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Foundations of Success: Conor McCann's NJIT Roots and Rise at DMR

Thursday, November 13th, 2025
When Conor McCann looks back on his journey from NJIT to becoming a project architect at DMR Architects, one word stands out — foundation.It’s the same concept he applies to every project he touches: a structure is only as strong as the foundation beneath it. For McCann, that foundation was built du...

NJIT Students Win First Place in International Net Zero Energy Design Competition

Thursday, September 25th, 2025
A team of NJIT architecture and urban systems students has taken first place in the 2025 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy Design Student Competition, one of the most competitive international student design cha...

HCAD Formalizes Career and Professional Development Support for Architecture Students

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Beginning this semester, Mark Bess, undergraduate architecture coordinator and principal at Blackberry Studios, and Tom Ogorzalek, senior lecturer and partner at Continuum Design, LLC, will formally expand the career and professional development guidance they have long provided to upper-level archit...

Center for Community Systems and TAB Welcome New Director

Friday, September 5th, 2025
Jessica Miller is the executive director at the Center for Community Systems at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design. She is also the executive director of the Environment Protection Agency’s Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities Program in Regions 2 and 4 (NJIT TAB). Miller...

NJIT Design Professor Honored with Distinguished Educator Award

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Glenn Goldman, director emeritus and professor of architecture and design at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, earned the prestigious 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions to teaching computer graphics and interactive techniques. G...

Mat Schwartz Elected Chair of the School of Art + Design at NJIT's Hillier College

Friday, August 1st, 2025
Mat Schwartz has been elected chair of the School of Art + Design at Hillier College effective July 1, 2025. Schwartz is an exemplar of the kind of design professional that he and fellow faculty train at Hillier College: interdisciplinary, creative and technically proficient. Schwartz’s work reflect...

From Sketch to Splash: NJIT and Newark Collaborate on Student-Built Pool Cabanas

Monday, June 23rd, 2025
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design, through a public-private partnership formed between NJIT, the city of Newark and the logistics real estate company Prologis, gave second-year architecture students the opportunity to complete a studio design-build of custom cabanas for Newark’s public ...

NJIT Named Best in New Jersey for Game Design

Thursday, May 29th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been selected as one of the best schools with game design programs in the U.S., according to industry website Animation Career Review.  NJIT’s game design program ranks No. 1 in New Jersey and top-25 in the East Coast. Animation Career Review’s ranking fo...

Meaning in the Making: Industrial Designer Gabriel Rapoport on Designing a More Beautiful World

Monday, May 19th, 2025
Gabriel Rapoport’s journey into industrial design began long before he knew the field had a name. From a young age, he was curious about how everyday objects were designed, constructed and refined to improve life.  That childhood fascination evolved into a drive to become one of the creators s...

Acewin Tam's Architectural Vision: Bridging Design, Community and Social Change

Monday, April 28th, 2025
As Acewin Tam prepares to cross the graduation stage at NJIT, she reflects not just on the culmination of five years of rigorous study, but on a deeply personal journey of growth, discovery and purpose. An architecture student whose work straddles the line between the technical and the poetic, Tam h...