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NJIT's 2024 Master's and Doctoral Class Make Their Mark

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology served up a full day of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies on May 15. The 2024 class comprises more than 1,400 graduates and reflects the institution’s steady growth an...

MakeNJIT, in Second Year, Focuses on Infrastructure Hardware Hacks

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
An all-freshman team, Rackify, was the top NJIT winner and third overall at this year’s MakeNJIT hardware hackathon, creating a smart bicycle rack that automatically locks your ride by activating an RFID reader and extending an arm through the spokes or frame. Rackify members Raghav Bharath, Prabha...

NJIT's Dana Knox Research Showcase Celebrates Future Visionary Leaders

Friday, April 19th, 2024
NJIT’s annual celebration of its top student researchers kicked off at the 2024 Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, which once again highlighted a stunning array of innovation and discovery from every corner of the STEM disciplines. Now in its 19th year, the showcase competition featured 68 divers...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Inn...

Celebrating NJIT's Women's Leadership and Employee Resource Group

Thursday, March 28th, 2024
NJIT has established employee resource groups (ERG) that meet regularly and encourage faculty and staff to connect outside of their direct working relationships. This month, NJIT is celebrating its Women’s Leadership and Employee Resource Group and publishing an employee spotlight on one of its memb...

Apple Highlights Stryker, an NJIT Alum's Medical Tech Group, for VisionPro App

Friday, March 15th, 2024
Robert Cohen, a three-time New Jersey Institute of Technology alumnus and current chair of the university’s Board of Trustees, leads a digital, robotics and enabling technology division at medical technology firm Stryker Corp. that grabbed Apple’s attention this month for its work with the new Visio...

Ingenuity of NJIT's Budding Engineers Spotlighted at NCE Showcase

Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Recently, the ingenuity of Newark College of Engineering’s brightest first-year students was on full display at the 2024 NCE First Year Engineering Design Showcase. Forty-two teams featured in this year’s showcase to present a wide range of innovative engineering projects originating from their fal...

National Science Foundation Funds NJIT Professor Investigating Next-Gen Energy Storage

Friday, January 5th, 2024
From laptops to cars, society has come to rely on rechargeable batteries — and the demand is only growing. This surge means researchers are racing to figure out the most efficient ways to manage this type of energy storage.  While current designs utilize microparticle-based technology, it’s in...

First-Year Engineering Majors Bond in Classrooms and Rocket Flights

Thursday, November 30th, 2023
Hundreds of students in NJIT’s introductory engineering course, Fundamentals of Engineering Design 101, are having a greater shared experience during the fall 2023 semester than any incoming class since the 1990s. Back then, Newark College of Engineering began customizing the FED syllabus for each ...

A Fly Fisherman Diagnoses Maladies on a Beloved River

Friday, November 3rd, 2023
Wading into a parched stretch of the Pequannock River, Taylor VanGrouw got a jarring reminder of the fragility of New Jersey’s smaller waterways: a brown trout stranded in a shallow pool, too lethargic to swim away as he approached. “As temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen levels decline, in the way...