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NJIT-Led Research Team Records Blazing-Fast Changes of Metal Nanofilms

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Traditionally, many engineers and developers of solar cell technology have turned to crystalline silicon — a tried and tested material absorber capable of efficiently converting solar radiation to electricity at just four times the thickness of a strand of hair. At up to a 100th the thick...

Honors College Debuts Program Promoting Undergraduate Research

Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Chemical engineering major Jennifer Callaghan is spending her summer on the NJIT campus working to help define the next generation of ballistic materials. Laura Gould, an architecture student, is also at the university during the summer break, using Google Street View to study the correlation betwee...

Fiske Guide to "Best and Most Interesting" Colleges Features NJIT

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
NJIT, one of the few public polytechnic institutes in the Northeast, is once again included in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges — a subjective and selective reference tool that systematically reviews over 300 colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. For more than 30 years, million...

NJIT Researchers Aim to Build Brain-Inspired Computing Systems

Friday, July 6th, 2018
Two NJIT researchers, working with collaborators from the IBM Research Zurich Laboratory and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have demonstrated a novel synaptic architecture that could lead to a new class of information processing systems inspired by the brain. The findings are an impo...

Look Who's Back! Alumni Return to NJIT as Recruiters

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
The Spring 2018 Career Fair held this past February at NJIT’s new Wellness and Events Center (WEC) was alumna Whitney Randolph’s first time back on campus since she graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2017. The reason for her visit was not to look for ...

Who's Who? NJIT's Atam Dhawan!

Friday, June 29th, 2018
Dr. Atam P. Dhawan, NJIT’s senior vice provost for research, received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who, the nearly 120-year-old publisher of biographies, for his leadership in the fields of engineering and higher education. The award recognizes p...

NJIT Undergraduate Applications Jump 12 Percent Over Last Year

Monday, June 25th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is bucking an undergraduate admissions trend. While many universities are failing to hit recruitment targets and/or reducing their standards for admission due to sharp regional and national declines in the traditional college-aged population, NJIT ...

NJIT's Online Master's Program in Electrical Engineering is Ranked 14th in the Country

Friday, June 8th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online master’s program in electrical engineering now ranks 14th in the country, according to BestColleges.com The program, aimed at students looking to enhance technical, problem-solving and professional development skills, includes three specializations: commu...

NJIT Car Maven Takes on the American Solar Challenge, Then It's Off to Tesla

Friday, June 1st, 2018
Jason Murzello’s fascination with cars began in a fairly typical way – with his own matchbox set – but then veered into technology by way of video games such as “Need for Speed,” which allow budding aficionados to tinker with performance by switching out not only tires, but suspensions and engines...

A Gathering of Go-getters: NJIT Celebrates 2017-2018 Scholarship Recipients

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
The competition for scholarships and fellowships grows fiercer every year. Still, there’s good news: At NJIT, students are increasingly receiving notable awards that provide opportunities to do research, study abroad (both, in certain cases) and more. Just as the spring 2018 semester was coming to ...