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Happy Thanksgiving from NJIT President Bloom

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
NJIT Community Members,   Many of us will celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday this week and enjoy time with family, friends, and loved ones. For those who may not be so fortunate because of circumstances such as being far from home, I encourage members of the&n...

Students Win Awards at Entomological Society of America Meeting

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
Three students within the Federated Department of Biological Sciences spanning NJIT and Rutgers–Newark recieved President's Prize awards for their presentations at the Entomological Society of America conference in St. Louis last week. PhD students Megan Wilson and Christine Sosiak re...

Happy Thanksgiving! See What NJIT Students Are Thankful For

Monday, November 25th, 2019
Happy Thanksgiving, Highlanders! This year, NJIT is thankful for every student, faculty or staff member, donor, alumnus and friend of this extraordinary community.      “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. I...

16-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows Springtails Hitchhiking on Winged Termite

Monday, November 25th, 2019
When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that many animals face is dispersal — being able to pick up and leave to occupy new lands, find fresh resources and mates, and avoid intraspecies competition in times of overpopulation.  For birds, butterflies and other winged creatu...

Management Faculty Win Statewide Recognition for Entrepreneurship Research and Teaching

Monday, November 25th, 2019
Initiating, supporting and maintaining a high number of startup ventures remains the chief objective of innovation-ecosystem stakeholders: government policymakers, administrators of technology parks and small business incubators, and the entrepreneurs operating in such venues. The social capital (or...

NJIT Named Among The Princeton Review's Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies

Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Ranked at No. 41, the university continues to build a vital and valuable entrepreneurship ecosystem. New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been cited by The Princeton Review as being among the best schools in the nation for students aspiring to become entrepreneurs. NJIT is ranked No. ...

Architecture Alumnus Named AIA Fellow

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Robert Cozzarelli ’79 has spent nearly 30 years as a professional, award-winning architect and planner specializing in health care, educational, recreational, institutional and residential design for federal, state, municipal, international and private-sector clients. His extensive expertise with ne...

NJIT Math Prof. Shang Seeks Proof For Why Machine Learning Works

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Programmers can tell you what machine learning does and how it works, but they can't really prove why it works. Enter the mathematicians. The what and how of machine learning are well documented — it's software that examines big data to find meaning and possibly suggest actions, based on looking fo...

Honors Team Taps Inventive Skills to Help Handi-capable Dancer

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
The call was put out to NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) this past spring and nine Dorman Scholars answered it. Their charge was to design and construct a tap-dance board for a handi-capable wheelchair user — a patient at Mount Sinai Health System in Manhattan who would be participating al...

Architecture Library Exhibit Shows Lessons From Studying Abroad

Monday, November 18th, 2019
Ali Chahine and Antonia Santoro were among nine NJIT architecture students who had eye-opening experiences while taking a semester in Austria last spring. Both are now fifth-year students who, along with their peers, gave presentations this week about their time at the University of Innsbruck and h...