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News & Events

An Amputee Acquires a Prosthetic Finger From an NJIT Capstone Team

Friday, March 20, 2020
After a table saw severed the top of his right index finger, Adam Zanellato, a 20-year-old cabinet-maker at the time, had to relearn basic hand maneuvers, such as how to write and hold a fork. There were no affordable prosthetics on the market to...
NJIT graduate student

NJIT Is Mad for Graduate Studies, With More Than 100 Academic Programs and Counting: Part 1

Thursday, March 19, 2020
They represent a sizable segment of NJIT’s student population — about a quarter — and come from around the country and the world to attend the university and acquire advanced skills to secure successful professional careers.
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NJIT a Top Graduate School for Engineering for the 17th Straight Year

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2021 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering...

NJIT Robotics Club Qualifies for Vex World Championships Tournament

Thursday, March 12, 2020
NJIT's robotics club just stamped its ticket to the world championships tournament of a top-level league, despite competing as underdogs this season after all of its top members graduated last year.
Industrial engineering alumna Rukayat Balogun

Industrial Engineering Grad's Journey in STEM Takes Her to Facebook

Tuesday, March 10, 2020
By the end of this month, Rukayat Balogun will be working at Facebook as a site logistics analyst, overseeing staff that maintain the servers and the facility, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

NJIT's ChemE Students Aim for Diversity and Success, Dazzle on Both Scores

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
At the American Institute of Chemical Engineering’s (AIChE) inaugural ChemEsports Competition in Orlando last November, Alexander Olowniuk’s eyes were fixed on the bubbling chemicals in his team’s distillation tower, a cylindrical vessel used in...

NJIT Helps Recruit Israeli Companies to Garden State for Tech Links

Friday, February 21, 2020
Choose New Jersey, a nonprofit organization advocating for business investments in the Garden State, included an NJIT representative in...

NJIT Students Make Em' Laugh at Newark Improv Festival 2020

Friday, February 21, 2020
As the great improv comic Robin Williams once said, “You’re only given one little spark of madness.
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NJIT Researchers Ready Follow-Up Investigation Bound for Int'l Space Station

Thursday, February 20, 2020
NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission...

NJIT Salutes Its Students With a Week of Special Festivities

Monday, February 17, 2020
It’s here! Feb. 17-21 marks the annual Student Appreciation Week at NJIT. Dozens of activities, giveaways and events will take place across campus as part of the 2020 celebration.