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Architecture Alumna Melissa Nieves Wins AIA Service Award, Shares Her Journey

Sunday, December 4th, 2022
Melissa Nieves ’19 is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects New Jersey 2022 Service Award. Nieves, associate architect for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, earned her master’s in architecture with a concentration in infrastructure planning.  “Melissa has had the p...

NJIT Hosts Symposium on Boosting Safety Culture Into Undergraduate Education

Thursday, December 1st, 2022
NJIT and the National Academy of Construction (NAC), with the support from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted a symposium to bring together members from the industry, government and academia to collectively work together to help students become much more productive wh...

Business Model Competition Addresses Societal Impact, Fiscal Prudency

Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Student entrepreneurs at NJIT's annual New Business Model Competition had one word for the experienced judges this week: plastics. It's the opposite of the revered 1967 film The Graduate, where a young Dustin Hoffman receives that single word of career advice from an accomplished friend of his pare...

NJIT Coalition Earns Federal and State Grant to Develop Economic Strategy for Airport City Newark

Thursday, December 1st, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has received a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Authority (USEDA) to support the transformation of an underserved area into an economic development hub based around Newark Liberty International Airport. Housed within NJIT’s Center for Community Syst...

Siani Magruder Earns United Soccer Coaches All-Region Honors

Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
NJIT women's soccer grad defender Siani Magruder was named to one of the United Soccer Coaches Division I All-Region teams, the coaches' organization announced Wednesday afternoon. Magruder was selected to the All-Atlantic Region Third Team and was one of seven America East women's soccer...

Littman Library Book Talk: The Only Woman by Immy Humes (and The Only Woman of NJIT)

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
Immy Humes, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and first-time author, presented her book The Only Woman at the Littman Library on November 9th. The Only Woman is a collection of 100 historical photos collected by Humes showing group portraits of workers, politicians, artists, scientist, musi...

NJIT Overseer Paul Profeta Ranks Highly in Real Estate 'Power 50'

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
Paul V. Profeta, founder of the Roseland-based real estate investment company and namesake of NJIT’s Paul Profeta Real Estate Technology, Design and Innovation Center, placed in the No. 3 spot in NJBIZ’s Commercial Real Estate Power 50 rankings. In its annual list, NJBIZ characterizes Profeta as a ...

Matthew Morena Named To America East XC All-Academic Team

Monday, November 28th, 2022
NJIT Men's Cross Country placed a student-athlete on the America East All-Academic Team for the third season in a row after Matthew Morena was named to the team by the conference.  Morena, a native of Rockaway, is a six-time Dean's List honoree and currently holds a 3.809 grade point...

An NJIT Water Treatment Specialist Wins an Edison Patent Award

Monday, November 28th, 2022
In daily battles with pathogens, legacy chemicals from long disappeared factories and a growing array of micropollutants, water treatment systems are often handicapped by clogged membrane filters. Replacing them regularly is both laborious and expensive. “Membrane filters are easily clogged when ba...

NJIT's Rima Taher Works with Habitat for Humanity to Save a Veterans Memorial Hall in Passaic, NJ

Sunday, November 27th, 2022
Rima Taher, Senior University Lecturer at the Hillier College of Architecture & Design at NJIT, is working with Habitat for Humanity on a project in Passaic, NJ to rebuild Albert Lawson Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, which was deemed unsafe and forced to close in December of 2019. The ...