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Summertime Look Back: The Studies That Advanced NJIT's STEM Research

Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Research expenditures at NJIT for fiscal year 2019 were $161 million, with the university ranked as an R1 (“Very High Research”) institution by the prestigious Carnegie Classification. Our six-part retrospective continues with this fourth installment focusing on just a handful of the studies covered...

35 Professionals Graduate from NJIT's Inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Program

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Matthew Berdel, a systems engineer who tests software during the workweek, spent his Saturday mornings in NJIT’s Makerspace last semester immersed in engineering of a very different sort: constructing a working machine from fabricated parts. “I wanted to know more about hardware,” Berdel explained....

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 8/3/20-8/7/20

Monday, August 3rd, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Summertime Look Back: The NJIT Alumni Who Exemplified Success

Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
NJIT alumni have gone on to start their own businesses, become forces in a variety of industries and make an impact on society. In this third of a six-part series, we take a look at several of the Highlander graduates we profiled during the past few summers. Click on the headlines below. Four-...

Model Cars With Human Drivers Take to the Streets of a Miniaturized Newark

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
In a robotics lab spilling over with 3D-printed parts, engineering students are gutting toy trucks, SUVs, sedans and two-door Mini Coopers and refitting them with custom-designed systems: laser-cut side mirrors, wheels that can parallel park and a braking system that employs algorithms to control an...

Researchers Offer Unprecedented Look Into 'Central Engine' Powering a Solar Flare

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the “central engine” of a large solar flare accompanied by a powerful eruption first captured on Sept. 10, 2017 by the Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) — a solar r...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 7/27/20-7/31/20

Monday, July 27th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, i...

Deane Evans Named Hillier College Associate Dean of Research

Monday, July 27th, 2020
Deane Evans, newly named Associate Dean of Research at Hillier College, has been at the  School of Architecture at NJIT since 2001, building one of the most successful architecture research programs in the country as Executive Director of the Center for Building Knowledge (CBK) and the Center f...

From Hillier College to Southern China – a Personal Odyssey

Monday, July 27th, 2020
This story was submitted by Adam Brillhart, architecture alumnus, Class of 2008. I remember feeling greatly inspired by my education at NJIT, and fondly reflect on the period approaching graduation in June 2008.  At that time, I was already planning a transition to New York City. Anna Dietzsch ...

Investigating the Investment Environment

Monday, July 27th, 2020
While shares in foreign firms known as American depositary receipts (ADRs) can help diversify investors’ portfolios and fetch high returns, they also pose risk in countries where protections for investors are limited and firms’ information environments – the quality, quantity and timing of earnings ...