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NJIT Celebrates Enrollment Milestone After Revamped Convocation Ceremony

Friday, September 6th, 2024
The 2024 academic year kicked off with a Convocation that had a different spin. With the participation of DJ Ricky Bonds, NJIT’s Jazz Band ‘Elementals,’ Highland Dancers and bagpipers and even a special edition of Family Feud NJIT-style, the university’s incoming class received an upbeat welcome. T...

HCAD's Julio Garcia Figueroa's Quest to Merge Prefabrication, Energy Efficiency & Cultural Heritage

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
University Lecturer Julio Garcia Figueroa at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) looks forward to teaching his course on prefabricated architecture this semester, and in the future, hopes to create a study abroad program to take HCAD students to his native Mexico.  “First, wh...

NJIT Celebrates Largest Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium

Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
An independent, flexible, small sensor for breast tumor detection was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Isabella Frangiosa, a rising senior at Rowan University, said the inspiration of her ...

NJIT Renames College of Science and Liberal Arts, Honoring Historic Gift from Alumnus Jordan Hu

Monday, August 5th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced the renaming of its College of Science and Liberal Arts to the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (JHCSLA) in recognition of a historic gift from Jordan Hu ’89, founder and chief executive officer of RiskVal Financial Solutions, LLC and a f...

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...

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...

NJIT Earns Top Rating in Money's List of the Best Colleges in America

Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) earned the top rating in Money’s 2024 analysis of the Best Colleges in America. With five stars, NJIT tied Princeton University as the highest-rated university in New Jersey and matched STEM schools like MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and California I...

Senior Success: Industrial Designer Rebecca Warga Prepares to Take Her Knowledge to Luxembourg

Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Industrial designer Rebecca Warga, a Bloomingdale, New Jersey native, will head to Luxembourg after graduation to work at ESMP, an experimental soft matter physics lab at the University of Luxembourg. “I've been working with them remotely this semester, and I took a short trip out there over winter...

Digital Designer Tejasi Thool Will Seek Master's in Medical Illustration After Time at NJIT

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Tejasi Thool, a Hasbrouck, New Jersey native, looks forward to her next step in her career after completing her digital design studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design.  Her next move will be to get a master’s in medical illustration. “It’s lik...

CEO to NJIT Class of 2024: Be Agents of Change and Build a Future We Can Be Proud Of

Friday, May 17th, 2024
Preaching patience, courage and resilience, MGM Construction Co. President and CEO Marjorie Perry urged the Class of 2024 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to become lifelong learners as they apply their imagination to real-world challenges. Perry, an NJIT alumna who serves on its Foundation Bo...