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Strong Themes Of Climate Action And Community Engagement Emerge At The Super Review

Friday, December 17th, 2021
The fall semester School of Architecture Super Review focused on the upper-level research and design conducted in the Options Studios and Master of Urban Design studio. Notable was the predominance of Newark based studios and the questions on program identity and self reflection raised. Ka...

Catalyzing Urban Master Planning with Creative Capital

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Prof. Darius Sollohub and his students have been researching and developing proposals for the improvements to the Newark Penn Station transportation hub and environs this semester. Their studio has been designing in anticipation of a $190 million investment by New Jersey Transit in these improvement...

Waste: From Not In My Backyard to Zero Waste Neighborhoods

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Waste comes in many forms; solid and aerosol, visible and invisible, and waste disposal practices, such as ocean dumping, happen at scales that are at once unimaginable and unsustainable. Transforming the paradigm of how the architecture and design community tackles waste, waste education and resear...

NJIT Students Take On Housing Crisis with Deployable Shelter Prototype

Monday, December 13th, 2021
The “Place of Dwelling” (POD) was born out of the efforts of 15 architecture students and adjunct professors Erin Pellegrino and Charlie Firestone. It was presented to the public on the Hillier College Green on Monday, December 6th. The development of the POD is testament to the foresight of T...

NJIT Students Design & Build Home to Address Newark's Housing Crisis

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Fifteen undergraduate students in NJIT's architecture program have designed and built a prototype home that may be part of the solution to Newark’s housing crisis. The “tiny home” is approximately 8 feet by 12 feet and was designed to help address the city’s homeless population.  Erin Pellegri...

Hillier College Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Research and Education

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
The New Jersey Institute of Technology is known for its distinguished and highly skilled research faculty. Many of these faculty have their home in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design. Several faculty in the community have recently been recognized both outside and inside the university fo...

The School of Art + Design Comes of Age

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Not unlike the debutante who is introduced to society at their coming of age, the School of Art + Design has emerged as the debutante of the season. This debut is not the first excursion into design society for the School of Art + Design.  ...

Tobiloba Fashae Comes to NJIT For Industrial Design, Supercars and Yo-Yos

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Tobiloba Fashae knew he wanted to learn how to design the technology of the future while still attending Hunterdon Regional High School. At first, it was automotive engineering since he’s an avid fan of high-performance sports cars. During an isolated year of self-reflection in his senior year of hi...

NJIT a 'Best Global University' in US News & World Report Ranking

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among the Best Global Universities identified by U.S. News and World Report in its eighth edition of the annual ranking. Only 271 U.S. universities made the 2022 list, which spans 91 countries in six continents. Globally, NJIT ranked in the top half of som...

Humanoid Robot Makes Debut in International Competition

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
After eight years of development, the humanoid robot named TOCABI (Torque Controlled compliAnt BIped) is finally completed, making its debut at the international ANA AVATAR XPRIZE competition.  New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Mathew Schwartz began working on the design o...