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Getting the Lead out of Newark's Drinking Water

Monday, February 3rd, 2020
As Newark races to replace thousands of lead-based pipes that feed drinking water into homes, the city faces another urgent challenge: stopping the heavy metal from leaching into the water supply while the massive remediation effort is underway. And that’s where NJIT’s environmental engineers come ...

Volleyball Extends Wins Streak to Four; Sweeps Visiting St. Francis Brooklyn

Saturday, February 1st, 2020
The NJIT men's volleyball team extended its win streak to four with a 3-0 sweep over visiting St. Francis Brooklyn Saturday afternoon in non-conference volleyball action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. NJIT picked up its third straight 3-0 victory (def. No. 11 Purdue Fort Wayne; def. Ball...

Cybersecurity Courses to be Offered For Professional Development

Friday, January 31st, 2020
NJIT will offer an extensive cybersecurity program starting this summer through its Professional Development and Executive Education department in partnership with HackerU, a digital skills and cybersecurity training specialist based in Israel. “The program will give adult learners 400 hours of tra...

NJIT President Receives Air Force Public Service Medal

Friday, January 31st, 2020
At a ceremony in Washington, D.C., NJIT President Joel S. Bloom was presented with the highest level award granted by the Secretary of the Air Force to a non-employee civilian, the Distinguished Public Service Award. The award is presented to those who have personally made a profound contribution o...

NJIT Experts Presenting AI Answers to Real-World Problems at NYC Forum

Friday, January 31st, 2020
Experts in artificial intelligence from the Ying Wu College of Computing will highlight how their work solves real-world problems at a prestigious meeting in New York next week. The professors — Chaoran Cheng, Jing Li, Zhi Wei and Pan Xu — will share their session stages with researchers from ...

NJIT's Education Day at Men's Basketball Featured in ASUN Beam Video Series

Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
In the third year of the ASUN Beam Video Series, the conference features student-athletes across the league that have embodied the four different conference beams of Students First, Rise, Connect and Impact. Throughout this year, the ASUN will feature student-athletes from each institution tha...

Technology Forecast: Atam Dhawan Sets 10 Goalposts for the 2020s

Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
*As previously published in the Star-Ledger and nj.com As our civilization evolves, so do our expectations of technology. Together, they demonstrate how dramatic advances in robots, nanotechnology-enabled sensors and high-powered computing will continue to change and evolve our society. Importantly...

NJIT Chair-Elect Robert Cohen Selected as 'Champion' Executive

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Robert Cohen '83, '84, '87, Stryker Corporation’s vice president for Global Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer, Joint Replacement, has been selected as a C-Suite Champion, according a leading New Jersey business publication ROI-NJ. C-Suite Champions panel recognizes executives wh...

Three New Members Appointed to NJIT Board of Trustees

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announces the appointment of three new members to its Board of Trustees, all of whom have graduated from the university. Joining the Board of Trustees are Richard M. "Rich" Maser '73, Norma J. Clayton '81 and Jim Stamatis '85. In addition to the numerous pr...

Researchers Rank "Smartest" Schools of Fish When It Comes to Travel Formations

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
The concert of motion that fish schools are famous for isn’t merely an elaborate display of synchronized swimming. Their seemingly telepathic collective movement is part of a time-tested strategy for improving the group’s chances for survival as a whole, from defense against predators to food-findin...