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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...

Taro Narahara Receives National Institute of Informatics Excellence Award

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Taro Narahara, associate professor at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, has received the Excellence Award at the Informatics Research Data Repository (IDR) User Forum 2021 from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Japan. The awarded work ‘Prediction and analysis of living comfo...

The Practice of the Future: an Interview with Vivian Lee

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Vivian Lee, FAIA, LEED AP, is the New York Studio Executive Director at Woods Bagot. With 30 years of experience, she has led award-winning projects in Europe, Asia, and the US. In 2020, Lee was elevated to the College of Fellows by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She is on the Board of ...

Airport City Newark Coalition Awarded Fourth Round of Funding

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Led by the members of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, the Airport City Newark (ACN) coalition recently received a fourth round of funding from the Prudential Foundation to further investigate the feasibility of their Aerotropolis concept, a transit-oriented development in the vicinit...

NJIT Is No. 1 in New Jersey to Study Game Design, Top 20 in the East

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East. Housed within the Hiller College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game develo...

Black History Month Look Back: NJIT Celebrates Alumni

Friday, February 25th, 2022
As Black History Month comes to a close, we celebrate several NJIT alumni who have made their mark as Highlanders. Read their stories below, and submit your own! Robert Barney Newton, NJIT's first African-American student, ar...

"Abstract Geometries" Exhibit Debuts in Hillier College Gallery

Friday, February 18th, 2022
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design Gallery at NJIT opened its doors to its spring exhibition featuring professional artists Gianluca Bianchino and Kati Vilim. The works consist of abstract geometric paintings and wall reliefs in the manner of assemblage or multimedia sculpture. Curated ...

Urban Design Studio for Newark Federal Campus a Model for Agency Collaboration

Thursday, February 17th, 2022
In the fall of 2021, Professor Georgeen Theodore led her Urban Design students in a collaboration with the Newark-based federal offices of the General Services Administration. Located at 970 Broad Street, the federal building is named after U.S Representative Peter Rodino, and is home to the offices...

NJIT Reaffirmed As An Elite Research University, Retains R1 Classification

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reaffirmed its status among the nation’s most elite and productive research institutions by once again achieving an R1 status — the highest designation — by the Carnegie Classification. First published in 1973, the Carnegie Classification of Institution...