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At Convocation, NJIT Alum Asks First-Year Students, 'Will You Be a Helper?'

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Quoting Fred Rogers and poet Audre Lorde, NJIT alumna Gabrielle Rejouis urged members of the Class of 2024 to be helpers and foster communities during the university’s annual convocation, which was held online on Wed., Sep. 9, 2020.   “You all have a contribution to make,” said Rejouis ‘15, an ...

NJIT Ranks #74 Nationally in QS USA 2020 Rankings, #3 in NJ

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked third in New Jersey and 74th nationally in a Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking® USA 2020 list, placing NJIT in the top 10% of universities nationwide. Over 700 universities were evaluated according to 17 metrics falling into...

NJIT Athletics to Honor 2019 ASUN Men's Soccer Champions in Ring Ceremony September 16

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
The NJIT Department of Athletics will honor the 2019 men's soccer team with a ring ceremony on Wednesday, September 16 on Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium to commemorate the team's ASUN Conference Championship this past November.  The championship ring ceremony will begin at 3pm, which will...

CyberCorps Graduate Student Offers Insight to Security of Video Chat Apps

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
The year 2020 will be remembered in software circles as the time when video conferencing became mainstream because of health risks associated with COVID-19, so NJIT graduate student Ramon Salvador decided to learn about video conferencing security for his final project, a requirement of Ying Wu Coll...

New Residence Hall to Feature Single Bedrooms and Sustainable Construction

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
NJIT's new 500-bed apartment-style residence hall, announced early this year for the southwest corner of Warren and Wickliff streets, will emphasize single-occupancy bedrooms and will be constructed with environmentally-friendly methods. The community is scheduled for its groundbreaking in the seco...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 9/7/20-9/11/20

Monday, September 7th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

NJIT's Vanessa Velez Awarded for Quarantine-Inspired Folk Artwork

Friday, September 4th, 2020
NJIT Department of Humanities staff member Vanessa Velez has shown that not only is art her true calling, but it's a potent form of therapy, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, Velez’s quarantine-inspired artwork was awarded at the “nation’s largest annu...

Welcome Back From President Bloom

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
NJIT Community Members, Welcome back, Highlanders! We have been looking forward to your return since the day we moved to remote operations last spring, and today we begin a new semester unlike any we have previously experienced. We have planned extensively for the challenges we will face in welcomi...

Computing Student Wins Fulbright Award for Security Research

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Matthew Cherrey never traveled overseas — no high school trip to Europe, no semester abroad as an undergrad, no spring breaks in exotic, far away locales — but he always wanted to do so, particularly to Germany where his family has roots. Now he's getting an opportunity, representing NJIT next year ...

WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate ...