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Senior Success: Architect, Student-Athlete Sydne Nance Joins Studio 1200

Thursday, May 12th, 2022
Sydne Nance's journey from NJIT architectural summer camp to track star to chapter president to professional designer was fueled by the confidence she gained through the university's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). Nance, an Albert Dorman Honors scholar of Westampton, New Jersey, will start ...

Hillier College Students Receive a Medal at the 2022 Dana Knox Research Showcase

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Just ahead of the Earth Day, two Hillier College of Architecture and Design students Jeongseo Lee, Ph.D. student in Urban Systems, and Elizabeth Kowalchuk, Undergraduate Senior in Architecture, received one of the 2022 Dana Knox Research Showcase medals for “An Evaluation Framework for a Net-Zero En...

Design/Build Studio Helps Create Urban Oasis One Parklet at a Time

Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
‘Every architect should experience building a structure that they design’ – that is the motto behind the Design/Build options studio led by Professors Erin Pellegrino and Charlie Firestone. This semester their students are building a Parklet, in collaboration with the Hanini Group. The concept of th...

Interview with Andrew Whalley, Design Showcase 2022 Speaker

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Andrew Whalley OBE, Chairman of Grimshaw, delivered his lecture ZERO at the Design Showcase 2022. Known for designing net-zero-carbon buildings and considerations of the building life cycle performance in their designs, Grimshaw committed itself to operating as a net zero company. This commitment is...

Architecture Students Innovate Precast Concrete for Affordable Housing Micro-Units

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Architecture professor Gernot Riether has teamed up with engineering professor Mohamed Mahgoub to develop the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI) Research Studio as part of a four-year grant from the PCI Foundation. The key components of the grant include industry partnership, new precast concrete curr...

Design and Life Cycle Assessment – eLCAd' 22 Recap

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Consideration of Cradle to Grave environmental impacts plays an increasingly important role in product design and development across the industrial spectrum. This aspect of architecture and design was the focus of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design 2022 (eLCAd 2022), a three-day internati...

Professor Glenn Goldman Exhibit at the Littman Library

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Professor Glenn Goldman’s exhibition Color and Composition, The (Mostly Architectural) Photography of Glenn Goldman at the Littman Library opened on February 14th. The exhibit features photographs that were mostly taken over the last six years, and have been cited or received awards at various compe...

Design Showcase Celebrates Work of Students, Alumni in Hillier's Biggest Event of the Year

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) transformed its gallery and packed its lecture hall for the college’s highly-anticipated signature event that celebrated student and alumni work, and hosted a presentation and Q&A by architect Andrew Whalley, chairman of Grimshaw. The S...

Hillier College Students Share Their Experiences on Amazon College Tour

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
The New Jersey Institute of Technology is the first college in New Jersey to be featured in The College Tour, an Amazon Prime TV series produced by Emmy-nominated producer Lisa Hennessy and hosted by Alex Boylan. Each 30-minute episode provides a unique video tour of one US university, offering...

Design Showcase 2022 Presents Creativity, Practicality, Innovation and Design Process

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Hillier College signature fundraising event Design Showcase 2022 will be held on Thursday, April 7 from 4:30 to 7:30pm in Weston Hall at NJIT. . As always the event will present top students and alumni work. In its 16th year now, the idea of a fundraising event was percolated from a c...