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NJIT Alum Ogo Enekwizu Brings Soot-seeded Clouds into Brookhaven National Lab

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
Tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere can have a big impact on climate. But understanding exactly how these aerosol particles form cloud drops and affect the absorption and scattering of sunlight is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in climate models. Ogochukwu (Ogo) Enekwizu, a postdoctoral ...

Robotics Club Hosts Tourney, Qualifies for World Champs Again

Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
NJIT's Robotics Club took home gold at their first competition held here in Newark, besting the competition which included Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Seton Hall universities. The victory qualifies Highlander robotics for the World Championships, April 27-29 in Dallas. The club also qualified in 2020 b...

Four Takeaways from the Inaugural Real Estate Innovation Symposium

Friday, March 3rd, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Paul Profeta Real Estate Technology, Design and Innovation Center and the Martin Tuchman School of Management hosted their first “Innovation in Real Estate” symposium, a day featuring academic leaders, government officials and technology, real estate and construc...

NJIT Career Fair Growth Fuels Changes, Innovations for Improved Experiences and Outcomes

Monday, February 27th, 2023
NJIT’s Career Development Services hosted its marquee event, again besting attendance and participation numbers over its previous career fair. Taking a page out of the logistics-improvement playbook of participating companies like UPS, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon and others, CDS implemented chan...

FEMA's Marc K. Raoul '10 Helps Disaster-Struck Communities Recover and Rebuild

Monday, February 27th, 2023
Since 2011, NJIT alumnus Marc K. Raoul ’10, an emergency management specialist for FEMA, has traveled across the U.S. and its territories to help communities recover and rebuild following hurricanes, floods and pandemics. A veteran of Hurricanes Sandy (2012), Irma (2017) and Maria (2017), he’s been ...

'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27th, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast ...

NJIT Particle Engineer Ecevit Bilgili is Named an AIChE Fellow

Monday, February 20th, 2023
Ecevit Bilgili, a professor of chemical and materials engineering who boosts the therapeutic efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs through nanoengineering, while also lowering the cost to design and manufacture them, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In h...

Startup Jobs Fair Connects NJIT Students to Local Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
NJIT's Entrepreneur Society hosts an annual startup job fair, providing students with the opportunity to pursue careers and meet directly with the founders of new local companies. Hundreds of students attend, many looking for the perfect match, while others were there to network or learn about the ...

NJIT Alum's Company Dazzles Earth, Converts CO2 to Diamonds

Monday, February 13th, 2023
By Deric Raymond and Perla Alay Cut, color, clarity and carat are the four Cs of the diamond industry. Aether, a new company producing lab-grown diamonds, is pushing to add one more — carbon origin. As the demand for sustainable and ethically sourced products continues to rise, the market for lab-...

Frisbee Golf Robots Will Highlight NJIT Competition on March 4

Friday, January 27th, 2023
The robotics club at New Jersey Institute of Technology is hosting a Vex U competition in March that's open to university teams from around the world. Hosting their own event has been a longtime goal for the current crop of NJIT robotics club members, along with the generation before them. But...