective and selective reference tool that systematically reviews over 300 colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. For more than 30 years, million...

Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center of NJIT Hosts Workshop

Monday, July 9th, 2018
The Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center (SABOC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the Ontology Quality Assurance Grant Workshop 2018, a two-day seminar on medical informatics research, on June 25 and 26. SABOC at NJIT is devoted to exploring structural issues in bi...

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...