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Senior Success: Kenia Suarez Appreciates All the Opportunities She Received at HCAD from Day One

Friday, May 17th, 2024
One summer Kenia Suarez decided to visit NJIT. The Lima, Perú native wanted to find out how she could get accepted into NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design. Little did she know that after that first visit, her career and dreams would take off.  “I went to HCAD, and there were a f...

NJIT's 2024 Master's and Doctoral Class Make Their Mark

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology served up a full day of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies on May 15. The 2024 class comprises more than 1,400 graduates and reflects the institution’s steady growth an...

A Blend of Architecture and Engineering Helps NJIT Scholar Land in Project Management

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Following graduation from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Hilsson Angeles will start working at general contracting firm Burns & McDonnell as a construction coordinator. What helped him get there was a tremendous work ethic, which he inherited from his parents, and an interest in both archi...

From Math Success to NJIT Graduation: The Journeys of 4 Students from Newark

Thursday, May 9th, 2024
Speaker after speaker reinforced what Kevin Belfield, dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at New Jersey Institute of Technology, said about the university’s Math Success Initiative: “It takes a village to put a program like this together.” The speakers were at a campus ceremony celebrat...

Senior Success: Interior Designer Martina Hanna Shares Her Highlights at HCAD and NJIT

Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
When Martina Hanna ’24 started her studies at NJIT, she was a civil engineering major. But when the pandemic hit, she took a different route, one that was meant to be.  “I was just too scared to do it because I didn't have a portfolio,” Hanna explained the process of switching her major to int...

Extended Reality Lab Opens, Stocked with Latest Tech for Education

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has a new Extended Reality (XR) Laboratory on campus, where students and faculty can learn to use augmented- and virtual-reality as a learning and teaching tool. The lab is now open in Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, room 1402, across from the NJIT mak...

Hillier College Alumni, Student Work Featured in Annual Design Showcase Event

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) hosted its Design Showcase, the college’s flagship fundraising and networking event, which provides a chance for members of the Hillier College community to connect personally and professionally. This year’s event took place in the Jewel Box of O...

NJIT's Dana Knox Research Showcase Celebrates Future Visionary Leaders

Friday, April 19th, 2024
NJIT’s annual celebration of its top student researchers kicked off at the 2024 Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, which once again highlighted a stunning array of innovation and discovery from every corner of the STEM disciplines. Now in its 19th year, the showcase competition featured 68 divers...

NJIT Students Influential in Transformation to Make Federal Building Cleaner and Greener

Thursday, April 18th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design continues to help the local Newark community with projects that will transform the city’s public spaces.  Recently, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) made the announcement that the city will be using $...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Inn...