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Students Share Discovery and Success at Dana Knox Research Showcase

Thursday, April 18th, 2019
This week, nearly 50 of the year’s most promising NJIT student-researchers gathered to present their work to the campus community at the university’s annual year-end research competition — the 2019 Dana Knox Showcase “A Glimpse Into the Future.” At this year’s event, held open to the public on...

NJIT to Confer Honorary Doctorates at 103rd Commencement Exercises May 21, 2019

Thursday, April 11th, 2019
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to Deliver 2019 Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will award more than 3,000 baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees at the 103rd Commencement exercises May 21, 2019, and May 23, 2019, at...

NJIT Physicist Makes Big Noise in the World of Amateur Ham Radio

Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Each year, ham radio enthusiasts from around the globe make the trek to Ohio’s Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center, where they gather in mass for one of amateur radio’s largest awards and technology conventions — Dayton Hamvention®. This year, the name of NJIT Professor of Physics Nathaniel Fr...

NJIT Hosts Traveling Exhibitions Exploring Nuclear War and Peace

Monday, April 8th, 2019
On Friday, April 5, NJIT held the opening ceremony for the first of two internationally recognized peace exhibitions scheduled to be publicly displayed on campus this month, titled, "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit."  The 36-panel exhibition — sh...

NJIT Aero Team Designs, Builds and Flies Their Radio Controlled Plane

Friday, March 22nd, 2019
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Team at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is an organization which is dedicated in promoting opportunities for students to apply their knowledge to aerospace projects outside of the classroom. SAE annually hosts an international Aero Desig...

National Pi Day 2019: NJIT Welcomes New Jersey's Elementary School Girls to STEM LiFE

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
This month, the annual celebration for International Women’s Day came with a new campaign theme, “Balance for Better.” That message was in full voice last week at NJIT, as more than 200 young girls from New Jersey’s schools visited campus to learn about and showcase their abilities in all-things sci...

NJIT's Murray Center for Women in Technology Holds 5th Annual Women Designing the Future Conference

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold its fifth annual Women Designing the Future conference — “Game Changers! Technological Innovations That Will Transform Our Lives”— Friday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the university’s Campus Cente...

Dispelling Popular "CSI" Myths With NJIT's David Fisher

Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
In 2012, CBS’s crime-fiction television drama, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” reached the zenith of primetime television ratings. That year, the show’s estimated 63 million viewers across five continents earned it the title of “most watched television show in the world” for the fifth time in the ...

Meet David Fisher: NJIT's First Professor of Practice in Forensic Science

Monday, January 28th, 2019
This month, NJIT’s forensic science program welcomed David Fisher — an expert criminalist previously with New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) — to its faculty ranks. The announcement sees Fisher appointed as the university’s first-ever “Professor of Practice in Forensic Science”...

Pre-College Workshops Bring STEM to Educators and Families Alike

Thursday, January 17th, 2019
When Parsippany High School’s Kathy Effner heard about NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs’ (CPCP) Try Engineering! workshop for educators, she was intrigued — particularly since it featured a hands-on project at the university’s new 10,000-square-foot Makerspace. This past October she attended t...