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NJIT Receives $1.3M in Federal Funding for Engineering and Manufacturing Initiatives

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will receive more than $1 million for new initiatives that will bolster engineering education, as well as manufacturing and mechatronics apprenticeship training, under the federal spending bill signed by President Joe Biden. The $1.7 trillion spending packa...

Two Members of the NJIT Community are Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Alvarez was one of 169 inventors from 110...

Kaily, Nyssa and Oluwanifemi: Meet the 2022 Mayor's Honors Scholars at NJIT

Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Oluwanifemi Fuwa fabricated face masks to protect people from COVID-19. Kaily Peixoto volunteered at a senior center and handed out scarves to homeless individuals at Newark’s Penn Station.  Nyssa Nixon volunteered at Isaiah House shelter through Jack and Jill of America and tutored peers as ...

NJIT Alum, Prof, Entrepreneur Makes NJBIZ's List of Next Generation Leaders

Monday, August 1st, 2022
The CEO of an NJIT-born startup made NJBIZ’s list of the Next Generation of Leaders. John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli, who holds both a bachelor’s and master’s in biomedical engineering from NJIT, where he was an Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar, leads OculoMotor Technologies (OMT), a vision the...

NJIT Students Find Summer Work at Merck, Meta, Apple, National Institutes of Health and More

Thursday, July 21st, 2022
NJIT students have found excellent work in co-ops and internships this summer. It is a great way to gain real-world experience in their field of study, and to network with professionals in their chosen field. And, of course, the added benefit of earning money to help pay for tuition and other expens...

NJIT Honors Scholar Pursues PhD in Bioengineering at UMD

Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Next up for NJIT biomedical engineering graduate Amal Shabazz: the Ph.D. program in bioengineering at the University of Maryland. But first, the Albert Dorman Honors Scholar has a 10-week summer internship at Pfizer in Andover, Mass. Her four years in University Heights were filled with helpful men...

NJIT Researcher Ayushi Sangoi Recognized on Major League Hacking Top 50 List

Monday, July 11th, 2022
Ayushi Sangoi, 23, a Newark, N.J., resident and researcher at New Jersey Institute of Technology has been named one of 2022’s MLH Top 50 – a list compiled each year by Major League Hacking (MLH) of the organization’s most inspiring community members. The recipients are recognized for their exception...

NJIT Ranked No. 10 Nationally in Money's 'Best College for Engineering Majors'

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is a top 10 Best College for Engineering Majors in the U.S., according to Money. The universities in the top 10, which also include MIT, Princeton University and Georgia Institute of Technology, emerged from Money’s 2022 list of Best Colleges, which ranked NJIT No...

NJIT-Led Team Revitalizes Teeth Through Tissue Regeneration

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
Each year, dentists in the United States perform more than 15 million root canals on infected teeth, removing the inflamed pulp and filling the emptied canal with inert materials such as rubber and cement. What remains is a mineral shell in place of a living tooth. “Teeth lacking dental pulp are mo...

Senior Success: Sreya Sanyal Is Off to Become an NIH Researcher

Monday, May 16th, 2022
Sreya Sanyal ’22 is right where she wants to be in the fight against cancer — at the cutting-edge of medical research. She’ll soon be using the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, often described as “genetic scissors”, to study human disease as a post baccalaureate researcher with the ...