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College of Science and Liberal Arts Celebrates 40 Years at 2022 Awards Ceremony

Monday, May 9th, 2022
On May 4, celebratory glasses were raised at the signature year-end awards ceremony for NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA), where the incredible milestone of the college’s 40th anniversary served as backdrop to the festivities. It was an afternoon full of recognition for this year’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...

Samuel Carlos Wins Boren Scholarship Award to Study in Taiwan

Friday, December 3rd, 2021
The world is at Samuel Carlos’ fingertips. Since coming NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College out of high school with an associates degree in math and computer science, he’s interned at Amazon, Google, and Facebook. He’s since added a third major - history with a focus on the history of computer scien...

New Essay Collection by NJIT's Burt Kimmelman Released to Early Praise

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
Burt Kimmelman, acclaimed poet, literary scholar and distinguished professor in NJIT’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, is receiving early praise for his new eclectic collection of essays, titled Visible at Dusk. The 15 essays are a diverse array of new and previously released mat...

NJIT-Led Team Wins a $1.25 Million Grant to Ensure Women Scholars Flourish as Inventors

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Women’s ingenuity dots the human landscape, from the external fire escape, to the word processor, to the first dishwashing machine to replace scrubbers with water pressure, to Kevlar, the lightweight, but supremely strong fiber used in bulletproof vests. And yet statistics show that too few of thei...

A New Brand of Ethics: NJIT's New Center Trains Tomorrow's Responsible Researchers

Friday, August 20th, 2021
Amid the many new lab facilities that have recently risen across NJIT’s campus, Associate Professor of Philosophy Britt Holbrook is laying the groundwork for an initiative he contends will be just as vital in driving impactful research and innovation at the university and beyond for years to come — ...

NJIT Undergrad Braeden Perdue Speaks at White House COVID-19 Press Event with Dr. Fauci

Wednesday, August 11th, 2021
In the span of just a few short weeks, NJIT student Braeden Perdue has gone from taking a summer job as a community organizer helping promote COVID-19 vaccine education and access across New Jersey, to becoming a voice for health care equality during the pandemic that has reached the White House and...

NJIT's Julie Ancis Features in New Documentary Exploring Social Media 'Vitriol'

Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Vitriol — it’s not hard to find anywhere you look across Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and elsewhere online. The growing dilemma of our polarizing online discourse is also now the subject of a new documentary set to hit film festivals, featuring NJIT Cyberpsychology Director Julie Ancis. The film,&nbsp...

Tune In Podcast Fans: Check Out These NJIT Podcasters Making Waves

Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
Got a can’t-miss podcast idea that could be next Serial, Pod Save America or Ricky Gervais Show?  There’s a growing student-podcasting community for aspiring broadcasting personalities at NJIT thanks in part to a new podcasting production course launched this past spring by...

NJIT's David Rothenberg Joins the Cicada Musical Reunion Tour, 17-Years in the Making

Thursday, June 10th, 2021
The date is May 11, 2004.  The TV sitcom Friends just aired the finale of its 10th and final season, Usher’s hit single "Yeah!" is giving way to Maroon 5’s “This Love” atop the Billboard Top 100 and Massachusetts is about to become the first U.S. state to leg...