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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 $...

Isabella Gil Appreciates all the Opportunities NJIT and the US Give Her

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Isabella Gil ’24 always tries to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. After leaving her native Venezuela, she came to the United States and looked for different ways to integrate into her new community. Getting to NJIT required a lot of effort, but now that she is here, she feels ...

Architect LoriAnne Jones Shares Her Journey from NJIT to DIGroup Architecture

Monday, January 29th, 2024
LoriAnne Jones ’06 developed her architecture interest very early on, as she accompanied her father to work sites. Later, she would find out that her grandmother practiced architecture back in her parents’ home country, Guyana. She was happy to realize that her grandmother was an architect, and was ...

NJIT Architecture Professors and Students Help Launch Newark's Hope Village II

Thursday, January 11th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) was present on Monday as Mayor Ras J. Baraka, and the director of the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services Luis Ulerio opened the second iteration of Hope Village, “Come As You Are” Bridge Housing Community, locate...

Sustainable Cities Summer Abroad in Copenhagen

Friday, December 8th, 2023
Twelve NJIT students lived in the world’s most sustainable city this summer. There they considered the architect’s role in shaping urban space as well as the future of carbon negative building materials. The project was led by professors of practice at NJIT's Hillier College of Archit...