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Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top 'Colleges That Pay You Back'

Monday, February 12th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2018 edition of ...

NJIT Inventors are Beating New Paths to the Marketplace

Monday, January 29th, 2018
NJIT inventors, including a growing number of ambitious student entrepreneurs, are beating new paths to the marketplace. Most recently, Treena Arinzeh, director of NJIT’s Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory, won a grant from the University City Science Center in Philadelphia to c...

Engineer Peter Engler Relives the WWII Shanghai Ghetto in the New PBS Series, "We'll Meet Again"

Monday, January 22nd, 2018
Peter Engler was four years old when his family fled Berlin in the wake of Kristallnacht, the infamous “Night of Broken Glass.” Stateless, their passports stamped “J” for Juden by the Nazis, the Englers made their way to Shanghai, one of the only free ports in the world at the time. Soon after arriv...

NJIT's Online Graduate Programs Ranked by U.S. News & World Report

Thursday, January 18th, 2018
U.S. News & World Report ranks New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) graduate computer information technology programs 17th among the “Best Online Programs” offered by universities throughout the country — up 21 slots since last year. NJIT also offers other online programs that were mentio...

Reversing Mining's Toxic Legacy on Tribal Lands

Friday, January 5th, 2018
When a federal inspection team inadvertently released three million gallons of heavy metal-laden waste from a century-old, defunct gold mine near Silverton, Colorado into the Animas River, Lucia Rodriguez-Freire was one of the first responders on the scene. “The gold plume was crossing the border f...

2017 at NJIT: A Look Back

Friday, January 5th, 2018
From ribbon-cuttings and rankings to appointments and awards and more, this past year saw many milestones and achievements at NJIT — with promise for a fruitful 2018. Here are just some of the university community's noteworthy accomplishments and happenings in 2017. JANUARY Academic and studen...

Research that Ranges from Pipelines to Proteins

Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
The research that Assistant Professor of Physics Cristiano Dias is pursuing has the potential to expand our knowledge of phenomena that can affect the creation of dangerous obstructions in undersea pipelines transporting natural gas and the formation of protein-based fibers in the brain related to d...

The Grades Are In: Two Engineering Professors Earn an A+ for Teaching

Thursday, January 19th, 2017
There are top-notch teachers who expertly transmit what they know in class. But more influential still are the mentors who immerse their students so thoroughly in their subject matter they feel like they’ve lived it. Those experiences can be life-changing. Ronald Rockland, chairman of NJIT’s Departm...

NJIT Engineers Win an Edison Patent Award for Technology that Masks the Taste of Bitter Drugs

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Rajesh Davé, distinguished professor of chemical, biological and pharmaceutical engineering, and two of his former graduate students, Maxx Capece and Daniel To, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for developing a manufacturing process...

The Art of War: Engineering Protective Gear for 21st Century Soldiers

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Battle-inflicted head injuries are as old as war itself, evidenced by the copper helmets worn by Bronze Age soldiers to deflect blows from spears and axes. Over the ensuing millennia, as weapons evolved, so did armor. Today, the powerful explosive devices of 21st century warfare have once again rais...