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10 Questions for NJIT's New Dean of Architecture and Design

Monday, July 1st, 2024
As interim dean of NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Gabrielle Esperdy found ways to apply design thinking to the challenges of leading an academic college of more than 1,000 students. Now, as she starts her first month as dean, she realizes that her background prepared her well fo...

Men's Swimming and Diving Earn CSCAA Spring Scholar All-Academic Honors

Friday, June 28th, 2024
The NJIT men's swimming and diving program was one of 722 teams from 417 institutions to be named Scholar All-America for the Spring 2024 semester by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). The Highlanders posted a team grade point average of 3.56 during the spring...

HCAD Dean Announcement

Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
Dear Highlanders,   It is our great pleasure to announce that after a national search, NJIT found the best person to lead its Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) right on campus. Interim Dean Gabrielle Esperdy, a noted architectural historian, has been appointed dean, ...

NJIT Names Architectural Historian to Lead its College of Architecture and Design

Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
After a national search, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) found the best person to lead its Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) right on campus. Interim Dean Gabrielle Esperdy, a noted architectural historian, has been appointed dean, effective July 1. Esperdy will be steerin...

Engineers Unveil Survival Mechanisms of a Singularly Durable Life Form, the Spore

Monday, June 24th, 2024
Bacterial spores are some of nature’s most adept survivors. Subject to extreme environments – blazing and freezing temperatures, drought and even the vacuum of space – they coat themselves in a thick husk and lie dormant until conditions improve. In studying the way these single-cell organisms resp...

NJIT Alum and Trustee Chair Robert Cohen Inducted as Fellow to the National Academy of Inventors

Friday, June 21st, 2024
Robert Cohen, a three-time alumnus, chair of NJIT's Board of Trustees and President of Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technologies at Stryker, has been inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This prestigious honor recognizes Cohen’s prolific, innovative and groundbreaking ...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT No. 23 in the U.S. for Best Value

Thursday, June 20th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s value proposition has grown in the eyes of The Princeton Review. The university ranks No. 23 nationally among public schools on the review’s list of Top 50 Best Value Colleges for 2024 — up 12 places from last year. At the same time, NJIT remains No. 11 among pu...

Sunblock for Solar Panels: NJIT Startup Merges Data, Material Science

Thursday, June 20th, 2024
Materium Technologies, a startup company with deep NJIT roots, is bringing data science innovations into the slowly evolving field of solar energy panels. Startups are always a gamble, but the Materium team has a good hand, with two pair of Highlanders — recent alumni Sheldon Fereira (M.S. ‘23) and...

Juneteenth Message from President Lim

Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
Dear Highlanders, NJIT is proud to celebrate Juneteenth (being observed by the university on Friday, June 21), a federal and state holiday that commemorates the day (June 19, 1865) when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and brought news that enslaved Black people in Texas we...

Fernanda Somohano Ortega quiere combinar su licenciatura de NJIT con su amor por el fútbol

Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
Fernanda Somohano Ortega '27 tiene su mirada puesta en trabajos de ciberseguridad en el mundo deportivo, o mejor aún, una oportunidad de trabajar en Barcelona y apoyar a su club de fútbol favorito. Con la ayuda del Innovation Fellow de The Knowledge House (con siglas en inglés TKH), la estudiante de...
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