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NJIT's Class of 2022 Urged to Seize the Opportunities Presented by Crises

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Crisis presents opportunity, and given the pandemic, war in Ukraine, structural racism, climate change and questions around the world’s supply of energy, food and water, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson called on the Class of 2022 at New Jersey Institute of Technology t...

Walking with Paralysis

Friday, May 13th, 2022
Strapped into an exoskeleton, Damyane Evely strode heavily back and forth across a 15-foot platform, taking an occasional peek at a monitor on the wall to survey his progress — and to silently marvel. It had been more than 15 years since his spinal cord was compressed in a motorcycle accident, landi...

Students Earn High Marks in a Return to Engineering Competitions

Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
Students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering have earned first, second and third place recognitions across steel bridge, chemical car and concrete canoe events held for inter-institutional competition. The steel bridge regional competition made its return for the first time since COVID restri...

Senior Success: Computer Engineer Suraj Ghumwala Joins U.S. Space Force

Thursday, May 5th, 2022
Suraj Ghumwala will soon be the first cadet from NJIT's ROTC detachment commissioned into the U.S. Space Force. The computer engineering major from Rochelle Park said his childhood dream was to be an astronaut, and as the first person in his family born in the U.S. he felt a sense of service to the...

Leader of the House Sees STEM in Action at NJIT

Thursday, April 28th, 2022
The Assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives visited New Jersey Institute of Technology to get a closer look at how STEM education and research fuels the economic mobility of the city, region and country. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-MA-05, toured NJIT’s Makerspace — the largest in the sta...

NJIT-Designed Mobile Medical Unit Deployed In Queens to Tackle Rising COVID Cases

Monday, April 25th, 2022
A mobile medical care unit (M2CU) designed for COVID testing and vaccination is now seeing patients in a part of Queens where the infection rate is more than twice as high as in the rest of the borough. This month, Governor Kathy Hochul, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Martin Tuchman of the Tuchman ...

Mark Pothen, Mechanical Engineer, Working in Health Care

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Techies call it the hands-on imperative — that the best learning is by doing — and the concept is something Mark Pothen, a mechanical engineering major, takes to heart. Pothen worked part-time this academic year as a business analyst for health care startup Axuall Inc., where he'll become an associ...

NJIT Expert Evaluating Self-Driving Car Behavior at Yellow Lights

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
There's Musk-level hype about autonomous vehicles, and then there's NJIT Associate Professor Joyoung Lee working through painstaking and vital research of how self-driving systems should behave at stop lights. He studies transportation systems as a whole, not self-driving cars specifically, but his...

For Jennifer and Dominic, Scholarships Opened the Door to Science and Engineering at NJIT

Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Scholarships enabled Jennifer Cabral and Dominic Bosi to overcome financial hurdles and study science and engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Cabral and Bosi are both first-generation students from working-class families. As such, they needed help to afford college. Generous donors s...

NJIT's Vector Captures Numerous Awards at College Media Contests

Thursday, April 7th, 2022
NJIT’s student newspaper, The Vector, continues making its journalistic voice heard — the paper is the recipient of several awards from U.S. college media contests recently. The Vector was named the Corbin Gwaltney Award winner for “Best All-Around Student Newspaper” (among large universi...