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Bridging Art and Community: NJIT Launches Hub for Creative Placemaking

Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
NJIT has announced the launch of a new initiative dedicated to the growing professional practice of creative placemaking — a field that places arts and culture at the center of community, social and economic development.  The program — the NJIT Hub for Creative Placemaking — will serve as both...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top Schools with 'the Best ROI'

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology 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 2020 edition of its an...

Message from NJIT President Bloom - Black History Month

Monday, February 3rd, 2020
Dear NJIT Community Members, As we begin the month of February, NJIT is proud to celebrate Black History Month. Diversity is among our university’s greatest strengths, and I encourage everytone to take advantage of the many opportunities we have created to expand our collective knowledge of and app...

Q&A With American Chemical Society President Luis Echegoyen

Monday, February 3rd, 2020
On Feb. 5, NJIT will welcome Luis Echegoyen, 2020 president of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the largest scientific society in the world.  As part of the College of Science and Liberal Arts’ Organic Syntheses Distinguished Seminar Speaker series, Echegoyen will ...

2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Update

Monday, February 3rd, 2020
NJIT Community Members, We would like to share with you some updated information regarding the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, which was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) a global emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020. NJIT has established a task force to actively monit...

Getting the Lead out of Newark's Drinking Water

Monday, February 3rd, 2020
As Newark races to replace thousands of lead-based pipes that feed drinking water into homes, the city faces another urgent challenge: stopping the heavy metal from leaching into the water supply while the massive remediation effort is underway. And that’s where NJIT’s environmental engineers come ...

Volleyball Extends Wins Streak to Four; Sweeps Visiting St. Francis Brooklyn

Saturday, February 1st, 2020
The NJIT men's volleyball team extended its win streak to four with a 3-0 sweep over visiting St. Francis Brooklyn Saturday afternoon in non-conference volleyball action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. NJIT picked up its third straight 3-0 victory (def. No. 11 Purdue Fort Wayne; def. Ball...

Cybersecurity Courses to be Offered For Professional Development

Friday, January 31st, 2020
NJIT will offer an extensive cybersecurity program starting this summer through its Professional Development and Executive Education department in partnership with HackerU, a digital skills and cybersecurity training specialist based in Israel. “The program will give adult learners 400 hours of tra...

NJIT President Receives Air Force Public Service Medal

Friday, January 31st, 2020
At a ceremony in Washington, D.C., NJIT President Joel S. Bloom was presented with the highest level award granted by the Secretary of the Air Force to a non-employee civilian, the Distinguished Public Service Award. The award is presented to those who have personally made a profound contribution o...

NJIT Experts Presenting AI Answers to Real-World Problems at NYC Forum

Friday, January 31st, 2020
Experts in artificial intelligence from the Ying Wu College of Computing will highlight how their work solves real-world problems at a prestigious meeting in New York next week. The professors — Chaoran Cheng, Jing Li, Zhi Wei and Pan Xu — will share their session stages with researchers from ...