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NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021

Thursday, August 20th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in ...

NJIT Student Senate Makes Historic, Morale-Boosting Gift to the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after ...

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of el...

Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure ...

35 Professionals Graduate from NJIT's Inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Program

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Matthew Berdel, a systems engineer who tests software during the workweek, spent his Saturday mornings in NJIT’s Makerspace last semester immersed in engineering of a very different sort: constructing a working machine from fabricated parts. “I wanted to know more about hardware,” Berdel explained....

Model Cars With Human Drivers Take to the Streets of a Miniaturized Newark

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
In a robotics lab spilling over with 3D-printed parts, engineering students are gutting toy trucks, SUVs, sedans and two-door Mini Coopers and refitting them with custom-designed systems: laser-cut side mirrors, wheels that can parallel park and a braking system that employs algorithms to control an...

Employers Touted for Student Engagement, Recruitment and Hiring

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
More than 20 employers have been recognized by NJIT’s Career Development Services (CDS) as the university’s top recruitment partners, based on their 2019 hiring numbers. The honors mark the seventh consecutive year that CDS has paid tribute to employers for their engagement with and recruitment and ...

NJIT Mourns the Loss of Alumnus John J. Mooney, a Giant in the Fight Against Air Pollution

Friday, June 19th, 2020
The New Jersey Institute of Technology community notes with great sadness the passing of John J. Mooney MS ’60, an inspired engineer, renowned inventor and beloved alumnus of Newark College of Engineering who is best known for developing a catalytic converter for vehicles that filters three toxic ch...

Honors Student Is the First at NJIT to Receive Prestigious Fellowship

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
Donald “Will” Andrews, NJIT’s first-ever recipient of the Humanity in Action Fellowship, attributes his selection for the distinguished summertime program to his choice of study at the university: industrial engineering. “There probably weren’t that many engineers that applied … so that made my app...

At NJIT's 104th Commencement, Class of 2020 Urged to Make an Impact

Friday, June 12th, 2020
“It is an unusual graduation, but what is extraordinary always is the work of this class,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker HON ’09, who began NJIT’s 104th Commencement with a pre-ceremony heartfelt greeting thanking the university’s 2020 graduates for their grit, hard work, sacrifice and struggle, and fo...